Racial Segregation and Concentrated Poverty: The History of Housing in Black America

On Jan. 26, 2021, President Joe Biden signed four executive orders designed to address racial equity in the United States. With one particular action Biden hopes to right the historical wrongs Black folks have faced when it comes to housing and homeownership in this country.
Per a White House statement, “He will direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to take steps necessary to redress racially discriminatory federal housing policies that have contributed to wealth inequality for generations.”
And that’s why the story of what housing and other living conditions look like for many Black Americans is pretty bleak. It’s by design.
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[@Ms_Kymm]

In the 70's... we had a clinic, recreation center, ymca, salvation army, grocery store, & a small library; right in the community 😊those were good times, even though we were poor... by the mid 80's all those facilities were gone & replaced with a police station & crack 🥺

[@Shonan2024]

You reminded me of summer time at the Boy & Girls Club. All them ashing black bodies in line to jump from the diving board at the swimming pool. LOL My mom would remodel the living room with a painting she checked out from the library (30 days) lol. Making something out of nothing.

[@alphonzosullivan9196]

I tell that same story all the time during that time the murder rate among black people was no where near the destruction we see today SMDH

[@capoislamort100]

Thanks to Reagan!

[@KMiley]

🥺 It is a new day. ❤️❤️❤️

[@transactionslim8401]

Yep everything in one place just to keep you there …

[@d.i.g.i.t.a.l.9268]

I love how it went from denial that it happened to "oh get over it"

[@Vivvy1]

@PROUD TO BE WHITE 86 if you believed in Yah you would repent for your sins and the sins of your ancestors...

[@queenmommie8295]

😡😡😡😡😡

[@jackiegoodspeed1849]

@@Vivvy1 We don't repent for the sins of our ancestors. That's old covenant.

[@Vivvy1]

@@jackiegoodspeed1849 Our Elohim is a generational God who blesses and curses by generations...I'm covering all bases and breaking old evil covenants that were made before I was even born...but hey, you do you...

[@kevinshea5819]

could you please tell me he issues you've had regarding race and housing..thanks.

[@Lana-ro6cb]

I am not from here. But in my country we read America History in class. this isn't what we learned. We read that America is a place of freedom, equality, and justice. I'm so heartbroken. How could a country claim to be good and moral yet they mistreat their most vulnerable citizens.

[@bird-man4022]

Lana, Your point is absolutely true! Many don’t realize (back in the mid 20th Century) America made it appear IT was a place of freedom and equality for ALL. You could even tie that in to the false/misleading term “all men are created equal” via the constitution. However, in-reality, that statement and false projection of societal equity has ALWAYS been tied into something few connect: The origin and construction of whiteness + christian identity…

[@thekreneeshow3762]

❤🙏🏽🙏🏽‼

[@katiefyock9607]

You should see the way they treat disabled veterans. No help, no housing, a lot of them hungry on the streets. It's a shame. It makes me very sad and frustrated to live here.

[@alextoledo5562]

you should read about how bad natives were and still are treated

[@devPunks]

@Katie Fyock You talking about those disabled veterans who wouldn't let black people sit at the same table as them but would let Nazi's sit? Or you talking about the veterans that prevented every black person from receiving the GI bill....which is actually THE "Welfare" of white people...like FHA loans? Asking for a disabled Black Veteran...who is still looking for his G.I. Bill checks....that white disabled veterans got. I see what you are doing. You may not know what you are doing...but I do.

[@klownkorpse7524]

I forgot where I heard the quote from but "Black people have been called lazy ever since we stopped working for free"

[@johnbertram1537]

Yeah, they have been an incredibly industrious community overall - just like a lot of immigrant communities that start with nothing and become above average in terms of income and wealth. Culture matters!

[@lloydavery7579]

​@@johnbertram1537hilarious

[@cleavlandsmith]

I live in corpus Christi Texas and I am literally watching them build a new overpass right through a lower income neighborhood. Many of the residents would not sell their land to the government so they're building a highway right through it to force them out. This is still happening today

[@radickalify]

Because everything is about money. Not race. N if we come together and fight big government...We win not them

[@dewaynebraxton1849]

The highway will not create a ghetto. A people so shallow to believe imminent domain laws only impact black neighborhoods? Ghettos are created by CULTURE! Not highways. Not Trump and Republicans but culture. To create a ghetto all you have to do is put lower income blacks and those on public assistance together. No matter where you move this demographic of people ghettos emerge. Tell the truth. You have witnessed it. We hate for white folks to talk about it but not even middle class blacks want to live in black low income communities where single motherhood is the norm. Why black people on here acting sensitive about stuff we is true is beyond me.

[@dewaynebraxton1849]

To make a difference, blacks should ban hip hop, make kids pull their pants up, stop tolerating disrespect from kids at home, school, or anywhere they go. Stop watching Mad TV, Wives of LA, South Park, Empire, and gansta rap videos. Next, stop giving kids with D's and F's cell phones. Limit time spent on social media. Never kids friends in your house with the parents permission. Stopping buy them stuff we cannot afford but give chores to earn money. I know all of this sounds ridiculous but its pretty much how I was raised and I thank God for my mother.

[@rcjanelle1]

@@dewaynebraxton1849 No ghettos are created by policies and substained by policies of neglect and divestment. Just like the former Jewish ghettos of Poland, favelas of Brazil or shanty towns of South Africa.

[@tabbyreed8925]

@@dewaynebraxton1849 Don't blame single motherhood. I'll give you a few reasons, 1st, I was raised by a single mother and am perfectly normal (except of my love of pokemon). 2nd, there is no way to force the men to stay, it is usually them that run away from the responsibility. 3rd, depending on the man, the kid may be better off without them. My mother left my father because he was an alcoholic, she went through rehab with him twice before she had to give up.

[@Dubblesteel]

The Federal Government destroyed many of black neighborhoods but never wanting to admit what that did to our communities.

[@Dubblesteel]

I-75 ran right through Black flourishing neighborhoods. But we have bounced back and we are accomplishing much, Thank you Lord.

[@dewaynebraxton1849]

It ain't that deep. Get a job. Do not commit crime and you can live a decent life. The people making this stupid video do not live in ghettos.

[@dewaynebraxton1849]

I guess fatherless children, gangs, drugs, pimps and gun violence did not play a role...🤣🤣🤣. Naw not those things. Three and four kids with no husband had nothing to do with destroying black families and neighborhoods. Ok its all racism. So what now victims? Where do excuse making victims find success? So the feds can't be trusted. Well you been voting Democrat for years and now Biden is in office. How is that working? Didn't the god Obama train him well? Black people need to wake up and start dealing with real issues. By the way, even if a neighborhood is black and poor it doesn't to be infested with crime, drugs, and gangs. Poor Asians and other ethnic groups do not have our issues.

[@Dubblesteel]

Mr. Ridiculous, my Grandparents were hard working ppl and the communities good ones too, chk your facts hoemboy....there are no excuses here, black ppl still work hard doc. These are the fact, aren't they?????? This happened is all of America, black communities

[@Cacowninja]

@@dewaynebraxton1849 You're willfully ignorant then. Government does all sorts of crap that creates poverty and yet the "Get a job." mentality still exists. If you want people to get jobs then get rid of government which destroys jobs with regulation and other forms of elitism like the drug war. People complain about the homeless yet walk to the voting booth to vote in politicians who make people homeless in the first place. Also don't commit crime still doesn't work out when you have so much police brutality regardless.

[@queenjesse1000]

It’s called the Projects because that’s literally what they are… projects aimed at a specific demographic of people.

[@Ms_Kymm]

💯

[@operavin]

I’m white, conservative leaning with notes of left, and am constantly BLOWN AWAY by people who don’t know this history. I was born in the 60’s and knew people who lived in the projects, visited friends in the projects, and always wondered why is was full of Black Americans. Now I get it: American made slavery illegal, but then turned around and made it illegal to be black. When others say “Look at the immigrants who come here with nothing and do so well…” I have to point out that there was an expectation that we’d take care of our own first. Sure some people make it out of poverty, but only Black Americans were “legally” deprived of prosperity by their own government. No, it’s not rounding up and entire race and exterminating them, but it’s still unconscionable. Even our precious suburbs are racists, but most Americans don’t see that. Biden is doing what he can to start change, but the truth is that KZbin which giving Americans the platform they need to bring these injustices to light. If you think about, outside of the pilgrims, and a few others, most Americans have a history, which is much shorter in this country than that of African-Americans. Definitely something to think about.

[@DemonicEmbrace]

American laws even forbid interracial marriages, blacks weren’t allowed to own/buy their own homes and businesses, and had to take literacy and pay poll taxes just to vote. Even though slavery was illegal the Jim Crow era was a horrible time to be black. Keep in mind segregation was horrible, redlining against blacks existed in every form of institutionalization such as housing, banks, jobs, etc..most fell back into debt with sharecropping

[@90000cg]

You are not conservative and are ignorant. Blacks around the world do poorly in the industrialized world. There is a genetic component to this problem.

[@sageex3931]

Dude if you want to get even more information watch neo slavery by knowing better

[@sageex3931]

​@@DemonicEmbrace yeah they had 30 questions and if you got one wrong answer it mean't you failed

[@sageex3931]

Yep

[@willawentertainment]

There’s a book called ‘The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America’ that covers this in detail.

[@HalfEvil1800]

Thank you interesting im going to read it

[@lynns4426]

Great book!

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

JimCrow

[@jeraldcarter342]

Great read

[@jeraldcarter342]

He ain't doing shit

[@kwolf506]

This is why they are literally making laws to prevent topics like this from being taught. They don't want to feel bad about what they did.

[@joyfulspirit22]

Not true, that's not the reason. The reason is they want to make rasism stronger, so we hate each other. We can not allow it. most people alive today had no part in the segregation or slavery. I'm 58 my parents taught me we all bleed the same and how awful people of color were treated. We must not let people forget how wrong it was. We need to move away from, The past, hate is taught . I have experienced rasism from a black person, so it does go both ways. I lived in a neighborhood as a kid that the Kkk used to be in a parade down main st. During other holiday parades. My parents were so against it and surely told them to their faces when they asked why we did go to their parades. All were Democrats. My grandmother used to say, those rasist Democrats should be hung! We need to stand together, divided we fall. The Government is no ones friend. We need to teach , All lives matter!

[@lunalea1250]

🎯🎯🎯

[@sageex3931]

Yep on the dot

[@nottheone831]

Benign neglect

[@AliS-pu8rz]

Did Biden right the wrong or is he just another politician to use the black vote to become president

[@alexxma3755]

I was researching this a few years at how the government progressively made it more difficult for black folk to raise a family but easier for them to destroy it. Basically eugenics and that the problems were never resolved. This is so fu*king tragic.

[@joemccarthy5508]

If we want to keep something like this happening again, we need a smaller government.

[@oki134]

It's happening right now. This time to everyone.

[@Uncle-Ruckus-]

LMFAO nothing is ever your own fault, is it? Everything that's ever happened to you was someone's else's doing and definitely not because you make terrible choices repeatedly, hmm?

[@90000cg]

Keep voting democrap

[@lindaselander9602]

Blame the democratic party and Margaret Sanger!

[@Tony-mn7vo]

This is why history is important.

[@mr.westwood1876]

This is why I be so baffled when us black/African Americans be so trusting of the government it’s hilarious to me whew😅

[@DarkNJuju]

Well what is your suggestion? Dont trust the government but trust ????????

[@mrvampire41]

@@DarkNJuju I grew up outside Philly. I had white friends and black friends. Funny part is that my best friend I grew up with was black. You couldn't separate us. We used to encounter racial people from time to time. That's when the two of us would give it right back to them. My buddy would tell me a racist joke about white folk and I would tell him a black joke and we would laugh like we were busting a gut. The others didn't know what to think they would walk away. He had my back and I had his. We were brothers and we trusted each other. Neither one of us believed in the racial crap. It's a matter of the heart. Most folks could care less what color anyone is. We all , red, yellow, black and white, know better. Any time we hear a political person talk about color we need to give back to them and trust each other. That's how we did it and it brought change in our school not all but people's heart changed. Stand on what's written in Webster's dictionary. Avoid people who promote racism. If we stop listening to all of them they'll shut up about it and find another way to manipulate the population.

[@badgerden7080]

Don't trust the government at all. Trust God!

[@umichgal1]

Ok I understand not trusting the government fully, so what is your solution for the alternative?

[@zebra3455]

Right, Africans come here and trust the government too, I dont understand it! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@mattallen5803]

I know one thing in the 40s to late 60s during segregation, black communities were clean, well maintained, blacks had their own businesses, etc. Integration came, black businesses closed, the drugs came in and now look at our neighborhoods

[@blazee3895]

This is why I believe MLK did the community a huge injustice. Makes me wonder if he was actually working with the guberment.

[@user-mt1zg4bv6g]

100 percent correct ,so why do black Americans continue to vote solely Democrat

[@rodterrell304]

Yes they did, until the welfare state came in and destroyed the black family.

[@saltshakergg1813]

Ya that crack messed everything up

[@ParadiseLordRyu]

Probably a mixture of that and the welfare state given the latter required breaking up families for the mother to get any sort of money

[@ROCKNROLLFAN]

And racists say that black people are their own WORST enemy but they completely left this part OUT.....SMH.....

[@cydzview]

even when black people govern themselves they create cataclysm

[@sabrinaskovholt7427]

I’m so proud of you for figuring out the Picture in Picture for your viewers 👍 you’re learning so fast as you go along and I think that’s AWESOME!!! I ❤ you and your reactions!

[@TeenaDavis101]

Please stop acting as if Bidens really helped after 45yrs in the senate. Not to mention 8yrs of vice president.

[@jasoncoles9086]

Biden is a bum

[@brianbrown6806]

Thank you.. that sht almost made me not even watch the entire video

[@LionIron447]

He needs to fix the credit scheme, because the " immigrants" don't have credit yet they get stores, cars, and homes and bank accounts...

[@samohtyesop3537]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.🤔🤔

[@TeenaDavis101]

@@samohtyesop3537 I'm not a public servant, getting paid by the people. But yet I have employed 160 people.

[@omgimover4075]

Damn black people literally jumped out of the skillet right into the frying pan. Leaving the south to escape racism but ended up covertly experiencing racism in the north & was forced to live in terrible housing conditions. Today a lot of northern black people are moving back south. I live in FL & it’s getting to the point that’s hard to find native Floridian. Everyone I met is from somewhere else lol.

[@JB-fp5ud]

How In the heck did the Irish , Vietnamese , Cubans , Asians and islanders seem to make it ??

[@arthursmith8771]

@@JB-fp5ud The government helped them.

[@dukester982]

@@JB-fp5ud Government handouts. You think the US govt brought refugees from a torn down Vietnam and didn't pay them money? The people from Afghanistan just got 6.3 billion Biden. What planet have you been on.

[@rudybrooks3722]

I live in East Texas on 20 acres my Grandfather bought in 1925,alot of my friends are moving back to Louisiana and Mississippi to the land their Grandparents bought and owned.

[@Poshgardenherbs]

Big facts. Very much overpopulated

[@sharonkaysnowton]

I knew this information for my own city where I grew up. HUD did a "lot" in my city. When I was a little girl, when we blacks moved in all the whites moved out. When I was a little girl, there was only one old white woman who lived in our neighborhood. She was too old to move. White folks came through to take up the rent and the insurance money. Yeah, once a month the "government cheese" man came through. I did not go downtown until I was about 17 or 18. We knew which sections of town we could go through safely. It is a story that needs to be told. Thank you for sharing it.

[@feleciasmith7791]

This is so powerful African Americans has always been held down and kept from providing for their families their were certain neighborhoods we couldn't and wasn't allowed to move in and stores we could shop at malls we couldn't go to it was ashame I remember going in a store to buy a purse and they followed me and looked at me like why I'm here i wasn't dressed up that day just look regular but they didn't know i had money i was treated horrible and the one lady that looked pass what i was wearing and helped me i made sure i spent alot and she got the sale its ashame how we commission but god has bought us from a mighty long way

[@Swo76]

Watch Benayah Israel

[@Michelle-pn9xt]

a shame

[@GovernmentIssued]

Over 100 HBCU's Affirmative Action and DE&I and y'all still crying about a past you were not alive in. 😂

[@justtracy7175]

In my opinion, This is why FICO scores exist so it keeps people in their place.

[@benthomas5891]

Anyone can go live anywhere. No one can stop you.

[@DarkNJuju]

@@benthomas5891 Spoken like a true white man.

[@kstarrify]

@@DarkNJuju Or a wanna be

[@motivateyodamnself5389]

@@benthomas5891 lol

[@jonathanselassie6174]

@@DarkNJuju 🤣

[@thomasyoung5680]

When will we help ourselves we have a responsibility in our present situation we must stop the violence in our community this is 2022 I am 60 and Love my people but we must change WE ARE OUR BIGGEST SETBACK

[@goldenstandard187]

NO THEY WAITING ON JESUS OUR RISE MEANS THERE FALL THEY WILL NEVER GIVE US KNOWLEDGE TO WIN

[@QueenLadyQ]

No you need a political education our government... well let me put it this how do you come to the United States from a poor Asian country with no money in your pocket and start a business tomorrow plus free education for your children. Why are we so uniform that this is why Asian are second highest in wealth next ti whites. If you came here poor then you should live amongst the poor. Haven't you worked all your life are you wealthy? Wonder why not. We give minority benefits to foreign folks while yelling out to black people fix your own problems. It's your false. TD HIP HOP MEDIA and Tonetalks channel go watch and Learn

[@bumpyjohnson635]

Absolutely true

[@RJL612]

@@QueenLadyQ You think the Govt is giving Asian immigrants businesses to start or are they taking out loans that they are responsible for paying back? Asians have a different culture and mindset. They outperform other races academically because of how they raise their kids.

[@RJL612]

@@QueenLadyQ I heard if you blame everyone else for your problems and then expect others to fix it for you is the key to success. SAID NO ONE EVER!

[@pelonmusk3210]

Gangster rap started being played on the radio the same year private prisons became active.

[@kickassets6414]

If only people (specifically my people) knew the power of being in control of how we react, treat each other, and b resources to each other despite the external. Poverty/injustice/our enemy's schemes doesn't mean we have to help them contribute to our own demise.

[@kickassets6414]

@@AndiMiller-hm1vr ok ...what do u expect from our enemies then...u can't go wrong by not being our own enemies....

[@kickassets6414]

@@AndiMiller-hm1vr it's so funny how we're so hard against each other, but don't have that same energy for our original enemies.

[@samwheat8348]

Believe it or not. The children of Israel also stayed in the ghettos of Ancient Egypt. Black people have survived for so long. Its amazing.

[@LEllis-ui3lx]

I'm not impressed. It says it in the bible so, it just makes sense and isn't too far fetched

[@JeffmChicago]

@@LEllis-ui3lx Religion is the cause of so much pain, suffering and ignorance.

[@elguapo3555]

@@JeffmChicago unfortunately there's alot of corruption and evil In the church now. Evil people took power of the Catholic church

[@blackhood2205]

Cause we r strong people

[@donovanmezzanine5562]

When you spread this ahistorical and delusional idea that black people were the descendants of Abraham, you make a mockery of the efforts of activists throughout history to fight racism. We don't need delusions to establish justice, only the truth.

[@robertronning7016]

It's important to understand that the government wants ghettos so you continue to work and produce for them.

[@dwightlove3704]

They created these housing complexes for the inner city.

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

All housings are projects it's a lucrative business

[@dwightlove3704]

@@dassolosyndikat5113 Well its done just for black ppl.

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

@@dwightlove3704 then how do you explain all the housing projects in europe which are all safe except the ones in the uk & france where many black people live in

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

@@dwightlove3704 the us housing projects except for nyc are very small compared to the european ones where up to 100,000 people live in. Half of poland is all projects the same with ukraine & russia

[@xr2863]

The earlier generations who lived in projects elevated themselves out. They did not wallow in poverty, but worked, married, raised children and moved on. It was the early 70's and later who decided to make welfare, gangbanging and ghetto lifestyle their victim embracing way of life.

[@PerkpopperDotcom-qu3hk]

This ain’t true the majority of blacks people have always been in poverty

[@curtiswhiteheadjr1322]

I’ve read about all of this, but thanks for posting this and keep it coming. Even though other not us media outlets will come to revision and redirect this knowledge cuz God forbid my Melanated Kinfolks actually accept the reality of our existence under this system.

[@Shonan2024]

My great grandmother told me how Coconut Grove was a black neighborhood and how blacks were forced to live in Key West. Thank you for this video.

[@504Bull]

He got a rich mama and daddy who lives out in Coconut Grove. I know this is a serious matter. Bad Boys popped up in my head with the scene with JoJo the ture man 😆

[@janaecatt2407]

West coconut grove was all black until about 5 years ago… it’s being gentrified as We post… I went there yesterday and they put up a visitor center that says absolutely nothing about Coconut Grove which is the oldest settled part of Miami and was settled by Black people. There were no black faces, though they claim to explain the history verbally they have pamphlets about everywhere else except Miami or Coconut Grove which is actually where the City Hall sits ,it’s strange. I grew up there and I raised my children there I no longer live there. It looks very European, there is almost nothing left of the culture that started the place that everyone claim to love so much. When I asked questions I was immediately assumed to live in the West Grove because of my passion for the information that they did not have and were not sharing( it looks like someone stole it and is being an imposter). Originally, Coconut Grove was started by Haitians, then black Bahamians settled and cleared it and then the white Bahamians came over and moved in… They allow most historical buildings to implode on themselves, rather than to deem them historical landmarks and discuss the history.

[@barryhollon468]

Key west side

[@simplytrolling6869]

Gee golly… I sure wish some racist would come and force me to live in Key West…

[@SilentMovements305]

@@janaecatt2407 iv done many houses in Coconut Grove and they've all come europe.. slowly but surely the Grove will be little europe in a couple years. You got alotta french italians etc. And you if you notice the section off the trail rail where those houses are at are all european style houses frm the layout to the color schemes

[@TiaBivens]

Wow, this is exactly what happened where I’m from in syracuse, ny. In the 60’s there was a predominantly black community in what was known as the 15th ward that was completely bulldozed to build a highway, a jail, a hospital directly behind one that already existed, and right next to those highways are public housing communities built right after the bulldoxzing of the 15th ward in the 1970’s. Practically all of African American history from the first of our people who came here escaping the south was erased. We came here with nothing and built our own schools, doctors, barbershops, grocery stores, churches, and it was all wiped out for “urban renewal”. Ironically 50 years later we are facing the same problem. They are now talking about wiping out those same public housing communities as part of gentrification, turns out that highway that wiped out hundreds of years of African American history only lasts 50 years. Now hundreds of people are once again at risk of homelessness and having to relocate, if they’re lucky since they’ve slowly been raising rent prices in our neighborhoods, and paler richer faces have slowly been popping up as we get kicked out. History doesn’t change, it only repeats itself.

[@GUITARTIME2024]

Asians come to America and kick ass. Culture matters.

[@Allinyo]

@@GUITARTIME2024 yea but you're missing the part about intentional government targeting you troglodyte 😉

[@coreymurphy2711]

@@GUITARTIME2024 yall get everything handed to yall. Yall don't work for shit.

[@yourfinalhiringagency3890]

Actually all the people with stuff want to keep it safe. So when thieves and criminals start proliferating, the people with stuff leave. Now people choosing to live in the ghetto (Bc it is a choice) are not only pro segregation, but also subjecting themselves to an existence debatably worse than slavery.

[@fiyahriddims]

Until we as a race do better for ourselves,we will suffer from the other people. Instead of buying material stuff to impress poor people, we need to buy land in non urban areas. Produce our own everything........But that would take,us working together. Something I've never seen my whole life.

[@JasonT1875]

It’s so important to document this. For those that would like to learn about this more, please read The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

[@omarabdulalim4862]

Where we lived there was a library a recreation center, medical clinic everything we needed was pretty much within walking distance where we lived in the housing projects we were poor what is where I learned about real community and unconditional love.

[@sasachiminesh1204]

"Ghetto" has an earlier history in Europe where Jews were forced to live. "Ghet" is Yiddish for "separation." Ghetto is where Italians forced Jews to live, called shtetl in German and Eastern Europe areas. The name was transferred to Black neighborhoods after it was picked up from Jews and Italians in New York, where they were also segregated in places like the Bowery, in Manhattan. Robert Moses designed the highways that destroyed the Bronx, which was Italian and Jewish before it was Black and Dominican. The Bronx was thriving before the highways cut up neighborhoods and by-passed them with no exits.

[@amgooder]

So ...NO Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷in the Bronx? Only Jews, Dominicans, Italians and Blacks are/were residents there?🤭 JLo, Big Pun, Marc Anthony, Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Jimmy Smits, India & other Freestlye House Music P.R. artist..Rita Moreno, Liz Torres, Eric Estrada... Boxer Hector Macho Camacho (just to name a few) And the thousands of other Boricua residents have expressed themselves on this matter! Follow arrow. ⬇️ 🙈🙉🙊😖😳🤯🙄🤔😁😐😑😏😤🤪

[@Dominicanbulk]

@@amgooder you American. Want to be Puerto Rican so bad? Move back to PR.

[@democratsrepublicansbothan7973]

Don't even talk about others when it comes to atrocities. Blacks go through the worst by far. Even by the groups u name.

[@tobeargoodfruit]

@@amgooder You guys dont go way back, maybe just 70yrs. You guys don't have our history.

[@paige_judah5538]

OMG!!!!!! FINALLY SOMEBODY KNOWS. Jews celebrate/commemorate that history of the ghetto quarters in Venice, Italy every year and preserve it's landmarks. This is the reason I hate hearing blk folks calling their communities ghetto or other blk folks ghetto. We weren't never ghetto so why continue to accept being a N-word/ghetto, bywords given to you as insults, now we just use them to further low rate each other. Blk folks sound like racist/prejudice wyte folks when they assult others for staying in those communities when in fact the majority living there are retired/working class law abiding citizens with a sprinkle of degenerates that need love.

[@zionel6555]

They discriminate now through credit score as the means to deny

[@pwhales264]

Exactly

[@pwhales264]

And even if you have a Perfect FICO score they still say NO

[@marissac870]

For poor folks...like my "white" ass

[@motivatorsoftheheart0007]

@@marissac870 yes, because the poor class is effected by it as well. They don't just discriminate against POC. Whites need to realize this as well.

[@marissac870]

@@motivatorsoftheheart0007 people need to realize it ....you fool

[@addiebrook2517]

And despite everything,blacks are the 3rd largest group of immigrants who applied for and were granted patents for their inventions, created every Musical genre in america, and reared the most famous Americans in its history: ali,mj and mj.

[@caddilacjones2397]

Just remember the last part of the puzzle that makes a ghetto is when the people chose to be ghetto.

[@Scorpioking1987]

A fundamental problem is that the same people who were around when a lot of these policies were put in place are still very attached to high government positions and are responsible for reinforcing policies. Term Limits and an expulsion of many old Congressional leaders is necessary

[@USAF1RST]

one of them is the current President…

[@Ms_Kymm]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯

[@VulcanLogic]

@@USAF1RST And the prior one was fined by HUD for racist rental practices...twice.

[@90000cg]

Blah blah blah.

[@sageex3931]

Exactly

[@madboyreadynow28]

In the 50's and 60's they refered a term known as "Urban Renewal" today widely known as Gentrification. If you don't know or understand these terms educate you're now to understand how Urban Renewal was used in the 60's and how Gentrification is the same thing in 2022. Owning land is how wealth is created. Tulsa was a violent form of Urban Renewal to concentrate black Americans to a certain part of town know to most as the other side of the tracks. What happen in the Greenwood section of Tulsa,OK aka Black Wall Street in 1921 was 1 of many violent land take overs in the early 1900's. Black History is every day not just 1 month of the year.

[@trajan6927]

Socialist democrats have controlled every major city in the U.S.A. for the last 50 years or more. Democrats have operated every lever of power in the top 40 cities. The democrats in power need to be held accountable. Socialists democrats ran those cities into the ground. Nobody but them to blame, and the individuals who live there, vote there, and don't hold anyone accountable.

[@user-zc9zt2vl5s]

@@trajan6927 Totally right about that! Those damn communists democrats are destroying America. Blue states are not part of America. They are a bunch of lying and cheating bastards. The government do not care about it's people. If people still believe that, then they need a wake up call.

[@6ick6ick6ity5]

@@trajan6927 and reagan put crack into the ghettos...thats why malcolm X sed Republicans and Democrats are both enemies of blacks

[@trajan6927]

Yes racism was a problem and slavery was a horrible time in world history. Racism goes both ways. Doesn't mean I need to destroy my city, kill my fellow man and stop educating myself. At what point do we stop the blame game and move forward?

[@trajan6927]

@@6ick6ick6ity5 Reagan did not put crack into the cities, lol. Please explain how President Reagan did that.

[@sallyjohnson8933]

The issue with this assertion lies in the fact that the government is imposing higher taxes on individuals of Caucasian descent, leading to the expectation that their neighborhood will consequently be more affluent.

[@ncstreetnews6145]

And black people ask me why I challenge the government 😂😂 this makes my blood boil

[@DF-bo8fz]

The government can not be trusted nor be expected to what is right. We make our own right and we need to raise our children with positive self worth. We can believe in ourselves and rise above what the government thinks what we should do or need. We need our community to be proud of ourselves and understand we are strong on our own without the government's help.

[@fairymairah]

I agree. no government can be trusted. and it's all over the world.

[@bigblack269]

We would all be better off if we lived our lives like the government played no part in them. The ‘man’ would still take its share of income, however, it could never take what we build in our culture, community, and welfare. The main roadblock today is capitalism and materialism which posses an individual and blind them from what’s really important.

[@endigosun]

I totally agree! Thanks for this… ✊🏽

[@kevindavis8500]

Exactly we need to make moves sans the government.

[@cramcrams7741]

You are the " government" IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD.

[@soulsister2410]

We have to also put more effort in helping ourselves. I remember just like the previous person stated, we had a lot of what white neighborhoods had in the 1970’s. We have to work to clean up our neighborhoods, work to get rid of crime, and work to improve our schools. I do not believe we should have to live with white people to live an abundant life. We need to hold all politicians accountable, as taxpayers, in solving the problems in our neighborhoods.

[@thirst4truth204]

The only hand that is coming to help you is attachedto your arm .

[@micoal2834]

Just because you may live in low income neighborhoods doesn't mean it has to look like it.

[@thirst4truth204]

@@micoal2834 ur so right !

[@leonhenry4861]

It starts at home, tell the women to stop choosing thugs over the hard working 9-5 man.

[@omalone1169]

@@leonhenry4861 1:30 Urban Renewal

[@LBR1847]

Integration was the worst thing that happened to us. At least one of them.

[@TravelsightsTS]

As a Canadian, I fear for this same fate in Canada with the high levels of unnatural immigration. Ghettos are a result of a lack of resources over several generations. Canada may soon have ghettos.

[@deborahzenquis4666]

It’s important for our communities work together to keep our neighborhoods clean.

[@hellothere8347]

But everybody keep killing each other

[@doublerlifestyle72]

@@hellothere8347 self hatred the man instilled in us . House negros & field negros . The house negros is snitches & sell outs whereas the field negros would rather get lynched than to tell Master James that 2 slaves escaped & got away. So in 2023 we have more house negros than field negros wnana know why ? Cause people is brainwashed & have no thinking skills . Yeah we need to take accountability but at the same time we ain't the ones who brought drugs over here we ain't the ones brought guns over here. It's all connected. That scene in snowfall where teddy told franklin everything u have is cause I allow u to have it , if we never had any drugs or guns or racism & corruption infiltrate our community I don't think we would have any gangs or violence today. Just petty crimes .

[@YB4ktBetter]

That’s a lost u would’ve thought all we went thru we would be so tight n loving to help each other some of ours is it’s worse enemy 😢

[@YB4ktBetter]

@@hellothere8347yes n I never understood why was they brain damaged thru generations no cuz this young generation wasn’t here so wth happened so much hate n we still slaves they never going let us have more than them 😢

[@dondada29]

@@hellothere8347 dats the point in them making the fukin ghetto dummy

[@nothing563019]

The government may have created it but the people living in them have sure done a brilliant job of keeping them going and even glorifying them

[@ninerninerfaith]

You got that RIGHT !!

[@Shlogger]

there are obviously several factors but I think you just summed it up pretty accurately. Destruction of the family unit, and by extension the community, poor education, crime and lots of other negative influences have all contributed to this situation. It's sad but I don't think it's too late to turn things around. But it won't be through a bunch of woke nonsense or corrupt ass BLM or a lot of other mainstream supported groups that could care less about the people they claim to represent. There's a lot of people out there looking to exploit people's distrust and anger so people need to stay vigilant and keep a critical eye on anyone that tends to get promoted by the mainstream. That's usually not a good sign honestly.

[@nothing563019]

@@Shlogger Agreed. I think the change will have to come from within. Culturally. Its hard though when such a large percentage of the group is so far gone and like you said there are so many negative outside influences encouraging the regressive habits

[@tias.6675]

Exactly !!!!

[@USAF1RST]

i was literally thinking the same thing lol

[@alwaystheone]

In the Northeast U.S. I have lived in Baltimore and New York City for housing and employment they ask me about my race and nationality because that is a way they can put you in a certain box. I say that I am human, I prefer not to say, and I'm I eligible or qualify. I am not going to be a robot to the system. It is best to be open minded about what's going in certain communities. Thanks for sharing this video

[@michaeldougall6981]

Racism will always be around unless everyone sees the fact that in God's eyes we were all created in his image and that no single man or woman is above anyone else it doesn't matter if you are black white Hispanic or any other nationality we are all created equally. And we as Men are the leaders and women are to be our partners there are things that make us different but in God's eyes we are all the same and God doesn't make mistakes.

[@char6081]

I was super curious. It’s sad to see people blame black people for their current population in “the ghetto” when it’s mostly due to racism and I’m sure those ppl faulting them wouldn’t want to be refused housing rights and pushed into poverty through discrimination themselves

[@boostjunkie2320]

They were only refused if they didn't have the money or credit. Those are sorry excuses

[@jamberry8026]

This is the reason they demonize the 1619 project and CRT, because the truth actually shows how white supremacy did everything it could to stop Blacks from building their own. There were hundreds of black wall streets during reconstruction that the government and history books hide from the public. The people in Tulsa, OK were threatened with prison if they spoke up about the brutality that was exacted upon successful Blacks!

[@earlwallace2015]

@@jamberry8026 the Black Wallstreets you reference was built 100 years ago. Most black people make excuses now. The ones that don't are extremely successful. Check out the following: 1. Bowie Maryland. 2. Powernomics by Dr. Claud Anderson. 3. Black wealth to be zero by 2053. 4. His and Her Money. (KZbin). 5. Anthony O'Neal. (KZbin).

[@jamberry8026]

@@earlwallace2015 !00 years ago would be generational wealth today. If those cities built by Blacks were allowed to thrive without being burned down by racist whites sanctioned by the government there would be no such thing as a Black ghetto, because of the generational wealth. You don't understand that, because you live in your own white ghetto and have no excuse for it.

[@earlwallace2015]

@@jamberry8026 again, black people I know personally and know of that are intentional with their money are successful. The ones that make excuses are not. Thats just the reality. Arguing about what was or could have been won't help our people now.

[@justinstoudemire]

I hate the word WOKE!!! Black is included with poor…ugh. I know sooooo many black people who are hard workers, educated, living in nice homes but that’s not talked about enough. I’ve always felt like HUD was shady.

[@ferarribrown5752]

that's a lie. lmao

[@DarkNJuju]

The destruction of the black middle class was part of the thing. There was a very successful middle class full of teachers, preachers and small business owners. All of which are under attack.

[@ginrummy426]

From the outside looking in, black folk were doing just fine till uncle Sam stepped in to 'help'

[@darrellfrench7029]

@@ginrummy426 thanks for the whitefolks input like the lack of voting rights vigilante racism Jim Crow redlining the systematic destruction of black prosperous communities all across this country for the last century that the generational wealth that should be in the black community today was stolen without compensation it wasn't just the government it would be worse if it wasn't for the government but like I said thanks for your white folks opinion from the outside looking in!

[@ginrummy426]

@@darrellfrench7029 👍 and let's not forget about Hoover's COINTEL project either

[@j2949]

Richmond, Va is a sad but, great example of the interstate concept. Plowed straight through Jackson Ward and more.

[@Istandby666]

In 2010, I took a vacation to Chicago. While there, I watched people of all race and all sexualities intertwined. It gave me hope for humanity. Then I flew back, got off the plane, looked around the airport. You have your browns in one group, your blacks in another, and white's in another. I felt like I went back to the 17th century. Segregation is still alive. It's ugly..... People wake up, we all belong to only one race. The HUMAN race.

[@paulhunter6742]

As a Black homeowner, I have talk about how many inner city residents have NO Respect for people who are Buying their homes. Many of houses in my area either are vacant or being rented out. As a result, new tenants don't keep up their homes, Allow weeds and grass growth. Let their kids throw trash and run across neighbors yards. I've even seen adults that live in my block throw beer cans and fast food containers out car windows as they pass my house. Some Black folks have NO Pride in how neighborhood looks at all.

[@pafena]

That's neither here nor there because guess what, some white folks have no pride in theirs either, don't be ignorant just because you bought a house, plenty of us have them.

[@thirst4truth204]

Thats what I've heard whites say about minority people ...they dont care

[@paulhunter6742]

Yet, on other side of same issue, I have seen Black homeowners that keep their properties beautifully manicured and maintained.

[@darrellgainer6966]

@@paulhunter6742 exactly dude just said something so ignorant. In the south I’ve seen so many trailer homes and unkempt houses owned by white people but I obviously understand that’s not everyone.

[@lazysundays6793]

Absolutely correct. At some point black people need to stop playing victim. It’s free to sweep in front of your door. If everyone would just pick up a broom and sweep our neighborhoods would look so much better. It’s free to not hang on corners or loiter in front of stores. I just don’t understand why in 2023 black people are still victimizing themselves and I’m a black woman and I’m tired of the victim mentality.

[@thekeith-donovanexperience]

After segregation, the late 60s-70s black people DID THE DAMN THING. White folks saw that quick advancement, and bam, crack came in the 80’s and we rebounded in 2000s. This generation is MAKING A WAY. keep fighting and recording! BY ANY MEANS.

[@trajan6927]

Nice try on the blame game. But homey don't play that game. Get off the pity pot.

[@trajan6927]

The Asians don't allow drugs to rule them. That's why Asians are smart. They come to the U.S. and can't speak English or write, and don't have a dime in their pocket. Yet somehow the Vietnamese and Japanese are the most successful group in the U.S.. They don't blame anybody. They don't play the race card and do not claim to be victims. They become doctors and businessman and are peaceful great proud Americans. Asians are an asset to the U S.A. Some groups born and raised in the U.S. do nothing but complain.

[@TrueCarbon]

It took a longtime for them to get us we were on top during what they call the dark ages then they came back on top during the Renaissance.

[@trajan6927]

@@TrueCarbon ok, so how can you improve your life today? Stuck in the past are we?

[@trajan6927]

@@TrueCarbon who is they, and how did they, "get you"?

[@denisedawson1085]

United States of America needs to build more housing apartments for the homeless Americans and the immigrants.

[@eq8ri]

more wood chippers!

[@LIVdaBrand]

I went from living in the projects myself as a kid to visiting 22 countries. I def got some stories lol. Never give up!

[@chrisper94]

Urban Renewal was the black version of the Indian Removal Act. Same script and M.O., different time. This is good CRT.

[@leodeshawn8747]

A lot of us are the Indians of the removal act

[@tannerwall114]

Lol crt is a terrible thing to teach people. All it does is create more hate, division, and racism. It’s funny how the beginning of this video they claim joe Biden tried to right wrongs of the past but let’s not forget he was the biggest promoter and the man who created the 94 crime bill. But y’all ain’t ready for that conversation

[@jasonmorris9330]

@@tannerwall114 We don't have time for tapdancers trying to make right left and up down. Critical Race Theory is being resisted by the conservatives because it will force those who implement institutionalized racism to change their behavior or be exposed. It will also let those ignorant to it know why things are the way they are in America

[@tannerwall114]

@@jasonmorris9330 lol but it doesn’t need to be taught in schools to young kids who are just barely understanding who they are. That’s doing nothing but creating more racist people.

[@hostilesavage4299]

@@leodeshawn8747 blacks are not native americans... that's the gov brainwashing at work on the gullible blacks like yourself... don't be influenced...

[@clemontwilliams8252]

Talk about Critical Race Theory. This video captures the history that so many people in this country, i.e. republicans, don't want you to hear. There is a reason ghettos exist to this day. They were created by racist policies at every level of government and social culture. Thank you for this video. Everyone should remember it the next time they are faced with the "whitewashing" of American history where ghettos just exist because of some "character deficiencies" in black people. Government policies and racism created those ghettos. Never forget.

[@Spyroh]

Yea created by democrats 😂😂😂😂 when will ppl realize they are the racist ones💀

[@thicpancakes4673]

@@Spyroh so you should be advocating to change these policies, right? Since they were created by the dirty dems and all

[@Spyroh]

@@thicpancakes4673 critical race theory is racist so no I would never advocate for it but I think something should be done about the way our government likes to keep our black communities down by keeping them dependent on the government by giving them just enough to get by. Black kids in these communities are not graduating highschool due to terrible educational opportunities in these areas, as well as getting into crime. The culture also glamorizes selling drugs and killing so that definitely is a part of the problem as well. If you really want to go there we can go there. The parties never switched if you do your research and look at the officials of that time they never switched. The “dirty democrats” are literally the ones who introduced crack, planned parenthood, government housing (projects) ect. I will continue to believe democrats are the racist ones by keeping poor black people dependent on them and barely giving them enough to get by and making them feel like victims just so they get their votes. If it were up to me I’d want to tear down government housing, stop giving so much government subsidies to these communities, take our education in inner cities a lot more seriously, and up lift poor black communities by educating them on becoming successful through hard work and even building their own businesses, and creating their own black owned communities once again which is what was happening before the democrats couldn’t stand it and turned it all to government housing and got everybody hooked on crack and spread aids. At one point in time black communities were thriving and expanding and we’re safe but that all changed once the crack and aids were introduced now democrats use a “victimization mentality” to get votes from poor black people when THEY WERE THE ONES THAT DID IT TO THEM. Master manipulators. And if you’ve made it this far I don’t like republicans either, I just agree with conservative policies regarding economics and social issues. The political parties are a shitfest and taking sides to argue all day about is silly. But I do know that democrats hate black people and it’s going to be hard to change my mind.

[@iamkesha.]

You forgot to mention the racist policies were implemented by racist Dems and is still maintained today by Dems. Why would politicians accept millions of dollars for those communities but pocket most it instead of use it to help those communities? It’s profitable to keep people in bondage, in the hood, than to educate them, teach them financial literacy and help them. When communities learn and grow independently and no longer need government help, politicians become useless and loses the control to say vote for me so they can help you.

[@clemontwilliams8252]

@@iamkesha. You are right. And all those racist dems of that time, i.e. "Dixiecrats", are now republicans. There's a reason all the states of the confederacy are now dominated by republicans. But ghettos are all over the country as a direct result of all the reasons discussed in this video.

[@michaelfreeman8413]

POWERFUL 🔥

[@dalehercules6143]

I am black but a little confused ,I have family who left the Caribbean in their 30's who went to the US illegally and today have more than one home so there lies the confusion for me they all tell me hard work is the answer

[@bezogib]

What year did your family come to America

[@erikbridges6887]

As a 57 year old black man segregation does exist,but we can make our nieborhoods better.

[@jeanheard4615]

Thank you sir I am 81 and I agree

[@erikbridges6887]

@@pat-paterson all nationalities run away from their responsibilities.

[@kevinshea5819]

On this day Friday May 13th 2022 do you have the right to live anywhere you want? If you don't could you please let us know so we can fight this injustice. Peace.

[@guillermo6713]

Last generations feel entitled, they want everything at hand. Just want to be wealthy and famous over the stupid social media. Work 8 hours? Hahaha they think they are better than that. With no education besides their mobile phone.

[@ayanna439]

@@erikbridges6887 You're worried about what other nationalities are doing which is why you're so comfortable with your own community remaining in shitty conditions.

[@puravida5683]

Too little, too late. I moved and bought properties in Costa Rica and Panama. Cheaper homes, lower taxes and a higher standard of living! I woke up, and realized the American Dream, was just a dream!

[@hananiyahdejudah5643]

Indeed

[@katanadreamz]

Ain’t that the truth !!

[@joyfulspirit22]

I would like to move to Costa Rica

[@kathydelarosa1286]

It’s looking like more Americans are moving out the country :/ I hear ya

[@Obbij]

I would also start pushing local and state officials to change the zoning ordinances that allow for more mixed use developments and smart city building as well. I don’t think we realize how bad we are developing cities. Every single town virtually just has expensive single family homes available for dwelling when in other countries they have more variety for a plethora of different income situations

[@jackiefoster4953]

This country that we live in the u.s.a. it loves and caters to the Spanish and Mexican people they love them they love them because they're building up this country and anybody who is not African-American this country love you guys. I will keep praying that Jesus Christ will continue to protect me and all of my African-American people remember we have good people and we have bad people and all nationalities...

[@90000cg]

Blacks are being replaced. Latinos are much better workers and less violent.

[@fairymairah]

They say it's "the land of the free". but in certain ways. it still oppresses people 😔 and not just black people.

[@nataliewilliams8431]

you are only oppressed if you think you are oppressed. I'm black I am not oppressed. Get out of those negative mindsets

[@fairymairah]

@@nataliewilliams8431 it's not easy. and how do I get out of it ?

[@max78747]

@@fairymairah Work, my parents came from another country with nothing. We work and live a stable life. My parents can’t even fully speak English but they make it work. Thank you 🇺🇸

[@amannamesolo]

@@max78747 y’all made it due to black ppl from the civil right what was guaranteed equal rights for foreigners, white women and other “poc” except black ppl. Black people was better off during segregation and the us government knew that, thus using MLK for civil rights. We had the most money for any ethnic group in the us. So, yea y’all made it but don’t forget who put y’all there while still being oppressed, even when this documentary give you examples as such…….

[@queenbbeaute2654]

@@amannamesolo no civil rights was specifically our rights not foreign...they snuck there way in and dems help hijack our movements for them to receive but per constitution it states rights were specifically for chattel slavery which mean we could have a lawsuit with the gov for using our rights for other foreign ppl

[@bigdiccelmo5028]

You lost me with Biden. Y’all don’t realize how long he’s been in politics and going against blk ppl. These politicians don’t care about us

[@Outlawlighteazy]

Facts they are delusional. Biden has 40 plus years in politics and no one can name his accomplishments on behalf of the people he allegedly serves🤔. He and his son are as wicked as Trump. Team blue nor red is for us

[@Horsekick9times]

@@Outlawlighteazy As long as lobbying money exist, no blue or red will ever work for us. Their masters said no. Don't like the orange man either but he's still better than Biden.

[@bigdiccelmo5028]

Who ever commented for some reason I don’t see it. Feel free to comment again. My account does this all the time

[@zacksullivan7920]

Biden is the problem, not the solution, democrats period!

[@characterunderconstruction5891]

Thank you for these videos they are a eye opening experience for me. I know physical battles will get you physical wins. But everything has a time limitations attached to it. So now I fight a spiritual battle and to win means no more time limitations on my life. In the mean time I will continue to watch your videos because when something physical occurs something spiritual occurs also. Revelation 22:17 Come to the Spirit and the Bride. GodBlessU!

[@ellenchavez2043]

Um, it was really real estate and banks that red lined districts within cities. This red lining meant that loans to purchase or upgrade buildings and residences were not done in African American communities. These communities began crumbling in the 1950s and 60s. Federal government tried to help by building apartment complexes to house folks, but lack of maintenance and screening of residents created another kind of problem. The cost of racism is high. And we keep paying it instead of resolving it. Commit to equal access and equal justice, and set up systems that make it so.

[@jayshah9967]

If 1/10 of black folks thought like i did, this system would collapse overnight

[@well...456]

Spread the knowledge

[@oluwarotimi_98]

It will take close to 500 years for us to change. If it starts with black Americans everyone else will copy asap

[@well...456]

@@oluwarotimi_98 what makes u say that?

[@oluwarotimi_98]

@@well...456 whatever Americans do everyone else copies. If all you guys do is protest and stay where the place is that the bad things are happening the rest of us will do the same until you guys change

[@well...456]

@@oluwarotimi_98 i work

[@borngreat-4-life930]

GOD doesn't sleep for his children, his apples of his eyes. Even in the ghetto, he made them kings. Even without nothing, he provided for them.

[@Xtremedarkjoy]

hahahahahaha ok

[@SilentMovements305]

Yal really gotta stop that god shit giving that false hope

[@LionIron447]

Joseph Adeyi: How long, not long.... It's sooner than later... Look up..... Peace

[@goldenstandard187]

@@Xtremedarkjoy 😂

[@kennethrobinson1672]

💯

[@javimane5816]

It’s rather interesting how the word “ghetto” originated in Eastern Europe, however over time has been symbolized to place a negative connotation against the so-called “Afro” American.

[@DeAngelo1111]

"It comes as a great shock... That the !ndian is you." -The great James Baldwin

[@phillipkalaveras1725]

I grew up on welfare in the 60s back when they used to make unannounced visits to the home a couple times a year and go through all the closets and drawers making sure no man was living in the home and that was how all that is wrong today started. Johnson knew exactly what that No Man In The Home rule would do that is why he put in and had it vigorously enforced and why I despise Democrats. Now you know... too

[@Oc4ever12]

I'm 63, I remember my friend having to make sure nothing of her child's father was in her apartment because she never knew when her case worker would pop up. And those case workers checked everything! They were relentless!

[@omalone1169]

@@Oc4ever12 02:40 they stay on job as Neely Fuller says

[@Bigmike866]

Smh wow they did this?!?!! We’ve never truly been free’d . Ever!

[@SandfordSmythe]

On the other hand do you give welfare if there is a healthy unemployed man living there?

[@ayanna439]

Men who are able bodies should be working 😂😒. This whole victimization of BM "forced" out of the home so they can leech off women with assistance says nothing but how lazy the men were. Besides, a Black woman had the "man out of the home" act disputed a year after it was implemented.

[@ArmandoLuis1318]

Crazy how you get discriminated because the color of your skin ...

[@jaxthewolf4572]

Basically to go out of your way to make life hellish and miserable for someone because of their skin

[@jasoncarson8549]

All the shit that some of y'all still whining about happened years ago. We've had enough time to turn things around. You have to start looking in the mirror and at one another before you continue to blame others at some point.

[@charlenewhite9007]

My late grandmama God bless her son she told me about all this when I was growing up and how they separate the black man and woman at the house the government that's why I don't use nothing of the government it's so hard for me sometimes I have to work extra hours I'm I getting my own business anyway but my grandmama used to always tell me about this next year she would have been a 100 on August 29th

[@truthtruth3717]

That's so true your great grand ma was right. They want to rid the black wan if the black man so black woman will count on the government and the government controls you and that's part of depopulating us.

[@michaelmoore3050]

Just stay positive?🤔

[@avramwurf5804]

Slavery never ended, from the cotton fields to the city ghettos. Slavery comes in many forms.

[@christopherswartz4116]

Including imagining it in one’s mind

[@avramwurf5804]

@@christopherswartz4116 ok, such as?

[@FABRIC8TIONUNLIMITE1]

@@christopherswartz4116. So says wyt privilege, living the LIFE Chattel Slavery PROVIDED for u, ADOS cares NOT what u think colonizer.

[@joyfulspirit22]

And in all colors

[@BlackDiamond-rj1ov]

Exactly ‼

[@marrkcrear2946]

The federal government needs to do more to address years of discrimination and abuse in housing for people of color and the homeless. But people of color also must take responsibility for caring for their property once they become homeowners.

[@Grundig305]

They may have created it, but the residents keep it going.

[@Mr.Eric314]

1st thing we have to do is "degangstafy" our neighborhoods, I'm a proud law abiding black man, but hell no, I don't want to live amongst these monsters my damn self. Gotta get the cancer out, then we'll gladly return. You can't even go gas up your vehicle anymore and not have heat on ya hip

[@corrijackson]

Yes fighting over a corner they don't own and can't afford ..

[@litjay7073]

Would help if you don’t refer to kids of your people as “monsters”. You ever asked them why? Ever talk to them?

[@pharaohacura3618]

@@litjay7073 😂😂😂😂

[@melanatedgod5337]

Idk where you're from, but the black people that live where I'm from ain't like that. Even the kids respect the elders for the most part.

[@EdenSuites414]

@@litjay7073 As a people we can’t continue to make excuse for the few monsters, terrorists, shepherds for the Devil or whatever you don’t want to call them. The crimes some of these young people are committing is incomprehensible; killing their own children and the mothers of those children, or rob and murder middle aged and elderly residents for a few dollars or a car they want to joy ride in. Some of these kids truly are savages, art imitating life. The crimes are becoming increasingly more evil by the day and no one in their right mind wants to hear some sob story about how these people become sociopaths. People who behave like savages should be caged. Lock em up and throw away the damn key!!

[@astrahcat1212]

The South is hell, nearly completely segregated neighborhoods, literally one neighborhood will be overpriced all white people, all nice and safe, and then across the street a black neighborhood, run down, impoverished, it's sick af

[@ossoduro7794]

What do you think makes the better neighborhoods nice and safe? It's the things that make the worse neighborhood impoverished and sick; not too hard to figure out.

[@astrahcat1212]

@@ossoduro7794 Probably all that gangster rap culture that replaced soul, funk, blues and rock music, encouraging young black kids to go out and be cool and shoot guns and drugs. My point though is the redlining sure hasn't helped this country

[@ossoduro7794]

@@astrahcat1212 Hip-Hop and Rap have played a huge part in all the wrong that has happened. When everybody learns who really pushed that genre to become mainstream, we can learn better how to start fighting the real enemy. There has been so much propaganda used to provide them subterfuge that it will take an extreme effort to undo the damage it has caused. The entertainment industry has been at this for a long time; who runs that?

[@ThaTruFily]

@@ossoduro7794 LoL a "the jews" comment

[@ossoduro7794]

@@ThaTruFily lol Those dastardly foreskin chewers!

[@ezraluna4396]

I've been saying that I think we should revamp the IRS system so that each citizen can choose where and how their taxes get spent. If you live and work in LA but you want your taxes to help your hometown back in Georgia you should be able to do so . . .

[@avinashchandramisra3334]

Poverty is manufactured, and there is institutional bias on creating it, but what are the people targeted by it, doing, to break the chain ?

[@drunkdonkey1009]

I’ve always wondered why black people live in the city for the most part, Thankyou!

[@trajan6927]

They live in the city because that's where the democrats are. There once were jobs in the cities. As we progressed with expansion, jobs, and cars, whites moved to the suburbs by choice. Socialist democrat politicians told blacks that they didn't need to move to the burbs with whites. That we as democrats will take care of you. Hell, you don't even need a father in the house or a job. Just vote for us. See people, everybody has a choice in life. We are all responsible for our actions. Our time in life is a cumulation of all of our decisions good and bad.

[@Sunflower-ty8dx]

They make it hard 4the blks to get out true facts Joe Biden is part of the reason we're in this mess 90s crime bill signed in to order by Joe creepy Biden

[@adifferentpointofview1404]

Instead of always running to white neighborhoods maybe black people as a collective need to make their own neighborhoods better, and their own schools better. The vast majority of our middle class and upper middle class live in White neighborhoods. Imagine if black neighborhoods had more black doctors, lawyers, and business owners. It would change the entire complexion of the neighborhood. It balls down to the decades old question. Are our neighborhoods shitty because we keep leaving, or do we keep leaving because our neighborhoods are shitty. So the problem is to fold. A lot of us like anyone else want our children to be safe, and want our children to go to schools where they can get a decent education, but a lot of us if we are honest value proximity to whiteness. I have heard black people brag about them being the only black family on their block, or their children being the only black kids at their school. We see access to white people as part of our success even if we do so implicitly. It wasn’t just money that made the Jeffersons successful, or the Cosby’s, or the Johnson’s from Blackish. It was their access to white people at home, at work, and at school. Even the leaders of Black Lives Matter Purchased homes in White neighborhoods. Even our montra, making it out of the hood, means making it out of a black neighborhood and into a white one.

[@trajan6927]

So quit voting socialist democrat. Stop expecting different results if you keep voting for Marxists, and failed government run schools with powerful unions. Quit blaming whitey and punishing hard working people as, "Uncle Toms."

[@blkpaladin7992]

Sad but truth ppl that classify themselves as white brain trashed us well to be addicted to them.

[@trajan6927]

@@blkpaladin7992 you often get, "brainwashed" by whitey? Kind of sad, would you say?

[@adifferentpointofview1404]

@@blkpaladin7992 It’s crazy there is no other group that is in love with their oppressor like black people. We want to live in the same neighborhood as our oppressor, we want to send our children to school with our oppressor, we want to marry our oppressor, we want our childrens complexion to be closer to that of our oppressor, and many of us even want to bleach our skin to make it closer to that of our oppressor.

[@blkpaladin7992]

@@adifferentpointofview1404 I totally agree here where I stay an Peoria Illinois, a smaller city 3hrs, away from Chicago, it's pretty bad for alot blk folk here. They shut down groceries stores and the blk neighborhoods here alot houses look dilapidated here, but we got blk folk here that can make hugh changes, alot 'em just addicted to white folk. We got some exceptional blk folk here, but far too many are addicted to ppl that classify themselves as white and they take advantage of us everyday. Smh

[@ralugerxregular5560]

Pertidiv ? Can someone tell me what she said at 2:54 and how is that word actually spelled

[@cnique2000]

Pejorative: expressing contempt or disapproval 😊

[@TheSolitary1]

EVERYTHING is blamed on EVERYBODY else.

[@gmanon1181]

The more money the government spend, the more the prices are increased while lowering the quality. Take a look at the prices of housing in places like NYC. Housing and rent are extremely expensive, yet many are even infested with roaches. Conclusion: money isn't the biggest problem wether it is education, training or housing programs. The problem is the attitude, knowledge and commitment of those in charge of making these programs work.

[@speedracer1945]

People in the inter cities are trapped in poverty and never venture out of the city . Housing is high starts at $,1,200 a month plus and on a fixed income even the elderly are screwed. You have to work two jobs nowadays to afford a decent place . Example , I lived in downtown Baltimore in the 70s and rent was $150 a month now the same building wants $2 -3 grand a month though its fixed up now

[@qjtvaddict]

Ok corporate stooge there is no transparency in the USA

[@Bigchannel34]

Those in charge cant do anything unless we change the constitution. The fed gives the most support but don't really have any say in state politics

[@user-zc9zt2vl5s]

@@Bigchannel34 the fed? as in the federal reserve? they are one of the main cause of all these world problems

[@Bigchannel34]

@@user-zc9zt2vl5s federal gov't

[@sparkerfivethousand1374]

Truly honors respect scholars and thinkers that are doing research in the film editing and done teaching because this is an extremely important.

[@johnalvarado1394]

I've been saying! It's like how do you not know that how do you live here your whole life and you don't know that

[@mpa8336]

The major single problem, as Kevin Samuels notes, is single parent families. I have spoken w/PH Authorities; the family reunification program is one great solution- but they don't push it. If you need to complain- write your elected representative, and Senators. Housing Authorities and HUD pay attention to anything that comes in under COngressional letterhead.

[@shenelldixon-transformyour4237]

nobody wants to take responsibility.

[@jamberry8026]

You certainly don't. It's the reason you don't want your true history to be taught to your kids.

[@moonburn8156]

Brilliantly said, notice he didn't respond to you (they don't like the truth), the cowards are afraid to teach their own true history to their children.

[@FASBLAQUE]

@@moonburn8156 Yep! Planet of the knuckle draggers.

[@circasurpriseme]

Instead of adding new infrastructure such as highways that run through a populated area , what would have been better for a growing city. 🤔

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

A wider highway would have been better. It allows more people to live in the region without sacrificing anything of value

[@DbDb-pn4fu]

Libraries, grocery stores, ymca

[@cashmoney2898]

They are not interested in what is better for black people.they are interested in their own business.

[@majorpaindiaz]

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se "A wider highway would have been better" *"One more lane bro" has been shown not to work!*

[@rkerkins1551]

Equity analysis is always a positive thing; however actions must be evaluated with logic and not emotional response.

[@Soda3000Pop]

Urban Renewal, moved us out of our neighborhoods, and gentrification finished us, White's and Vietnamese, and Mexicans are in our neighborhoods here in Oakland CA 2023❤

[@lionofjudah6763]

All by design since we been in this country...Red Lining.

[@ossoduro7794]

LOL

[@lionofjudah6763]

@@ossoduro7794 laugh as you may the truth hurts but guess you don't believe racism exist in your world.

[@bankrollfresh532]

Even after slavery

[@projectc.j.j3310]

Ironic considering the gov tried to get u to leave this country at one point and ain’t stopping you now

[@lionofjudah6763]

@@projectc.j.j3310 hahah that is halirouis C.J but we aint going now where....this is my country.

[@haroldharwell7078]

No matter where they land, the neighborhood suffers. Even with separate but equal, it will decline...

[@janetprice85]

As a college student in the south I saw a big influx of eager students previously literally unable to get college educations because either there were no Black colleges or they were too overcrowded,or you had to leave home and go north and it was a rare kid who got to even graduate high school. This dramatic change really began to be felt in the late 60's with the passage of the 1964 Act and with more grants for in state student loans and grants for Black stidents. It was a feeling of change and a real feeling between kids back then both Black and White that the bad old days were gone and things felt hopeful. We were naive. Assainations, the Vietnam War, and LBJ "Great Society" and drugs began destroying the dream. We are still digging out from those disasterous events fifty years later. Education has always been the key. It must be the goal. It must be promoted in the home and community. Nothing can substitute for it.

[@Lightswords]

This is exact what nobody wants to talk about….

[@mrvampire41]

I was a land surveyor there for a little while. The company I was working for at the time worked with the Tampa housing authority project. We were locating property corners and replacing a lot of the property corners because they had rusted away over 100 years old. I read the legal description to all these places. It was definitely designed to segregate. It was written in plain English right in the legal description. Democratic racial influence in the development of communities was clearly seen. It was spelled out in the legal description to each piece of property in the whole town. My Great Grandfather was democrat and, shamefully, KKK. They record their sick perverse crimes on film. Gladly I do not bare his name for my Dad was adopted. That party needs to be abolished.

[@Shonan2024]

What part of Tampa? The Central Park Village / Scrub was between downtown and Ybor City?

[@mrvampire41]

@@Shonan2024 a lot of different parts. S Blvd & main. Rome ave Buffalo Ave or MLK Blvd. All over Sulphur Springs. Area's by downtown North of Hyde Park.

[@Shonan2024]

@@mrvampire41 Rome and Buffalo Ave' really?!?! Wow. I can see Sulphur Springs.

[@mrvampire41]

@@Shonan2024 it's been 20 yrs. I haven't been in Tampa. Maybe it was Armenia Ave southward and westward. I remember the Robles Park Area around I275 east side South of Hillsborough Ave. It's been a while. Nebraska Ave near Downtown.

[@capoislamort100]

@@mrvampire41 Jesus Christ your great grandpa was in the klan??