The Neighborhood Destroyed in order to build Central Park

[@VitaInDC]

I really appreciate that you've shown pieces of barely told black American history with photos that help the stories come alive. Thank you.

[@UrbanistExploringCities]

The photos aren’t always exactly about the place / time I’m referring to. But I do dig interesting photos to help visualize the story. So my pleasure, I’m glad you like the stories. More people need to know about this side of America too 🙏

[@lazarithdominguez1178]

What's crazy is the attention blacks get when Native Americans are saving your water you drink. We have it worse than blacks and no one wants to acknowledge or take action. Just for the blacks only.

[@rampageleo]

​@@UrbanistExploringCities the photos was the place that was a black community just built over

[@thetruthispotenza3602]

​​​@@UrbanistExploringCities why dont you share some stories and photos of the black slave owners? What about that side of America? Because really. If you know history. There isnt some white vs black thing. America was colonized by Europeans. They bought slaves from African slave traders. The African Kingdoms enslaved their own people and sold them. Black people were the main slave owners of black people. They were ruthless and did unthinkable things to their own people. There was literally black slave owners in America with plantations and all. I think it's odd how people will show only one side when really slavery wasnt just white people owning black people. It was black people owning black people and selling them to Europeans that happened to be colonizing America. I am almost positive you wont show that side of history. Nobody does. It's always a bias view. It does a disservice to the black community. Most of them dont even know these things. Because they dont go study history. They just learn the half truths from public schools, media and KZbinrs that act as if they really show history while they also show a biased view.

[@quashiesuzanne]

How evil!

[@celebrityrog]

Same happened in Tulsa except in that one the town was murdered and history was covered up for over 100 years.

[@AshishSharma-yk7qr]

The farmers dropped molotovs from their planes on the houses, and the cops refused to intervene. Rather, some even took part in the arson. Also, the town you are talking about was not a shanty town but affluent African Americans lived there.

[@AndreaSimone57]

So devastating!

[@tonyhovater7467]

Fake and gay

[@Albe3331]

When you say no one was murdered, exactly what do you mean? More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals, and as many as 6,000 black residents of Tulsa were interned in large facilities, many of them for several days.[20][21] The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead.[22] The 2001 Tulsa Reparations Coalition examination of events identified 39 dead, 26 black and 13 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates, and other records.[23] The commission gave several estimates ranging from 75 to 300 dead.[24][12]

[@melvinbrotherofthejoker436]

That’s a hoax, grow tf up

[@franciscomarquez9845]

Black history is American history 💯🙏🏿

[@mustafahajj]

Gracias my Latin brother, true indeed ✊🏽

[@franklinloll2229]

Black history is a tiny portion of American history.

[@nathankaye1577]

Don't forget the Yellow People

[@dicktracy5234]

​@Franklin Loll Italian, Irish, and Scottish is even smaller. What year did these guys become WHITE??

[@sirtko]

🤗🙏💚💚💚✊✨🌌🫂

[@jordanmcgrory2171]

Glad you covered this element of the park's history. Sadly lots of urban channels put out long stuff gushing about how cool the park is now and don't mention one bit of the human cost.

[@franklinloll2229]

This twit doesn't mention the native Americans kiiled for this land.

[@DRUGSTOREMAKEUPDIVA]

AFRICAN AMERICAN HUMAN COST

[@tr1k716]

@@DRUGSTOREMAKEUPDIVA what about the other races that had to leave their homes at the same time as well? was that not American history

[@sageex3931]

​@@tr1k716 of course it was nobody said it wasn't?

[@tr1k716]

@@sageex3931 So why not state that their were white people as well as black ?

[@MaLiArtworks186]

They have been declaring Imminent Domain on our wonderful neighborhoods nationwide!

[@sageex3931]

Yep

[@jodrew1845]

Thank you for posting this for all the world to see. My ancestors were residents of that village. They first went north to what is now central Harlem but many other's escaped to Staten Island. My ancestors eventually moved to the Hamptons because of the variety of work, which included farm share cropping, landscaping or housekeeping for the wealthy home owners and fishing.

[@newyorkeranew]

Who were your ancestors? When did they move in to SV. The project to find descendants has been very complex.

[@JayBirdJay]

There was a similar situation in LA with displacing Mexican homeowners to build Dodgers Stadium around 1959. The Dodgers were moving from Brooklyn, if you need a tie in to NYC

[@broncomcbane6382]

Oh yea?

[@artanderson4240]

Or the I-105, I-110 Fwys in Los Angeles. Black and Latino neighborhoods were imminent domain Ed for these freeways to be built. Homeowners were barely paid their homes worth.

[@user-jh6kl8jq8l]

They moved to LA because of the blacks and Hispanics that were moving to the area. The Giants had to move to the west also so the dodgers can have someone to play. You're welcome Cali for both of our teams.

[@broncomcbane6382]

@@artanderson4240 same.with thr CrossBronx Expressway (I-95) in NYC. Or I-95 in Philly and Baltimore. Just razed entire neighborhoods to build elevated highways over the remaining neighborhood

[@deamorebeaute2412]

Who cares? Mexicans were never ENSLAVED in the United States. They willing choose to come to this country, much like how they do today. No one owns them anything. I don't know why people always have to interject non blk people's experiences into African American history. Latin Americans need to stop riding other people's coattails in order to garnish sympathy for being illegal immigrants. GTFOH.

[@mimimim]

Wow! Never knew this living in NY for so many years. This is what should be thought in the schools.

[@franklinloll2229]

I knew it growing up in ohio in the 60s.

[@dicktracy5234]

It's considered CRT !!

[@cheezee555]

Tell them that in florida.

[@mimimim]

@@franklinloll2229 growing up in NY after the 60s is not taught

[@franklinloll2229]

No it is not.

[@edithstephens4660]

This also happened in Wall Street as well as many other places and it's not just NY history it's America's history because America has played this dirty game all over !

[@Anonymous-xq5cs]

What society hasnt

[@iamchillydogg]

Ghengis Khan killed 10% of the human population just for a little perspective.

[@CookieMangler]

Yep and with all races too. The rich push for it to get highlighted when it’s minorities while the majority get ignored. Same thing that happens now.

[@ednajones3700]

​@@Anonymous-xq5cs what is your point in say this?

[@kevinhuether9038]

World history. Happened about everywhere

[@beastshawnee]

I had a young friend comment once that is was so nice that NewYorkers had planned ahead so well and saved the land for a beautiful park. ooooh I had to bust that child’s idealized version of reality! I said-“No-they went in and stole the housing of poor blacks, poor Irish poor immigrants -kicked them all out and paid an architect to design it. Of course that was the second time the land was stolen because the whole continent belongs to Native Americans. Not a single land treaty was done without coercion of force.” When capitalists tell you they believe in private property-tell them the local tribe wants their LAND BACK. They can leave it to the tribe rather than their spoiled brats anyway!

[@flautalee3090]

Well put, yes the second time.

[@sylomotivational]

How is it that Native Americans owned the whole continent? If 300+ million americans cant cover the vast dxpanse of only the usa today, how is it that 7 million or less native americans did? (So not even including Canada if Mexico 😂) It was land for the taking.

[@juneedwards3153]

I TRULY love your videos it's just hard to look at them without getting so ANGRY and UPSET. Sometimes I have to stop looking at them but I always come back. THANK YOU for your work, we all need to know

[@AH-64-Apache_Attack_Helicopter]

Every time I see a story from this guy about NYC history, it involves death (lots of it), displacement, deceit and discrimination. 😢

[@kathopler2827]

Welcome to colonial America 🤷‍♀️

[@ExpertAssass1n]

🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑follow the leader

[@hellaSwankkyToo]

welcome to North america.

[@UrbanistExploringCities]

👀 I swear I’ve told some happy stories too

[@ksp3281]

If you are feeling so down just learning about the truth imagine how bad it was for those who had to experience it. What sad is the total lack of empathy you display

[@la4two]

it’s things like this in history that prevented the black man from getting a proper foot on the floor to build something for his future family to pass down and have generational wealth

[@debbieschjoth7405]

It happens to every race, whole town's were gotten with imminent domain, it still happens today.

[@la4two]

@@debbieschjoth7405 they tore down their church and houses to build a park with just a field. I understand this happened a lot in the past but that land today is worth billions. So I believe it’s worth mentioning. Soon after this happened the civil war took place.

[@Andytess91]

My family don’t have generational wealth and I’m white, not everyone has it regardless

[@IT-qb7dw]

​@@Andytess91well your family was just dumb

[@Mikeal.]

@@Andytess91you missed the point. Just because your family didn’t have the fortitude to create that wealth doesn’t mean they didn’t have access to achieving it if they wanted. A lot of black communities were doing the things to create that wealth. The ruling class did everything in their power to prevent black people from collectively acquiring wealth. A large wealthy black community was a direct threat to the white power structure they created.

[@chelsealeonardbaum23]

Thank you. Learning about all of these atrocities is heartbreaking.

[@sageex3931]

Yep

[@m.lewizz3297]

And still to this day, no justice. Some peoples pain is ignored and swept under the rug, while others are given indulgence over and over and over.

[@MsJoyce31202]

👍

[@deadlyoneable]

I’d say they are given everything today. But you can only lead the horse to the water, you can’t make it drink. They need to hold themselves accountable like everybody else and stop this hustle of exploiting naive yt people. I’m Asian btw, and we are terrorized by this group all the time.

[@CookieMangler]

@@deadlyoneable Please avoid trains. A certain protected group I can’t specifically mention has a tendency to toss y’all in front of them.

[@TruthSetsUfree100]

Bring the African Kings and Queens who sold other Africans into slavery to justice first,

[@ednajones3700]

​@@TruthSetsUfree100 way to minimize the issue 😅

[@arfriedman4577]

I wish I'd explored central park more. There's so many things in that park. I was only in strawberry fields and areas around tavern on the green that I recall.

[@natty.roots.423]

The sparkling trinkets got you.

[@arfriedman4577]

@@natty.roots.423 sorry, I don't understand what you wrote.

[@ddelv583]

​@@arfriedman4577 the tourist places & souvenir shops dominated his attention & he wasn't able to explore further.

[@kafkollectif525]

Those are the hippie spots lol 🍃🍄

[@arfriedman4577]

@@kafkollectif525 I was invited to both of those spots. When I was little my parents may have taken us to a different area of Central Park, but I don't remember. I know we went to prospect park in Brooklyn. I went to Bronx Zoo in first grade and a monkey spit in my teachers hair.

[@shelbylue]

😢 furious. grateful to creators sharing these stories. 💔

[@lazarithdominguez1178]

Oh no your white guilt is showing

[@shelbylue]

@@lazarithdominguez1178 i mean, obviously I’m white, and I didn’t pick to be white, like no one picks the race they’re born into… when white people are trying to educate themselves and feel remorse and work within their own communities to fight racism and make this a better country for all why would you comment like this? You don’t know my story and I don’t know yours. But I want to be part of the movement to give everyone empathy for what they’ve gone through and help lift each other up to heal. No one deserves the treatment seen in the video, period. That’s what my comment is about. Why would you comment in this way? Please share…

[@tr1k716]

What about this Is racist other races had to move as well not just black?

[@sageex3931]

Also watch neo slavery by knowing better

[@sageex3931]

​@@tr1k716 it was mostly blacks and native

[@guillermomarrufo4718]

So sad. I'm glad you are showing us the true New York. Love all your videos.

[@beagelbird1]

This shit happened all over usa

[@lolawants2008]

Worldwide, throughout human history. It’s not unique to USA.

[@positionadjust353]

Yeah it did but it only happened to 1 people….. Black people!

[@communitygardener17]

​@@positionadjust353 It happened and happens to people too poor to fight back legally. It started with native people and is still happening to them as their land is taken by fossil fuel companies and the nuclear power industry.

[@dfogle49]

This also happened in Los Angeles. Chavez ravine, where the dodgers play was a thriving Mexican American community.

[@positionadjust353]

@@communitygardener17 good thing we’ve paid Billions in reparations to Native Americans (who owed slaves btw and fought with the confederacy to keep slavery out intact) but somehow not a dime to Blacks!

[@stormygcannon1229]

History is always my passion, since I was 3. More went on in Central Park.

[@chinajo555]

Thank you for showing this. I have shared this video. You are a master at cramming in a lot of information into these shorts. Excellent work!!!👍🏾

[@UrbanistExploringCities]

Wow, thank you! Glad I can get as much information in one minute 🙏

[@sageex3931]

Facts

[@BenedictThambiah]

The grievances faced by African Americans are just overwhelming.

[@franklinloll2229]

More so native Americans. Equally so with irish Americans.

[@Cbd_7ohm]

​@@franklinloll2229 No.

[@franklinloll2229]

@@Cbd_7ohm yes. Native Americans and Irish indentured servants were treated much worse than blacks. Blacks suffered no trail of tears. Irish indentured servants were cheaper than black slaves and owned for less time. They were considered expendable. Black slaves were an expensive, long term investment and treated better because of that.

[@orangemoonglows2692]

@@Cbd_7ohm ikr?

[@YouTubename804]

@@orangemoonglows2692dirty liar

[@Revealthereal_]

It’s not just New York, it’s ALL cities in America. When they needed a highway they cut through Black homes!

[@BiLdoEMcLown]

The more American history I learn, the less proud I am to be an American. There really isn't an inch of this country that's not completely soaked in the blood of innocent minorities. It's a wonder anything grows here at all.

[@mitzibaker9598]

And there isn't anywhere in the modern world u could move to that wouldn't have its own bloody history- especially since the 1500's. Pick up a world history book people.

[@BiLdoEMcLown]

@@mitzibaker9598 I'm well aware... I guess I could've replaced the word "American" with "human"... we've been pretty awful to one another throughout the entirety of existence.

[@lechocolat3783]

Why should you stop being proud because of things that happened in the past? Instead, you should use that pride to try to fix your country and make it better so that atrocities like this never happen again. If EVERYONE around the world based their pride in their country on things that happened in the past, then literally everyone would hate and be embarrassed of their country (cause every country was built on bloodshed...unfortunately).

[@BiLdoEMcLown]

@@lechocolat3783 I believe I already addressed that. Humans are awful.

[@sageex3931]

Why should he be proud of a country that's doesn't even teach most of it's history​@@lechocolat3783

[@lorenvallin-flores7970]

So sad, thank you for sharing

[@t.b.1596]

I'm a conservative white female. This is the first time I have heard this. There is an article about Bruce's Park in Manhattan Beach, California and the City rewarded them back their property. New York should reward back to the Black Families who owned this property with interest!!!

[@jamesmccracken2542]

Those people most likely don't even know it or have any record of it. What most people don't know it's happened 100x in America. And the historical record of it has been erased. Now when we try to teach our history in America now they call it CRT. I'm glad you took the time to watch.

[@fightvale57]

It's happened many teams all over America in the 18th and 19th century. It's sad and disgusting

[@broncomcbane6382]

and 20th Century. In order to provide water or electricity for many of our major Southern cities some towns were purged and flooded into man made lakes or reservoirs.

[@broncomcbane6382]

and in order to create the US Interstate Highway System eminent domain was used in Black neighborhoods to seize the land and build the highways there

[@jturtle5318]

​@Bronco McBane most of the white landowners were psid enough to buy a new place.

[@franklinloll2229]

It happened all over the world.

[@jennyhenry387]

If the residents had had the internet back then they might have been able to fight back against the smear campaign.

[@patcomerford5596]

A penthouse overlooking Central Park has now a different view. Great upload.

[@deborahhernandez1505]

Better than school.

[@alvashoemaker8536]

Disgusting piece of American history; but, then, there are others, aren’t there? (I AM a proud American, though…). 🤔🙃👣👠

[@DRUGSTOREMAKEUPDIVA]

In "Addition" to school, & do your own research and not wait for a great video like this to come up because they're few & far between.

[@lovelydeath04]

Not really because he is sugar coating it. Stop sugar coating the blood stained history of America.

[@ivyho7280]

Look up Africville in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Different city, same story.

[@californiadreaming567]

It’s so sad that many times when African Americans build a thriving community it’s destroyed.

[@Anonymous-xq5cs]

No

[@YouTubename804]

Thriving sh*t hole full of squatters?

[@sageex3931]

​@@Anonymous-xq5cs Yes little kid

[@natalielawyerchick]

Your channel is my favorite. I lived in nyc for 20 plus years and never knew this

[@elkee4730]

If you notice this is almost the same thing that happened to the Black owner town in Oklahoma. Known as "Black Wall Street. Funny how one group of people say that Black people should live away from them but, when they want what Black people have worked HARD to develop and live in the own community, those same people will destroy them and take their land. This never ends for Black People in this country. Thanks for the information Urbanist. I will remain curious.

[@sageex3931]

It's not almost the same it was the same just more violent

[@judithl.morton9178]

Thank you for doing this as an African-American 66 years old I can tell you I have never heard this story before I cannot believe it it actually turn my stomach that these people were moved out so they could I will never let me just say I will never see Central Park in the same way again

[@care2think611]

Dreadful. Shameful. Deserves to be remembered.

[@lazarithdominguez1178]

Ya only the blacks tho right?

[@care2think611]

@@lazarithdominguez1178 - If one sees this in a racist way instead of seeing this with a basic sense of humanity and respect for equality and justice. If you know of a relevant example please share. Or just tell us what you mean.

[@DeezNuts-ek7rr]

Teach the truth to muffle out the ignorance!! God bless you!

[@victoriaaletaaustria2817]

Poor early African-Americans who PURCHASED their lands but through false smear campaign, they were evicted without compensation from the land they own because a park is to be built.

[@nitroluskincaid]

RACISM.

[@jays6990]

Oh yeah who did they PURCHASE it from

[@sageex3931]

Yep​@@nitroluskincaid

[@nunyabiznez6381]

Things like this were even more common in the south. I live and work near several former historic Black cemeteries. I say former because the city government simply closed them, sold the land and and they were turned into various developments. Oh, and they never moved the bodies. One was under the parking lot, side walk, road and building of the Frank Crum property at the south west corner of Missouri Ave and Cleveland St in Clearwater Florida. Another is under a nearby and now defunct elementary school. They don't like to talk about it much. Those are just the two closest to me. 40 years ago in another part of Clearwater I was digging in my backyard for a garden and found a skeleton. I reported it to the police and after a couple of days of investigation I was told that it was most likely a situation where some "Black folks couldn't afford a burial so they buried their loved ones in the back yard." Not joking. A neighbor said they dug one up a few years earlier in their back yard and was told the same thing. The cops literally told me to not worry about it but that their may be more and I should not bother reporting it and just make my garden in another part of the back yard or simply not at all. Some years later I did some other kind of digging and discovered that in that block in Clearwater there had been a Black cemetery and the city took it by eminent domain and sold the land to developers for houses. I literally lived in a cemetery for three years. It's still there and the city fathers will still tell people to simply not to worry about it as though we had dug up someone's pet.

[@grovermartin6874]

Nunyabiznez, thank you for sharing this real, first hand story. There are so many heartbreaking stories like this. "Don't bother reporting it?" "Buried their loved one in their backyard because they couldn't afford a funeral?" Such slander, so degrading of fellow humans, and trying to BURY the evidence. Or keep it buried. I'm reminded of a line in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. "The evil men do live after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." Shameful.

[@grovermartin6874]

@@alabastardmasterson Racism in the north is often expressed differently than in the south.

[@lolawants2008]

@@alabastardmasterson PLEASE. The degree of severity was EXPONENTIALLY worse in the south. Saying otherwise demonstrates the exact thing you’re accusing of others.

[@Arkenva]

I think it’s worth not glossing over the fact that this is just one story in the North, since obviously it’s so easy for people to point to the South as if that’s the only place with horrible history. You can’t say the atrocities that happened to the African American community was “less bad” or not as bad in the North as atrocities in the South. It’s pointless because it is just as evil and horrific.

[@flautalee3090]

It is so totally wrong to build over cemetaries😢😢😢😢

[@helenthomas6716]

I appreciate you. Were the families ever compensated? Now these people's families deserve reparations.

[@michaelmontalvo3517]

You bring New York: the good, the bad, and the ugly, to life in the way that makes me not only more interested in history, but in New York itself.

[@dvan1759]

Always find your clips so interesting. Thank you.

[@bamlook2640]

Thank you for exposing the deep truth of who really owns the lands that we walk on today In America.

[@JoFlirt]

You are a catalyst to why black lives really matter. I thank you so much!

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

Why?

[@sageex3931]

​@@user-ug8wx5er1w What they don't?

[@dshe8637]

This is so important. Fascinating. Thank you for researching it and spreading the information.

[@LelandMaurello]

No place is without shame.

[@lazarithdominguez1178]

Besides Native Ancestors

[@lolawants2008]

@@lazarithdominguez1178 no, even them. The degrees of savagery vary but if you’re unclear that indigenous often enslaved one another & warred with each other… as well as newer discoveries that indicate that the genetics associated with indigenous on this continent are likely not even the 1st humans here, & that those were likely killed off by the people that are understood as indigenous. Not to diminish the more recent atrocities, but it’s extremely naive to believe they were faultless in their own time.

[@lolawants2008]

Some more than others bro

[@yashwanth3355]

large number of it found in USA after invasion by whites

[@amypie5781]

"SHAME" huh?🤨

[@DRUGSTOREMAKEUPDIVA]

Thank you for covering this. Many people don't want to face the truth.

[@MagWheels7]

Happened in Detroit in many areas.

[@EclecticBouquet]

Thank you for telling this horrific story! Love your channel!

[@applesauces5]

NYC has a very very dark history. I'd say it's never to late to do the right thing. Locate suriving family's and compensate them properly for today market value for what was wrongfully taken away from their families long ago. I'm curious to who was the mayor at the time.

[@julesoyler4306]

I agree, I'm glad you're showing ALL history.

[@ShanteRoxxane]

It’s still happening, just less conspicuously. They call it gentrification. Ask Harlem and Brooklyn about it.

[@missfrances137]

I was told that my families church MOTHER A.M.E. ZION was originally located in Seneca Village. Relocated to 137th Street in Harlem, N.Y. we lived next door at 174. Mother AM.E.Zion is the mother of all AME churches. I will always be a proud member of Mother Zion.

[@TheDutchDutchess373]

I feel so sad for these people.. Getting evicted from their own land.. Smdh..😓

[@broncomcbane6382]

most of those families moved North from the West Village which was also a largely black neighblrhoood then

[@joyaustin8515]

you don't own any land in America when they can take it from you and hardly pay you for the land. Beware

[@Peacekindness23]

That's what gentrification is displacing black or indigenous people.

[@trentjharris]

And the idea of reparations is crazy to some people? After this and rosewood and Wilmington and Tulsa? Cmon America!

[@justlynn3734]

thank you so much for bringing this to light! and before they were called African American or Negro, they were called Indians because they were the true indigenous people of Turtle Island aka America!

[@orangemoonglows2692]

you're deluded and you're lying. no evidence of anything you're saying.

[@xraivision1741]

Thank you for sharing this history... well done again!!

[@Miguelperry411]

But yet, there's people who have the nerve to say black Americans don't deserve reparations. Smh

[@murrayhenry9008]

but why - honestly if this happened to all racist and colors back then why only reparations for blacks - why not Asians or Irish, Greeks and Polish??

[@Miguelperry411]

@@murrayhenry9008 The Japanese, Jews, Native Americans, and white european men have all received reparations in one form or another. Black Americans, who build this country against their will for free, have been fighting for their reparations since the late eighteen hundreds. Now, if other racial groups feel that they deserve reparations, than they have the right to demand it.

[@NiKiMa023]

Because Asians got some reparations. Irish, Greek and Polish got theirs by becoming white and the gains that came with it. Black folk don’t have that opportunity

[@heribertosarmiento1265]

@@murrayhenry9008 because compared to other groups African Americans came as slave ,second they were abuse and their rights were violated every generation .Third many other ethnicities did receive reparations from the us government. Children of Chinese descendants became Americans thanks to African American fighting and helping the nation and thanks to the 14 amendment following the civil war. That’s why reparations for African Americans needs to happen.

[@peanutarbuckle2980]

@@heribertosarmiento1265 they get it in the form of welfare. Blacks have already received billions and billions of dollars from whites over the years. And whites have sent trillions (literally) or dollars to africa

[@gilmoremccoy6930]

True history is awesome! To know our past with warts and all is powerful and enlightened. What was/is done to black people is shameful and criminal. Thanks for sharing...

[@saveriopulsinelli2217]

Stay outraged my friends

[@jame2742]

This has happened in almost every large american city.

[@reneethomas8539]

Yet "there's no such thing as systemic racism". Thank you for sharing, I appreciate what you do 😊

[@TheTaygan]

That's not systemic racism... Lots of races had land expropriated by the government.

[@enigma9625]

It was built over 165 years ago. There’s no systemic racism today. New York City needed a park a lot more than more homes. It’s a beautiful asset for everyone to enjoy.

[@ksp3281]

@@enigma9625 you really are an enigma. No one needs to hear your opinion

[@grovermartin6874]

@@enigma9625 You're kidding, right?

[@enigma9625]

@@ksp3281 likewise 😂

[@edshoaff3055]

I feel sorry for people who do not have internet access to learn this untold history of Central Park ! THANK YOU !

[@yoboi01]

The decendents should be compensated for this huge misjustice

[@88wolffy]

How does that work exactly? I keep hearing that, but I don’t know who is going to compensate them. If you think the city should, that means the taxpayers….who had nothing to do with the injustice that happened. Beyond that, those black people owned it long AFTER Native Americans were displaced from the same land, you want to compensate them too? We are all going to have to realize WE, the collective group of Americans that live today, didn’t have anything to do with what took place a hundred years ago, so WE can’t do anything to fix it. Everyone is dealt a hand, and we can only play the hand we are dealt.

[@peanutarbuckle2980]

They already were paid. That’s what “eminent domain” is

[@yoboi01]

@Peanut Arbuckle not all of them were given money for their property and were violently evicted, mainly because of was owned by African Americans, not to mention they weren't given fair value for the property

[@IT-qb7dw]

​@@88wolffythe native Americans have a 100$B fund in their name.

[@sageex3931]

​@88wolffy. It's simply find a black ancestor that was in America between 1619 and 1942 and they would qualify for reparations and if you ask no carribians would not qualify

[@elainadewitt322]

That's still happening to this day ! For One Reason.or Another in the Name of Progress! Across Our Country !Beginning with OUR Brothers , the Native Americans 🙏♥️💕

[@Arkenva]

When people point fingers to the South in ignorance as if the North was/is blameless

[@kimberlyrogers9953]

The balance of power in this world IS shifting. And it’s about time

[@randymulhern1290]

I believe new york city owes some families. Thank you for the history lesson. If we forget our past, we will repeat the atrocious behavior.

[@garryb.1334]

39 years old, lived my life in Detroit. Never heard about this before today.

[@michaelmflores4112]

That was so interesting 🤔, I never knew that nor would I ever gess, you did a fantastic job, please keep up the great work, .....stay curious my friend 🤔👀..Michael

[@reginaldharris4717]

You a real 1....100 % Blessings Beloved & this is ancient new every and any where.... as well as peace & love...143. mr rodgers

[@hviii7452]

Thanks for sharing. Informative.

[@sindydawkins2568]

So in only 32 years they had built an entire village 2 churches/schooling & houses for it to be bought back from them at a pitiful price and then destroyed for a park 😢 The remains of that church and the families that thrived there This broke my heart

[@denisebycapricorn]

making a law to steal land someone doesn't want to sell is not bought land. 🙄

[@galedribble9535]

Black people faced injustice after injustice in this country

[@lazarithdominguez1178]

Oh ya because blacks only problems. Or is it blacks make the most noise about there victim hood.

[@galedribble9535]

@@lazarithdominguez1178 was that English? Wanna try writing that again?

[@normalisntcomingback.Jesusis]

Every race has don't be a fool..

[@shifa444]

@@normalisntcomingback.Jesusis ur delusional

[@normalisntcomingback.Jesusis]

@shifa not at all...do some research then get back at me..

[@gd3551]

Thanks for teaching history. America has a problem facing the truth of the past.

[@Dan_Boston]

Wow. Damn it. Stay somber my friends 😔

[@ksp3281]

Why does everything have to be trivialized with sarcasm. Why can’t you just listen and learn and be respectful

[@Dan_Boston]

@@ksp3281 I wasn’t using sarcasm. I genuinely sympathize

[@zabmcauley5647]

Wow! With how famous Central Park is, this is the first time I've heard of this. Thanks for sharing!

[@enigma9625]

I’m still glad they built the park, anyway. Sad, but life is not a fairytale.

[@jayone2140]

I hope they bulldozer the whole area where you stay plus 200 more acres to make sure you go elsewhere. To put a landfill.

[@teddyperras4349]

​@@jayone2140 you're goofy

[@enigma9625]

@@jayone2140 likewise to you.

[@jayone2140]

@@enigma9625 OH no, you're the heartless bastard that said you were glad it happened to those poor souls.

[@renatacantore3684]

Thank you for continuing to illumine the truth.

[@marym22]

I can't wait until they find out who the descendants are. This will be so exciting so many people are missing huge pieces of their family because this village got got wiped out!

[@mossimo7111]

It Happened so many times in NY where whole towns where disband, lakes where built where black towns where. If you think that story is something it more & they are more shocking. But American don’t teach that type of history

[@peanutarbuckle2980]

You are so naive

[@anthonypeterson5618]

Same as the Old NE in Roanoke. Now the civic center and post office occupies the land house once stood. including my great grandmothers 2 family house once a source of additional income for her.

[@showbroadway439]

So they took it from Black Ppl….Ofcourse they did

[@sis_devine]

I also hear it happened with the Irish immigrants as well. I wonder how the neighborhood would have been today. Thanks for sharing this piece of history.

[@kathopler2827]

Who bought the land should be easy to trace the scum that profiteered ?

[@queenredfromthequeencity]

The government "brought" it. Enmitment domain means the government buys the land, they are supposed to give you what the land is worth. Except it doesn't in fact if you don't sale immediately they will do things to tank the value of the land. The only way you will get anything for the land is to sale to the government. I imagine it was worst back then when government was basically went unchecked.

[@peanutarbuckle2980]

The government. It’s central park. That’s the point.

[@ninij9692]

Thank you for speaking the truth. Here is another one I learned about from the Amber Ruffin show. "Such is the history of Lake Lanier. Just a very short 42 miles north of Atlanta beneath a lake, lies the truth of a small village called Oscarville, Georgia. It was a thriving village that was predominantly Black-owned." _The City Beneath the Lake_ David Magazine Atlanta

[@leisryan]

The central park was a stroke of genius...!

[@latetodagame1892]

It looks like someone was displeased with the eviction of these people and expressed it on the left side of that sign.

[@Acts-1915]

Seems NY actually owes somebody reperations. 🤣🤣

[@elizabethmusso5946]

Something similar happened to an African American family 100 years ago in Santa Monica. It was beachfront property taken by eminent domain, as well. It was returned to their heirs who are selling it to LA County for $20M.

[@dwaynebreeden2984]

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Make something of yourselves, educate yourselves. Oh you did that, we will claim eminent domain and burn it all down.

[@deealexander6178]

TRUTH: Can't bury it forever AMERICA !!

[@Jeden0]

We are not surprised. Man we make land value greater! Just another thing I’m so proud of

[@ednapuckett1042]

This is the scenario of Black people in the US & Canada even today.

[@miryah6994]

That's so sad so many people in America have had their hard work just snatched

[@devonbranch1524]

Tbh I appreciate you taking the time to tell us this thanks

[@bettinastrouble2537]

Real facts, what a shame, land that they actually owned because of evil people they lost it all 😮😡

[@Krose333]

The largely AA San Juan Hill neighborhood in Manhattan was destroyed to build Lincoln Center. If you watch the original "West Side Story" you will see parts of that neighborhood and another neighborhood during the first scenes. Demolition was delayed for filming.

[@wok138]

Imagine still having those lands today, millionaires for sure...

[@dolladp7769]

Same happened here in Tampa and coincidentally that area which was named the scrub was also renamed Central Park

[@taterkaze9428]

Important history. It wasn't just the south.

[@tonyhovater7467]

Glad they yeeted that junk town to build Central Park.