I knew a family in Seminary MS that lives in a house like this. It was an older couple and their kids and grandkids would live with them for awhile. Idk if it was to try and help the older couple or because the younger generation didn’t want to get their own place. What I can tell you is that the younger generations that lived there always had brand new Escalades, Camaros, Mustangs, fine pickup trucks. I remember it well because of the stark difference between the house and the cars. I was a young girl and I wondered why they didn’t get less fancy cars so they could afford a better home too.
Amerikkka's 1% want people like that, so that they could look down at them, and seeing impoverished people lets them know how rich they are!!! Believe me, Amerikkka wants people like that.
She is absolutely right. I’m living in Mississippi. I actually grew up in a home just a little bit better than this house. I use to look thru the floor and see the ground and look up and see the sky. It was freezing in winter and burn up in summer. I had to deal with the situation until I was able to leave. We, my family, didn’t want to live like this but we didn’t have any choice. I was raised in Lucas (Silver Creek, MS), Lawrence County and Jefferson Davis County. You don’t know how it is until you have to live in those conditions.
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You can't help because the government takes your money through taxes. Your 30k a year becomes 24 after taxes. Its 12k a year in rent. So your 24k becomes 12k. Sat tv. 130 a month. Lights. Internet. Thats another 4k off. Car note. 400. Insurance 7k. Your working and broke.
All over the South and some people think keeping the Rural south underfunded for the sake of maintaining low taxes and some romanticized image of “Old Southern Pride-land” is some great thing.
La Reina del Sur Utilizing social benefits first and foremost is a choice. A choice many ppl find themselves in need of making or they may find themselves homeless, facing starvation, and myriad of other issues. President Truman and his wife were one of the first people to receive Medicare once it was signed into law. If social welfare was around President Thomas Jefferson’s daughter may not have had to live off charity after debt suck the vitality out of the Jefferson fortune. But you probably could careless.
People in the comment section... STOP judging and HELP those in need! I can't believe the comment section😐. I am definitely contacting the makers of these videos and doing what I can to help. Instead of you all nit picking, DO the same and HELP.
You are a moron. People like you just ghelp kee them in poverty. You're enablers. Your "help" does nothing but make poverty comfortable, and that's the last thing it should be. I was raised in this kind of poverty, and on my own at age fourteen with nowhere tro go, and no money to get there. People like you did everything possible to keep me in poverty. What got me out of poverty was people who told me the truth, which was everything is hard, but that's like, so stop whining and get to work. They didn't offer handouts or hand ups, they just told me to stop being a baby and do what had to be done. Get an education, develop a strong work ethic, stay away from drugs and alcohol, and don't have kids you can't support. If you do this, you'll be fine. All of us who followed this advice were fine. Those who didn't were too stupid or too foolish to care about. Those who had enablers like you around are still in poverty. Why work your ass off when there are always enablers around who will "help" you. All these people have to do is stay clean and walk away. But they won't, and you'll just make sure of that.
@james Ritchie : you speak from wisdom and experience .. And you're right . If people continue to give those who refuse to get out and work and help themselves out of the financial and economical situations they find themselves in .. Good work ethics can and will bring you financial success , and it begins at an early stage in life while you are a youth .. My children have jobs and they aren't but teenagers and young adults .. So you are definitely right . There's no such thing as a person (or family) not being able to overcome they're circumstances .. Prayer , faith in God , and hard work and plenty of effort still works ..
The people in the comment section God will give it to you but it can be taken away One pay check away and be living in your car. There are families living in their cars with children and said they never thought it could happen to them
@@sheiladavidson7475 " There are families living in their cars with children and said they never thought it could happen to them" They planned poorly. DO BETTER. Or not. I don't care. You choose, you live.... Wasn't that a song?
Wow folks!! Some stone cold hearts in the comments. But by the grace of God.... You can do everything you're suppose to do. Work, buy a home, raise your children and save a few bucks. Wh at happens if you lose your job in a tight economy? Your house burn down? Your child have a major medical problem. Insurance pays but you have a $5,000 to $10 000 payment for your out pocket and they-want it like yesterday. Pleas soften your hearts,I you never know what who or when you will help. Sometimes, you have to swallow your pride for a few moments to get back on foot.
I think she feel like she would get more praise from African people than her own for helping them I guess and social media some people or just Wicked and the do not no it what better place to help than the place you come from and you no the struggle is real in Mississippi.
I'm sorry that folks live like this....and I firmly believe that it is the fault of then authority, nobody should live like this. I'm black and I'm south African....my husband is Californian. even myself is appaled by this. my mum's house was fixed from scratch, I mean two years ago. it was bulldozed and built from scratch by the government and it was not even 20 yrs old. and she didn't have to pay nothing.this is not fair. they want to build a wall, well some of those bricks could build houses for these families
Thank you my black sister for bringing these shameful conditions in this so called Hone Of The Brave and Land Of The Free. Please ignore the negative comments, and keep up the good work.
So far I see an able bodied man, who is able to tack up that metal cladding on the house, clean the overgrown brush off the house, clean up the junk around the house... Being poor doesnt mean you cant keep a tidy place...
People can be so cold refusing to understand that the circle of poverty isn't easy to break free of. Have you ever felt discouraged and there seems to be no answer? Well, most of these people have been in this trap for generations. No hope, no end to the sorrow. Even if you don't think you have anything to give, a kind word will go much further than you think rather than judge those less fortunate.
Ah, poor babies. It's hard, so don't do it. Just make excuses. You're full of shit. "Fortunate" has nothing to do with it. Education and a strong work ethic is how you get out opf poverty. You don't get out by having babies you can't afford to raise, by using drugs and drinking alcohol, , or by sitting around whining. And you sure don't get out by having dumbasses like you making excuse, and telling everyone how hard these poor little babies have it. I was raised in pverty at least as bad as this video, and so were many of my friends. Nearly all of us got out, but we'd still be there if we listened to people like you. You are the worst kind of enabler. These people stay in poverty generation after generation because enablers make it possible.
This is just about like my little grandmother's house...but I promise those ones living like this are Beautiful, Precious LOVING ,CARING PEOPLE....They know the meaning of TRUE LOVE .....My Grandmother's home was nothing...but it was a BEAUTIFUL HOME..PRECIOUS MEMORIES....Iwant to one day try to build it back..it burned to the ground....sad day....but I'm thankful for the LOVE we shared there...amen
If the walls could talk. I was raised in a three room house my mother raised five of us. Three girls and two boys the first room was a bedroom I her baby girl slept with her the second room boys slept on one side and the girl on the other. The third room was our kitchen as the boys grow up in her words "the cover was standing up in the morning".So she found another three room house and they move it in her friend add it to the old house it gave us more room. The boys had there own room and the girls we had there's and bathroom and living room.Mother didn't have a lot of education but a very wise women. We was poor and didn't now it. I never was hungry she taught us to keep our house clean cook iron bed was all ways made up. Please don't look down on people's that don't have much. I bet there a lot of love in those home. It was in my home.
This makes me sad that there are people living here in those type of conditions, here in America in this day and age. No one should have to live like this. May God be smiling down on these people. May God help them. Stay strong, you are in my prayers.
Peter Reweti why stop at corporates? There’s greed in unions, in people who own stores, in contractors who overcharge people and do shoddy work, in car salesmen who tell a customer 4% interest on the loan and then put 6% on the paperwork, in people who embezzle from the companies they are working for. There is greed in the middle class and the rich.
I think it's a shame that people question the need to help people in poverty. This people want better for themselves but unless you're in their situation, which is very very bad, you would not know what they have to go through. Making it sound like each and every person can just pull themselves up from their bootstraps and just make their lives better is a facade that the rich want you to believe. These videos have opened my eyes to real poverty in America! Great reporting!
no only that..There are lots of trees and dirt they can use to make cement to rebuild the homes...It seems like these home were their slave ancestors first home, and turned into generation property, but no one cared to fix the property up since slavery was abolished... Blacks we need to do better, and learn how to help ourselves, stop always trying to wait for someone to rescue you. Even people in the poorest of Africa knows how to build a house out of dirt...Give me that property, and I will google how to make walls from dirt, and start piece by piece rebuilding my home.
He is a young man he could clean up the yard I grew up in a house like this it was green tar paper But my granny believe in being clean yard our person ,dishes, clothes etc
As my best friend once said: it doesn’t matter if what you have is old, ugly or worn down, as long as it is tidy and clean. That says a lot about you as a person.
@@horsewithnoname12345 When someone is poor then one usually doesn't have a running water and electricity. And poor people are usually depressed and anxious. I don't know for US, but I saw and experienced that in Europe, especially Balkan region countries, Africa, Asia...
We as black people should unite and take care of our own. I mean, these are our brothers an sisters down there living like this. To hell with the government and elected officials who really don't give a damn about us. Let's take care of our own!
floridamom1976. "Government dont GIVE a damn to us" ..what you want from the government to be given ?! A new house ? This is america !! And you have the right and freedom of pursuit happiness. In this country Democracy doesn't mean free stuff; you have to work and earn the good stuff !
Bravo for you doing this video! It’s good for you to do something like this to help make people aware of the poverty in the US! So some people can help!!!
Maybe you should contact the landlord and I think this is a bigger problem than some weeds. The Kennedy Brothers war on poverty in the 60 s was a failure. Please find something on James Baldwin
@@pamelapaikopoulos2320 I meant what I said and I dont take it back.... if you have two working hands, you can pull up weeds if you have to..dont have to have a lawn mower, a knife or hands will work... at least try to keep your area safe..
@@lovie2000 you dont know their mental state of health. They cant find work , they wish they could , they live in poverty. For a lot of people depression ,anxiety, stress .....sets in. The first thing people look at is to put some food on the table , keep their children from bad influences, provide warmth inside the house, warm cloths ..... Pretty gardens come last. Survival comes first . This is the instinct of all .
@@pamelapaikopoulos2320 My comment wasn't about them finding work. I simply said those weeds need to be cut down off that door... even people living in poverty with mental conditions keep their surroundings clean. Where are their neighbors, if they can't somebody should be lending a hand...that is what my comment was about....."somebody, anybody..." they needed to be cut down off that door and their area kept clean for their protection....but that man at the beginning is able bodied, he said he cant find a job, again theres no excuse not pulling them weeds down.. IJS
I am from friars point Mississippi and this is sad I remember seeing homes like this as a child we moved away in the 70's God bless the state of Mississippi
I grew up in Mississippi , the only thing on my mind growing up was getting the hell out of Ms as fast as I could.. Living west coast now and loving it ..Mississippi ain’t worth taking a dump in...
What you are seeing is poverty, it is a state of mind. Being poor is another issue. My family was poor, but we never lived like this, we had pride. We were clean and organized, even without much money.
Be careful with doing stuff like this. Make sure contracts are signed to prevdnt a squatters situation. You seem kind, and folks will abuse your kindness, so be careful.
This woman is doing the best she knows how to bring awareness to their situation. People are just cold these days and let's not forget, AA's are hated while our Culture is coveted (and always stolen). Kudos to this woman and to you for reposting this! Hopefully we can figure out how to make real impact.
Sis. Antoinette, Thanks for the work you and Bro. Walter continue to do on behalf of justice for our people. It's not the pretty picture too many want to see -- it's the ugly truth that too many people refuse to see. You are showing the world symptoms of the oppression African people still suffer in the United States. Stay strong!
I just called this agency and asked how do I make a donation of clothing and household items to families in MS and I got "what kind of donations" followed by "the problem with that are the fees". So I said do you mean shipping costs? I said I'm not concerned with that I ship stuff to shelters all over..that wasn't an issue...but I felt like a thank you here is the address should have come first..i really would rather donate directly to a family than a pass through agency that will give them what they want.
@Chuck Edward Or castrate the men. It takes two to make a baby. Some guys have two women pregnant at the same time. Where do you think all these babies of teenage mothers come from...not from the cabbage patch.
Thank You Madam for showing people the poverty that is affecting many, an inconvient truth for people to do nothing is blame these people...But it's harder to look away once you put faces, and names to their story...Youre right no one chooses to live in absolute poverty. God bless you for sharing this man's story...and please call Habitat for Humanity to see if they could help this family. God Bless you.
Without economic opportunities it's like having one's hands tied. It's truly like being a bird with a broken wing. America practice what you preach, love your neighbors as yourselves.
I agree no one wants to live like this. I live here in quitman county Mississippi and have lived in Tallahatchie county Mississippi. We need our churches and craftsmen to help. Thank you for sharing this story.
My pops just got up and bounced from rural Alabama at 19yo that was in 1967 he took a greyhound bus right up to Chicago and within 2 hours of stepping off of the bus he got a good paying job and lived very comfortable on after bought his first house in his mid 20's on the westside of Chicago and as he said he went through new cars like shoes he used to love to talk about the muscle cars he owned but anyhow I don't know why this video popped up my pops passed back in 2012 ✌️
So true. Many of my friends lived in homes like this where I grew up in SC. The alternative is to leave their land behind and go to projects in the city. That IS the only choice they have. Live in the cities in poverty or live in the county in poverty. I lived in an old 2 story farm house down the street and there were about 5 or 6 little homes just like this. Farming is hard work.
Thank you my sister for allowing me to see how bad the poverty was in Mississippi you know we can come together as one people and take all of our elderly and put them in better quarters than this even build it Forum ourself you know to take $1,000 in to do some much-needed work on the house will go a long way but I think it five of us or even ten of us came together and pitched in a thousand dollars a piece we can begin to do some things for our elderly that they cannot do for themselves is there anyone that will join me
I grew up in MS. Was on my way to work one day and stopped off at a gas station. There was a group of grown men in there bragging about how long it'd been since they had a job. BRAGGING. She may be right that people don't want to live that way but there are plenty of folks not willing to work in order to get out of there.
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I do not judge people! That could be ANY of us!! You get hurt and lose your job... sick... not blessed with an average IQ.. If you lived here would you be diligent about cutting weeds? Why cut them? makes your house look better? There's not much improving on this place!! They have junk around the house. If you lived here, with no money, would you pay the dump $20. to take it? When you need the 20 for an overdue electric bill? probably not!! Do not judge people!!!!!
officerdepfife. "Why cut weed ?!" ..."That make the house looks better ?!" Man that people has the same mentality like you and ..look the way they live !!
We have a lot of wealthy black people in America that can do something about the poverty of many black Americans but they do not. I hope this video have a tremendous effect on this situation. Oh god, I wish I was a wealthy man.
Shamus Yasharahla. Conservatives NEVER have been pushing anyone dont get a education and dont get a job. Stop that mentality passed down for generation after generation; always blaming somebody else for your wrong choices: 'I'm broke because the conservatives', 'I'm hooked in drugs 'coz conservatives', 'I didn't get educate 'coz conservatives', 'I got pregnant 'coz conservatives', 'I got caught shoplifting 'coz conservatives', 'I sell drugs 'coz conservatives', 'I get divorced 'coz conservatives', 'I dont food 'coz conservatives', 'I dont have shoes 'coz conservatives', 'I dont have beer 'coz conservatives', 'I am poor and stupid 'coz conservatives' ..'I blame conservatives 'coz ..that make me feel better ..as if I hadn't done anything wrong' Yeah of course, I really believe you ! 😏
@@alfredoelguezabal5445 if the shoe fits wear it. Your obviously completely ignorant, or your just trolling. White people are to blame for the state of black's in amerkkka . Conservative, liberal, leftist doesn't matter. I just see racist. Systematic racism has kept black's in Amerkkka in poverty, and is the tool used to steal wealth from black's in amerkkka, and also used to keep us in a state of abject poverty. I don't have the time or patience to explain it to you, but you should educate yourself before you expose your lack of intelligence next time. After 400 years of slavery were still here, and WE GOT NEXT! We now know who Esau is. We know who the devil is. He is red, but no pointy tail and pitch fork. You can deny reality all you want to, but I won't. The bill is due, and reporations can't be paid in dollars. It can only be paid by the blood of the same people that spilled our blood. Prepare slaughter for their children ( Isaiah 14:21). You don't have to admit it acknowledge what slavery has done to my people, but slavery is coming back. We won't be the ones picking cotton this time. My advice get buffed. I hear slavery is hard
@@alfredoelguezabal5445 since you feel the need to defend racism I blame you. There is something good it of all this though. 2016 was the first year that more white people died than were born. Low birth rates, suicide, the great opioid cleansing, the Sun. It just means your leprocy infected asses are going extinct. Between now and extinctions is minority status. Your slavery will be double what you did us. We will reward you as you rewarded us. I hope you enjoyed your heaven, because that shit is over. Oh yeah Jesus is black, and we are the real Hebrew Israelites. WE GOT NEXT!
@@shamusyasharahla8116 Don't some knocking on my white door with all tha blood spill shit, you will go home packing. - oops packed - in a crate. You are a vile racist. YOU WANT MY ADDRESS??
Just think , Jay-z wears a 2 million dollar watch, Mayweather owns a 19 million dollar watch, 50 cent just bought a 3 million dollar car & the list of ignorance from the black entertainers goes on. A fraction of that money could provide some sort of educational resources or a shuttle service that would assist them with traveling to & from work. I'm not suggesting they give them there money, however, don't give it away to meaningless items.
Sean D I agree a hundred percent they brag instead of assist in humanitarian efforts only them in Hollywood you'll seeing showing off and bragging forgetting where they're coming from. Even though thats strong grown man can still do better.
Just how much money are these random entertainers supposed to give to complete strangers? Why are you targeting black entertainers? You don't think white, Asian, and Latino entertainers blow money on bullshit? How about J-Lo and Benn Afleck buying two big ass mansions on the same damn island, just to get divorced right after? How about the retired baseball player Kurt Shilling, who damn near bankrupted Rhode Island (I think) getting 10s of millions in loans for a shitty computer game that failed? The celebrities donate to charities and pay taxes out the ass already. Where is the rest of these peoples' families? Where are all these bullshit black churches that should be helping? Why is the first person to blame always some celebrity who ain't got shit to do with this? Oprah grew up in a poor part of Mississippi and was abused by her own family members, and she made it out. She's a philanthropist, but that doesn't mean every celebrity is obligated to do anything. Families should be looking out for each other, first and foremost. Latinos do it--they will live 10 to an apartment and pool their money together. Two adults making minimum wage may not add up to much, but if you have even 8 people, that's nearly $60/hour * 30 hrs, that's $1800/week. That's how you come up. You live in the not so great conditions until you can to where you need to be. Now, if poor people keep having kids one after the other, then they make their own situation infinitely harder and sometimes impossible. But grown people working together could make something happen.
I wasnt sure if this was a home that someone actually lived in until I saw the meters and air conditioning. Very real now. 2020 are there any changes in this town?
Places like Mississippi, Alabama i would never want to visit let alone live there . To deep rooted in slavery my my taste . An plz dont tell me its not.
I live in Mississippi and actually I live around tallahatchie. Its poverty stricken for whites and blacks. There are a lot of black people who have extremely nice homes and white people living like trash.. true slavery was awful but things change. Most of the time people live in these homes because the rent or price is low and they didnt have a good hand in life. We all get along down here and the ones that dont were brought up to hate each other, simple as that. The people I know take care of each other no matter the race.
My late husband was a supervisor for an electrical company. They were building a federal prison in a poor prodmitly black county. The local newspaper almost every week complained that the company didn't hire locals. What they didn't realize or didn't care about was they tried. People would come apply be sent for drug testing and couldn't pass it. This one guy hired on @ $10.00 an hour seven twelve. 7 days a week 12 hours a day. Anything over 40 hrs was time and 1/2. Do the math that's alot of money. After he got his 1st check he told them he had to quit because it cut his foodstamps in half. Sad but a very true story
I live in Mississippi. People don't choose to live lime this. Jobs are scarce and then if you have one it's not paying good. North Mississippi is very bad off. Help alot of times isn't given to the people who truly need it.
there's people who like and dislike their conditions in all situations. I agree. Did you grow up in this kind of area? My family did & I spent most my child hood in 1. I actually grew up in a house similiar to whats shown. POVERTY is a lot of times a state of mind. There has to be money given to live but i just kinda get mad at people who look at the areas like this and look SO down on it. When you get caught in the material world you lose so much. I worked in the bean field once.
I'm soso sorry I'm from KY my dad lived in Mississippi until his death . IV been to Mississippi an if I had money to help you all I would but I do pray an pray a lot .I will pray an keep you in my prayers. IV been really sick stage 4 cancer an a stroke I will put out a message to see if I can send help
I knew this family locally that was always trying to make ends meet, and when my grandfather fell ill, he had a freezer full of home grown peas and whatnot. We've lived in rough conditions before too. So, I gave them to them because my uncle is selling my grandfather's house so he can pay off his mortgage. I try to give a lil to helping the needy every month, and I'm not rich myself. It could do most Americans some good to go without a luxury or two and help someone else out.
Sharon Jackson. Yeah right they have no money because there's no jobs and there's no jobs because they are no able to keep jobs. NOBODY will invest and risk money with sombody that is not interested in work and willing to keep a job.
I am from jones county Mississippi and if you live in Mississippi we are all poverty stricken and we don’t have enough jobs here I am a single mom of three and it’s hard before I got a divorce I had to sell my wedding ring to buy groceries to feed my kids and I am a white woman In Mississippi and I am not privileged I work so hard to keep the lights on I don’t choose to live like this but this is the hand I am dealt and I have Jesus in my heart that only by his grace I barely make ends meet but my kids are loved not on the streets and feed I am blessed for that I got took off food stamps when the stimulus money came and only make a little above minimum wage and having a hard time getting my food stamps back I got to make a appel
@@davidking4779 not true they do but some dont even know where to start. They have no money, are renting these shotgun shit shacks and are barely making ends meat working all the time. These homes shouldn't be rented out or sold. They rent the nice homes for 800 or 900 a month but these homes get rented out for for 400 a month. These landlords down here are slum lords who dont know anything about realistate law and people cant afford to take them to court on it.
@@ashleeaustin358 So the answer is, take people out of these shacks, make them quit their jobs in order to qualify for welfare and put them in public housing and let the taxpayers pay for it all? Ashlee, you are so kind by volunteering to support these people with other peoples money. Why don't you go down and take your money and your time to rehab these houses for these poor folks, it would make you feel so benevolent, I guess your family would suffer a little with less money and less time with their mom.
@@davidking4779 alright so I do volunteer my time. I'm an emt, I take calls day and night to help these people. There are already to many projects around here and we dont need more people relying on welfare. My family does construction work as well and we work along side others to help people fix there homes at lower rates. I work my ass off on sleepless nights not to feel good about myself but because there are an unbelievable amount of people on disability who need help, I do it to help people who are in crap circumstances, ill or just need someone who will sit and listen to their pain. I'm a grief rag. I'm empathetic to those around me who want help but arent sure where to start. When is the last time you laid down your judgements and decided to put yourself on the frontlines for people who are in need?
@@ashleeaustin358 I too am in construction and donate my time and money to improve living conditions. Good for both of us, but often I would like the people I help to think about doing a little more on their own and not just sit in a bad situation complaining and waiting for a handout. People in need and people refusing to help themselves are two different things in my book.
Looks like slaves quarters from the 1800’s that never been updated... god please help the poor people of Mississippi
Poor people or every where
Doris Hedgeman but this video is about Mississippi tho’ .... so 🤫🤫🤫
I knew a family in Seminary MS that lives in a house like this. It was an older couple and their kids and grandkids would live with them for awhile. Idk if it was to try and help the older couple or because the younger generation didn’t want to get their own place.
What I can tell you is that the younger generations that lived there always had brand new Escalades, Camaros, Mustangs, fine pickup trucks. I remember it well because of the stark difference between the house and the cars. I was a young girl and I wondered why they didn’t get less fancy cars so they could afford a better home too.
It’s real
We gotta help the people 🤷🏾♀️
This shouldn't be happening in America .
Amerikkka's 1% want people like that, so that they could look down at them, and seeing impoverished people lets them know how rich they are!!!
Believe me, Amerikkka wants people like that.
But it does!
Looks like africa where their from.
You must ve been dreaming, there are at least one city or small town like this in every single state
@@devilshark6694 they are!
She is absolutely right. I’m living in Mississippi. I actually grew up in a home just a little bit better than this house. I use to look thru the floor and see the ground and look up and see the sky. It was freezing in winter and burn up in summer. I had to deal with the situation until I was able to leave. We, my family, didn’t want to live like this but we didn’t have any choice. I was raised in Lucas (Silver Creek, MS), Lawrence County and Jefferson Davis County. You don’t know how it is until you have to live in those conditions.
Wow!!! Hell naw!
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What have you done with yourself since then.
I grow up in a house like this and it was full of love it was not pretty but it was a place to live
Thank you! Somebody understands, we may not have nice homes but we love each other.
You can't help because the government takes your money through taxes. Your 30k a year becomes 24 after taxes. Its 12k a year in rent. So your 24k becomes 12k. Sat tv. 130 a month. Lights. Internet. Thats another 4k off. Car note. 400. Insurance 7k. Your working and broke.
Me too but I work my ass off every day to never go back to it
@Jacqulyn Thompson that's the same with my family, money is a double edged sword..
The man who she interviewed is my childhood friend and still is to this day, a good man.
There are homes like this all.over the rural south.
All over the South and some people think keeping the Rural south underfunded for the sake of maintaining low taxes and some romanticized image of “Old Southern Pride-land” is some great thing.
AMEN 🙏🏽 poor southern states that vote Republican..🙄
Yep. I left Louisiana because it was like we were living in the old times..m
Duke Of Prunes so because one is black they *have* to vote for the democrats who want to keep everyone dependent on welfare and poor?
La Reina del Sur Utilizing social benefits first and foremost is a choice. A choice many ppl find themselves in need of making or they may find themselves homeless, facing starvation, and myriad of other issues. President Truman and his wife were one of the first people to receive Medicare once it was signed into law. If social welfare was around President Thomas Jefferson’s daughter may not have had to live off charity after debt suck the vitality out of the Jefferson fortune. But you probably could careless.
People in the comment section... STOP judging and HELP those in need! I can't believe the comment section😐. I am definitely contacting the makers of these videos and doing what I can to help. Instead of you all nit picking, DO the same and HELP.
You are a moron. People like you just ghelp kee them in poverty. You're enablers. Your "help" does nothing but make poverty comfortable, and that's the last thing it should be. I was raised in this kind of poverty, and on my own at age fourteen with nowhere tro go, and no money to get there. People like you did everything possible to keep me in poverty.
What got me out of poverty was people who told me the truth, which was everything is hard, but that's like, so stop whining and get to work. They didn't offer handouts or hand ups, they just told me to stop being a baby and do what had to be done.
Get an education, develop a strong work ethic, stay away from drugs and alcohol, and don't have kids you can't support. If you do this, you'll be fine. All of us who followed this advice were fine. Those who didn't were too stupid or too foolish to care about.
Those who had enablers like you around are still in poverty. Why work your ass off when there are always enablers around who will "help" you. All these people have to do is stay clean and walk away. But they won't, and you'll just make sure of that.
@james Ritchie : you speak from wisdom and experience .. And you're right . If people continue to give those who refuse to get out and work and help themselves out of the financial and economical situations they find themselves in .. Good work ethics can and will bring you financial success , and it begins at an early stage in life while you are a youth .. My children have jobs and they aren't but teenagers and young adults .. So you are definitely right . There's no such thing as a person (or family) not being able to overcome they're circumstances .. Prayer , faith in God , and hard work and plenty of effort still works ..
The people in the comment section God will give it to you but it can be taken away One pay check away and be living in your car. There are families living in their cars with children and said they never thought it could happen to them
@@sheiladavidson7475 " There are families living in their cars with children and said they never thought it could happen to them"
They planned poorly. DO BETTER. Or not. I don't care. You choose, you live.... Wasn't that a song?
Wow folks!! Some stone cold hearts in the comments. But by the grace of God.... You can do everything you're suppose to do. Work, buy a home, raise your children and save a few bucks. Wh at happens if you lose your job in a tight economy? Your house burn down? Your child have a major medical problem. Insurance pays but you have a $5,000 to $10 000 payment for your out pocket and they-want it like yesterday.
Pleas soften your hearts,I you never know what who or when you will help. Sometimes, you have to swallow your pride for a few moments to get back on foot.
Where is Oprah so that she may help the people who reside in America instead of Africa?
Peppi Pea 👍
Peppi Pea ironically Oprah was born in mississippi but she doesn't usually acknowledge that fact
I think she feel like she would get more praise from African people than her own for helping them I guess and social media some people or just Wicked and the do not no it what better place to help than the place you come from and you no the struggle is real in Mississippi.
Peppi Pea She only helps white ppl
I'm sorry that folks live like this....and I firmly believe that it is the fault of then authority, nobody should live like this. I'm black and I'm south African....my husband is Californian. even myself is appaled by this. my mum's house was fixed from scratch, I mean two years ago. it was bulldozed and built from scratch by the government and it was not even 20 yrs old. and she didn't have to pay nothing.this is not fair. they want to build a wall, well some of those bricks could build houses for these families
No judgment, just a prayer!!
Thank you my black sister for bringing these shameful conditions in this so called Hone Of The Brave and Land Of The Free. Please ignore the negative comments, and keep up the good work.
People should be ashamed to judge people. Judge not so you won't be jidged.
"God Has not forsaken thee"
So far I see an able bodied man, who is able to tack up that metal cladding on the house, clean the overgrown brush off the house, clean up the junk around the house... Being poor doesnt mean you cant keep a tidy place...
fstwrtr, I AGREE!!
Yes yes 100
nails cost money and when shit is bad geting through it is a full time job
And depression can make you feel like giving up. And for those who say it cant then you know really nothing about depression.
I agree but depression can be a curent business case of his wellbeing
People can be so cold refusing to understand that the circle of poverty isn't easy to break free of. Have you ever felt discouraged and there seems to be no answer? Well, most of these people have been in this trap for generations. No hope, no end to the sorrow. Even if you don't think you have anything to give, a kind word will go much further than you think rather than judge those less fortunate.
+Bochanable Well said. A lot of mean spirited people leaving dumb comments here.
Bochanable Some just can't see the change for themselves, they need help to see how too
And no one has brought up mental health issues. I know that if I had to face what they are facing, I just don't know.
Ah, poor babies. It's hard, so don't do it. Just make excuses. You're full of shit. "Fortunate" has nothing to do with it. Education and a strong work ethic is how you get out opf poverty. You don't get out by having babies you can't afford to raise, by using drugs and drinking alcohol, , or by sitting around whining.
And you sure don't get out by having dumbasses like you making excuse, and telling everyone how hard these poor little babies have it.
I was raised in pverty at least as bad as this video, and so were many of my friends. Nearly all of us got out, but we'd still be there if we listened to people like you. You are the worst kind of enabler. These people stay in poverty generation after generation because enablers make it possible.
@@jamesaritchie1 Now you just have to work on your anger
This is just about like my little grandmother's house...but I promise those ones living like this are Beautiful, Precious LOVING ,CARING PEOPLE....They know the meaning of TRUE LOVE .....My Grandmother's home was nothing...but it was a BEAUTIFUL HOME..PRECIOUS MEMORIES....Iwant to one day try to build it back..it burned to the ground....sad day....but I'm thankful for the LOVE we shared there...amen
If the walls could talk. I was raised in a three room house my mother raised five of us. Three girls and two boys the first room was a bedroom I her baby girl slept with her the second room boys slept on one side and the girl on the other. The third room was our kitchen as the boys grow up in her words "the cover was standing up in the morning".So she found another three room house and they move it in her friend add it to the old house it gave us more room. The boys had there own room and the girls we had there's and bathroom and living room.Mother didn't have a lot of education but a very wise women. We was poor and didn't now it. I never was hungry she taught us to keep our house clean cook iron bed was all ways made up. Please don't look down on people's that don't have much. I bet there a lot of love in those home. It was in my home.
It's better then a lot of people who are getting evicted
Would you believe Oprah is from MS. No jobs, no public transportation, no way out. There is not enough money to repair that home. It is a total loss.
This is a wonderful black lady trying to help her people. Thank you
This makes me sad that there are people living here in those type of conditions, here in America in this day and age. No one should have to live like this. May God be smiling down on these people. May God help them.
Stay strong, you are in my prayers.
The real face of America, the greed of the corporates
Peter Reweti why stop at corporates? There’s greed in unions, in people who own stores, in contractors who overcharge people and do shoddy work, in car salesmen who tell a customer 4% interest on the loan and then put 6% on the paperwork, in people who embezzle from the companies they are working for. There is greed in the middle class and the rich.
I think it's a shame that people question the need to help people in poverty. This people want better for themselves but unless you're in their situation, which is very very bad, you would not know what they have to go through. Making it sound like each and every person can just pull themselves up from their bootstraps and just make their lives better is a facade that the rich want you to believe. These videos have opened my eyes to real poverty in America! Great reporting!
This would be what church and community groups should be doing here.
I wish I could press the thumbs up for this statement a million times
Me too
There is a lot of land around that house to grow some produce and raise some live stock............ Time to get to work.
no only that..There are lots of trees and dirt they can use to make cement to rebuild the homes...It seems like these home were their slave ancestors first home, and turned into generation property, but no one cared to fix the property up since slavery was abolished... Blacks we need to do better, and learn how to help ourselves, stop always trying to wait for someone to rescue you. Even people in the poorest of Africa knows how to build a house out of dirt...Give me that property, and I will google how to make walls from dirt, and start piece
by piece rebuilding my home.
You dumbass.if they cant afford to fix their house how the hell can they afford to do what u suggest u arrogant shithead?give yr head a shake dumbass
@robert howard yr an idiot
How could anyone be so insensitive, as to think anyone would choose to live like this
Victoria Mayo those are people that really don’t give a damn about others, especially the ones that don’t look like them.
I just came across this page, I was born and raised in meridian Mississippi. It's breaking my heart to know that this is still happening.
He is a young man he could clean up the yard I grew up in a house like this it was green tar paper
But my granny believe in being clean yard our person ,dishes, clothes etc
Cleaning up the yard is FREE. Being tidy and clean is FREE.
As my best friend once said: it doesn’t matter if what you have is old, ugly or worn down, as long as it is tidy and clean. That says a lot about you as a person.
@@horsewithnoname12345 When someone is poor then one usually doesn't have a running water and electricity. And poor people are usually depressed and anxious. I don't know for US, but I saw and experienced that in Europe, especially Balkan region countries, Africa, Asia...
He's young enough to fix it up and he could do it little by little, but maybe he don't want to fix it up. It's a free country.
@@petarmatej4633 the poor in the US get free electricity and water
Thank you for showing.. I watch all your journeys
We as black people should unite and take care of our own. I mean, these are our brothers an sisters down there living like this. To hell with the government and elected officials who really don't give a damn about us. Let's take care of our own!
Now you are talking sister!
floridamom1976. "Government dont GIVE a damn to us" ..what you want from the government to be given ?! A new house ? This is america !! And you have the right and freedom of pursuit happiness. In this country Democracy doesn't mean free stuff; you have to work and earn the good stuff !
Bravo for you doing this video! It’s good for you to do something like this to help make people aware of the poverty in the US! So some people can help!!!
No one chooses to live in poverty...... but there is no excuse for those weeds groing up on the back of that door, those can be cut down....
.......and you would know the circumstances of the family.
Maybe you should contact the landlord and I think this is a bigger problem than some weeds. The Kennedy Brothers war on poverty in the 60 s was a failure. Please find something on James Baldwin
@@pamelapaikopoulos2320 I meant what I said and I dont take it back.... if you have two working hands, you can pull up weeds if you have to..dont have to have a lawn mower, a knife or hands will work... at least try to
keep your area safe..
@@lovie2000 you dont know their mental state of health. They cant find work , they wish they could , they live in poverty. For a lot of people depression ,anxiety, stress .....sets in.
The first thing people look at is to put some food on the table , keep their children from bad influences, provide warmth inside the house, warm cloths .....
Pretty gardens come last. Survival comes first . This is the instinct of all .
@@pamelapaikopoulos2320 My comment wasn't about them finding work. I simply said those weeds need to be cut down off that door... even people living in poverty with mental conditions keep their surroundings clean. Where are their neighbors, if they can't somebody should be lending a hand...that is what my comment was about....."somebody, anybody..." they needed to be cut down off that door and their area kept clean for their protection....but that man at the beginning is able bodied, he said he cant find a job, again theres no excuse not pulling them weeds down.. IJS
I am from friars point Mississippi and this is sad I remember seeing homes like this as a child we moved away in the 70's God bless the state of Mississippi
I grew up in Mississippi , the only thing on my mind growing up was getting the hell out of Ms as fast as I could..
Living west coast now and loving it ..Mississippi ain’t worth taking a dump in...
Me too! My friend & I just said this recently. We're from Pascagoula and refuse to move back down there.
This was 11 years ago, I wonder how it looks now?
Looks the same
No change
It's been 10 years later, can somebody give me an update on the families?
Mississippi Delta is worse
No jobs at all mostly small restaurant jobs that pay minimum wage
Its evil spirit that makes ppl send ruthless,stupit,hateful comments..ppl get there by mistake. No one like being there.
Still able bodied looking for hand outs.
I stay here this was my home and it looks way better
God bless you brother
Is this rental property? You need to make things clear.
What you are seeing is poverty, it is a state of mind. Being poor is another issue. My family was poor, but we never lived like this, we had pride. We were clean and organized, even without much money.
How can I help! I live in Texas an would donate 2 rooms in my house to help until they get on they feet
Be careful with doing stuff like this. Make sure contracts are signed to prevdnt a squatters situation. You seem kind, and folks will abuse your kindness, so be careful.
They may be poor, but at least they can afford AC
how is being poor preventing them from removing the vines that are growing on their house?
God bless my Brother's and sister's in Mississippi America love you all there .
Thank you Madame for sharing this fact with all of us. We must face the truth.
This woman is doing the best she knows how to bring awareness to their situation.
People are just cold these days and let's not forget, AA's are hated while our Culture is coveted (and always stolen).
Kudos to this woman and to you for reposting this!
Hopefully we can figure out how to make real impact.
Sis. Antoinette,
Thanks for the work you and Bro. Walter continue to do on behalf of justice for our people. It's not the pretty picture too many want to see -- it's the ugly truth that too many people refuse to see.
You are showing the world symptoms of the oppression African people still suffer in the United States.
Stay strong!
Oprah please any billionaires Please send help !!!!! Thanks please!
How can l help my people?
Tomika Washington I would write to directly.
I just called this agency and asked how do I make a donation of clothing and household items to families in MS and I got "what kind of donations" followed by "the problem with that are the fees". So I said do you mean shipping costs? I said I'm not concerned with that I ship stuff to shelters all over..that wasn't an issue...but I felt like a thank you here is the address should have come first..i really would rather donate directly to a family than a pass through agency that will give them what they want.
Tomika Washington 💓💓💓💕💞💞💖
There is a group in the Delta of Mississippi called "but God" you can contact that is there and in Haiti helping.
@Chuck Edward Or castrate the men. It takes two to make a baby. Some guys have two women pregnant at the same time. Where do you think all these babies of teenage mothers come from...not from the cabbage patch.
Very interesting. Appreciate your work and dedication.
I totally agree, no one wants or deserves to live in poverty...
This is so sad.
Praying for the families...
We are brothers from one black man to another black man ,my opinion, but much respect ,admiration and blessing!
Dri Willie J.Jones, pastor &Counselor
My grandparents lived in a house like this. It’s a shame that people can’t get help!
This absolutely uncalled for,why hasn't the mayor,Governor or someone stepped in and helped??? God Bless These Folks
Thank You Madam for showing people the poverty that is affecting many, an inconvient truth for people to do nothing is blame these people...But it's harder to look away once you put faces, and names to their story...Youre right no one chooses to live in absolute poverty. God bless you for sharing this man's story...and please call Habitat for Humanity to see if they could help this family. God Bless you.
I love interesting stories like these
Without economic opportunities it's like having one's hands tied. It's truly like being a bird with a broken wing. America practice what you preach, love your neighbors as yourselves.
I agree no one wants to live like this. I live here in quitman county Mississippi and have lived in Tallahatchie county Mississippi. We need our churches and craftsmen to help. Thank you for sharing this story.
My pops just got up and bounced from rural Alabama at 19yo that was in 1967 he took a greyhound bus right up to Chicago and within 2 hours of stepping off of the bus he got a good paying job and lived very comfortable on after bought his first house in his mid 20's on the westside of Chicago and as he said he went through new cars like shoes he used to love to talk about the muscle cars he owned but anyhow I don't know why this video popped up my pops passed back in 2012 ✌️
We need update on conditions there it’s 2020...
No need its probably the same...
Thankyou ...for letting us see and hear the truth..
I know exactly where this is. I am from Tunica county Mississippi a dit looks like you’ve gone back on time. I pray for my state.
🙏🙏God bless these ppl❤Any Updates?
she is telling the truth . farming is about the only industry in the area . and this is happening across the state .
No one chooses to live like this, sometimes life comes @ you hard. I lived like this when I was younger & it was hardest thing ever 😢
Thank you! Some of us just get bad hands in life with no leg up.
So did i
The community has an obligation to help and encourage people to do better.
Lord please send them help ........ Thank you so much for all you do
Shanetta Noel. Please Lord help them ...with some good job and put in them the will to keep it. Amen
So true. Many of my friends lived in homes like this where I grew up in SC. The alternative is to leave their land behind and go to projects in the city. That IS the only choice they have. Live in the cities in poverty or live in the county in poverty. I lived in an old 2 story farm house down the street and there were about 5 or 6 little homes just like this. Farming is hard work.
Thank you my sister for allowing me to see how bad the poverty was in Mississippi you know we can come together as one people and take all of our elderly and put them in better quarters than this even build it Forum ourself you know to take $1,000 in to do some much-needed work on the house will go a long way but I think it five of us or even ten of us came together and pitched in a thousand dollars a piece we can begin to do some things for our elderly that they cannot do for themselves is there anyone that will join me
I grew up in MS. Was on my way to work one day and stopped off at a gas station. There was a group of grown men in there bragging about how long it'd been since they had a job. BRAGGING.
She may be right that people don't want to live that way but there are plenty of folks not willing to work in order to get out of there.
Hi edagdwg thanks for sharing this story of what about us we need help a forgotten city we are still fighting blacks don't count pay attention Linda j peace to what you do to people never know what could happen to you Linda j peace 💯💯💯🌹🦋🦋🦋🐻😘
GOD BLESS YOU LADY FOR TRYING TO GET HELP FOR THEM
Praying 🙏 for the Family
It's not just in that area in Mississippi it's many more towns and cities and country in Mississippi . Marlo Stanford commenting .
I do not judge people! That could be ANY of us!! You get hurt and lose your job... sick... not blessed with an average IQ.. If you lived here would you be diligent about cutting weeds? Why cut them? makes your house look better? There's not much improving on this place!! They have junk around the house. If you lived here, with no money, would you pay the dump $20. to take it? When you need the 20 for an overdue electric bill? probably not!! Do not judge people!!!!!
officerdepfife. "Why cut weed ?!" ..."That make the house looks better ?!" Man that people has the same mentality like you and ..look the way they live !!
We have a lot of wealthy black people in America that can do something about the poverty of
many black Americans but they do not. I hope this video have a tremendous effect on this
situation. Oh god, I wish I was a wealthy man.
Hope🙏🏾This gentleman and his family doing good .
It doesn't take a lot to remove weeds, vines and debris. Hopefully, these folks are doing better to this date. 🙏🏾
EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN PROPERTY, YOU STILL HAVE TO LIVE. STAY SAFE AND BLESSED BEAUTIFUL FAMILIES😢😔💕🙏🌹🫂😘❤
Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama this is what conservatives want to conserve. The status quo.
Shamus Yasharahla. Conservatives NEVER have been pushing anyone dont get a education and dont get a job. Stop that mentality passed down for generation after generation; always blaming somebody else for your wrong choices: 'I'm broke because the conservatives', 'I'm hooked in drugs 'coz conservatives', 'I didn't get educate 'coz conservatives', 'I got pregnant 'coz conservatives', 'I got caught shoplifting 'coz conservatives', 'I sell drugs 'coz conservatives', 'I get divorced 'coz conservatives', 'I dont food 'coz conservatives', 'I dont have shoes 'coz conservatives', 'I dont have beer 'coz conservatives', 'I am poor and stupid 'coz conservatives' ..'I blame conservatives 'coz ..that make me feel better ..as if I hadn't done anything wrong' Yeah of course, I really believe you ! 😏
@@alfredoelguezabal5445 if the shoe fits wear it. Your obviously completely ignorant, or your just trolling. White people are to blame for the state of black's in amerkkka . Conservative, liberal, leftist doesn't matter. I just see racist. Systematic racism has kept black's in Amerkkka in poverty, and is the tool used to steal wealth from black's in amerkkka, and also used to keep us in a state of abject poverty. I don't have the time or patience to explain it to you, but you should educate yourself before you expose your lack of intelligence next time. After 400 years of slavery were still here, and WE GOT NEXT! We now know who Esau is. We know who the devil is. He is red, but no pointy tail and pitch fork. You can deny reality all you want to, but I won't. The bill is due, and reporations can't be paid in dollars. It can only be paid by the blood of the same people that spilled our blood. Prepare slaughter for their children ( Isaiah 14:21). You don't have to admit it acknowledge what slavery has done to my people, but slavery is coming back. We won't be the ones picking cotton this time. My advice get buffed. I hear slavery is hard
@@alfredoelguezabal5445 since you feel the need to defend racism I blame you. There is something good it of all this though. 2016 was the first year that more white people died than were born. Low birth rates, suicide, the great opioid cleansing, the Sun. It just means your leprocy infected asses are going extinct. Between now and extinctions is minority status. Your slavery will be double what you did us. We will reward you as you rewarded us. I hope you enjoyed your heaven, because that shit is over. Oh yeah Jesus is black, and we are the real Hebrew Israelites. WE GOT NEXT!
@@shamusyasharahla8116 Don't some knocking on my white door with all tha blood spill shit, you will go home packing. - oops packed - in a crate.
You are a vile racist. YOU WANT MY ADDRESS??
Shamus Yasharahla what does it feel like looking up from the bottom?
Education is the key to end poverty.
Just think , Jay-z wears a 2 million dollar watch, Mayweather owns a 19 million dollar watch, 50 cent just bought a 3 million dollar car & the list of ignorance from the black entertainers goes on.
A fraction of that money could provide some sort of educational resources or a shuttle service that would assist them with traveling to & from work.
I'm not suggesting they give them there money, however, don't give it away to meaningless items.
Sean D I fell you we as people need to help those that is unfortunately especially this who have made it
They dont care
Sean D I agree a hundred percent they brag instead of assist in humanitarian efforts only them in Hollywood you'll seeing showing off and bragging forgetting where they're coming from. Even though thats strong grown man can still do better.
Knock that area down and put tiny homes or habitat homes or something Oprah and the rest of you
Just how much money are these random entertainers supposed to give to complete strangers? Why are you targeting black entertainers? You don't think white, Asian, and Latino entertainers blow money on bullshit? How about J-Lo and Benn Afleck buying two big ass mansions on the same damn island, just to get divorced right after? How about the retired baseball player Kurt Shilling, who damn near bankrupted Rhode Island (I think) getting 10s of millions in loans for a shitty computer game that failed? The celebrities donate to charities and pay taxes out the ass already. Where is the rest of these peoples' families? Where are all these bullshit black churches that should be helping? Why is the first person to blame always some celebrity who ain't got shit to do with this? Oprah grew up in a poor part of Mississippi and was abused by her own family members, and she made it out. She's a philanthropist, but that doesn't mean every celebrity is obligated to do anything.
Families should be looking out for each other, first and foremost. Latinos do it--they will live 10 to an apartment and pool their money together. Two adults making minimum wage may not add up to much, but if you have even 8 people, that's nearly $60/hour * 30 hrs, that's $1800/week. That's how you come up. You live in the not so great conditions until you can to where you need to be. Now, if poor people keep having kids one after the other, then they make their own situation infinitely harder and sometimes impossible. But grown people working together could make something happen.
Send this video to the Attorney General and your local news station.
I wasnt sure if this was a home that someone actually lived in until I saw the meters and air conditioning. Very real now. 2020 are there any changes in this town?
Yeah, now all towns have people living like that or even wishing they had that much thanks to Trump.
Places like Mississippi, Alabama i would never want to visit let alone live there . To deep rooted in slavery my my taste . An plz dont tell me its not.
I live in Mississippi and actually I live around tallahatchie. Its poverty stricken for whites and blacks. There are a lot of black people who have extremely nice homes and white people living like trash.. true slavery was awful but things change. Most of the time people live in these homes because the rent or price is low and they didnt have a good hand in life. We all get along down here and the ones that dont were brought up to hate each other, simple as that. The people I know take care of each other no matter the race.
And Louisiana
@@Yonnie2436 Yikes thats where my folks came from and they never went back .
Its not. All parts of Mississippi dont look like this.
Its not so stfu...
My late husband was a supervisor for an electrical company. They were building a federal prison in a poor prodmitly black county. The local newspaper almost every week complained that the company didn't hire locals. What they didn't realize or didn't care about was they tried. People would come apply be sent for drug testing and couldn't pass it. This one guy hired on @ $10.00 an hour seven twelve. 7 days a week 12 hours a day. Anything over 40 hrs was time and 1/2. Do the math that's alot of money. After he got his 1st check he told them he had to quit because it cut his foodstamps in half. Sad but a very true story
I live in Mississippi. People don't choose to live lime this. Jobs are scarce and then if you have one it's not paying good. North Mississippi is very bad off. Help alot of times isn't given to the people who truly need it.
How is it in 2020? Thank you for this video.
My family is from the delta and let me say now in 2020 it still looks the same and a lot of people live in houses like that
there's people who like and dislike their conditions in all situations. I agree. Did you grow up in this kind of area? My family did & I spent most my child hood in 1. I actually grew up in a house similiar to whats shown. POVERTY is a lot of times a state of mind. There has to be money given to live but i just kinda get mad at people who look at the areas like this and look SO down on it. When you get caught in the material world you lose so much. I worked in the bean field once.
Can you please do an update on this story? I just came across your story.
Home weatherization program from the State could help with roof, windows..etc..
I'm soso sorry I'm from KY my dad lived in Mississippi until his death . IV been to Mississippi an if I had money to help you all I would but I do pray an pray a lot .I will pray an keep you in my prayers. IV been really sick stage 4 cancer an a stroke I will put out a message to see if I can send help
Are there any updates?
Nobody deserves to live like that.
I knew this family locally that was always trying to make ends meet, and when my grandfather fell ill, he had a freezer full of home grown peas and whatnot. We've lived in rough conditions before too. So, I gave them to them because my uncle is selling my grandfather's house so he can pay off his mortgage. I try to give a lil to helping the needy every month, and I'm not rich myself. It could do most Americans some good to go without a luxury or two and help someone else out.
That house is probably worth 500 dollars. Why would somebody spend thousands to fix it?
Buy some 2×4's and 2×8's and rebuild that house.🔧🔨📐✏
They have no money....
Come on dude.
This is their real life story.
Sharon Jackson. Yeah right they have no money because there's no jobs and there's no jobs because they are no able to keep jobs. NOBODY will invest and risk money with sombody that is not interested in work and willing to keep a job.
I am from jones county Mississippi and if you live in Mississippi we are all poverty stricken and we don’t have enough jobs here I am a single mom of three and it’s hard before I got a divorce I had to sell my wedding ring to buy groceries to feed my kids and I am a white woman In Mississippi and I am not privileged I work so hard to keep the lights on I don’t choose to live like this but this is the hand I am dealt and I have Jesus in my heart that only by his grace I barely make ends meet but my kids are loved not on the streets and feed I am blessed for that I got took off food stamps when the stimulus money came and only make a little above minimum wage and having a hard time getting my food stamps back I got to make a appel
they can t even fix their own house and you wonder why they don' t leave
? let's be serious !!
It is not that they can't fix their house, it is that they won't.
@@davidking4779 not true they do but some dont even know where to start. They have no money, are renting these shotgun shit shacks and are barely making ends meat working all the time. These homes shouldn't be rented out or sold. They rent the nice homes for 800 or 900 a month but these homes get rented out for for 400 a month. These landlords down here are slum lords who dont know anything about realistate law and people cant afford to take them to court on it.
@@ashleeaustin358 So the answer is, take people out of these shacks, make them quit their jobs in order to qualify for welfare and put them in public housing and let the taxpayers pay for it all? Ashlee, you are so kind by volunteering to support these people with other peoples money. Why don't you go down and take your money and your time to rehab these houses for these poor folks, it would make you feel so benevolent, I guess your family would suffer a little with less money and less time with their mom.
@@davidking4779 alright so I do volunteer my time. I'm an emt, I take calls day and night to help these people. There are already to many projects around here and we dont need more people relying on welfare. My family does construction work as well and we work along side others to help people fix there homes at lower rates. I work my ass off on sleepless nights not to feel good about myself but because there are an unbelievable amount of people on disability who need help, I do it to help people who are in crap circumstances, ill or just need someone who will sit and listen to their pain. I'm a grief rag. I'm empathetic to those around me who want help but arent sure where to start. When is the last time you laid down your judgements and decided to put yourself on the frontlines for people who are in need?
@@ashleeaustin358 I too am in construction and donate my time and money to improve living conditions. Good for both of us, but often I would like the people I help to think about doing a little more on their own and not just sit in a bad situation complaining and waiting for a handout. People in need and people refusing to help themselves are two different things in my book.
They act so helpless
Brother is DEPRESSED!
In a country such as the USA, abundant resources for food, water etc. There is NO excuse EVER for this kind of poverty!!