"The Black Beverly Hills 2" -- Gentrification Documentary 2020
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The follow up sequel to The Black Beverly Hills Documentary. Residences, from the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area, talk about their personal experiences growing up in View Park, Ladera Heights, and Baldwin Hills; along with sharing their own personal opinions on the neighborhood changing due to rapid gentrification.
Black Beverly Hills from 1925 to present day. The black Beverly Hills neighborhoods, including Ladera Heights, View Park Winsor Hills, and Baldwin Hills are the richest black neighborhoods in the world. In the beginning, these three neighborhoods were all once all-white owned and denied blacks the right to reside. However, in the mid 60's, the neighborhood experience white flight, bringing in more and more successful black families. By the 70s, all three neighborhoods were named the "Black Beverly Hills," due to the fact that many black celebrities, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and doctors moved in.
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I wonder how the BLACK COMMUNITY would feel if BLACK HOMELESS PPL came to this neighborhood. would they accept BLACK HOMELESS PPL IN THEIR COMMUNITY begging at the corner,,, DO A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT WITH THIS SAME NEIGHBORHOOD,, have a whole bunch of people set up tents and LET'S SEE HOW ACCEPTING THESE RICH BLACK FOLKS WOULD BE,,,,,, I'm proud of all them,,, but I am curious,,, IF THESE SAME BLACK FOLKS, WILL HAVE THAT WHITE MAN MANTALITY 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐 now that will make EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
If you’d like to keep your homes I suggest voting against the rising cost of property taxes.
That’s was forcing black families to move out.
Also the extremely high cost of real estate
Vote those damn democrats out.
The same thing is happening to my once predominately black neighborhood here in Texas. I now have white and Hispanic neighbors and the value of my home has soared. My late parents would be so proud if they saw what I have done with the beautiful spacious home they built in the early 1950's.
I'm here in Texas too. The gentrification that is going on where my Mother is living.
This was an interesting watch in this day and age. Job well done, Khalif. I was unaware of "Black Beverly Hills" being these three neighborhoods. It already seems like the entire country is being gentrified. Those of us raised and living OUTSIDE the state of California watch this and say, "No, shit: The entire state of Cali is about gentrification." The most expensive state in the union. So, for Californians feeling the pinch of gentrification speaks volumes. I don't agree with the wife labeling gentrification as "a loaded topic", nor do I agree with the Brown people praising the word with positive spins. The online definition includes: "changed by wealthier people moving in, ..., typically displacing current inhabitants in the process". The topic and definition are clear. There's nothing positive about "displacing" anyone. The reason anyone would label the topic as "loaded" is because they might be knowledgeable of the "displaced" people being kindly told to 'get the fuck outta here and we don't give a shit where you go, but you can't stay here.'
Wow what a great documentary. I remember when I was 16 yrs old (now 40) living in SoCal and we where from a Black Upper Middle Class Family living minutes from the Ocean. I felt so alone not having many Black Friends. Then one day we heard about a Friend of a friends party being thrown in Baldwin Hills so we drive the hour up…OMG!!, it was the experience of my life. Seeing an entire successful Black Community that was thriving. Black Families with Beautiful Homes, Cars and Children like ME everywhere!! I will never forget being in that house on the hill with their view from the pool overlooking Los Angels…totally change my Perspective.
Years Later I returned with my Family and extended Family, as a Father and Uncle, on a drive to show them this these Historic Neighborhoods.
Thank You for this young dude💯♥️🙏🏾
Do you think apartheid is better then?
@@grahamt5924only for caveman devils
I just received this in my YT feed and I’m so glad I did! I’m so glad the history and current gentrification has been documented. My grandparents lived in Windsor Hills for 60+ years until their deaths & our family still owns the house-our legacy. I’m saddened every time I go through the neighborhood because it’s beginning to feel like we’re being run/bought out. I’ve gotten looks from the “new” folks as if to say, “what are you doing here?!” In my head my reply is not nice lol! Why is it that when the “new” ones come in, they immediately want to change the house, the street, the neighborhood to their liking? Soon there will be a fight over the property taxes, mark my word! Khalil, thanks again & I look forward to the next documentary!
Where did your grand parents live?? I grew up in Windsor Hills I was on Onacrest Dr. Closer to Northridge 5320!!!
Why are black folks selling their homes to nonblacks?
Black folks contribute to the so-called gentrification then have the nerve to go running to the media to whine. Make it make sense, please.
Barbara (listed as a retired social worker) says her area of View Park in 1972 was mostly white. But I believe the demographics by the late 1960s were already predominantly black. Baldwin Hills, a section of it where the 1932 Olympic games' village was located, was mainly white until around the mid-1960s. "Gentrification" almost always refers to areas of past decline or modest income that transition to more success & affluence. Whether mainly white or mainly black, much of Baldwin Hills has always been an area reflecting upper-middle-class statistics.
As a Black Real Estate Broker that has lived in the area over 30 years, i found this documentary to be a Good cross reference as to the truth, about our communities which are next door to each other and the begginings when People that were non white could not own property here with CCR"V's (Neighborhood restrictions), and now we are free to move about the country. We have the best neighborhoods within the City, and its time for the World to really know, The Wedding of the Century brought us into the lime light, and Nipsy Hussell untimely Death, showcased our community.
The National Association of Real Estate Brokers is trying to bring Black youths in to home ownership by Showcasing *House first, Than the Car* Financial Education is a Must to help substain communities across the Country. Great Documentary, Thankyou.
How close is this neighborhood to the Crenshaw district (Crenshaw n slauson) where nipsey was from?
So you can get black families to obtain the American dream or is that a farce I'd like to have to do with location a house sometimes is not the best investment because once you get in that house you going to pay the insurance, the mortgage, the property taxes, the maintenance for the house year in and year out, and when it's time to sell your house don't forget to take all that in consideration which people never do so financial awareness and responsibility is a must take care and God bless
Who can actually afford to live there though? The homes are in the millions for not much house. It’s a beautiful area, but it’s not attainable for most. I was hoping to move there, but it’s getting more out of reach.
@@Danny-bg8kz Very close within 1-3 miles depending on the area. Baldwin Hills being the closest , Windsor than Ladera.
Good point, a house is a foundation built on a foundation which is solid.
The woman in the couple interviewed says she stumbled upon View Park. According to the man they were specifically directed there by realtors when looking in Lemeirt, and we’re in Lemeirt after reading media stories about the neighborhood. That’s no stumble.
Miracle Bright yup
@@miracleinsider No one stumbles!! One of those areas you gotta know
The realtors are directing whites to these neighborhoods and prioritizing them. Are the realtors receiving incentives for this? I don’t know.
@K Will Awesome post. Thanks for the information. I agree that this is war. Have you tried to join the jogging club or has anyone black tried to? We need to infiltrate. Glad somebody called out Nipsey Hussle. He was trash and the opposite of these neighborhoods, plus he cosigned a Mexican on Twitter who said black women are a disgrace to the black community.
@K Will I don't know if Deloy Edward's son Deloy Jr. went into real estate but I know he married Asian. There's a black real estate guy who's active but he isn't old school. People on Next Door were crying for Molly Lowe (Asian), who died. Besides her, the other realtors were black back in the day.
This was a great film. I live in the flat lands, the Avenues, 54th & Crenshaw (aka) Angeles Mesa. I love my community and my people. Thank you Khalif for this film documentary with it's varied perspectives. I, myself prefer our community to STAY black and proud. White people for YEARS have red-lined us. Now they want our communities which at one time they would not even pass through. Weekly I receive phone calls, letters, emails, flyers on my door, and even text messages inquiring about selling my home. I always respond with "If you have a cash buyer my magic number is $1.2M otherwise, please take me off your list." It's no surprise that a state of the art NFL arena, "popin" DTLA night life, quick access to 3 major freeways, a historical concert/sport arena, LAX metro rail line, and homes that are built to last -will make people of other cultures now want what we have; ACCESS I will be right here sippin lemonade on my porch!!
Hello queen
Don't ever sell your property, if at all possible... You'll only regret it...
Exactly !!!!
You dropped this 👑
Actually four major freeways for that matter because 405, 110, 10 and 105 surround the area and with the Crenshaw Line, NFL Stadium, Proximity to LAX, Downtown, and Beaches, I can see why certain groups of people want to move back to be central to everything. The area should stay black as it is. This is the only affordable spot in the LA Basin right now despite gentrification on Crenshaw, etc.
I’m from Chicago and have always loved California since visiting an aunt who moved there in the 90’s. I came to learn about the “Black Beverly Hills” through UA-cam and other media outlets. It saddens me to know that the black population in these areas are declining. Gentrification is tearing through most of urban America and I don’t like it!
Gentrification was formed in my opinion to weed out the bad elements. A lot of people move to these neighborhood because they don't fit that criteria in Beverly hills to live
We should have a Beverly Hills in every state and town
Even this area is gang territory as nice as it seems. Ppl are tired of us running up the crime in every area we move too and tearing down communities. I’m not mad at gentrification. Because it needed to happen in most places it’s happening at. You are from Chicago so you know even the affluent blsck areas there are kind of dangerous
@@inspectah2342 True
Great documentary.
YT people are raised with the thoughts they can go anywhere, do anything and live anywhere they want, with no repercussions.
Is anyone interested in seeing a documentary about Crenshaw and Leimert park? Let me know!
I haven't finished all of this yet, but its excellent! Keep making more and more. This channel can definitely grow. Keep improving the production quality, picking interesting topics in this sort of lane, and you'll go far. I don't live in LA either.
You know what be interesting to do is if you could do the 10 nicest and most impoverished black neighborhoods in a 1-2 part documentary. It would have to be post-COVID though. But almost all of the most affluent neighborhoods are in LA, or NY and Maryland. All relatively close together.
You could sort of make a documentary about why they became distinct in their own ways. Why they became black neighborhoods, why they became affluent. What's changing. All of that.
Yes
I would like to work with you on a project. Please reach out.
@@samkay993 Sure! Send us an email at theafterlifefilms@gmail.com
Hyde Park too.
Im a black transplant. I LOVE the area and it’s the only place in LA that I really feel community. I love it. Keep it black!
There used to be a much larger areas in the 1980s all of south LA, Florence Watts was mostly African American. My the early 90s changes where under way. Now if your east of Arlington it's mostly hispanic
I'd love to say "Keep it white" in my hometown, but then I'd be called a racist. pfft This area should diversify just like all other areas. Fair Housing laws that's a good thing right? Diversify it's a good thing.
As I biracial person I bring diversity every where I go. Keep that same attitude when black people move to white neighborhoods;)
@@candysmith8724 the difference is its way more neighborhoods in the country that's white not that many thriving black communities
@@candysmith8724 oh please. The problem is y'all don't bring, nor want diversity. You want to tear it down, move everyone else out, and reestablish it as your own little enclave. It's the reason white flight even exists. The minute a black, or brown person moves in, y'all change the rules or leave. Nice try though.
I'm not even a homeowner but I live in View Park-Windsor Hills and was raised there all my life. With everything goin on from gentrification to more White People moving in due to the stadiums , train stations , etc.... along with things being added to the area , this would a perfect time if you are a homeowner and Black not to sell your property. This is coming from someone who doesn't own a home but rents there and is still able to be here in my area. Our Black Life is our culture and if we own something and have land such as this beautiful place we wanna claim what's ours. Khalif thanx for puttin this out bro.
To much to rent in that area, about 4,000 a month,does not matter if it is View Park! To much to pay for something that you're not buying period.
Btw… I love this documentary. No more communities for us. We’ve been reduced to visitors.😢
Black people need to learn to fight back and stop DEPENDING on the government but God/Christ the government should be for the people and not against the people. Our voices should be heard before the election and during the election or no vote. They control our communities but black control the market. Blacks buy more none black products than any race, so it's time to boycott their products and build our community our market
Really beautiful film Khalif! I feel better knowing our stories are being written by young brothers like you! Keep up the great work!!! Blessings
My home in Windsor Hills was built in 1925...
The area was really developed during the 1932 Olympic Games... That’s why you have the streets at the top of the hill named Mt. Vernon, Olympiad etc...
This was a beautiful and inspiring documentary. I spent 3 weeks in LA when i was 15 because my dad lived there and although he didn’t raise me, i never forgot how diverse and beautiful LA was. I didn’t even know there was a black beverly hills until your video. Thanks for sharing and it’s so nice to see our people doing so well and to see African American neighborhoods shine like lighthouses on the hills.🦋
Diversity? LA? Where?
Diversity is another word for great replacement theory - just look at Chicago
Thank you so much for this!!! I am black and have lived in Los Angeles county all my life, while driving around I decided to go up the hill by Crenshaw mall and discovered view park. I was so amazed and frustrated that I was never taught about this place growing up! I’ve always wanted to do a documentary on black LA because certain stories need to be told but I never had the resources or confident. It makes me happy that someone is doing it because it NEEDS to be done. I thank you so much ❤️💕
Danielle I grew up here, you are not alone, so many people do not know about this area. It was like a secret
Black people need our own centers of affluence and enrichment. Please, my people, let's keep Baldwin Hills predominantly us! We need a place in this world where we feel safe and comfortable to just exist, go jogging without being followed. Diversity is good, but let's keep the black population above 50% in Baldwin Hills.
Yes yes yes..lets keep it black
diversity is not good at all. those place should be 100 percent black.
@@bassreeves2410 what do you think about the kkk or neo nazis?
@@gailuvdarootsroots7206 same question to you
The sad thing is this was a well kept and enjoyed secret for decades. I remember in middle school I wrote a paper about these neighborhoods and my white teacher gave me a C because she said my source material was fiction. Said nothing like this existed. I took the C. I also didn’t tell her about the cotillions, sororities and fraternities, Jack and Jill, the Links, my family lineage and heritage because I knew she wouldn’t believe that either. We’ve got to preserve this because people will never believe that it ever existed.
We moved to this area when I was just a babe back in the 80's. I was brutally bullied by other black children for wearing my hair in braids. We were a poor, but humble, God loving family. My father helped build this community with his own two hands. Almost forty years later, after his boss passed away, the new management company laid him off without compensation of any kind. He took his retirement and had to move away. There are almost no black businesses left here. Its a very sad situation
There’s dozens stop
@@hufair2215 Most of the businesses are Not owned by blacks. Do some research
what's the point in bringing up black kids bullied you.
@@144Souldier This was my experience with the rich kids, some of them were ashamed of where we came from, our beautiful heritage, braided and natural hair are a part of that.
Hilltop Coffee and Kitchen, The Serving Spoon, Simply Wholesome, Harun Coffee To name a few. There’s at least 20 owned Black business in that area and even more down the hill in Leimert Park.
Thank you so much for capturing the true essence and beauty of our neighborhood. You've made us proud. It's now left to us to keep our community identity of cultural warmth, powerful history and our dynamic diversity.
This made me really sad. I’m from Windsor Hills and I now reside on the east coast. My mother passed away, and we know the rest. This is so disheartening. Compton… watch out, they’re coming back😢
Good job! I’ve lived in the community since 1968, and have seen the change the neighborhood has gone through. We were one of the first black families on our block. It’s kinda sad to see the neighbors you grew up with, leave the neighborhood.
Why are your neighbors leaving? Are they losing their homes because they've re-fied to death and now can't afford taxes?
People want to sell out, leaving high tax CA for non-tax states such as Nevada, Texas, and Florida. So they can sell off and be multi-millionaires! I grew up in San Ramon/Danville CA, my home was worth $250k in the 80'S, now is worth $1.5 million. I live in Miami Beach, much better here than CA!
@LittleMissMe! Exactly
Thank you for making this. My house was in your movie. lol! The marathon continues. :)
Lol me too 😂 💙
Good job! Before I became a psychologist, I was a filmmaker (designer, art director) graduated from U.S.C. Cinema/T.V., (grad. school) in the 80s. I was one of very few women and the sexism/discrimination was horrid! Moved into Baldwin Hills in 2001. It seems a large number of the aging population is cashing out. I think that is a huge factor in this gentrification. If you do more film on this subject, I hope you include more of the backstory re the white flight. That seems to get a little lost sometimes. I'm sure you'll enter your doc in the film festivals. Good luck! 🧠
They need to quit cashing out and leave those homes to the next of kin in their family (inheritance)....that's what's going to keep black and brown people in the city.
@@ericawilliams6169 if i bought a home there for 300k and can sell it for 900k+ I'll do so in a heartbeat. Everyone doing so. Get over it
Do you have any work I can see. Highly interested
Wow, very interesting! Bless you beloved!
@@alextogo8367 I agree!
I’d wish the black celebrities remain in the area and continue to build out. Great video, keep up the good work 👍🏾
I wish for all white cities but you know
@@aldossnow3703They are are all white towns and villages and it was all white originally but y’all didn’t want it no more. But now y’all want it back.
@@aldossnow3703 Go to your all White cities then in Europe. US OF A was never all white get that through your tiny head.
I remember watching Baldwin Hills on BET back in the day and being intrigued by them because there was so many black people that had 2 parent households like myself and how decent everyone dressed and spoke.
That part
I thoroughly enjoyed this! 👏🏿 Growing up in Queens, NY we saw a lot of gentrification. I remember being at my Aunt’s house in BK
Bedford Stuyvesant/Crown Heights area she owned a Brownstone she purchased in the early 70’s Boy they would come around and hound her to sell. She never did until the day she passed. She left it to the children. Everybody knows how gentrification changed BK all the 5 boroughs in NYC. Great Job 👏🏿 I live in Orlando, Fl now 😂🤷🏾♀️
Hollis, East Elmhurst Queens and the Bronx..(Coop-City), Brooklyn started getting genty in the 90’s I think... ppl dint wanna wrk downtown Manhattan and have to live and commute 1 hr away.
Bk was so close. Lump in throat feeling, they couldn’t really do it like that with the Bx cause it was not close like that. Its all changed last I been on 16. I live in Fl too, north of Orl.
@@lynnec3372 Yes, I've experienced gentrification in both Bklyn and Queens.
Black people move around and are moved around In this country like so many pawns on a chess board. It doesn’t matter whether we are middle class or working class; economic changes whether in the labor force or market forces control our lives and decision making. Of course, where we live will reflect our values and culture. Doesn’t everyone’s⁉️The issue is how we are perceived and are treated by others and how we interact with each other. Without a clear and honest understanding of these forces and how to mitigate the negative effects, and starting with the Great Migrations out of the South would put all of this in an historical context. Friends and relationships with other cultures did not prevent or mitigate the lasting effects of two of the worst “ race riots” in American history both caused by racial hostility and police violence. Dig deeper! Educate these so called newbies so they’re not calling the police on you and your children for playing with your dogs in your neighborhood. And whomever said the economy democratizes is incorrect! That is a lie, a blatant lie.
Good to see someone sharing the history of our hometown 🔥 great job man
From me and you walking from View Park to Ladera all day to film because we had no car, thank YOU bro! Couldn't had done it without your help.
That's right if you're white and not acceptable in the white neighborhood cause you came from the trailer park don't move to the black neighborhood calling shots calling police on a person who's walking their dog who been living in this black community way before you.. I live in a house that was turned into two apartments in a predominantly black neighborhood my neighbor who lives downstairs been here under two years I been here for 13. He made a statement one day and l told him why you move out here go to the white neighborhood we not going to change to accommodate you. My street in Norfolk VA is diverse. Nice houses that black folks keep up. Get with the program. Nobody's bothering him. If you don't speak we won't speak. No white or Hispanic Asian Ukraine privilege in this neighborhood. We all the same
I Just Stumbled Across This Doc. & May I Say It Was A Wonderful Cinematic Experience. As A 42 Year Old Black Man Who Grew Up In Arlington Heights I See The Same Thing Happening In My Neighborhood. Great Job Young Man.
Thank you for showing this to everyone from Los Angeles and all I do is get heartbreak over the continuous gentrification and changes of beautiful neighborhoods in other peoples lives..
Family lived there since early 60s was very nice and quaint about 3 yrs ago whites started moving reality people kicking on the door at least 3 times aweek.Whites started moving in things changed. One white woman would let her dog poop in our yard when I witness this I pretended to bend to pick it up and then ran leaving it. They started walking in the middle of the street 3 to 4 people. They talk about us, but they have caused disruption in a quite neighborhood. Very disrespectful .They are starting to act like you have no place there.They are making alot of home improvements most residents are elderly It was very nice and isolated.
Thank you for presenting us with this piece. I have learned so much from watching your doc. I can relate to those who dream of living on "that hill" or close to it. Hopefully, WHEN I make it to the top of the "hill, it will still be rich with such Black History.
Yes! This film is awesome. Your future is so bright, it’s blinding.
🥹 This is where my heart begin! Leimert Park, Windsor Hills and well all of it! My home!!! It’s been The Black Beverly Hills since I was little! ♥️♥️♥️This was beautiful!!!!!
YT recommended this for me…I guess because I’m a real estate agent. This was well done young man.👏🏾👏🏾
My family has lived in Leimert Park for 50 years. When my black family moved in.... the For Sale signs went up.
Now they want back in. I am Not happy about it at all !!!! Where can young black families afford a home now?
Back to the South !!!!!!
They're gentrifying there, too.
Atlanta?
I live in Dallas and the same is true.
C. Wi we need to stand are ground
Figure out how to make more money.
Hi Khalif- great interviews, footage and shots. I hope you will dive deeper into this topic in your next documentary and explore why people sell rather than keep property in their families? Thanks again for sharing the stories and perspectives. Your future is bright.
That would be a really great question to explore
@@lindab3340 I agree
That’s so true because that’s also an issue keep the houses within the family like the others do and if possible sell black.
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Thank you for this, young man. It's lovely that you've documented our special history in this area.
I love how someone said "Triangle Park". So good to hear that again.
My parents moved to View Park in December 1960 after being pushed out of their home by the city to build what was to become the 10 fwy. They were the 2nd AfricanAm family on the street. By the early 70s View Park was almost completely Black. It was a great place to grow up. Most of my neighbors are still around & have been in the neighborhood for over 40 years. Such a special place.
Hey, "neuro," I grew up in the Viewpark/Windsor Hills area in the mid to late sixties. We would bicycle in a "gang" of kids to "Triangle Park" and hang out. There was a cinder block groundskeeper's hut that we would climb up on. My brother would have a "rubber band war" with Ray Charles' kids. Charles'. I went to Windsor Hills Elementary School back in the day. You could walk to school and back home safely. Gary Flood lived there, too. And yes, my father was a doctor, and we were the first black family on the block.
Good hearing from you and "Triangle Park."
I was recently turned on to this documentary by a friend. This is very well done. Thank you for doing this.
The community behind Simply Wholesome is nicknamed “Pill Hill”.... it’s called Pill Hill because back in the day doctors lived in that section... also when white flight took place, a lot of Creole people moved into the community.
Buddha Market still carries a lot of items still catering to the Creole community in the area..
And let’s not forget “The Don’s”.....
That parking lot across the street of the baldwin hills mall used to be all black owned businesses. Wish we could have saved it instead of it being turned into a parking lot. A lot of the families that originally moved into "The Jungle" were the business owners in that Plaza. Really miss that neighborhood.
I thought it was owned by former NFL Keyshawn Johnson.
@@chriscooks5437 that’s way over on Slauson and Western
Shout out my old neighborhood. Makes me sad. I grew up in the Dons and my Grandma lived in Windsor rest her soul. I wish I could have afforded to buy a home in my neighborhood to raise my children. Living abroad now with my family, we own a home in NL and Spain-playing the long game for now. I recently visited LA after a loss in my family, and barely recognized my neighborhood I grew up in. The plan is to flip these properties abroad and spin the block back in LA some day, rest in peace Nip. Great documentary on some real enlightenment.
1st and foremost salute to you young brotha for puttin 2gether an excellent documentary and compiling historical footage w/ powerful interviews
The truth of gentrification cant be told by the gentrifiers, the Blacks who remain or the Blacks who comfortably made a decision to sell their homes for financial gain
The ugly truth of gentrification is told by the thousands of families whp were forced out thru one predatorial means or another
I've been in this area since 1980 & Ladera has been home since 1983
Gentrification is a continuation of the evil we have been experiencing since those people invaded the Americas and kidnapped our Ancestors from Africa
The truth is what you didnt learn is that the ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS WERE BLACK..and not from Africa, but from here in America. Taken from here over to Europe and then down to west africa, this was pre american slavery..an example of this is the story of Pocahontas. So, when American slavery became the IT thing..the Black Native Americans were then brought back to america from africa, and, mostly likely with Africans.. To become slaves,but it was from this point that they started bringing Africans over to breed with the Native Blacks who they brought back here who were originally from here to begin with. No.. native Americans were not the ones they told you about..they came later.
Ash hedge you have been miseducated dear.
Ash Hedge
I can also tell you that no peoples were inslaved nearly as long as the North American slaves.Anywhere, Anytime in history.
Good job kid, your going to go far with your career. I throughly enjoyed watching this history lesson. Good luck!
This is a very excellent documentary of what is going on in the Crenshaw/Baldwin Hills/View Park area as well as all across America in many minority and/or poorer communities right now.
Excellent work young man. You did an awsome job!!!!! The important content, story line, very relevent, truly significant. I'm lived in Northern CA in the seventies, originally from NY, now residing in central FL. I can relate to the subject matter, gentrification is happening in every major city as well as the outline of suburbia. Your presentation, cinematography is excellent!!! Great work!!!!
Great Video! Looking Forward to additional videos concerning Gentrification surrounding Los Angeles.
Well done. But gentrification doesnt really affect them the way it affects the communities surrounding black beverly hills. Thats where the heart of gentrification is and the most of the damage is done.
Great point.
Exactly gentrification effects you when you rent not when you own. No one can force you out of something you own.
These owners benefit from the commercial gentrification at the bottom of the hill
CUT THE CHECKS.
We see you.
Interesting. Although I didn't grow up in these neighborhoods, I did grow up in neighboring Inglewood from '79 to '85....and I'm Asian-American. I was one out of four, total, Asians in my whole school. I remember people used to say, "Ladera Heights is where all the rich folks live."
@AveolarD
I heard that too. They also populated parts of south central L.A. back in the old days. When my parents first moved to Inglewood in the '79, I was one of four Asian people in a predominately black and Latino school, Centinela Elementary. I still remember all my teachers' names and even the principal's, Peter Butler. But Inglewood was mostly black then. As a young child, I saw remnants of the few white people who didn't white-flight it out of Inglewood....My folks eventually moved to Torrance when I hit middle school and up, and that was culture shock to me, ironically, because I never saw so many "pretty white girls and good looking, white-washed Asian American girls" LOL!
Gentrification is not good if you get pushed out of a neighborhood you lived in all your life. Let’s keep it real.
You can’t get “pushed out” if you own the house (like most people in this film did). They were home owners. Your mortgage note doesn’t increase if your house value spikes up. It only makes it more expensive for incoming people. Now if you would like to talk about the cultural aspect (for instance if there are murals around the neighborhood and different ethnicities move in and want the murals removed)…then I can understand.
@@ajohn502 yes you can
@ Alex Johnson if you ever owned a home, you know about having to pay property taxes. You still pay even.. if ..you ..OWN. guess what the taxes go up my friend.
Wow. This really took me back to my childhood in Los Angeles. Great work!
The only problem i have with gentrification is its usually the people who were originally in the neighborhood who ends up getting displaced and when the neighborhood changes. And the people who are doing the gentrification begin to bring their culture and uproot the culture of those who've lived in the neighborhood for decades. To me, that's not a gentrification that's a takeover. And it only seems to happen in areas where black people live.
So so true brother. I'm in Seattle, Wa it affected our neighborhood big as well. It saddens me do much every time I go there and see the old neighborhood re- vamped to the caucasian likes and taste. Now the good thing about our people ,they are standing up to the city and state to protect our legacy we built there from beginning. There are letting the the black business owners come back or stay( the few that never left). Our community got pushed further south where real estate and rents are cheaper, it approximately 17% Africa-am left). It's sad to hear that over 69% wished they had never sold out for whatever their reason was.
Everyone wants diversity
It only happens if you RENT if you own then they can’t gentrify you.
The banks will give homeowner loans to to other races to live in black gentrification areas and not to the blacks who use to live there.
So sad. There's so much to rant about. Recently(2023) I saw a doc where the old "projects" type of high rise apts are being renovated for Ytes. So there ya go.
This was an excellent documentary. Very informative and nicely put together!!
For the older black residents who are cashing out, where are they moving to? that would be interesting to know. Keep doing your thing.
To the Inland Empire, or to the South U.S.
@@LeimertDreamer I understand the south but why the Inland Empire?
alrenaissance Because many of them still have family (children, siblings, etc) in California and they don’t want to leave the state, though they do want to cash in on their increased property value on their house in Los Angeles. They’ll sell their LA house for like $600,000 then go buy a house out in the desert for half that (pocketing the difference). Two of the popular Inland Empire cities they move to is Moreno Valley and Fontana. They also move to Palmdale and Lancaster. And now they’re moving even deeper into the desert, to Victorville and Apple Valley (which are on the way to Vegas).
Many going to ATL,Texas, Arizona, & Las Vegas. Paying cash to build a home and pocketing the equity of upwards to 3 to 500,000 cash.
Awww man that’s sad someone needs to talk to them to not sell or keep it within the family or sell within the family.
I'm from LA but I live in New Jersey now. This was a great documentary.
Gentrification occurs because the « gentrifiers » cannot or no longer can afford life in their areas, so they find a better living space within budget and instantly recast the surroundings as emergent…word-of-mouth marketing with labels like gems, exclusive, on-trend, green, clean does the rest. Pricing out locals kills American Dreams.
@M Wks You hit the nail on the head!! These areas have been affluent and great hidden gems for years and years. The realtors are specifically directing them to our neighborhoods because these are not areas that other ethnicities know about because most of them do not socialize with African Americans nor do they come to our neighborhoods.
@@2much4uok Exactly and that's why they show up shortly before "new" businesses open. Economically they become a strong minority voice with business privileges to determine municipal politics...gentrification is the Christopher Columbus policy implemented on a neighbourhood level. Anyway, I really like this documentary. It has many voices...interviewing the newcomers could not have been easy, especially if the interviewer was wearing a #BLM t-shirt!😄
@@mwks3486 I hope he does more documentaries. What I don't like about the whole process is that some of them come in with a sense of entitlement instead ingratiating themselves to the community they want to change it just like you said (e.g. the gentlemen who told the story about the caucasian who called the police on the african american guy with the dog) WTH!!! Absolutely ridiculous!! They seem to forget that we are normal people minding our own business and living our lives!! We are too welcoming at times!!
Watching from Cape town South Africa beautiful documentary
Don’t sale your homes !!!
You are right sometimes , especially if they plan to build non residential but if you live in a residential area where they are planning to build housing and the likelihood of imminent domain is not as likely don’t sale to investors who want to flip your property .... don’t listen to these “buy homes cash “ or trip a link student housing investors or get harrassed by those callers or letter writers interested in your home ..... don’t go down without a fight pretty much
“ SELL “
It's that simple.
@@richman8073 👍
Around minute 20 or so the speaker hit it on the head...THIS area has ALWAYS been a middle class area. Gentrification (by definition) does mean it's poor areas becoming middle class but it is not just because white people move in. I am not speaking to you, the producer, I know you know....I am speaking to those looking in from the outside looking in. I don't like when THEY make it seem like the area was raggedy and is just now becoming nice when white people move over here. That applies to other areas, but this area has always been an elite area and has always been home to Black midddle class and wealthy professionals.
BFF Zooted yes but how you gentrify by removing the people who founded a beautiful place is by diminishing it even in their own eyes such that moving up means moving out. We have to learn to stay put, to dig in, to not only buy and own it but secure it. That way we can never be made to feel alien in our own neighborhood. Can we see the beauty in ourselves, what we do and how we do without referencing someone else’s gaze? Hollywood! Wthbis that to us? How is what that represents better than the gorgeous place where you live? When we can unpack racism and internalized racism, the elephant in the room, that’s when we become the Gentry. We are already the gentry if we would only claim that natural aristocracy is what I think. I noticed that about the area when I visited and yet there were boys in the neighborhood who wanted to be Crips or Bloods or whatever the hell so called gang held top dog status. How we think about ourselves is also how we think about our surroundings is what I think. Dig in people! Get rooted.
Yeah I was confused because that neighborhood had always be VERY affluent, similarly to my community in the stuyvesant height neighborhood I lived in Brooklyn.
@@jeanettesdaughter Great message. I'm reminded of that Shakespeare quote, though not 100% accurate: I think, therefore, I AM.
Gentrification
That's what people think of witj gentrification, that when whites move into a predominantly black neighborhood.. Everyone thinks it's uplifting the community...
Why haven't you made any more videos? There's so many topics you can cover regarding black culture and history and movement. You sould make more, grow your channel and monetize it.
We are View Park, Windsor Hills, etc. NOT Black Beverly Hills.
I used to live on Angeles Vista and Mullen...
Bravo to Simply Wholesome and Hilltop Coffee!
Black beverly hills gives it value tho, makes it sound like a place i actually want to visit
One variable that I believe is missing is why are people cashing out? Is it out of necessity,debts, trips/travel, etc. These homes should be passed onto their kids and build generational wealth. The equity can be used to invest or start a business. Real estate is the number one investment most people will ever make and is how most people built their wealth in this country.
I grew up in Baldwin Hills in the late seventies through late eighties. So much fun! Thank you for this documentary!!
So nice to see positive things about black people buying nice houses
Omg yes. I love it.
I live in Boyle Heights, and the city continuingly tries to gentrify the area, and everytime they try, they keep getting more and more closer, and eventually I fear the city will force people out of their homes, even if the people own the homes. And of course this is a nationwide issue, as its happening everywhere, please do not give into those we buy homes signs, its all part of the plan, no matter how much youre in need of money, please do not give in.
I’m from Chicago I ain’t gone lie i been rockin with y’all culture since the early 90s respect 💪🏾🔥
Superbly done . Salute Brotha 🫡🥷🏾
My parents purchased their home on 64th St. Across the street was Inglewood. We lived between Buckler and Alviso. We always had a mix block. Whites, German, Hispanic and Us. Our block mirrored this dynamic until our mother's passing in 2017. Whites and Hispanics never left they were always around even on other surrounding blocks even in Inglewood. Watching this video makes me homesick.
So she highlights unconscious bias in the work place, while gentrifying a black neabourhood?
Oh, the hypocrisy! 😂
Exactly!
Thank you
She didn't steal the home. She put in an offer and it was accepted. If you want to wrongfully blame someone then blame the seller for accepting the offer. If Black people only sold to other Black people then that wouldn't have happened.
@@NOCDIB True true!
This is really really amazing. What a gorgeous documentary. I loved learning about these beautiful neighborhoods. This is incredibly well made.
Excellent documentary. I learn more about The Black Beverly Hills than what people have told me. I would love to live in View Park, but it is out of my pay scale. However, I am to explore other ways I can break into the market. Renting my condo in Long Beach and using the rent to help pay my mortgage would greatly help. Take a bow, Mr. Khalif Bradley. A job well done.
Excellent documentary!! I lived in Baldwin Hills in the 80's and was impressed with the blacks living in this historic area. I loved Crenshaw Blvd and the Baldwin Hills Theater and the stores.... And yes, the view from any place in the area was stupendous!!! I really miss those days and the neighborhood!!
Yes very well done! I had no idea & being from NY I'm glad to see brothers & sisters made good lives in such nice areas on the left coast.
Any homeowner welcomes change that increases their home value. Renters just need to figure out a way to improve their finances if they want to buy a home whether it's in L.A. or somewhere else.
Loved this documentary. I grew up in LA and those neighborhoods were my backyard. Great job! I also wanted to ask if you work on outside film projects? I'm looking for a videographer for my documentary.
Y’all gotta talk about the Black Wall Street in the South. Tulsa, Ok and Houston, Tx for being all black and extremely wealthy from early Oil & Gas explorations founded by blacks Americans
EXCELLENT job on this documentary Khalif! Ladera Heights is my home!
I really enjoyed watching this and I wish you the best in your future films…. KEEP PUSHING!🙌🏽🎥
Great work Khalif.
An exceptionally done work of "art" - BRAVO to Ya'llz entire production team. 🎯🏁♨
Could "it" be that ... Government has been intentionally and systematically reduced to a husk, a PR front uninterested in helping normal people that only exists to provide the veneer of representation while protecting property, waging wars for resources, and redistributing wealth from the bottom up?
I'm Hispanic I love the film, love what everyone said, the many landscape on this area is amazing the people that live here are so kind. I like the fact that this community helps each other... Love living around a black community
I live in the area love it here I don't own a house yet but in the near future my goal is to purchase a home and if I can't I still have friends that I can visit take advantage of the lovely view.... keep up the good work 👏
Great film salute to you! I've seen my city Washington DC experience gentrification over the past decade and I barely recognize it. You would have never thought DC had the nickname "Chocolate City" when you see it today.
This was awesome like a love letter to BlackLA! Im from the Bay, San Francisco specifically & the same thing has happened here also. We only have 2 black neighborhoods left The Bayview & Fillmore. Its sad what gentrification does to the people in the community
GREAT DOCUMENTARY!...I WAS BORN IN LONGBEACH, CA., GREW UP IN COMPTON. CA. AND L.A. WAS MY OLD STUMPING GROUND!...BESIDES GOING TO BALDWIN HILLS MALL AND TO MAGIC JOHNSON MOVIE THEATER, I REMEMBER GOING TO A SANDWICH SHOP THAT WAS BLACK OWNED CALLED "SISTERS" AND A BLACK OWNED RESTAURANT CALLED "HAROLD AND BELLS" SEA FOOD RESTAURANT, I BELIEVE IF WAS OFF OF JEFFERSON AVE!...I USE TO ALSO HANG OUT WITH THE L.A. STREET RACERS BACK IN THE DAY WITH BIG WILLIE (R.I.P.) AND CRENSHAW BL. WAS ONE OF THE HANG OUTS!
MAN!...YOUR DOCUMENTARY BRINGS BACK SOME MEMORIES!...MY MOTHER (R.I.P.) WAS AN OPERA SINGER AND ONE OF HER FRIENDS WAS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY LIVING IN LADARA HEIGHTS!...SHE LIKED THE AREA AND MY MOTHER WAS CONSIDERING SELLING HER HOME IN COMPTON, CA AND MOVING TO LADARA HIGHTS, BUT NEVER GOT THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE SHE WENT ON TO BE WITH THE LORD IN HER NEW MANSION IN HEAVEN!...I AM JUST SAYING!
I CURRENTLY LIVE IN ADELANTO, CA AKA THE HI-DESERT, I WENT TO L.A. AREA ON BUSINESS A FEW YEARS AGO AND VISITED MY STEP MOTHER LIVING IN COMPTON, CA AT THAT TIME AS WELL AS MY OLD NEIGHBOR HOOD ON MYRRH ST OFF OF WILMINGTON AVE AND ALONDRA AVE BEHINE THE COMPTON REGIONAL AIRPORT!...I ALSO DROVE DOWN CRENSHAW BL AND THAT'S WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING THE NEW METRO GOLD LINE DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET!...THINGS HAD REALLY CHANGED IN THAT AREA WITH ALL THE NEW CONSTRUCTION!...I AM JUST SAYING!...GOD BLESS AMERICA! 😇
I grew up in South La and I ended up making the decision to move to Texas 14 years ago because I saw then as a young single mom I wouldn’t be able to survive in the future. I’m now on my 2nd home. My grandmother’s house got sold when she passed and it sold for $600k in South Central. It makes me sad to know I couldn’t stay in California.
This was great.
If you're looking for business owners to interview, I am the Owner and operator of Comet Cleaners/Cameo Cleaners since 1998.
Would love to give some insight on the changes happening.
Wish you good fortune in your projects.
When I think about gentrification, I see low income, mostly tenants, being pushed out so landlords can make bank. This seems to be homeowners volunteering to sell to the highest bidder. Great job on the interviews and diversity of opinions.
Found link on Fb. Thanks for making it. Watching now 👍🏽
Way to go! Well researched. Unbiased.
It's sad that black affluent people are not teaching or helping younger black people to move into these areas. It is our responsibility to help our people become the next affluent and successful black people.
Boomers don't care about the next generations, their moto is "I've got mine get yours."
How do you know they aren’t trying? The youth have to want to aspire for more an their parents have to push them
@@cortezforeveryep thats exactly how many of them are.
@@robleeg Has that happend to you? Your comment comes at the perfect time, dealing with my father right now, he is stalling on the sale of his house to buy another house from his friend to renovate and sell. They are a waste of time. They transfer net losses not gross assests, you start at less than zero, when the value of a dollar is 1/10th the value it was in their prime.
this is amazing i definitely have noticed how gentrified its become here its heartbreaking
I've lived through this on the opposite coast to the point that we left after 30 years. Thanks for validating my experience. I'm seeing seeds of gentrification in my new neighborhood.
Good film. I moved to Baldwin Hills when I was 8 in 1961. I have class pictures of the effects of white flight from my elementary school. In 3rd grade I was one of 2 Black kids. In the 6th grade there were 3-4 white kids in the class. It was a mostly Jewish neighborhood then. There was a synagogue on what is now the corner of Obama and Hillcrest drive. The history of our neighborhood is rich.
The 2 bed 1 bath house I grew up in in East LA now has a market value of $915k. It’s all relative. We rented for $101 a month back in the 70’s my mom made the minimum at $75 a week to make ends meet. Now it’s not uncommon for people to make over $150k a year.
What's really interesting is that you can't do this to a Jewish neighborhood, a Korean neighborhood, a Chinese neighborhood etc. Somehow those groups are able to keep their communities in tact
Good job. There was an area called "Blair Hills, which is on the La Cienega side.
I grew up in the Crenshaw district,back then it was ALL blacks
Great documentary 👏 you did a tremendous job.
This documentary makes me tremendously sad.
I lived in Lafayette Square for 20 years. Many professional Blacks settled in that neighborhood in the 60's-70's. I moved there in 1983. I watched it gentrify over the years. Senior Blacks would pass away. Their children didn't want the properties and would sell them. Now that area is mostly whyte and gated. My Black landlord owned 2 Mediterranean style bldgs side by side. My original rent was $250 mo. When I moved out in 2003 to buy a house my rent was $430. My Apt was about 1000 sf, garage parking included, a yard and a garden. I loved my neighborhood. I could go for walks or ride my bike with no problems. Eventually my old landlord sold out his bldgs to whytes and evicted all his long time Black tenants.
Eventually I see us as having no communities of our own. We cannot discriminate and Red line like they did to us. Right? So if one group of people decide to actively wipe out another groups community by running up property values to the point where the original members of that community can no longer afford to live there, all WE can do is sit by and watch our legacy and communities be wiped out.
*This documentary although informative is only an advertisement that will perpetuate the slaughter of our places in America.
Wow!! Thank you for sharing this, I am speechless!!
Yep which is why I’m moving to Ghana!
Good job young man, I used to have an office on La Cienega & Centinela, right across the iconic Magic starbucks. This reminded me of my old neighborhood, one of the better black areas in the USA.
Thanks for telling this history. Awesome