How the U.S. Government Segregated Chicago | [Inside Chicago, Part 1]

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  • Опубліковано 24 тра 2017
  • Chicago has a long history of racist housing policies that have led to a racially divided city - a major factor behind the city's reputation of violence.
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  • @MondoBeno
    @MondoBeno 7 років тому +194

    The Chicago public housing was never "paradise." Those blocks were built with the worst materials, and within a few years the doorknobs were coming off, wires were burning out, pipes were leaking, elevators got stuck, garbage chutes were clogged with trash eight stories high, the rats infested, the windows wouldn't close, the burned-out lightbulbs in the stairwells were never replaced.
    Worst of all, it crammed the Black vote into a single district.

    • @jamesmcpherson8599
      @jamesmcpherson8599 4 роки тому +7

      @Anarchist Zero nah US black history is filled with riots.

    • @jamesmcpherson8599
      @jamesmcpherson8599 4 роки тому +5

      @Anarchist Zero I support the riots that took place during the Civil Rights Wra and even today.
      "Riots are the voice of the unheard"

    • @jamesmcpherson8599
      @jamesmcpherson8599 4 роки тому

      @Anarchist Zero 100%

    • @frankzheng5286
      @frankzheng5286 3 роки тому +2

      Riots are the sound of the unheard.

    • @MondoBeno
      @MondoBeno 3 роки тому

      @@frankzheng5286 Just like the Draft Riots where Black men were hung from trees in the street and the Black children's home was burned down. Does your "riots are the cries of the unheard" excuse cover Irish drunks?

  • @Aeorocks
    @Aeorocks 2 роки тому +34

    Red lining is still a MAJOR problem here. My aunts neighborhood is known for not posting homes for sale online and selling only by word of mouth to make sure they sell to specific people only. It's still a major problem that won't be fixed until we fix our mentalities.

    • @michaelmoores2654
      @michaelmoores2654 Рік тому +1

      That sounds pretty good. White people excluding others sounds pretty cool.

    • @unboxrealestate
      @unboxrealestate Рік тому +3

      So selling off market properties should be illegal now? Enough with the woke bs

    • @jameswashington4493
      @jameswashington4493 9 місяців тому +3

      I Really appreciate you telling this because most people may not know how some white neighborhoods continue to practice steering and redlining. Its a matter of truth that our black brethren need to know and that our white brethren need to acknowledge. I highly respect you for your fair heart in saying the truth. God bless.

    • @user-ut1en2lt8l
      @user-ut1en2lt8l 2 місяці тому

      @@unboxrealestateAmazing that all of these policies of Redlining started in the late 1860’s from the Black Codes

    • @MartVale1
      @MartVale1 Місяць тому

      Is it a neighborhood in Chicago? I’m noticing where I live there’s no homes for sale online but I’ve seen 2 or 3 houses that have for sale signs.

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 7 років тому +129

    I was born and raised in Chicago in 1942, and I am super sad, that at my age, I may have to kill some evil demons, who have tried to sneak up on me and in my apartment. I worked and married, and had an only child at 37. Respect each other and stop the killings
    Thank you.
    Judi Grace StoryCorps.

    • @cmebans35
      @cmebans35 3 роки тому +1

      🙏❤

    • @UTCSB
      @UTCSB 3 роки тому +1

      🖤🖤🖤💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

    • @shawndraa.h1888
      @shawndraa.h1888 Рік тому

      protection🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @__HolaLola
    @__HolaLola 3 роки тому +98

    I hate being asked what part of Chicago I’m from. I know what they’re trying to get at. It reveals more about them than it does about me.

    • @danvondrasek
      @danvondrasek 3 роки тому +26

      I ask what part, because 9 out of 10 times when someone says they're from Chicago, they're from the suburbs.
      I grew up on the Southside, and honestly i am just curious what neighborhoods people are from when they actually are from Chicago.

    • @WarrenSvoboda
      @WarrenSvoboda 3 роки тому +5

      @@danvondrasek It can be loaded in any direction. My experience is closer to yours but there really are loads of people who believe in the "bad" neighborhood myth as if the people who live there are truly evil and not subject to factors outside their control in any way.

    • @danvondrasek
      @danvondrasek 3 роки тому +9

      @@WarrenSvoboda oh I get that too. My one and only arrest was from a Northside cop who didnt like that I was from the Southside and "in his neighborhood". All of a sudden my work tools were weapons and "instruments of crime".

    • @danvondrasek
      @danvondrasek 2 роки тому

      @@DelayedNotDenied yeah I know. I'm from Chicago

    • @DelayedNotDenied
      @DelayedNotDenied 2 роки тому

      @@danvondrasek sorry I meant to @ the original person making this comment

  • @alexmcdonald7695
    @alexmcdonald7695 3 роки тому +17

    “How Democrats keep black Chicagoans poor”

    • @fbaallied
      @fbaallied 2 роки тому

      ''How White Supremacy keep black Chicagoans poor''

    • @CannabisTechLife
      @CannabisTechLife 2 роки тому +1

      Thanks for the laugh!

    • @user-ut1en2lt8l
      @user-ut1en2lt8l 2 місяці тому +1

      That’s both parties my friend

  • @marvinbennett8384
    @marvinbennett8384 2 роки тому +14

    I'm from Louisiana and I couldn't believe how segregated Chicago is

  • @gtzgreatride
    @gtzgreatride 7 років тому +34

    i can't stand coming to the city. when you talk about these politics people often get offended. segregation is real in the city

  • @reestillbloom
    @reestillbloom 7 років тому +138

    It hurts to the core of my soul. My grandmother stayed in Henry Horner and refused to leave after it got bad. I remember asking why she wanted to stay in such an awful place. She kept talking about how nice it used to be. We lived in Chatham and then moved to the south suburbs. The south suburbs were like Utopia. They are now run down. I think like my grandmother...I remember how nice they used to be.

    • @angiefromChi
      @angiefromChi 7 років тому +3

      LaRita D you are absolutely correct. Best comment I've read so far.

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 6 років тому +7

      Then why did black people allow those areas to GET run down?

    • @jayjones2286
      @jayjones2286 6 років тому

      LaRita D I love black American girls ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @jayjones2286
      @jayjones2286 6 років тому

      Angie Hall-Witherspoon uuuu

    • @MasterGamer-qo3rx
      @MasterGamer-qo3rx 3 роки тому +1

      @@davidlafleche1142 actually the houses were already run down before African Americans moved in. They also couldn't restore the housing because they were forced to have multiple jobs in order to barely keep their house.

  • @adom6750
    @adom6750 7 років тому +124

    She speaks of Chicago's Hispanic community but doesn't really mention how Latinos were segregated in the city.

    • @expatatlarge5286
      @expatatlarge5286 4 роки тому

      @Dani P lmao

    • @expatatlarge5286
      @expatatlarge5286 4 роки тому +1

      @UA-cam Moderator without illegals..there would be no pilsen..smdh

    • @SmartMoneyBro
      @SmartMoneyBro 4 роки тому +24

      Whats your point? She didnt mention the Irish, the Italians, the Laotians, the ethiopians, etc. Also, Hispanics classified themselves as WHITE up until recently. So there u go.

    • @lucaslopezisabello4068
      @lucaslopezisabello4068 4 роки тому +18

      C. Lincoln I live in the west side of Chicago, im Latino, I’m an American Citizen and I came here 8 years ago. How u gonna insult my people and call us illegal and irrelevant when uve never been to ur neighborhood. U don’t know shit😂

    • @reverendblkgrape1
      @reverendblkgrape1 4 роки тому +9

      Smart Money Bro Hispanics did not reclassify themselves at all. Classification is done at a federal level. What are you talking about?

  • @SebasstianTheSinger
    @SebasstianTheSinger 4 роки тому +193

    “I know this because I’m from Chicago” she definitely from the suburbs lol

    • @shakenamariewilliams4229
      @shakenamariewilliams4229 3 роки тому +24

      Ikr? Just because you grow up in Chicagoland (aka one of our suburbs not the city) doesn't mean you're actually from Chicago lol

    • @lordbaylish3187
      @lordbaylish3187 3 роки тому +4

      There's a place called the North side.
      It's a lot like the suburbs in many places. Every corner has storefronts banks and restaurants....
      The exact opposite of what she's talking about...... Some people love to miss the point.

    • @landonlandon2251
      @landonlandon2251 2 роки тому +2

      Why is this funded by a foreign government?

    • @itserica-erica2618
      @itserica-erica2618 2 роки тому

      Yup 🙄🙄🙄😂😂😂

    • @nathancoleman7235
      @nathancoleman7235 Рік тому +1

      So am I Garcia.I live on the south side,do you know the Englewood area?

  • @StCloud-ns7vt
    @StCloud-ns7vt 7 років тому +31

    still, thanks for posting this and taking the time to tell this story .

  • @ZoraTheberge
    @ZoraTheberge 6 років тому +54

    When you're raised in what I call a "white bubble" (all your family, most of the people you associate with and you are white) there are things you don't understand about people of color and their lived experiences. I happened to grow up in a white bubble and it wasn't until later that I could recognize that racism is still alive and well. My boyfriend (who's black) has graciously told me how he's been followed in stores, been treated differently, and how he wouldn't feel welcome living in certain neighborhoods. Growing up, you're taught that racism is in the past and is no longer relevant, but when your well-funded suburban elementary school is 95% white, you know the effects of institutionalized racism are still felt.

    • @timwarcloud
      @timwarcloud 3 роки тому +6

      The white people of those neighborhoods finance their schools via property taxes, so what is the problem? You get what you pay for.

    • @KindaLikeWater
      @KindaLikeWater 2 роки тому +13

      @@timwarcloud - And you pay for what you can afford. And what you can afford is based on your income. And your income is largely based on...

    • @DrCruel
      @DrCruel 2 роки тому

      The last Republican mayor of Chicago left office in 1944. What do they have to say about people living in a Democrat bubble? What part of Chicago is Barack Obama's multimillion dollar estate located in? Where does Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her wife live? They still have that ridiculous little "People Mover" choo choo in operation?
      Race hustling and organized crime are alive and well in Chicago. Too bad for anyone there who isn't hooked up, regardless of color.

    • @thatgui88
      @thatgui88 2 роки тому +2

      YES

    • @bobbyg433
      @bobbyg433 Рік тому

      You left out the part where people of color commit over 90% of the violent crimes and sexual assaults in Chicago.

  • @danvondrasek
    @danvondrasek 3 роки тому +10

    Only suburbanites say the east side is the lake.
    The Eastside is literally a neighborhood right on the border of Indiana.

    • @saulgood8229
      @saulgood8229 3 місяці тому

      But there's not an "east side" like there's a west, south, or north side. Even the Chicago flag only recognizes the west, south, and north sides.

    • @MartVale1
      @MartVale1 Місяць тому

      @@saulgood8229but there is a east side look it up in a map.

  • @LuisAntonioPerez327
    @LuisAntonioPerez327 6 років тому +31

    I've heard this story so. many. times. I wish I head more suggestions for answers. Segregation is just one problem. I grew up on the northside in a very racially and ethnically integrated area and we still had problems with poverty and violence.

    • @CrowHawk1000
      @CrowHawk1000 Рік тому

      in your opinion, what is the answer ?

    • @michaelmoores2654
      @michaelmoores2654 Рік тому

      @@CrowHawk1000 Bringing back segregation for whites. We need to bring the signs back. We white people like segregation.

    • @MetalMountain
      @MetalMountain Місяць тому

      Yeah, I feel for you. 300 years of multiculturalism as an experiment has failed. There probably isn't an answer that will 100% fix the problem, but perhaps a new type of segregation, where self determination of black only communities with equal funding based on population and tax revenue would allow those populations to get what they deserve. Smartest thing I see on the internet is what's happening in Baton Rouge ATM. Maybe that's the answer?

    • @MartVale1
      @MartVale1 Місяць тому

      @@CrowHawk1000It starts from home.

  • @4thctwestgraymont833
    @4thctwestgraymont833 4 роки тому +16

    Chicago been segregated before we was born that's why the built them highrise housings authority knew what they was doing

  • @lailashaikh19
    @lailashaikh19 6 років тому +19

    I’m from the south side and I agree it’s very segregated there’s the Arab area,black area,white area,Mexican area etc. Everyone’s supposed to kind stay in there place

    • @elnatha07
      @elnatha07 2 роки тому +2

      What about people who live in their cars, can they stay wherever they want?

    • @MartVale1
      @MartVale1 Місяць тому

      Where is the Arab area in Chicago?

    • @Higgs137
      @Higgs137 День тому

      Up north with the Jews ironically

  • @EustassKid16
    @EustassKid16 3 роки тому +8

    i live in Chicago and when i used to do uber i would tell this segregation issue to the tourists and most of them were actually shocked

  • @kaykaysfashion122
    @kaykaysfashion122 7 років тому +4

    thank you for such an interesting series

  • @pissoff61
    @pissoff61 4 роки тому +4

    Bet you my next 4 paychex, the reporter girl’s Indian parents would NOT wanna live next to black folks!

  • @Marc82193
    @Marc82193 2 роки тому +7

    I grew up on the south side 78th & Bishop & 78th Paulina and what upsets me is when a video is made like this & they don’t go deeper into the problem segregation is only a fraction of the problem. It’s easy for someone who doesn’t understand history to make a video like this and feel like I’m bringing awareness to the problem without digging deeper.

  • @josephcumpian3384
    @josephcumpian3384 11 місяців тому +5

    There are some really excellent points made in this video that make me realize a lot of the problems with past approaches to solving Chicago's crime and poverty issues. The answer lies in integrating wealthy neighborhoods rather than dumping money into sectioned off, new housing projects that will just concentrate poverty and result in failed missions like Cabrini-Green.

    • @goddess2859
      @goddess2859 5 місяців тому

      THIS!!!! Integration is absolutely the answer. Research shows that integration creates upward mobility for Black and Brown people by just having friends from different class backgrounds, witnessing people that live different lives and make other options available, etc.

  • @j_thom
    @j_thom 6 років тому +13

    I accept everything presented here except the premise of violence. I grew up poor, nowhere in there was some predisposition to shoot or beat somebody because of it.

    • @josephcumpian3384
      @josephcumpian3384 11 місяців тому

      I think it's more about the concentration of poverty leading to economic escape routes, such as gangs and drug trafficking. Poverty affected neighborhoods are more likely to develop gangs, as well, due to racially-intertwined police aversion -- aka having a form of protection that won't get you killed or arrested because of your race. Those same protections and escape routes put in place though become the very problem they worked to solve.

  • @bartolomeestebanmurillo4459
    @bartolomeestebanmurillo4459 4 роки тому +25

    “I know this because I’m from Chicago” She probably grew up in the well to do suburbs. No talk of the broken families or how the city leadership mostly Democrat allowed this problem to fester for decades.

    • @happygilmore1844
      @happygilmore1844 3 роки тому

      Yep..good one

    • @hbc586
      @hbc586 3 роки тому +1

      She’s probably from Schaumburg...LoL

    • @rpena
      @rpena 3 роки тому +3

      And don't forget the RepubliCONS policy over the last 50 years

    • @EWRIGHT637
      @EWRIGHT637 2 роки тому

      So the democrats that created this apartheid style living to disenfranchise and malign blacks. Are these policies you are speaking about, or are you just regurgitating low brow white supremacist republican politics. You see white supremacy is bi partisan, so the white democrats think like you think as far blacks are concerned. They only differ in areas of Unions.

    • @randpherigo9724
      @randpherigo9724 2 роки тому

      Exactly.. its the common denominator. most chicago whites vote democrat from theyre safe neighborhoods.. and this is why its a cesspool for everyone

  • @Peter43John
    @Peter43John 5 років тому +7

    Section 8 Housing: an equal opportunity neighborhood destroyer.

  • @shaniylaj
    @shaniylaj 7 років тому +3

    Good video, succinct and well edited.....

  • @TsalagiAgvnage
    @TsalagiAgvnage 5 років тому +9

    It exists in Europe too. Especially in cities like Paris, Marseille and Amsterdam. Amsterdam seems to be the only one getting on track at the moment. Still, if you say you live in Amsterdam Zuidoost (Southeast), people will assume "de (the) Bijlmer" and begin talking about how bad it is

    • @chestersabajo5527
      @chestersabajo5527 2 роки тому

      Ja ,veel surinamers wonen in de bijlmer,maar waarom den jaag niet?er wonen veel hindoestanen daar toch

  • @michellea3565
    @michellea3565 6 років тому +3

    Brilliant documentary, everything makes sense now!

  • @invisiblerevolution
    @invisiblerevolution 7 років тому +1

    Good video!

  • @englewoodechi-town5728
    @englewoodechi-town5728 7 років тому +11

    Southsider here, and this is so on point

  • @JeffWallick
    @JeffWallick 4 роки тому +6

    I'm white and live just West of Humboldt Park in a pretty diverse neighborhood. There's a fair amount of gang violence, but everyone I've met is super welcoming. The decades of segregation have left lasting scars that I can still see today, but it's ultimately a beautiful place to live. I don't feel like I fit in with the North side community and I'm so grateful that my neighborhood seems to have accepted me living here. I am trying to do more to have a positive impact on my block and would welcome people of all backgrounds over here in the Humboldt/south Logan area.

    • @2davivadiva
      @2davivadiva 4 роки тому +2

      Jeff Chicago being super welcoming??? Pfft. Lol

    • @randpherigo9724
      @randpherigo9724 2 роки тому

      what a crock.. bet jeff votes demonrat then plays all humble and caring..

    • @michaelmoores2654
      @michaelmoores2654 Рік тому

      Segregation was good for white people. I want it back. Access to white people and their spaces are not a right.

  • @charlesgarrett7766
    @charlesgarrett7766 7 років тому +29

    nah nah im from Chicago and segregation is not why there is violence its because of the drugs and the gangs

    • @shafloyd9132
      @shafloyd9132 6 років тому +17

      Charles Garrett you obviously didn't watch the vid

    • @titoadesanya9369
      @titoadesanya9369 6 років тому +15

      which is because of the segregation

    • @titoadesanya9369
      @titoadesanya9369 6 років тому +21

      Mr R which is a result of racism..

    • @titoadesanya9369
      @titoadesanya9369 5 років тому +2

      @@thefalseheroold7460 so youre saying that black people are born more stupid?

    • @jumpingonoffthejet9377
      @jumpingonoffthejet9377 5 років тому +3

      Tito Adesanya These people will never understand that they are the reason black people are in the situation their in now.

  • @NappyWayz
    @NappyWayz 4 роки тому

    Thanks, Frank! You are a blessing!

  • @lavishmisfittink3214
    @lavishmisfittink3214 6 років тому +26

    I lived here 26 years and never knew chicago had a beverly hills

    • @djbhe
      @djbhe 5 років тому +9

      Really!! Beverly start at 95th st. to 111th between Ashland and Western and it's still very nice today. And at 111th is the Longwood neighborhood with Mansions lined up on Longwood Blvd with white and black people living there. Pill Hill was nice also but I don't know about now. The Pill Hill neighborhood had doctors, lawyers, police officers,teachers etc.living there in the 70's & 80's and 90's and it was a all black neighborhood on the southside.

    • @Pantsinabucket
      @Pantsinabucket 3 роки тому +1

      @Joseph Lomeo nobody knows where Beverly Chicago got the name, but it’s believed to be the same Beverly in Massachusetts that Beverly Hills LA is named after. Beverly Massachusetts in turn is named after a Beverley in England.

    • @xoacatl
      @xoacatl 2 роки тому +1

      95th street...one of Kanye's stomping grounds

    • @Pantsinabucket
      @Pantsinabucket 2 роки тому

      @@xoacatl Beverly is not "Kanye's stomping grounds", he'd have been lynched in that neighborhood when he was growing up.

  • @cmebans35
    @cmebans35 3 роки тому +1

    Interesting presentation

  • @annapavfan4680
    @annapavfan4680 7 місяців тому +1

    After living in Texas for almost 10 years, yes this is still a problem. This needs to change.

  • @cleaterose5914
    @cleaterose5914 5 років тому +32

    No mention of broken families, none at all.

    • @jackobrien4910
      @jackobrien4910 4 роки тому +5

      the video is about the segregation of chicago.. not sure why broken families is that important lmao

    • @antonarrington7557
      @antonarrington7557 4 роки тому +1

      I mean it’s not Focusing on that sooo

    • @rpena
      @rpena 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah that's it. The government policy had nothing to do with it.

    • @randpherigo9724
      @randpherigo9724 2 роки тому

      @@jackobrien4910 Its important.. most of us dont want our children to be emptyheaded smartasses like chicagoans

  • @AmericanGypsy206
    @AmericanGypsy206 2 місяці тому +2

    I live in Seattle and downtown and the southside of Seattle carjackings and murders are common place but when you go to neighborhoods like shoreline and other suburbs where it’s mostly white, it’s very quiet and peaceful

  • @Missegyptlatesha
    @Missegyptlatesha 3 роки тому +2

    As a black person who is raised a non-profit housing and went on to be homeless I can tell you firsthand that the solution isn't the government the government didn't put me where I'm at today solidly in the middle class I did that. the black community needs to stop looking to the government that created policies that hurt them in the first place for Solutions the solution to poverty is good education if public schools are providing it then homeschool is the option. secondly you can't legislate away teenage pregnancies and proper family planning there's no amount of legislation that's going to stop people from making irresponsible decisions and having more babies than what they can afford before their financially solid

  • @GenerationNextNextNext
    @GenerationNextNextNext Рік тому +3

    My family got wrapped into the property scams in the 1990s. They sold us a house in the "dying suburbs" of Dolton, Harvey, and Calumet City at an inflated price. We were so eager to leave the city that my family didn't even realize the Mills and factories had closed in these neighborhoods, taking the good jobs that made these suburbs thrive with them. When the jobs closed, the White people ran. I slowly saw the community change from White, mixed, then all Black. With few job options, other than the Metra for commuting, Black people just brought the crime to the Suburbs. Some people argue that Dolton is worse than living in Chicago.

    • @goddess2859
      @goddess2859 5 місяців тому

      Omg I literally grew up in calumet city my entire life and just moved this last august and my god yes. It was awful

  • @adeola9914
    @adeola9914 7 років тому +146

    America the land of the free the home of the brave. The IRONY!

    • @MrCRACKupTV
      @MrCRACKupTV 7 років тому +8

      Ade Ola dude just stfu Chicago isn't all of America....oh and if your British stoping digging into our media and focus on your terrible life styles in GB like that bombing y'all just had... *stupid*

    • @adeola9914
      @adeola9914 7 років тому +9

      If you say so American.

    • @blindcameraman5477
      @blindcameraman5477 7 років тому +7

      ...and all of Chicago including the south and west sides aren't crime ridden areas! and there are minorities who live in every section of Chicago. When it comes to living in Chicago you have to have the money live in a nice areas and when it comes to crime it's every where
      not just on the south and west sides of the city, the random shooting tend to get a lot attention from the media but there are murders in the suburbs as well...
      ade ola it's a nice place but there are plenty of tough Americans there!

    • @adeola9914
      @adeola9914 7 років тому +5

      why would I want to be an American?! American please do not flatter yourself.

    • @MrCRACKupTV
      @MrCRACKupTV 7 років тому +4

      Ade Ola took you long enough to respond back....to close this up just focus on your crap media and entertainment and leave our stuff alone #YellowTeeth

  • @Kwameking1
    @Kwameking1 7 років тому +1

    Thank you

  • @shawncarpenter5024
    @shawncarpenter5024 2 роки тому +2

    There's a lot to unpack here but let's stop blaming all our woes on wh%te people. Segregation ended decades ago...when will we get it together as a race of people? Segregation is not why our neighborhoods are dangerous.

  • @OnlyAFlame
    @OnlyAFlame 3 роки тому +3

    Educational video, thank you for your history description on chicago

  • @arajoaina
    @arajoaina 4 роки тому +1

    It’s not a racial issue anymore. It’s financial segregation now.

  • @retrodude5424
    @retrodude5424 6 років тому +5

    Though these practices are unjust, this is the best opportunity to educate the youth on how to budget to come with a down payment , a debt to income ratio, and the ARV of a property, hopefully they can live in a beautiful house, seeing NYC being regentrified, Chicago has very beautiful brick front homes that are still relatively cheap

    • @EWRIGHT637
      @EWRIGHT637 2 роки тому +2

      you speak of gentrification as a possible good thing, and that speaks volumes about your lack of understanding

    • @Szcza04
      @Szcza04 9 місяців тому

      NYC kicked everyone out

  • @jameswashington4493
    @jameswashington4493 2 роки тому +2

    This is an Excellent unbiased expose' on the proliferation of the ghetto. Thank you for telling the truth.

  • @jzk2020
    @jzk2020 5 років тому +6

    Back when AJ+ was still making decent content.

  • @skirm123
    @skirm123 7 років тому +51

    and when is the host of this show moving to the black neighborhood? never..

    • @Cmorrison626
      @Cmorrison626 7 років тому +24

      skirm123 when the project get replaced by condos, the liquor stores get replaced by Starbucks and the black people are priced out and replaced by white people. It's happening in every major city.

    • @Jay-jb2vr
      @Jay-jb2vr 6 років тому

      Cameron Morrison Yup my city especially

    • @lavishmisfittink3214
      @lavishmisfittink3214 6 років тому

      When they stop redlining and make it better the ppl that live there dont want to they have to

    • @CrowdPleeza
      @CrowdPleeza 5 років тому +1

      +skirm123
      What type of Black neighborhood? A poor one or middle class one?

    • @kimroberts905
      @kimroberts905 5 років тому +3

      alex droogy Tulsa Oklahoma. Black Wall Street and whitey burned it down. Rosewood Florida. Guess who burned it down?

  • @jackcoolidge8123
    @jackcoolidge8123 4 роки тому +8

    You can’t blame segregation for the cities violence in black communities. Englewood was once the second largest commercial district in the city and an example of economic growth in the black community. It was majority black and majority middle class. This neighborhood fell apart so fast it was impossible to get out for many families and today it is the most violent neighborhood in the city. The jobs left and the family unit was gonna so all that was left was violence and drugs. There was no hope only fear. It’s the culture and economics that killed this neighborhood not the segregation.

    • @teebone2157
      @teebone2157 4 роки тому +4

      it fell apart when the jobs left. Violence accompanies poverty

    • @jackcoolidge8123
      @jackcoolidge8123 4 роки тому +4

      teebone 21 yes agreed but people are saying that since this neighborhood is majority black it failed. To say that takes either saying the entire system was pitted against this neighborhood or there is something inherently wrong with majority black communities.

    • @RamadonPiano
      @RamadonPiano 11 місяців тому

      If we are to honest it is the result of white hostility. The federal and state government, organizations like HOLC, MPHC, and University of Chicago, Redevelopment Act, Illinois Urban Community Conservation act, Federal Housing Act, banks and other mortgage lenders collectively working together in order to satiate white peoples desire to escape “inharmonious racial groups” yet more importantly stuffing the ruling class’s predatory pockets.

    • @winterfreeze427
      @winterfreeze427 11 місяців тому

      ​@jackcoolidge8123 why you deny that white America has been at war with Black people for hundreds year's a people you white Europeans have enslaved and crted racist systems like Red Lining and Jim crow you whites never faced this evil systems that you created for Black people to deal with.

  • @malmsteen2013
    @malmsteen2013 4 роки тому +2

    Black people we need to live in homes where every other house are acres apart. When we live stacked on top of each other like sardines crime and immortality takes over. If we had gotten our 40 acres most blacks would of been self sufficient farmers who lived off the land instead of living off the crumbs of Wall Street capitalism.

  • @dariusmolark6820
    @dariusmolark6820 Рік тому

    excellent.

  • @Ms42Night
    @Ms42Night 7 років тому +6

    @AJ+ your missing audio at the 3:30 mark

    • @TheH20studios
      @TheH20studios 7 років тому +4

      No. Its only on the right ear for me

  • @MrRhomas913
    @MrRhomas913 Рік тому +1

    Public housing is a perfect example of big government meaning well but actually harming the community. Ditto for paying women more welfare the more children they have and penalizing women who are married with less welfare.

  • @MrRhomas913
    @MrRhomas913 Рік тому +1

    The problem with videos like this is that they act as if the US is solely a Black/White country and do not measure the integration that is taking place in the suburbs especially between whites, Hispanics, and Asians; nor do they mention the slow and steady movement of the Hispanic population (in Chicago, mostly Mexican) into historically Black communities.

  • @wandtvdougwolfe1
    @wandtvdougwolfe1 3 роки тому +3

    Great work. Very well done.

    • @elnatha07
      @elnatha07 2 роки тому

      Is that an opinion?

    • @randpherigo9724
      @randpherigo9724 2 роки тому +1

      Come on doug.. you voted for this.. bet you grew up here.. and everything is how you like it..

    • @wandtvdougwolfe1
      @wandtvdougwolfe1 2 роки тому

      @@randpherigo9724 Hitting the bars early are you? I didn't grow up "here" but thanks for your comment. I love ignorant comments.

    • @randpherigo9724
      @randpherigo9724 2 роки тому +2

      @@wandtvdougwolfe1 You work for MSM, and possibly youre from illinois.. and obviously democrat..so yeah ill stand by what i said. you should know we cant hit the bars anymore.. touche'

  • @raegold024
    @raegold024 Рік тому +2

    I guess they forgot about all the previous gangsters before blacks or brown people came.

  • @christianbrother4724
    @christianbrother4724 2 роки тому +6

    It should not matter what part of the city one is in. Take pride. Clean the place up. Stop the violence. An old saying goes, "wherever you go there you are." Point is by moving somewhere else, the same problems will follow. It is an inside job and starts with the man/person in the mirror.

    • @fbaallied
      @fbaallied 2 роки тому

      You didn't watch the video.

  • @ffletch5277
    @ffletch5277 3 роки тому +4

    6:35 Why did this beautiful new housing deteriorate? This is exactly why the HOLC maps were created. Banks are very smart and want to protect their investment. Sorry to say this, but it’s true.

    • @EWRIGHT637
      @EWRIGHT637 2 роки тому

      More like very racist, like your low brow commentary. They did this buttress segregation and disenfranchisement of blacks. So what you are saying is not true, its silly white supremacist unfounded talking points

  • @DerScheisse
    @DerScheisse 4 роки тому +6

    Did you know the worlds longest bridge is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? The 27th St. Bridge goes all the way from Mexico to Africa.

  • @shirleysmith8072
    @shirleysmith8072 2 роки тому +1

    We are from Chicago We are multiracial We left Chicago and moved to NW Washington this is more cope able this in the 1980s! We wish all people could express Our Heavenly Father's Love to all!💖💞💖💞🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

  • @mfngaming5630
    @mfngaming5630 7 років тому +5

    no audio 3:41 - 3:51 during that dudes talk time.

  • @MIKECNW
    @MIKECNW 6 років тому +2

    These things are a part of every US city and not just Chicago and keep the not as bad elsewhere to yourselves.

  • @t.baggins4154
    @t.baggins4154 6 років тому +7

    That was the past & now if a bank tried to pull that shit they’d be sued into the ground. I think 1st and foremost black men need to stop killing each other & after that start staying with the women they have children with & helping to raise those kids. The fatherless black family rate is at 70% & that’s a crying shame. Take care of yourself, your family & your home. If we all did that this world would literally be a much better place

  • @happygilmore1844
    @happygilmore1844 3 роки тому +3

    Migrants NOT Immigrants....this video is COMPLETELY biased

  • @jacyzam8260
    @jacyzam8260 4 роки тому +2

    Who is narrating the video?

  • @Potomacstud
    @Potomacstud 4 роки тому

    As the snow flies..

  • @mpa8336
    @mpa8336 11 місяців тому

    My mother lived near Chicago. In the 1930's, her father took her to the train station. She saw a lot of black people getting off the train, dressed shabbily. The governor of Mississippi was giving any black person who wanted it, a free one-way ride to Chicago. These people were maybe 2 generations out of slavery, with elderly relatives that remembered slavery. And they went to South Chicago. Housing projects were segregated by race, then. Chicago was unsafe in the 1930's; my mother showed us the "Chicago grip", taking the purse strap over the shoulder, holding the purse tightly under the arm. One always dressed up to go to the city; white gloves were common, then. Her father worked for Chemical Bank, for many years. We went to the Field museum in 1975, it was great.

  • @daustin8888
    @daustin8888 5 років тому +27

    Freedom of association will always lead to geographically separate racial areas.
    I use to believe in forced integration and encouraging ppl to get along.
    But that is something you can't force. Individuals can get along fine, but groups of ppl (especially racial groups) will always keep themselves at arms length.
    It is, what it is...🤷‍♂️

    • @happymopinc
      @happymopinc 5 років тому

      Hello.....

    • @coolluke43
      @coolluke43 4 роки тому +7

      You missed the point of the video. The African-American community is stuck in low-income housing with low-income schools, while the White community generally prospers in the high-income areas. You see the inequality here, right? We need to work to end the effects of redlining. This is about giving whites and blacks the same opportunity to succeed, not forcing integration. Once we reach equality, integration will naturally occur.

    • @happygilmore1844
      @happygilmore1844 3 роки тому

      YESS...accurate assessment...group psychology

    • @notdirtyflics1067
      @notdirtyflics1067 3 роки тому

      @@coolluke43 why are they stuck and what's so bad about the low income side of town

    • @lordbaylish3187
      @lordbaylish3187 3 роки тому

      Lol.......
      And that's why reparations is in order now....
      We've tried it the other way and it doesn't work.

  • @dcotai2902
    @dcotai2902 2 роки тому +1

    ... Liquor stores... Gun shops.... Liquor stores..

  • @johnratican3824
    @johnratican3824 3 роки тому +1

    Okay, racial discrimination is wrong. It was wrong that in the past black people were not allowed to live where they wanted. But sorry, that is no excuse for the violence that plagues Chicago and many other cities. People decide to shoot one another over the most trivial reasons. It is not an excuse that your grandparents were discriminated against. Lots of us came from families that had it rough in the past. But we are all responsible for our own actions regardless of our skin color.

  • @technum1
    @technum1 2 роки тому +5

    Unfortunately, these people are unable to walk the straight line. To add, they don’t take care of property. They simply don’t care. Don’t take care of their kids.

    • @winterfreeze427
      @winterfreeze427 11 місяців тому

      NO you racist white pale fsced European are the evil ones oppressing Black people for 400 hundreds year's God see you demons.

  • @realmarketreviews4632
    @realmarketreviews4632 Рік тому

    Crazy how cities like Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte are doing so much better than Chicago in terms of opportunities, I don’t understand why people still choose to stay there.

    • @billmarshall268
      @billmarshall268 Рік тому

      The South is way less sagregated but there are the ones that always get accused of racism.

  • @AlejandroRamos-kn5cd
    @AlejandroRamos-kn5cd 7 місяців тому

    Exactly I been saying that for years…. I’m from Chicago is not racist but very Very territorial!!!

  • @kenkunz1428
    @kenkunz1428 4 роки тому +3

    Gentrification is doing a lot to increase the segregation nowadays.

  • @gomezesmorticia
    @gomezesmorticia 4 роки тому +1

    Good Times. Where is the Evans family?

  • @lonnielrc
    @lonnielrc 6 років тому +3

    wow America has too repent for it sins

  • @Triforceelite16u
    @Triforceelite16u 5 місяців тому

    I’m watching this for school

  • @davesaenz3732
    @davesaenz3732 4 роки тому +5

    I live in South Texas. 96% Hispanics. We are "segragated". Yet people are doing quite well. So your argument is very weak. It's not "segragation". Keep looking. Thank you.

    • @jjimenez4338
      @jjimenez4338 4 роки тому +2

      I wonder what a Mexican would say to that

  • @Ifyouonlyknewtruth
    @Ifyouonlyknewtruth 3 роки тому +2

    And they all still holding office

  • @starchildofthe90s7
    @starchildofthe90s7 Рік тому +1

    SOLUTION: For black the solution is Stop working at fast food and retail places and occupy some of these positions. Start looking into the homebuying process and who makes this well oiled machine run. They didnt do this single handedly they worked TOGETHER the banks worked with the Lenders the Realestate agents worked with appraisers the community worked with the state. FiGure out how to work as a loan officer or processor or underwriter learn the inner workings. Or atleast encourage your kids to at a young age. we need to bust into this industry and cater to our own. This is how tou build from the ground up create a network.

    • @robinsss
      @robinsss Рік тому +1

      how would ay of that reduce crime?

  • @emiliadaoud8535
    @emiliadaoud8535 Рік тому

    Subtitles needed!

  • @user-sw2wv1zx1t
    @user-sw2wv1zx1t Рік тому

    Gang activity is never acknowledged as the main reason this happens. There is no effort to pull kids from the cycle proactively by investigating who is preying on kids. Being in a gang should be illegal by itself and so should recruiting. The adults should be actively trying to put these gang members in jail for premeditation.

  • @scottm8579
    @scottm8579 5 років тому +10

    6:52 "Because the city and federal govt abandoned them."
    Welfare creates poverty. Government hand-outs do not help people.

  • @bobbob-sv4mk
    @bobbob-sv4mk 4 роки тому +2

    Values are the issue

  • @allenepright5027
    @allenepright5027 5 років тому +1

    The store was contradicting

  • @CrowdPleeza
    @CrowdPleeza 5 років тому +1

    One thing more Black- Americans need to utilize more are rotating credit groups. Asians are known for using them to raise money for businesses and other things. Caribbean Blacks do this also. They call them susu loans. If more of us Black-Americans did this we could use susus as an alternative to banks for raising money for various things.
    Here's a Caribbean example:
    globalcitynyc.com/2012/12/06/in-savings-pools-every-little-bit-helps/

  • @singingLeaf123
    @singingLeaf123 2 роки тому

    This reminds me of the book A Raisin in the Sun

  • @dustypiddy
    @dustypiddy 7 років тому +83

    reminder that Chicago is historically democrat.

    • @hakeemsd70m
      @hakeemsd70m 7 років тому +23

      The Man With No Taste And this is why nothing ever gets done. Until you can see past party politics, propaganda, and lies you will always keep saying the same things your masters want you to say. "It's the Democrats." Open your eyes.

    • @dustypiddy
      @dustypiddy 7 років тому +9

      ***** reminder that the Democratic party formed the KKK

    • @ruez
      @ruez 7 років тому +2

      The Man With No Taste,
      The Republican Party SUCK for demographics, economy, education, and because of Bush's Iraq War. For the example, the American major city called Oklahoma City is a boring and nothing place for tourists and the capital of prostitution because of Republican governors and mayors who controlling that city forever. Many Republicans are racists and little educated more than Democrats do. *GOP is destructing itself slowly.*

    • @dustypiddy
      @dustypiddy 7 років тому +2

      R I'm not Republican btw.

    • @ruez
      @ruez 7 років тому

      +The Man With No Taste
      I'm not a Democrat....

  • @sayitaintso7544
    @sayitaintso7544 2 роки тому +1

    White America is not wiling to provide better education or opportunities for minority areas. Its safer to keep blacks and latinos where they are. Better education and income means they can move into white neighborhoods and who wats that? Its not impossible to break through the racial barriers but they certainly make it more difficult.

  • @peterscotney1
    @peterscotney1 5 років тому +2

    very interesting to watch , we see this in the uk as well , but with muslim communities ! they turn neighbourhoods into little baghdads , the black n white residents are encouraged to move out !

  • @edyestrada1931
    @edyestrada1931 6 років тому +1

    Chicago: Northside white peopleNorthside richer white peopleWest side (Latinos) some blacksEarly southside ( Mexican & Blacks)Middle southside black peopleFar southside more poor blacks!

  • @unboxrealestate
    @unboxrealestate Рік тому

    Every city did this in the 1960s what’s so special about Chicago?

  • @derperderp9036
    @derperderp9036 4 роки тому +3

    I blame banks

  • @whateverman2674
    @whateverman2674 Рік тому +1

    3:50 when women dressed decently.

  • @rednupe44
    @rednupe44 6 років тому +2

    We are the Gods and they fear our God like power. We just have to know who we are. They have used many things to divide us and take our attention away from knowing who we are.

  • @stefaniedavis7823
    @stefaniedavis7823 7 років тому +2

    @aj+ The audio for Frank, isn't in stereo sound it is only on the right. Time stamp at 3:29 until 5:15

  • @nathancoleman7235
    @nathancoleman7235 Рік тому +1

    I live in Englewood on the southside

  • @lonnielrc
    @lonnielrc 6 років тому +5

    divide and conquer

  • @EiderDuck-Coot
    @EiderDuck-Coot 4 місяці тому

    And the media claims the Sotuh was racist smh

    • @user-ut1en2lt8l
      @user-ut1en2lt8l 2 місяці тому

      Lol! Racism is not confined to a region. Black people expect this because it’s been this way from day one

  • @Dslats
    @Dslats Рік тому +1

    I WAS BORN AND RAISED ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO, ITS A WAR ZONE. YOU DONT KNOW CHIT GIRL.