The 'Father of Harlem' was a radical capitalist
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Best known as the "father of Harlem," Philip Payton, jr. (1876-1917) was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
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The former residents of two square blocks at West 98th and 99th Streets in Manhattan have been holding annual neighborhood reunions since the mid-1950s, when the federal government bulldozed their homes in a "slum clearance project" spearheaded by Robert Moses.
This formerly all-black enclave was home to an A-list of black artists and intellectuals, including singer Billie Holiday, historian Arturo Schomburg, poet James Weldon Johnson, and actor Robert Earl Jones. Bordering Central Park, the community was settled in 1905 in an area with modern housing and easy access to the city's brand new subway.
The founder of the community was an African-American realtor named Philip Payton Jr., also known as "the father of Harlem." His role in the formation of what would later become the cultural capital of black America is well established. Less appreciated is the economic philosophy that guided his life's work.
Payton was an unabashed free-marketeer whose approach, as one headline writer put it, was "to make the color line costly." He believed that property owners participating in racial covenants could be forced to pay a penalty in a competitive marketplace, and that even bigoted landlords might choose "profit over prejudice" when faced with the choice.
"Race prejudice is a luxury, and like all other luxuries, can be made very expensive in New York City," Payton wrote in his company prospectus.
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These are the men we should be hearing about in black history
TheCoconutCookie They are too educated and well spoken and probably not black enough... MLK JR was an Uncle Tom didn't you know!
I know blacks complain about getting a short black history month in February, but I'm still waiting for a white history month where a person tell's about a invention some poor struggling white person invented, no one ever announces that during a commercial break, but blacks get it.
TheCoconutCookie right
Jupiter Five - That's "equality" for you!
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People fail to remember that Jim Crow was imposed by government mandate ... not by the market. Whe you bring market forces to bear ... discrimination is far more difficult to impose.
Jim Crow itself was a response to the political power Black folks had become during Reconstruction. Yet we still have the same narrative in our community today, that politics is the answer if only we could assert our power within. I scratch my head at this notion due to the reality of Jim Crow. I think this gentleman understood that there was another vector to fight within, Capitalism
This man gets free markets. Top bloke.
I've never heard of this man but I always told my hardcore liberal friends that the free market always beat prejudice no law made by the government will be able to
And people say we need government to stop discrimination.
Philip Payton Jr. should be THE role model for BLM. He takes actions and wins in the game of capitalism.
BLM is a communist organization that is racist to it's core.
10/10 Capitalism is colorblind.
Remember when Trump was a verb, not a noun. The good old days... Extremely well done video
Given that it was NYC and given the Trump family's bigoted history, I expected Payton to be profiting off of him at some point in the video.
@@hailmary7283 Living in the past is not learning from the past.
Fighting racial prejudice with racial prejudice is rarely good, but here, as a tactic in a small battle it was wise. As a strategy it is poisonous.
BTW, why does this guy not at least have a plaque? If I were a business owner in Harlem I would erect a statue of him in front of my place.
The only problem I have is that he kicked out whites because they were white. So this guy was a racist too? Fuck that
Booker T. Washington had the same ideas. Washington and King should be the most understood black civil rights leaders but instead the voluntary segregationalism that W.E.B. DuBois and Malcolm X and the Black Panthes fostered did much damage
Josh Patterson Martin Luther King was a Socialist. Months before he died he was embarking on plans to start a Poor people's campaign.
I read that as black panties lol
Its sad that these great men are hidden from us.
I disagree. Jews and Asians are THE most successful exactly because they practice economic favoritism amongst themselves which is a good thing. You can’t throw all your economic power out the door then complain about other people not investing in YOUR community. Insanity
Sad facts
Damn, every now and then ReasonTV actually tells the unvarnished truth. Now if we could get people of all color to learn to live together where these great heroes will become a revered part of sad history, and not a desperate part of our longings.
An excellent piece. Thank you, Reason!
Why have I never heard of this man before?
*Are you telling me black people in America can become successful, Amazing!*
muh ethnostate! muh ethnostate......!
Like with anyone else their chances of success improve when government leaves them alone.
Yeah man pretty much especially people like Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Kevin harts,Kanye west, Ice Cube, Samuel L Jackson. They aren't blacks who are successful just successful people who happen to be black. We have a system that we either capitalize on or unrationilize with.
I know this is a joke I just wanted to use words that I used in Google.
Yea they can and so many more would have if not for hundreds of years of slavery and another 100 of legalized discrimination during the time when this nation was developing into an industrial powerhouse.
I owner finance houses and I can sell to whoever I wish no matter who comes first. I take a month or so to decide from all the applications and look for the best fit and who's got the cash and longest steady employment. I can tell you now you can't guess by skin color. I once had a Mexican yard man put 15k down on a house. A young black guy might look like a thug but have his own business and be very sharp. I've had nice looking white people who want you to hold a house and they haven't saved 100.00
Russ Cherry
My good friend had a hard time understanding down payments, and I struggled to explain it till I remembered the saying. "You have to prove you have blood in the game"
Very smart and shrood businessman.
Seeing a pattern. All white neighborhood with a vacancy, black family pays just as much in rent, but as this happens and more blacks move in the property values decrease, whites don't want to pay big money to live there and go elsewhere creating more space and cheaper rents for more blacks as the pattern repeats. The blacks don't own these areas and benefit from all the white money leaving as rents won't push up. The neighborhood ends up turning into a slum and gets bulldozed. Somehow I dont see this as something anyone would want to highlight.
Nonsense
Sorry to burst your bubble, the black families moved in while paying more in rent. They did not pay an equal amount nor a lesser amount.
@@rockfire1669 I don't see how that's shattering my bubble. The overall pattern remains the same. Even if initially some landlord charged a racist fee
And now Harlem is completely gentrified.👍🏿
What he did would probably constitute "blockbusting" and "steering", which are now illegal.
Mad respect.
That's was a nice video. Learned about someone new. Keep em coming
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Very cool!
The invisible hand has no color
99th was bulldozed and deemed a slum?
Yes. More details in this video: ua-cam.com/video/mWGwsA1V2r4/v-deo.html
Awesome!! More please
That part about charging blacks more rent. Didn't quite sit well, but not new.
Awesome
You could do the same thing now, to a much greater extent, by utilizing sex offenders to scare neighbors into selling their homes and driving down property values, and having them move in and out of locations to manipulate property values. That is a "free market" means of earning a profit, but in that particular case, there can be considered a justifable reason for fleeing.
Skill Graal That practice of block busting has been made illegal now.
Well that just means the price becomes lower for other capitalists to come in and outbid the block buster. Totally fair game.
The block buster also makes a loss by reducing the value of his property and the sex offender will be less likely to pay the property owner than a upstanding citizen. Meaning he will be more likely to lose his property.
All this really show is that if you are willing to pay more, or are rich, then there is not racial discrimination. No racial discrimination for the upper middle class, but if you are poor, or middle class blacks, you are out of luck?
lol he dropped the suit and joined her like you say how much they pay🧐😭🤣
The free market at work ☺
If the market were actually free, people would pay enormous premiums to live in white-only neighborhoods.
Ha! I love it. What an ingenious way of desegregating.
Looks like significant admixture.
Have you been to Harlem lately? There are fewer titles more insulting than the "founder of Harlem."
Ancile are you familiar with Seneca Village?
Great video! Thank you ReasonTV!
racism aside this just shows an investor using racial prejudice to squeeze renters for more money than he could otherwise have
Unlike the government, he wasn't forcing anyone to do anything. The reason people would want to rent his buildings is because he was offering a better deal than they could get elsewhere. That should be applauded.
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Its a preference to live amongst your own kind, and doesn't imply anything negative.
Олeжек who is your own? If all pf humanity isnt your own wheres your humanity?
Isnt africa more free market than usa and eu?
Lot of places wuth literally no state presence.
That place still sucks
free market is not equivalent to no state
No, most of it isn't more free market. Maybe Botswana is, but that's apparently the exception. Too many rules in most of Africa and too many rules is the opposite of a free market.
ua-cam.com/video/eqD3QbzSsIs/v-deo.html
Lemons from lemonade 🙃
Gentrification!
Sarcasm :)
Free market capitalism didn't end segregation. Free market capitalism was probably one of the biggest driving factors as to why Southern slave owners went to war to protect slavery. Ya, you can exploit the system for your own gain if you have the resources to do so. The problem is there weren't a lot of rich black people like this guy to help lift black people out of the financial oppression that was inflicted on them for generations. The free market says black people aren't owed anything for years of oppression and subjugation because it's not profitable to pay out dues for centuries of exploitation. If it was left wholly to the free market, black people still wouldn't be allowed in white restaurants.
If there is slavery, that is NOT a free market. And why do you think it is a profitable business model to refuse to serve some potential customers who want to pay you money?
@@andrewgeissinger5242 Ya man, I agree that bigotry really cuts in to your profits. Crazy how people still discriminated despite that. Kind of revealing that you think profitable business models are the driving motivation here. But history clearly shows that there are many ways to exploit/infringe upon people''s rights for profit. Quick question, how does a completely free market prevent someone with enough wealth and power from starting their own slave trade if they have more PMC's than you do?
And what would you call slave-owners? crony-capitalist? What's the difference? How do you prevent crony-capitalism?
@@andrewgeissinger5242 Okay yeah, can you restate that. You are claiming the USA isn’t free market capitalism.
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So all of the white tenants wanting to move out doesn’t create additional turnover costs for the owner? This sounds like only PART of the story.
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that is the essence of libertarianism
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