When I was 6 yrs old in 1970 the first black family moved into our neighborhood. I barely remember but there was racist remarks among the adults. Anyway it was a young couple with no children.All of us little white kids were curious about them. I remember that lady was so nice .she was the sweetest person to all of us kids.Also I remember she invited some of us girls inside her home and was teaching us about fingernail care and soaking your fingernails in milk was healthy.she even demonstrated. I am 55 yrs old and I’ll never forget that. Kids aren’t racist , they’re curious. Racism is taught.I am thankful that my parents brought me up to love everyone.❤️
Emmylou Loves you If kids/children are racist, then you tell me why they grow up year after year killing Blacks for no reason at all. Why don’t you go make a statement like this to the news media and see what type of response you get. Do Not Insult My Intelligence. I am Black First.
Fifty years ago I came home from school to find two black kids playing on my swing set. Me n the girl became best friends till they moved away....now fifty years later we find that she works near the same town I now live in! We met for coffee and it was as if we’ve never been apart...
My dad was born in 1933 and grew up very poor. That being said he lived in what he called the black community. His best friend was a black boy named Walter. Dad would get beat up on the 40s for walking around with his friend. Years later, when was dad passed away at the age of 76 I got to meet Walter at his funeral. What a hrsat man he was and spoke so highly of my dad. He told me dad never backed down and would always tell Walter to run cause he knew the kids would be harder on him. I'm glad I was able to be raised by a man that didn't judge people.
@toystorycollector7025 Have you considering selling your house and moving to the hood? It would be a wonderful way to prove that you don't judge people, with the added benefit of cultural diversity and enrichment. :) Chances are, you could easily sell YOUR house to a black family trying to live with white neighbors, and you could take their house.
I didn't watch this all the way through but it reminded me of a story the late Nat King Cole told of when he purchased a home in Beverly Hills. He said a group of his new neighbors came to his door and told him that they didn't want any 'undesirables' moving into their neighborhood. He just said to them, "Well if I see any, I'll let you know".
@Stay Wok Exactly!!Children(and people in general) are a product of their environment.Most kids(idk about now,but back then when i was growing up)idolized their parents,especially their fathers,as they were the "head of the household.What they believed was the gospel truth and kids assumed that all the ignorance was written in stone with blood!I grew up in Ca. where it wasnt(as a rule) as prominent as say,the southern states.I didnt know my parents "stand" on other races or even KNEW anything about other races really.I lived in Saratoga where everybody was white.I was SO THRILLED(unlike our neighbors) when a black family moved into the neighborhood!I came home from school and told my mom"Susie thinks SHES got a tan.Theres a new girl at school who has the greatest tan i have ever seen.Can i ask her over to play?When she found out that she was black,she laughed so hard!Thank goodness my parents werent racist.The neighbors would stare when she would come over.I thought they were just jeolous bc my friend was special and different.WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH EVER,MUCH LESS STILL HAS SEPERATE PUBLIC RESTROOMS,EATING PLACES,SIGNS THAT SAID WHITES ONLY I WAS SPEECHLESS.HOW COULD THIS BE???TEACH UR CHILDREN WELL(sorry for the rant)
But eventually the children do learn to practice racism and come understand what it means to be white. Racism is practiced by white man, white woman and white child.
Provide better ever than a husband, didn't provide for children but literally raised them. Second Mommies. Better wives than theirs too. Peace and thank you for raising such great ancestors for all of us. We're all mixed in by now. Love to all.
Born and raised in Oklahoma. My grandma lived in a small town on 11 acres, not many people live there now. But the town had segregated white and black, home's and school's. There was the sweetest lady that lived down from my grandma. Her name was Ms. Johnson. I used to get in trouble all the time because my grandma thought that I was bothering Ms. Johnson. The thing was, Ms Johnson always had a kind word, always had a smile, and as poor as she was always offered me something to eat! I loved this lady because she showed me the kindest and sweetest person full of love and life. There wasn't any color to me. She was what I wanted to be. So, Ms Johnson, you've been gone since the seventies and I was such a young girl. I wish I could have told you how I really felt. But grandma thought I bothered you too much. I always made excuses to come visit ❤ RIP Grandma Juanita RIP Ms Johnson
@@VermontFootballBetter this certainly was native land to begin with. I have much respect for the native people. We have an all Indian center in the city that I live in.
In 1980 my family lived in a all white city. We had never interacted with different races and we displayed prejudices. We had a family move nextdoor to us that came from Kenya. We were up in arms and outraged our old neighbor sold to them. As the years went on, we learned so much from them, they were the most beautiful people, the wife would cook us food and treats and eventually they became my parents closest friends. Taking holidays together and nights on the porch chatting. Unfortunately they've both passed on recently but they educated our minds and I'm so thankful they taught us we're all the same and they broke the cycle of ignorance in my family.
Dude this was beautiful. I’m sorry but racism needs to stop being met with anger sometimes it’s truly just a misunderstanding and fear/stereotypes. After a few convos we will all be cooking Kenyan recipes with one another regardless of where one falls on the color wheel haha
@@LucicPower they sure do. Not even the same species as American blacks. Every African (Kenyan, Ugandan, Congolese, Nigerian) I’ve ever known who has come here has been hard-working and law-abiding, with a strong emphasis on family.
@@lordsesshoumaru8596 The things you watch... It's always people who have your digital diet that always seem to be seeking superiority when it comes to blacks or women. No one is inferior to you.
I had an African-American youth put it to me this way. "Up north, you can be equal, just don't be close. Down south, you can get close, but don't think you're equal." I've always been ticked at how every time something happened that was racist and not in the south, "Oh, we've moved on from that. That's an isolated incident. We're not like they are in the south." It was like northerners didn't have to deal with their own bigotries if they could still point at the south and say, "they're the racists. We're not like them in the south." You look at history of the last forty years, it seems there was more racist encounters in northern and western locations than in the south. But tell a northerner that and they'll bring up Emmet Till and the civil rights workers killed in '63. I wasn't even born when those happened.
@@mjsmith8641 Yes, you're right. The south is responsible for keeping black people out of film and television until the entertainment biz got the balls to defy us, our bigotry was so strong. Our racism was so defiant! The problem today is obviously clinging to a past and stating the south was more racist. We don't have an out and are forced to deal with our bigotry, whereas northerners have always relied on insisting, "we're not as racist as THEY were," without resolving any issues. "No, we're not racist. That was a misunderstanding. That was an isolated incident. We're not racist like they WERE in the south. We're not THAT bad." And when the south does have an altercation of any kind, as we still have had happen, never said the south wasn't racist, "oh, that's the way THEY are down there. They always have been that way." As long as someone feels they can point at someone else as being worse, they never will deal with their own problems. Look up the names Willie Turks, Bernard Goetz, Michael Griffith, Yusuf Hawkins, Charles and Carol Stuart, Tawana Brawley, all of which were followed by Rodney King and OJ Simpson sometime. Yes, those were all in the past. That's not how ALL northerners were. Not like we were in the south. James Craig Anderson was killed in Jackson, MS, in 2011, because that's the way WE are in the south, right?
My parents bought a house in a coveted “white” Seattle neighborhood in 1958 for $8,500.00. I own it now and it’s worth about 1.5 million. I’m no mathematician (...just a lowly engineer), but I’d say that’s a pretty good appreciation rate.
Seems pricey for back then tbh, a house that cost $8.5k and was bought in 1958, I personally would want a return of at least $3million, still maybe I am just being greedy and basing it on prices of where I live 🤷
@@ZDiddy7777 that's exactly the point of the flick. I'm Hispanic. Bought a home in an all white neighborhood. I get bad looks when I change my own oil in my garage. I don't park my car on the lawn. Why? Because I made half my front lawn a driveway. Then guess what, suddenly my neighbors starting having bigger driveways and less front lawn. Funny, my house is now worth $50,000 more than I bought it for. Thanks to a Hispanic moving in an all white neighborhood
My dad grew up in the 30s and 40s in dirt poor Mississippi. He was one of the most unprejudiced men I've ever known. People of good will have always existed, in every era of time. Racism is a disease of the soul.
It isn't always a case of racism. All people don't have to live together. Who cares if a town filled with only African Americans exists? People have a right to live as they wish, provided that wish doesn't infringe on another. People who like multiculturalism and diversity can live in communities which support it. Ideally, everyone could be happy. I wouldn't care if there was an Italian only community or a Native American only community. Oh, wait! There are already native American communities. They are called, "reservations" or, "rez" in Native American parlance. The Amish and Mennonite Christian faiths have there own communities. I support them in their desires to keep their lives free of 'worldly things', for lack of a better phrase. To keep any potential trouble outside of their little slice of paradise on God's green Earth. This might be the closest thing to Heaven on Earth. Living amongst one's own. Every citizen living within the reality of his fellow citizens. Doing business with other communities of native Americans, Peruvians, African Americans and other people of color*. *those of the darker persuasion, dark because their ancestors lived where being dark was considered an asset for a great many reasons including protection from the sun diurnally and protection from animals whilst foraging nocturnally. Presumably. American Educator Stedman Graham just shed 357 pounds of ugly fat simply by divorcing Oprah Winfrey.
👏🏾 great deflection response! But really, I do commend your willingness to allow anyone to live next door to you... Thank you 😉! However, the context here is NOT about “giving 2 chits who live next door....”, but about ... a black family... next door. COVID-19 isn’t the only Pandemic that’s a problem today. But, like Covid-19 there are many bigoted people that are asymptomatic and blind to their true condition/status! But no hate from me, i‘m just glad that at least some type of conversation seems to have started...
Rod Sterling was before his time he spoke out about racism, him being the narrator doesn't surprise me, listen Everytime he narrates, he is telling truths
It's simply the cadence of his spoken word delivery. It' s emphatic abd serious lije Rod's opening monologue but yes you could pissibly compare this to tge epusode I belueve was title " The mobster on Main Street " All the neighbirs were terrified there was a impersonatibg alien in there midst. Hystetia and paranoia ensues. Lol. Not too far off from this scenario huh??
I, personally have no desire to be anywhere that lacks a likeness of me. Lol, I don't want to be anywhere that privacy is not a priority, and common courtesy is not a requirement. Lol, bet you thought that I spoke of likeness of skin color...but; I spoke of personality and morality. I encourage everyone to live their best lives... out loud!!!
I grew up in an integrated neighborhood in The Bronx, NY. There have always been attitudes about race that I didn't (and still don't) understand at age 60. I agree with Ms. Stanfield. My parents brought me up properly. As a result, I gravitated to companions who were like-minded. Race wasn't even a factor. In reading some of the comments, I see that some may have given up hope. True, there is still much work to do, but, as long as one treats others as one want to be treated, that's a step in the right direction.
Everyone says that racism is learned by I don’t know. I grew up in an all whote area & with parents and grandparents who were extremely racist - out of fear, like this movie. Once I hit about age 10, it didn’t make sense to me. The black people I saw on Sesame Street and other TV shows really weren’t all that different than us, besides hair, obviously. We’d see black kids, parents and teachers when we went on field trips in school or to amusement parks and none of them had any desire to rape or kill us or rob us. The girls were so pretty with their hair in braids with beads. Their families were all there to have a good time like anyone else. It was then that I realized the fear was irrational. It wasn’t until I was a teen/early 20s that the crime rates started making sense. Of course there’s crime when people are desperate. Black people were not given the same opportunities for jobs and education... their ancestors weren’t allowed to own property, so a lot didn’t have property to pass on to an heir. I saw white people committing the same crimes but only getting a fraction of the punishment. So no, racism and hate isn’t learned. Sure, it’s taught... but anyone who has more than 2 brain cells should easily be able to see for themselves by age 10 that these stereotypes and fears are irrational.
@Chuck Bible That's not completely true. LOUIE ARMSTRONG , CAB CALLOWAY, LENA HORNE, NAT KING COLE. FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN. VARIETY SHOW, DENZEL WASHINGTON, SAMUEL L JACKSON , JESSE JACKSON, REVEREND AL SHARPTON, QUEEN OF SOUL-ARETHA FRANKLIN, GODFATHER OF SOUL-JAMES BROWN , GLADYS KNIGHT, THE FOUR TOPS, THE TEMPTATIONS and the list continues.
@Chuck Bible No disrespect but CAB CALLOWAY was not seen as negative You are right about the horrible legacy of discrimination and hate but you wrote that tv Always portrays blacks as negative. my point is there are so many positive portrayals of black people and the talent that is showcased through tv
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@@creamcornsurprize6608 Cicely Tyson (the most talented phenomenal actress black or white), James Earl Jones, Sidney Portier, Jimmy Walker, Richard Pryor, Eddy Murphy, Danny Glover, Diahann Carroll, Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx, Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Lionel Richie, Todd Bridges, Gary Coleman, Debbie Allen; endless!
@charlie parker Colombus and his brother, the U.S Government archives,Desoto wrote about it,William Byrd 2 wrote about it the guy who founded Ritchmond VA! Its everywhere, not the bs they lie about in these schools!
True. God don't show favoritism, because we are all created in the image of God. We are all unique in God's eyesight. God is love, not hate. God's says for your pray enemies, Matthews 5:44; Romans 12:20.
@@sitimaan5054 I am white. My daughter is half white. She came home from 3rd grade one day crying: "Daddy, why didn't you tell me you're white?". They taught her that day in school that her daddy is white and inherently racist. They've been poisoning her mind ever since.
I’m in England and many years ago, when I was a toddler, a black, American army family moved next door. I don’t remember them, but my late mum loved them. Both our families were friends and the mum of the family gave my mum some beautiful American baby clothes for me. The children were called Laverne, Bobby and, I think Frizby. Although Frizby could have been a nick name. Anyway, my family spoke about them often and we had photos of them with me and my brother.
My son is in the USAF and he was stationed in England. He was living I Bradford, he is black and his wife is white. No one in that neighborhood even spike to them, the racism hung in the air. They would have done better in London, but he had to be close to the base. He is stationed in Missouri now, and it is racist there also.
My dearest and closest friend I met when I was 19 at work. I helped her with a report she had to complete as she was having problems operating a mag card typewriter lol. She was new to it. I stayed behind and helped her. I am 62 now and she is still my dearest and closest friend. I loved when we went out for dinner or a special occasion as people would Iook AND keep looking either at her ebony smooth skin, or my China doll white skin. Either way as I married and had children, our families blended. She is as much a part of my family as my family is of hers. I don't see colour. I see goodness, decency, character and morals. That is why we were and still are friends, and will continue to be. My dear sweet sweet Maria, I'm so grateful for your friendship and for you being part of my life ❤
You sound just like me. I met Athena (not her real name) at college in Texas when we were both freshmen in 1986. I am white, she is black. We hit it off immediately over mutual interests and we've been friends ever since then. We live 250 miles apart but we have been chatting with each other for almost 40 years. We also visit each other in our own home towns. The only people who look funny at us when we're out at restaurants or other public places are the "woke" white liberals who think they have to treat us differently because we're together. SMH...
Great film. I have never understood what IT was about black people that was so undesirable. Every RACE has BAD people. Distinguish the bad from good by character, NOT color.
I'm white I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood, and as you say there are good people of all different colors I had no problem with anybody based on race
They’re not afraid, they just want to have their own white world and not have anybody else in it They enjoy and thrive when surrounded by their own race.
@@200x-v4k Only 16% of the planet is White. Why are so against such a small minority? Will you ever break free from your own racism? Doubtful the world ever will. Whites are the most opposed and discriminated demographic in the world today.
Thank you Reelblack One, for yet another brilliantly curated find. It resonates to me as a 70-year-old white Southerner, and I wish my small-town "community" had seen something like this. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have mattered a parlor damn; even after all these years it still pisses me off that I wasn't allowed to invite my friend Pearl to my fifth birthday party for reasons I didn't understand at the time, and still don't. Not then, not now, not ever.
I emigrated to the U.S. from Canada after meeting an African-American woman who wanted to move back to the states. We ended up in CT and were looking for a place to live (this was 1977). I didn't understand why she sent me alone to look for apartments and I thought I had one. Then we both went to look at it and the landlord said the place had been rented in the few hours that passed. Ironically that whole neighborhood had become mostly black by the 90s and now is mostly Hispanic. Housing discrimination is real and hasn't changed that much.
I have a black neighbor and they are the.most kind and helpful neighbors you could hope to have. I am in my 80s have had many neighbors but not not as good as them..
Hispanic is not a race . All Spanish speaking and Portuguese speaking countries are known as Hispanic countries . Hispanics can be pure White European descendants , Black African descendants Hispanic , Mixed race Hispanics , Indegenous Hispanics etc - . Do you know that 50% of Brazilian population out of 200 million are Pure White Europeans descendants . Argentina is 90% White country ( Most Argentina people are Italians or Spaniards) .
It was worth the watch. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It was short, but long enough to make the point!!!! The writer and director did an excellent story to help communities see themselves for change.
I have BB King's wonderful autobiography "Blues All Around Me", and he spoke of buying a nice house in a "white" neighborhood, and the people who sold him the house got hell from some of the street. Can you imagine that? I would have loved having BB as a neighbor!
I'm not a person that hates anyone. But i have come to know for a fact, and it has been proven to me that where ever you have white people you will have hate and mistreatment of people. Who are not like them especially black people. I know this for a fact.
Thank you for posting this. I was born the year it was made. My father was very bigoted. Not just blacks, but Jews, Polish, Italians..basically anyone who wasn't Irish. I moved out at 17 because of it. Now I'm a Grandmother of 4. My kids are GenX'rs. I raised them properly without prejudice to any group. They grew into wonderful human beings and have helped me to understand what is happening now in 2020. It's all so very sad. We are one...humans. I hope to live long enough for *everyone* to finally understand this. It's up to each and every one of us. Please let's make it happen~
....addition. My son made this video of my inlaws life (white's in the south). They were wonderful people. Not everyone was racist ua-cam.com/video/h3G8ui885_M/v-deo.html
Good job bring your children up the Bible book of Proverbs c 22 v 6 Train up a boy in the way he should go even when he grows old it will not depart from him peace to you Eileen
thank God...so did I...there were Black, White & Hispanics that lived on my street...there were also a few gay people that lived on my street...2 of them, were lifelong friends...so, that's how diverse my neighborhood was...I honestly don't think we knew there was a racial difference, like that when I was growing up...it just Never came up in a conversation...I mean, Never...
As corny as this was, I found myself deeply moved. All the heroes of the civil rights movement, those we know and especially those who we don’t that often sacrificed their lives, are the last great heroes of the modern age. I’m biracial and I was born in the 90s in Southie in Boston, a neighborhood that had just been desegregated slowly over the previous decade, a neighborhood where tensions were still high. And that was where my black mom met my Irish dad. Thank you to the civil rights generation ❤
@@karieslone4620 Always remember to repent of your sins (sin is transgression of YAHUAH’S LAW: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy) And Have Belief On YAHUSHA HAMASHYACH. HE Died and Rose three days later so that you can be forgiven of your sins! HE Loves you! Come to HIM!🙂🙂
Really good. When I was a kid, perhaps 6 or 7, I came running to my grandmother's car from a day at summer school, with a couple of friends that I had made that day: twin black girls. I always remembered the shocked & appalled look on GM's face when she pulled me into the car and said, "you can't play with THEM!". I never understood why, though she tried to "explain" to me. Sadly, my new friends must've seen or heard her; I never saw them again, which was a real loss. Wish there'd been shorts like that I could have shown to my grandmother and grandfather.
I grew up in St Joseph Missouri in the seventies. The schools were still segregated by the way the school zones for attendance were drawn. Late seventies the boundaries were redrawn and I was now in an interracial school. Best thing that could happen as we actually got to meet and know black folks.
@@chriscampbell7895 desegregation of schools was often done via busing. That means most neighborhoods were still segregated. Depending on where you lived you might have no other opportunity to meet children of a different race.
I remember when I was a kid, maybe around 10 or so in the late 60's, there were news reports about segeration on tv. I remember my father asking me what I thought if a black family moved into the neighborhood? I said if they could afford to buy a home here, why shouldn't they. If they were going to invest in property wouldn't they want to keep it up and improve it? I remember the look on my father's face was of awe to what I said and realized that it was true.
This video is an eye opener and it brings me to think about how redlining came about. I truly believe whites fought hard/came together ( just as this movie depicts ) and came up with ways to keep blacks in undesirable areas. On another note, it’s funny how whites can’t stand blacks moving close to them but they are quick to gentrify nice black neighborhoods.
Tessie you must not have read my last sentence because if you did, you wouldn’t respond like a incoherent bitch. I said that blacks who do live in nice areas (DESIRABLE AREAS WERE BLACKS TAKE CARE OF THEIR COMMUNITY), white people like to gentrify what blacks work so hard to accomplish. Also there are white ghettos, so take your megalomaniac nonsense elsewhere. You didn’t even touch on redlining either prick!
@Tessie GTHOH What do you know about Black people? Do you have black friends? Family? Hang out with black people? Are you invited into our homes? Holiday with us? Do you know a thing about BLACK HISTORY? No. Only what your RACIST, evil mind and environment tells you. What the HELL are you doing in black spaces if you HATE black people so much???? If you knew anything about black people, those places that you call ghetto, were like that because of black POVERTY as a result of systemic racism and discrimination that kept black people poor! Caused by RACIST minds like yours! It all starts with a JOB! That pays well. Well if you have been criminalised, demonised... for being black...... that becomes a major hurdle, doesn't it?
Tessie “They made them that way”. There was a time when Blacks were relegated to the “other side of the tracks”. The areas where the sewage treatment plants were, the creosote and fertilizer plant were. Eyesores and undesirable, yet necessary elements, like water towers, railroad tracks had been placed. Yes...they always had an opportunity to make those areas better...
Tessie I wholeheartedly agree with you. People want to jump on the offensive because it’s impolite to be PI. I for one prefer to base my conclusion on facts of observations. My neighborhood borders the AA side of town, where prostitution, panhandling, drugs, murder, and everything criminal under the sun occurs. They recently knocked down all of the projects and started building Apts here in my neighborhood and the projects people moved in. Now crime has gone up in my neighborhood. I went walking to the park, where I’ve been going to since the early 80’s only to have a group of young AA threaten me and pull out a gun. This has never happened to me until they built these apts. I hate to say, I really do, but it is the God honest truth. I won’t lie to spare anyone’s feelings.
A 79 Yes....I’m more than sure that describes every place Blacks live. In your generalization of Black residential neighborhoods, let’s not forget the trashy trailers and run down houses in ghettos that provide shelter for every White meth head and heroin addict in the USA. Or, perhaps, those residential inhabitants are more acceptable based on skin color. Is it behavior that can be observed in ALL people, or just skin color for you? No one would want to live next to what you described, but disregard for neighborhood values comes in ALL colors. I said that and I’m not sparing your feelings.
there was a old white lady she passed away now, but she had lived in our neighborhood. i knew her every since i was a little boy iam 43 now and it's and all black neighborhood but she lived there when it use to be an all white neighborhood and blacks where not allowed in that part of town. she use to ride the bus back then and tell her death and it was nice to hear her talk about the changes that she's seen and been in and i was always amazed at how that she grew up in that time period but didn't take on the hate that was at that time and because of that the neighborhood took care of her. When she died the neighbors made sure she had a wonderful funeral. the family didn't have to pay for a think. everybody came through for them.
The two women first called others and others were calling others and others were calling others. Those telephone were busy ringing and the lines were jam packed.
Watching the children play and holding hands reminded me if my childhood in the playground. We could learn so much from the innocence of children. They don't care about colour. They just want to have fun. Its the grown ups who are the problem.
there was a spell where I did not have a car and had to take the bus. I was thankful it was available, but what a hassle. This was before cell phones and uber. I wondered how people did it on a daily basis. I got dropped off in a few neighborhoods, where I had no idea where I was, since I got on the wrong line and branch. Oh, the fond memories. It beat walking.
Had a black family move right next door (60's) they were VERY good people. Played with them a lot, we were young ranging in ages 3 to 12. Funny how when you're young skin color doesn't matter.
My family was one of the first black families to move to a white neighborhood in Houston in 1972 and I remember cross burnings, rocks thrown through windows and new surrounding houses immediately going up for sale. Some didn't want me coming to the neighborhood pool. It was not an easy thing. Could you imagine explaining this to your child?
And there weren't any negative actions by black people first or after? Crime for instance. Or just totally innocent? In my experience the real deep and dangerous racism comes from black people more often. Not to say there aren't tons of awesome black people. True enough but we can't ignore facts. Even if it's just our experience.
It’s still happening here in 2023. Breaks my heart. I educate as much as I can whenever I hear ignorance from someone’s mouth towards black people. A black woman saved my life. She was the only person I ever met who CARED. And when she told me God loved me I finally believed. I truly feel sorry for racists. They miss out on so much. Love is God and God is love. Hate of any kind is the opposite of God. Love your neighbor as yourself. Not more than yourself. Not less than yourself. Jesus said as your self. Golden rule. We’re all one.❤
There are racists on both sides. And everyone has different experiences, but I wish I could end it all. Love is the key, and Jesus is the ultimate key.
I hope you don't think only white people are racists. I have had many experiences with black people as well. I have had black people tell me they only want black people to help them where I used to work because we worked on commission. These days many people believe that is okay but if a white person ever said that to a black person it would be all over the news.
@@timeforchange3786 white racism is much worse than black racism since whites definitely started it with the slave trade and calling themselves superior so your point isn’t that strong 💪🏾
My best friend for 1 summer was a black girl. They were the only black family in our neighborhood. We hung out everyday the summer before 9th grade, High School. 2 days before school started, she road her bike to my house to tell me we couldn't be friends anymore. I asked why. She said "You know" I said, "No, I don't know" She said "Because I'm black and you're white" I said "So? I don't understand" She said "I'm sorry" and just road away. Yes, I would see her in school, but she acted like she didn't know who I was. Im crying about it right now, just thinking about it. It broke my heart.
I’m white and when I was in high school, my mom sold a nearby house to a black couple, and a crossed was burned on their lawn and our house was vandalized. It really pissed me off
@@W0mpW0mp999 That doesn’t show you in a very good light!! It says that you think so little of yourself that you have to belittle and bully another group of people!!! I feel sorry for you and yours!!
I've in Louisiana with always a large black populace. NEVER HEARD OR SAW A CROSS BURNED. EVER. I have trouble believing this. We had David Duke run for Governor and almost won. Never saw or heard anything like burning a cross. You know why. We got along. There might of been a few things but never to this degree!
I have NEVER seen as many recommendations for ONE channel in my right hand feed. EVERY SINGLE recommendation is for Reelback One. There are NO other channels.
Your grandmother makes a good point! Whites hate on each other, but more so on BLACKS. They hate on a color line ALL people starting with themselves, then Chinese/Japanese, Middle Easterners, Indians and AFRICANS.
"A typical family from a middle class neighborhood in a typical American town. A family wants to sell. A family wants to buy. A simple transaction in every dimension. Except, in the Twilight Zone"
:( yes Yolanda, it is. I'm sorry. I fight, my kids fight and my grandkids are being raised to fight too. There needs to be more white people fighting the bigotry. Stay safe 💙
It still goes on today. Everywhere!!! It’s getting worse every day, week, month, year!!! It’s scary to live in this country now as a Black Woman with Black children, grandchildren, and great grand children, siblings, nieces, nephews, friends!!! Why do white men think all Black men want their woman? But they will readily disrespect a Black woman thinking we all want and find them attractive?? We don’t. We want the same things for our families that they do!!! Children are taught prejudice and bigotry by their families and other adults. Children play together until adults interfere!!! “Those people!”. I dealt with that in college at MICH STATE UNIV., in the late 60’s and early 70’s. My white roommates father tried to have her room switched because I was Black and wore a Natural hair style. This effects your thinking all your life. You trust others but always Waite for the other shoe to drop against you.
Yup, a lot of folks forgot how deeply it was still rooted in the 70’s especially. I was the only black guy in my kindergarten class 1977. There were never more than 2 of me for the rest of my grades in elementary. I still managed to make some good friends despite how their parents felt about me. I guess I was too young to notice a lot. Wasn’t till I reached 9th grade when I realized all the crazy bigotry I went through. I used to just think my friends parents were just tired and grumpy from working. 😂🤣 I was definitely wrong.
@@bigcali173 I'm Asian and I grew up in an Aisan (Chinese) neighborhood, my parents who were born and raised in Taiwan were pretty much the only couple who'd think it was ok to have black neighbors. The home sellers actually wouldn't really care who the homes were sold to but other Asian neighbors were so concerned that they would intimidate them from selling any of the mansions in the neighborhood to any people of color whatever social statuses they were, otherwise they'd threaten to manage to turn them into haunted mansions before they even did, so they wouldn't even dare to try. You can come visit my hometown and the nearby cities such as Rowland Heights, Cerritos and Rosemead, you'd hardly spot a black person there. Of course I can't afford to live there either now. When a Chinese American's looking at houses, as the top priority they make sure the entire neighborhood is free from blacks, then they go into the prices. They're seropis;u scared of people with darker skin. 🤣😂
@@BeAManPodkast Yeah and white people are much more accepting than Indians, Chinese, Koreans, and even Hispanics. Black residents are much more expected to be seen in a white neighborhood than in a Chinese or Korean one. The only reason a Hispanic would live in a neighborhood with a significantly large black population would be because they couldn't afford not to. It's not a Caucasian thing, black people have to deal with way more prejudice in most other countries, especially in China, it's common and considered ok for a restaurant there to reject black and any types of foreign customers.
I love that adorable scene of the girls skipping together, holding hands, faces full of joy! ❤ the heart is so pure and open when we are little ones❤ I lived in a mixed race apartment complex in the bay area in the 80s...Never thought about any differences between myself and the other kids. All I remember is one day noting how interesting it was when my friend and I held our arms next to each other, observing briefly our skin tones...then we started playing and laughing again. I miss those innocent, pure wonderful beautiful days...wide open hearts and wide smiles❤arms linked, hearts linked. ❤ uncomplicated, free.....
I prefer to live in a black neighborhood. My family looked at house in the white part of town. They got a call sometime later that the house burned to the ground. This was @'72. That was in Staten Island, NY.
Carolyn Gaskin last days my ass . I guess it wasn’t the last day when we were being raped slaved and killed . The white mans bullshit Bible has your head messed up
Not really! Its Block Busting. Its about money! The first seller yo a black family knocks the prices down like a rock. If you work and pay a mortgage. You don't want have a worthless home. My Childhood home is abandoned in the city of Chicago. The solution is the flight to the suburbs. I don't understand it. I know that blacks get redlined by realators. Again, It's all about money. Money and realistate... Morality doesn't exist in the value of a home.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun It would have been reasonable “during those times” for reprobates to have been satisfied with their own lot in life and stayed settled on their own land when the boundaries were already fixed by the Supreme Creator.
@Slim Pickens Yep, as long as you 🙉 no evil, 🙊no evil, 🙈 no evil and that you remain docile without question or any further investigation or might as well look forward to being afflicted.
I have noticed one reasonably consistent trend about white and ethnic neighborhoods. In ethnic and/or city neighborhoods, we spend a lot of time outside. Our neighborhoods are full of mobile vendors, ladies with strollers, and 2nd and 3rd shift workers using their day as 1st shifters use their nights. It feels completely normal for our neighborhood to be alive and buzzing in the afternoon. In white and/or suburban neighborhoods, I have noticed most people spend a lot of time indoors. Most people there work a first shift, and they are all on the same schedule. It is completely normal to walk through one of these neighborhoods in the afternoon and only see a couple of people outside. For people that come from either one of these neighborhoods, they may feel odd or strange when they are in the other. Ethnic people may feel like the quiet of the suburbs is eery and creepy. White people may feel like the buzz of the city neighborhood is strange and abnormal. The truth is, both are fine, and some white people prefer a buzzing inner city neighborhood, and some ethnic people prefer a quiet suburban neighborhood. We just have to be willing to let people define themselves as they wish, instead of disturbing those who live true to themselves, and not social expectations.
But it's whites keeping folk out of their neighnorhoods. In Berkeley, California whites have moved to black neighborhoods and being accepted. In fact there is a white motocycle gang that has existed for 30+ years in a black neighborhood😞
My father's parents immigrated from Italy, and my father was born in the US in 1914. He was old enough to remember when Italians were discriminated against, though of course not as much as Black people were. The suburban street I grew up on (ironically, in a Tudor-style home like the one in the film) was mostly white, but had a Black family and a Korean/Hawaiian family whose kids I was friends with, as well as Catholic and Jewish families.
Justin Aames , You make me Laugh Ha Ha Ha She dialed that phone with Quickess didn't She ?? Make me 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂 Oh Man 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 can't stop Oh hurt my stomach .
No...it IS fear. Many of these white folks had never met or spoken to a person of color. Many are afraid that a black family will move in and show anger towards their white neighbors for the anger they possibly feel over slavery. Look, black people still hate whites for slavery, and no one alive today had a thing to do with it--nor would we. Assumptions about other races is the ignorance that causes this type of situation. And it is wrong.
My family moved to an all white block in 1972...one night someone ripped the railing off our porch and threw it threw our front window...one of the other neighbors was mad and told us who did it...after that everyone on the block became friends ...the who did it moved after someone beat him up???
My life story, I WAS the black family that moved in, this movie depicts what is possible. My Dad having to CLEAN his guns on the porch for a WEEKEND, is the only way we got the death threats to stop, Corporate brat, (Kodak, Levis, Prudential) moved 18x by the time I was 18,
In the early-70s a black couple was preparing to close on a house down the street when some of yhe neighbors pooled their money and bought the house out from under them. It was truly despicable.
the one comment in the short video that stood out was at 10:22 the narrator said "why do they go were they're not wanted", the same phrase echoes in my head when I read and hear about how "They have exported all brown-skinned people from around the world"
I live in Birmingham, Alabama too. Of course things have gotten even better than 40 years ago. I’m glad you lived in a great neighborhood. My neighborhood has Black, Asian, Latino and Indian families. We all get along fine and help each other when needed, get together for cookouts, etc, that’s what being a good neighbor is.
Gary Garrett yeah I’m pretty sure 62 years ago white people could refuse to service black people in a restaurant and the place wouldn’t get shut down because of it, white people would never even consider voting for a black man to be president of the USA, interracial relationship were illegal, so tell me are any of these things that I mention still relevant in the year 2020? (Or even in 2019 when you posted this comment?) No it isn’t, so it’s pretty ignorant for you to say that nothing hasn’t change in America since the 1950s.
C Hoc So what part of my comment offended you? There was nothing I said that was offensive at all so if it makes you upset it’s probably because you can’t handle facts, sounds to me that you are the one who needs to go change your diaper bitch
C Hoc ok first off Trump is not a racist, he never actually said anything racist and I bet the only reason you think he is racist is because you mindless believe everything you hear on CNN or some other bullshit news media out there, also no one can OWN division, racism, or bigotry these things are not animate objects they are a state of mind and no one is immune to it, people on the left could be divisive, racist, and bigoted as well.
If people realized that we are all one, literally, not hypothetically then they would know that everything does affect everyone. You cant separate yourself from yourself. Lol ❤ Took me years to know this one fact that healed me and changed eveything for me.
This is very interesting, at first I thought it was a racist film, however it is actually a racism film. Very educational on history. Not sure if this was forward thinking for the time but it feels like a forward film for what I imagine the time was like.
Yes, it was forward thinking but there were obviously a lot of people who felt that way, otherwise the movie would not have been made...and 7 years later the Civil Rights Act was passed, so, I think it was actually dawning on people that discrimination and prejudice is wrong. Not in the South, obviously.
It is a movie about ventriloquist dummies terrorizing a neighborhood in Washington state and the police came and put the dummies in a box 👮🏼👮🏼♂️ 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
So is Chinatown a ghetto is little Italy a ghetto is Korea Town a ghetto..no..a ghetto is when you have a bunch of low vibrational people all surrounding each other that's a ghetto
PROFOUND...was so moved by this and the embedded wisdom--it's sad in some ways that the message didn't land back then in a way so many of us wish it had, BUT wonderful to know that great efforts like this DID happen, and surely still carries a message that's utterly timeless & of tremendous value...THANK YOU...❤...T.
@@theculturedthug6609 If it's presented and taught as the basic ternet of humanity, of how we're supposed to treat each other as human beings, then it wouldn't feel as though they're being forced. Any rules or laws imposed in order to force the control and oppression people is unequivocally contrary to the inalienable rights of humankind. There will always be those who seek absolute power to rule over others. Children must be taught the Golden Rule; Do unto others... ✌❤
When I was 6 yrs old in 1970 the first black family moved into our neighborhood. I barely remember but there was racist remarks among the adults. Anyway it was a young couple with no children.All of us little white kids were curious about them. I remember that lady was so nice .she was the sweetest person to all of us kids.Also I remember she invited some of us girls inside her home and was teaching us about fingernail care and soaking your fingernails in milk was healthy.she even demonstrated. I am 55 yrs old and I’ll never forget that. Kids aren’t racist , they’re curious. Racism is taught.I am thankful that my parents brought me up to love everyone.❤️
You had great parents who didn't curse you with a closed mind👍
Emmylou Loves you Amen
Emmylou Loves you If kids/children are racist, then you tell me why they grow up year after year killing Blacks for no reason at all. Why don’t you go make a statement like this to the news media and see what type of response you get. Do Not Insult My Intelligence. I am Black First.
Sunshine Laugh idk I was just telling my story.
@Dustin StichOne having power over another.
Fifty years ago I came home from school to find two black kids playing on my swing set. Me n the girl became best friends till they moved away....now fifty years later we find that she works near the same town I now live in! We met for coffee and it was as if we’ve never been apart...
Thats so beutifull
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that makes me so happy :)
Thats amazing! I'm happy you were able to rekindle that friendship from all those years ago. America needs more togetherness
That's very moving thank you for sharing
My dad was born in 1933 and grew up very poor. That being said he lived in what he called the black community. His best friend was a black boy named Walter. Dad would get beat up on the 40s for walking around with his friend. Years later, when was dad passed away at the age of 76 I got to meet Walter at his funeral. What a hrsat man he was and spoke so highly of my dad. He told me dad never backed down and would always tell Walter to run cause he knew the kids would be harder on him. I'm glad I was able to be raised by a man that didn't judge people.
How fortunate that Walter had your father as a friend.
How fortunate for you - and all of us, that you were raised by such a Father.
@toystorycollector7025 Have you considering selling your house and moving to the hood? It would be a wonderful way to prove that you don't judge people, with the added benefit of cultural diversity and enrichment. :) Chances are, you could easily sell YOUR house to a black family trying to live with white neighbors, and you could take their house.
@@1rcuya1 That boy's daddy took a walk on the wild side.
how lovely but unlikely
I didn't watch this all the way through but it reminded me of a story the late Nat King Cole told of when he purchased a home in Beverly Hills. He said a group of his new neighbors came to his door and told him that they didn't want any 'undesirables' moving into their neighborhood. He just said to them, "Well if I see any, I'll let you know".
I never knew that, very profound (and true). Thanks for posting.
That is great!!!!!! They should have been honored to have him in their neighborhood. It’s not every day that a genius moves into the neighborhood!!!!!
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Lol! MANNNNNNNNNNNN!
Nat King Cole should have made friends with lots of people who were near him. Everyone loves thar guy and he knew it. What a great voice and talent..
The children don't know about racism until they learn it from their parents. Children just make new friends and play.
@Stay Wok Exactly!!Children(and people in general) are a product of their environment.Most kids(idk about now,but back then when i was growing up)idolized their parents,especially their fathers,as they were the "head of the household.What they believed was the gospel truth and kids assumed that all the ignorance was written in stone with blood!I grew up in Ca. where it wasnt(as a rule) as prominent as say,the southern states.I didnt know my parents "stand" on other races or even KNEW anything about other races really.I lived in Saratoga where everybody was white.I was SO THRILLED(unlike our neighbors) when a black family moved into the neighborhood!I came home from school and told my mom"Susie thinks SHES got a tan.Theres a new girl at school who has the greatest tan i have ever seen.Can i ask her over to play?When she found out that she was black,she laughed so hard!Thank goodness my parents werent racist.The neighbors would stare when she would come over.I thought they were just jeolous bc my friend was special and different.WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH EVER,MUCH LESS STILL HAS SEPERATE PUBLIC RESTROOMS,EATING PLACES,SIGNS THAT SAID WHITES ONLY I WAS SPEECHLESS.HOW COULD THIS BE???TEACH UR CHILDREN WELL(sorry for the rant)
But eventually the children do learn to practice racism and come understand what it means to be white. Racism is practiced by white man, white woman and white child.
Afrika Rising -Anyone of any ethnicities can be racist.
@loki2240 Then explain how any ethnicity practices racism against white people.
Stay Woke Absolutely...
Good enough to cook their food, provide child and elder care, cleaning their homes, but not good enough to live next door.
Oh the irony! 😢😢
@coffeeinthemorning yes 🥰
Provide better ever than a husband, didn't provide for children but literally raised them. Second Mommies. Better wives than theirs too. Peace and thank you for raising such great ancestors for all of us. We're all mixed in by now. Love to all.
That was then this is now. Learn from the past as not to repeat it🙄
Yass
Born and raised in Oklahoma. My grandma lived in a small town on 11 acres, not many people live there now. But the town had segregated white and black, home's and school's. There was the sweetest lady that lived down from my grandma. Her name was Ms. Johnson. I used to get in trouble all the time because my grandma thought that I was bothering Ms. Johnson. The thing was, Ms Johnson always had a kind word, always had a smile, and as poor as she was always offered me something to eat! I loved this lady because she showed me the kindest and sweetest person full of love and life. There wasn't any color to me. She was what I wanted to be. So, Ms Johnson, you've been gone since the seventies and I was such a young girl. I wish I could have told you how I really felt. But grandma thought I bothered you too much. I always made excuses to come visit ❤
RIP Grandma Juanita
RIP Ms Johnson
Ye’s
My dad was from kingfisher County Oklahoma. There were alot of good people white and black in the area.
What about native Americans and other races?
@@marlanscott2508what about native Americans and other races?
@@VermontFootballBetter this certainly was native land to begin with. I have much respect for the native people. We have an all Indian center in the city that I live in.
In 1980 my family lived in a all white city. We had never interacted with different races and we displayed prejudices. We had a family move nextdoor to us that came from Kenya. We were up in arms and outraged our old neighbor sold to them. As the years went on, we learned so much from them, they were the most beautiful people, the wife would cook us food and treats and eventually they became my parents closest friends. Taking holidays together and nights on the porch chatting. Unfortunately they've both passed on recently but they educated our minds and I'm so thankful they taught us we're all the same and they broke the cycle of ignorance in my family.
It was good for your family to be open to new friends.
Eh.
Real Africans who come here are really solid people.
The mud-bloods who claim they could be kangz, on the other hand, are typically anything but.
Dude this was beautiful. I’m sorry but racism needs to stop being met with anger sometimes it’s truly just a misunderstanding and fear/stereotypes. After a few convos we will all be cooking Kenyan recipes with one another regardless of where one falls on the color wheel haha
I think native African transplants behave differently than afro American sub culture
@@LucicPower they sure do. Not even the same species as American blacks. Every African (Kenyan, Ugandan, Congolese, Nigerian) I’ve ever known who has come here has been hard-working and law-abiding, with a strong emphasis on family.
I'm so glad that this film was set in the North. The South is always stigmatised for racism and segregation yet the North was virtually the same !!!
NYC is the most racist place you’ll ever live in. Blacks have no economic function there.
@@lordsesshoumaru8596 The things you watch... It's always people who have your digital diet that always seem to be seeking superiority when it comes to blacks or women. No one is inferior to you.
I had an African-American youth put it to me this way. "Up north, you can be equal, just don't be close. Down south, you can get close, but don't think you're equal."
I've always been ticked at how every time something happened that was racist and not in the south, "Oh, we've moved on from that. That's an isolated incident. We're not like they are in the south."
It was like northerners didn't have to deal with their own bigotries if they could still point at the south and say, "they're the racists. We're not like them in the south."
You look at history of the last forty years, it seems there was more racist encounters in northern and western locations than in the south.
But tell a northerner that and they'll bring up Emmet Till and the civil rights workers killed in '63. I wasn't even born when those happened.
The north was in no way as racist as the south although racism in the north did most certainly exist
@@mjsmith8641 Yes, you're right. The south is responsible for keeping black people out of film and television until the entertainment biz got the balls to defy us, our bigotry was so strong. Our racism was so defiant!
The problem today is obviously clinging to a past and stating the south was more racist. We don't have an out and are forced to deal with our bigotry, whereas northerners have always relied on insisting, "we're not as racist as THEY were," without resolving any issues.
"No, we're not racist. That was a misunderstanding. That was an isolated incident. We're not racist like they WERE in the south. We're not THAT bad."
And when the south does have an altercation of any kind, as we still have had happen, never said the south wasn't racist, "oh, that's the way THEY are down there. They always have been that way."
As long as someone feels they can point at someone else as being worse, they never will deal with their own problems.
Look up the names Willie Turks, Bernard Goetz, Michael Griffith, Yusuf Hawkins, Charles and Carol Stuart, Tawana Brawley, all of which were followed by Rodney King and OJ Simpson sometime. Yes, those were all in the past. That's not how ALL northerners were. Not like we were in the south.
James Craig Anderson was killed in Jackson, MS, in 2011, because that's the way WE are in the south, right?
I don't care what colour or religion anyone is, if they are nice to me, I'm nice to them. It's as simple as that.
Smokey Cat I agree with you but I really wish it was that simple!
Nope its not that simple ... white supremacy is built into the fabric of this country
Retonia Brashier Sorry don't agree with that, I live in Scotland, I have never heard anyone making racist comments. It is not tolerated here.
Smokey Cat I am glad to hear that but how many black people live in Scotland. And how many live in your neighborhood?
Thank You Smokey Cat
My parents bought a house in a coveted “white” Seattle neighborhood in 1958 for $8,500.00. I own it now and it’s worth about 1.5 million. I’m no mathematician (...just a lowly engineer), but I’d say that’s a pretty good appreciation rate.
Seems pricey for back then tbh, a house that cost $8.5k and was bought in 1958, I personally would want a return of at least $3million, still maybe I am just being greedy and basing it on prices of where I live 🤷
You better hope some Mexican doesn't move in next door and cause your property value to drop.
@@KuchiKopi179 she was a black woman. It was still legal to discriminate against ppl of color especially in banking
@@KuchiKopi179 more than likely….. they Hit her with the old “black” tax
@@ZDiddy7777 that's exactly the point of the flick. I'm Hispanic. Bought a home in an all white neighborhood. I get bad looks when I change my own oil in my garage. I don't park my car on the lawn. Why? Because I made half my front lawn a driveway.
Then guess what, suddenly my neighbors starting having bigger driveways and less front lawn.
Funny, my house is now worth $50,000 more than I bought it for.
Thanks to a Hispanic moving in an all white neighborhood
My dad grew up in the 30s and 40s in dirt poor Mississippi. He was one of the most unprejudiced men I've ever known. People of good will have always existed, in every era of time. Racism is a disease of the soul.
@Andrew barry What an oddly irrelevant comment.
@andrewbarry6702 Er.......what the......
@andrewbarry6702 Who gives a fck......
It isn't always a case of racism. All people don't have to live together. Who cares if a town filled with only African Americans exists? People have a right to live as they wish, provided that wish doesn't infringe on another. People who like multiculturalism and diversity can live in communities which support it. Ideally, everyone could be happy. I wouldn't care if there was an Italian only community or a Native American only community. Oh, wait! There are already native American communities. They are called, "reservations" or, "rez" in Native American parlance. The Amish and Mennonite Christian faiths have there own communities. I support them in their desires to keep their lives free of 'worldly things', for lack of a better phrase. To keep any potential trouble outside of their little slice of paradise on God's green Earth. This might be the closest thing to Heaven on Earth. Living amongst one's own. Every citizen living within the reality of his fellow citizens. Doing business with other communities of native Americans, Peruvians, African Americans and other people of color*.
*those of the darker persuasion, dark because their ancestors lived where being dark was considered an asset for a great many reasons including protection from the sun diurnally and protection from animals whilst foraging nocturnally. Presumably.
American Educator Stedman Graham just shed 357 pounds of ugly fat simply by divorcing Oprah Winfrey.
Actually, it’s a systematic disease.
I dont give 2 chits who lives next door to me as long as they are good ppl.
Right 👏
👏🏾 great deflection response! But really, I do commend your willingness to allow anyone to live next door to you... Thank you 😉!
However, the context here is NOT about “giving 2 chits who live next door....”, but about ... a black family... next door.
COVID-19 isn’t the only Pandemic that’s a problem today. But, like Covid-19 there are many bigoted people that are asymptomatic and blind to their true condition/status!
But no hate from me, i‘m just glad that at least some type of conversation seems to have started...
@@suffa07 i met a lot of those " im not racist, but .." they want to sympathized with out losing their racist prejudice.
Esmeralda Martinez so true! ...great observation.
@@Esmeraldaa17 did I imply that somehow?
I am still waiting for the narrator to say...Here on this street which just happens to be in...the Twilight Zone.
Exactly 😅😅😅damn..so sad
messenger2102 Lol I was thinking the same thing.
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I was about to say the same dam thing until I read your comment. Thief. You stole my thoughts. Lol
Rod Sterling was before his time he spoke out about racism, him being the narrator doesn't surprise me, listen Everytime he narrates, he is telling truths
The narrator isn’t Rod Serling.
The name is Rod SERLING, not Sterling.🙏🏿
And besides, this is not narrated by him.🙄
I thought it was him too!
It's simply the cadence of his spoken word delivery. It' s emphatic abd serious lije Rod's opening monologue but yes you could pissibly compare this to tge epusode I belueve was title " The mobster on Main Street " All the neighbirs were terrified there was a impersonatibg alien in there midst. Hystetia and paranoia ensues. Lol. Not too far off from this scenario huh??
Look at Cleveland, Detroit Chicago, Philadelphia.
Personally I don't dislike anyone until they give me a reason to.
Thank you for posting this.
I, personally have no desire to be anywhere that lacks a likeness of me. Lol, I don't want to be anywhere that privacy is not a priority, and common courtesy is not a requirement.
Lol, bet you thought that I spoke of likeness of skin color...but; I spoke of personality and morality.
I encourage everyone to live their best lives... out loud!!!
Amen
I grew up in an integrated neighborhood in The Bronx, NY. There have always been attitudes about race that I didn't (and still don't) understand at age 60. I agree with Ms. Stanfield. My parents brought me up properly. As a result, I gravitated to companions who were like-minded. Race wasn't even a factor. In reading some of the comments, I see that some may have given up hope. True, there is still much work to do, but, as long as one treats others as one want to be treated, that's a step in the right direction.
Everyone says that racism is learned by I don’t know. I grew up in an all whote area & with parents and grandparents who were extremely racist - out of fear, like this movie. Once I hit about age 10, it didn’t make sense to me. The black people I saw on Sesame Street and other TV shows really weren’t all that different than us, besides hair, obviously. We’d see black kids, parents and teachers when we went on field trips in school or to amusement parks and none of them had any desire to rape or kill us or rob us. The girls were so pretty with their hair in braids with beads. Their families were all there to have a good time like anyone else. It was then that I realized the fear was irrational. It wasn’t until I was a teen/early 20s that the crime rates started making sense. Of course there’s crime when people are desperate. Black people were not given the same opportunities for jobs and education... their ancestors weren’t allowed to own property, so a lot didn’t have property to pass on to an heir. I saw white people committing the same crimes but only getting a fraction of the punishment.
So no, racism and hate isn’t learned. Sure, it’s taught... but anyone who has more than 2 brain cells should easily be able to see for themselves by age 10 that these stereotypes and fears are irrational.
Agreed
@kirk mitchell 😂
This is like an episode of the Twilight Zone, except it's REAL.
I thought of the Twilight Zone immediately
It struck me the same way!
Exactly what I thought!
Sadly it is. Land of the FREE
Jim crow twilight zone
TV has always portray themselves as pure good people but history tell a different story and the same
@Chuck Bible That's not completely true. LOUIE ARMSTRONG , CAB CALLOWAY, LENA HORNE, NAT KING COLE. FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN. VARIETY SHOW, DENZEL WASHINGTON, SAMUEL L JACKSON , JESSE JACKSON, REVEREND AL SHARPTON, QUEEN OF SOUL-ARETHA FRANKLIN, GODFATHER OF SOUL-JAMES BROWN , GLADYS KNIGHT, THE FOUR TOPS, THE TEMPTATIONS and the list continues.
@Chuck Bible No disrespect but CAB CALLOWAY was not seen as negative You are right about the horrible legacy of discrimination and hate but you wrote that tv Always portrays blacks as negative. my point is there are so many positive portrayals of black people and the talent that is showcased through tv
@@creamcornsurprize6608 Cicely Tyson (the most talented phenomenal actress black or white), James Earl Jones, Sidney Portier, Jimmy Walker, Richard Pryor, Eddy Murphy, Danny Glover, Diahann Carroll, Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx, Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Lionel Richie, Todd Bridges, Gary Coleman, Debbie Allen; endless!
Vee Israel very true
@Ricki B. Take a look in the bible to know who started slavery
Wonder what this neighborhood looks like today?
Probably somewhere northern New Jersey, like Maplewood.
How do they think the native Americans feel when they came here and took their land...
Are you here in the US? The place you live was also taken. Not just the homes of the whites.
We didn’t take it, we fought and died for it.
These people who they call black,negro,are the Native American, you either went to the Reservation or the ghettos! Hidden truth!
@@johnsmith-qe2fd No u stole it! Doctrine of Discovery, Dom Diversa!
@charlie parker Colombus and his brother, the U.S Government archives,Desoto wrote about it,William Byrd 2 wrote about it the guy who founded Ritchmond VA! Its everywhere, not the bs they lie about in these schools!
Love how Hollywood was able to portray themselves as themselves but somehow still manage to go on as if they didn't see their true nature.
They just lettin us kno that they kno whats up. Theyve always known. And we cant do shit aboit it
That part
@NoBody Wuvs Me umm hollywood? Tf
This wasn't a feature film. It was produced by an educational institution in New York. Please read.
Yes it has changed a lot
I believe that you are not born racist, it is taught in the home.
True. God don't show favoritism, because we are all created in the image of God. We are all unique in God's eyesight. God is love, not hate. God's says for your pray enemies, Matthews 5:44; Romans 12:20.
Now, it's taught in the schools. But, everyone is OK with it today.
Everything you are is taught by not only your parents but your history environment and experiences
@@jeffreymartin8448 explain that ?
What is taught in schools?
Who is ok with what?
@@sitimaan5054 I am white. My daughter is half white. She came home from 3rd grade one day crying: "Daddy, why didn't you tell me you're white?". They taught her that day in school that her daddy is white and inherently racist. They've been poisoning her mind ever since.
I’m in England and many years ago, when I was a toddler, a black, American army family moved next door. I don’t remember them, but my late mum loved them. Both our families were friends and the mum of the family gave my mum some beautiful American baby clothes for me. The children were called Laverne, Bobby and, I think Frizby. Although Frizby could have been a nick name.
Anyway, my family spoke about them often and we had photos of them with me and my brother.
My son is in the USAF and he was stationed in England. He was living I Bradford, he is black and his wife is white. No one in that neighborhood even spike to them, the racism hung in the air. They would have done better in London, but he had to be close to the base. He is stationed in Missouri now, and it is racist there also.
My dearest and closest friend I met when I was 19 at work. I helped her with a report she had to complete as she was having problems operating a mag card typewriter lol. She was new to it. I stayed behind and helped her. I am 62 now and she is still my dearest and closest friend. I loved when we went out for dinner or a special occasion as people would Iook AND keep looking either at her ebony smooth skin, or my China doll white skin. Either way as I married and had children, our families blended. She is as much a part of my family as my family is of hers. I don't see colour. I see goodness, decency, character and morals. That is why we were and still are friends, and will continue to be. My dear sweet sweet Maria, I'm so grateful for your friendship and for you being part of my life ❤
You sound just like me. I met Athena (not her real name) at college in Texas when we were both freshmen in 1986. I am white, she is black. We hit it off immediately over mutual interests and we've been friends ever since then. We live 250 miles apart but we have been chatting with each other for almost 40 years. We also visit each other in our own home towns. The only people who look funny at us when we're out at restaurants or other public places are the "woke" white liberals who think they have to treat us differently because we're together. SMH...
Those folks aren't liberal or woke....not real like this story.
That is the most beautiful story L.B. God bless you and your friend Maria ❤
How lovely. 💕😁💕
"My China doll white skin"...oh please!
Great film. I have never understood what IT was about black people that was so undesirable. Every RACE has BAD people. Distinguish the bad from good by character, NOT color.
I'm white I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood, and as you say there are good people of all different colors I had no problem with anybody based on race
Kena W when you know who you are then you will know why your hated
That's easy to say when you have intelligence, a soul and you're not a hybrid of a human.
@@3rdeyedread750 2
J Gunn it was blacks who civilized your nasty ancestors who never took a bath or brush their teeth. Your just jealous you ain’t black
"What are they so afraid of? They think we're gonna eat 'em?"
"No, marry 'em!"
_ A Raisin in the Sun
Love it
One of the best movies ever made.
god 4bd u outshine thm!
They’re not afraid, they just want to have their own white world and not have anybody else in it They enjoy and thrive when surrounded by their own race.
@@200x-v4k Only 16% of the planet is White. Why are so against such a small minority? Will you ever break free from your own racism? Doubtful the world ever will. Whites are the most opposed and discriminated demographic in the world today.
Thank you Reelblack One, for yet another brilliantly curated find. It resonates to me as a 70-year-old white Southerner, and I wish my small-town "community" had seen something like this. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have mattered a parlor damn; even after all these years it still pisses me off that I wasn't allowed to invite my friend Pearl to my fifth birthday party for reasons I didn't understand at the time, and still don't. Not then, not now, not ever.
Thank you
All of those phones ringing simultaneously sound almost as crazy as the people making the calls.
I emigrated to the U.S. from Canada after meeting an African-American woman who wanted to move back to the states. We ended up in CT and were looking for a place to live (this was 1977). I didn't understand why she sent me alone to look for apartments and I thought I had one. Then we both went to look at it and the landlord said the place had been rented in the few hours that passed. Ironically that whole neighborhood had become mostly black by the 90s and now is mostly Hispanic. Housing discrimination is real and hasn't changed that much.
I have a black neighbor and they are the.most kind and helpful neighbors you could hope to have.
I am in my 80s have had many neighbors but not not as good as them..
Hispanic is not a race .
All Spanish speaking and Portuguese speaking countries are known as Hispanic countries .
Hispanics can be pure White European descendants , Black African descendants Hispanic , Mixed race Hispanics , Indegenous Hispanics etc - .
Do you know that 50% of Brazilian population out of 200 million are Pure White Europeans descendants .
Argentina is 90% White country ( Most Argentina people are Italians or Spaniards) .
@Josh TylerPortuguese is considered part of Hispanic because it is very similar to Spanish . And they are of same language family.
CT ?? Where is that sorry my ignorance I’m not from The USA 🇬🇧
@@lucaschapman2188 It's the abbreviation for the state of Connecticut, on the east coast.
Our creator is not racist so why should we. Every race has contributed something different that is what makes humans unique.
Tell that to Israel
Well, our creator created Testosterone, which boils down to everything
Testosterone in homo sapiens I mean
@@12yearssober why kick others?
@@whyaminotoriginal
Ask Israel
It was worth the watch. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It was short, but long enough to make the point!!!! The writer and director did an excellent story to help communities see themselves for change.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I have BB King's wonderful autobiography "Blues All Around Me", and he spoke of buying a nice house in a "white" neighborhood, and the people who sold him the house got hell from some of the street. Can you imagine that? I would have loved having BB as a neighbor!
The music coming from that place alone would triple home values!
THATS why I sing the blues. ( That's the name of one of his songs .)
I'm not a person that hates anyone. But i have come to know for a fact, and it has been proven to me that where ever you have white people you will have hate and mistreatment of people. Who are not like them especially black people. I know this for a fact.
what is it was just an everyday black person?
Thank you for posting this. I was born the year it was made. My father was very bigoted. Not just blacks, but Jews, Polish, Italians..basically anyone who wasn't Irish. I moved out at 17 because of it. Now I'm a Grandmother of 4. My kids are GenX'rs. I raised them properly without prejudice to any group. They grew into wonderful human beings and have helped me to understand what is happening now in 2020. It's all so very sad. We are one...humans. I hope to live long enough for *everyone* to finally understand this. It's up to each and every one of us. Please let's make it happen~
As an Irish man he should have known better.
....addition. My son made this video of my inlaws life (white's in the south). They were wonderful people. Not everyone was racist ua-cam.com/video/h3G8ui885_M/v-deo.html
Well said!! ❤️❤️
Good job bring your children up the Bible book of Proverbs c 22 v 6 Train up a boy in the way he should go even when he grows old it will not depart from him peace to you Eileen
As an Italian lady, i thank you, for sticking up for us! xxxx
I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. I can truly say it was the richest most rewarding experience I ever could have had.
Italians and Irish don’t count 😂🤣
@@bobsingh5521 it wasn't just Irish and Italian. It was Black White Asian and Hispanic. Mostly Black and White. But, we all got along fine.
Me too
thank God...so did I...there were Black, White & Hispanics that lived on my street...there were also a few gay people that lived on my street...2 of them, were lifelong friends...so, that's how diverse my neighborhood was...I honestly don't think we knew there was a racial difference, like that when I was growing up...it just Never came up in a conversation...I mean, Never...
@@toyaadams8167 we would have make believe race wars and be playing ball together the next day 😂. It wasn't a big deal.
As corny as this was, I found myself deeply moved. All the heroes of the civil rights movement, those we know and especially those who we don’t that often sacrificed their lives, are the last great heroes of the modern age. I’m biracial and I was born in the 90s in Southie in Boston, a neighborhood that had just been desegregated slowly over the previous decade, a neighborhood where tensions were still high. And that was where my black mom met my Irish dad. Thank you to the civil rights generation ❤
"We don't see things how they are, we see things how we are." Dr. Joe Dispenza
I'm a rapist and a murderer?
Deep comment.
Why is this starting like a scary movie??? 🤣😂 I'm so nervous 🤣
Because it is terrifying.
@@karieslone4620 Always remember to repent of your sins (sin is transgression of YAHUAH’S LAW: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy) And Have Belief On YAHUSHA HAMASHYACH. HE Died and Rose three days later so that you can be forgiven of your sins!
HE Loves you! Come to HIM!🙂🙂
It is a scary movie for the Black people.
🤣🤣🤣
because it's like real life living amongst these racist psychopaths
Really good. When I was a kid, perhaps 6 or 7, I came running to my grandmother's car from a day at summer school, with a couple of friends that I had made that day: twin black girls. I always remembered the shocked & appalled look on GM's face when she pulled me into the car and said, "you can't play with THEM!". I never understood why, though she tried to "explain" to me. Sadly, my new friends must've seen or heard her; I never saw them again, which was a real loss. Wish there'd been shorts like that I could have shown to my grandmother and grandfather.
Daam yr grandma was racist..wat year was dat
Unfortunately it probably wouldn't have mattered what you showed them
I grew up in St Joseph Missouri in the seventies. The schools were still segregated by the way the school zones for attendance were drawn. Late seventies the boundaries were redrawn and I was now in an interracial school. Best thing that could happen as we actually got to meet and know black folks.
And you couldn’t do that on your own? I did
@@chriscampbell7895 desegregation of schools was often done via busing. That means most neighborhoods were still segregated. Depending on where you lived you might have no other opportunity to meet children of a different race.
I remember when I was a kid, maybe around 10 or so in the late 60's, there were news reports about segeration on tv. I remember my father asking me what I thought if a black family moved into the neighborhood? I said if they could afford to buy a home here, why shouldn't they. If they were going to invest in property wouldn't they want to keep it up and improve it? I remember the look on my father's face was of awe to what I said and realized that it was true.
Yeah right a ten-year-old talking about investing in property bulshit
This video is an eye opener and it brings me to think about how redlining came about. I truly believe whites fought hard/came together ( just as this movie depicts ) and came up with ways to keep blacks in undesirable areas. On another note, it’s funny how whites can’t stand blacks moving close to them but they are quick to gentrify nice black neighborhoods.
Tessie you must not have read my last sentence because if you did, you wouldn’t respond like a incoherent bitch. I said that blacks who do live in nice areas (DESIRABLE AREAS WERE BLACKS TAKE CARE OF THEIR COMMUNITY), white people like to gentrify what blacks work so hard to accomplish. Also there are white ghettos, so take your megalomaniac nonsense elsewhere. You didn’t even touch on redlining either prick!
@Tessie GTHOH What do you know about Black people? Do you have black friends? Family? Hang out with black people? Are you invited into our homes? Holiday with us? Do you know a thing about BLACK HISTORY? No. Only what your RACIST, evil mind and environment tells you. What the HELL are you doing in black spaces if you HATE black people so much???? If you knew anything about black people, those places that you call ghetto, were like that because of black POVERTY as a result of systemic racism and discrimination that kept black people poor! Caused by RACIST minds like yours! It all starts with a JOB! That pays well. Well if you have been criminalised, demonised... for being black...... that becomes a major hurdle, doesn't it?
Tessie
“They made them that way”. There was a time when Blacks were relegated to the “other side of the tracks”. The areas where the sewage treatment plants were, the creosote and fertilizer plant were. Eyesores and undesirable, yet necessary elements, like water towers, railroad tracks had been placed.
Yes...they always had an opportunity to make those areas better...
Tessie I wholeheartedly agree with you. People want to jump on the offensive because it’s impolite to be PI. I for one prefer to base my conclusion on facts of observations.
My neighborhood borders the AA side of town, where prostitution, panhandling, drugs, murder, and everything criminal under the sun occurs. They recently knocked down all of the projects and started building Apts here in my neighborhood and the projects people moved in. Now crime has gone up in my neighborhood. I went walking to the park, where I’ve been going to since the early 80’s only to have a group of young AA threaten me and pull out a gun. This has never happened to me until they built these apts. I hate to say, I really do, but it is the God honest truth. I won’t lie to spare anyone’s feelings.
A 79
Yes....I’m more than sure that describes every place Blacks live. In your generalization of Black residential neighborhoods, let’s not forget the trashy trailers and run down houses in ghettos that provide shelter for every White meth head and heroin addict in the USA. Or, perhaps, those residential inhabitants are more acceptable based on skin color.
Is it behavior that can be observed in ALL people, or just skin color for you? No one would want to live next to what you described, but disregard for neighborhood values comes in ALL colors.
I said that and I’m not sparing your feelings.
I grew up in an all Black neighborhood in a home, it was truly beautiful and I feel blessed to have had it. Thanks to my beloved Parents.
Me too! My parents refused to flee when the others did. I had the best childhood and neighbors.
Could be scary, bringing your kids to a all white neighborhood.
@Tessie People like you are whats scary
@Tessie FOH, troll.
I just grew up .
Great video mate. Cheers for uploading it. It's amazing how times change
I live in an all black neighborhood and have never wanted to live anywhere near whites and I'm age 63 and have lived in this home for 39 years.
N2LADIES55 😍💯
God bless u
AND IT FEEL NORMAL RIGHT LESS PROBLEMS
Good for you
there was a old white lady she passed away now, but she had lived in our neighborhood. i knew her every since i was a little boy iam 43 now and it's and all black neighborhood but she lived there when it use to be an all white neighborhood and blacks where not allowed in that part of town. she use to ride the bus back then and tell her death and it was nice to hear her talk about the changes that she's seen and been in and i was always amazed at how that she grew up in that time period but didn't take on the hate that was at that time and because of that the neighborhood took care of her. When she died the neighbors made sure she had a wonderful funeral. the family didn't have to pay for a think. everybody came through for them.
Damn...she was calling everyone on the block...phones ringing off the hook...damn!! Lol
😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂
The two women first called others and others were calling others and others were calling others. Those telephone were busy ringing and the lines were jam packed.
@@childoftheking7773 #4reals
Fear is one hell of a motivator.
And 15yrs later The Sylvers cashed in on the song inspired by Whitey.
Hot line, hot line
Calling on the hot line ...
Whitey always provides
Black or white. All I ask is Respect!!
Axel Jacques 👈🏼 Your problem. Y’all always hide behind something like Cowards. Now, it’s Fake Pages. ⚠️
Honestly
Same here!
So true!
Respect is earned, not given. MLK knew all about that.
Watching the children play and holding hands reminded me if my childhood in the playground. We could learn so much from the innocence of children. They don't care about colour. They just want to have fun. Its the grown ups who are the problem.
2019 and this is still taking place.
Nothing has changed in this country except the date on the calendar.
@@bruno8126 I want you to live there too.
@@bruno8126 WOW .And I'm white .We all bleed red so much hate in the world .I don't see color .🙏✌💙
@@jackiemarini3203 He said free Negro neighborhood not Negro free neighborhood.
Yep still petty.
Smh! If it wasnt in black and white it would be a movie for 2019
Adore Ivette Sure would👊🏽
preach
I 100% totally agree!!
I concur wholeheartedly.
Adore Ivette Amen!!!
Boy this IS the Twilight Zone. All those middle class white men taking the bus in the suburbs.
Totally gave me Twilight Zone vibes. I adore that show.
There was a time when many people took public transportation to and from work or school.
It sounds like rod serling
Back whites COULD use public transportation. Now, do so at your own risk!
there was a spell where I did not have a car and had to take the bus. I was thankful it was available, but what a hassle. This was before cell phones and uber. I wondered how people did it on a daily basis. I got dropped off in a few neighborhoods, where I had no idea where I was, since I got on the wrong line and branch. Oh, the fond memories. It beat walking.
The good ole days I miss it I was born in the 60s would love to go back to it
"You know how I was brought up.. narrow, not evil but not much good either" she's being bluntly honest there
It's a shame that the children can get along well with or most all reces , but the adults aren't even going to give it a try.
Remember the Black man who lived in a rich neighborhood and the police didn't believe it? He even opened the door with his key's.
Sauce?
That happened to the singer T. I. a couple years ago-
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun its source not sauce 🤣
@@sunbabbyyy1776 Both actually
Never heard that story.
Had a black family move right next door (60's) they were VERY good people. Played with them a lot, we were young ranging in ages 3 to 12. Funny how when you're young skin color doesn't matter.
Wow, a 1957's Barbecue Becky...look she's running into the house to call 911!
messenger2102 🙂🤔
Jacquline Pauley just like they wanted BW cooking their food
messenger2102 , Very hilarious! So, so funny!
😅😅😅😅😅
I’m on your side, but shit a 1957 Becky was way worse and there were more...
My family was one of the first black families to move to a white neighborhood in Houston in 1972 and I remember cross burnings, rocks thrown through windows and new surrounding houses immediately going up for sale. Some didn't want me coming to the neighborhood pool. It was not an easy thing. Could you imagine explaining this to your child?
My father made it a point to teach me that all people should be respected.
❤❤❤
Thank you for your endurance so that we can be free. You are strong
Sorry you had to go through this.. my people are evil as sin
Doubtful, sorry but everyone seems to have same story. Yeah it happened a lot but not as much as the people making these comments
And there weren't any negative actions by black people first or after? Crime for instance. Or just totally innocent? In my experience the real deep and dangerous racism comes from black people more often. Not to say there aren't tons of awesome black people. True enough but we can't ignore facts. Even if it's just our experience.
History was made the first Karens 3:30
"I'm going to get Dick on the phone right away." - 1950's Karen lol
Just typical conservatives, really
OMG, I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing!!!
@Cadilac Gaboy absolutely!
You pissin Ken off
It’s still happening here in 2023. Breaks my heart. I educate as much as I can whenever I hear ignorance from someone’s mouth towards black people. A black woman saved my life. She was the only person I ever met who CARED. And when she told me God loved me I finally believed. I truly feel sorry for racists. They miss out on so much. Love is God and God is love. Hate of any kind is the opposite of God. Love your neighbor as yourself. Not more than yourself. Not less than yourself. Jesus said as your self. Golden rule. We’re all one.❤
There are racists on both sides. And everyone has different experiences, but I wish I could end it all. Love is the key, and Jesus is the ultimate key.
😂 no one cares about your wxird story go seek attention somewhere else ! Btw blks are racist too foh 🤡
I hope you don't think only white people are racists. I have had many experiences with black people as well. I have had black people tell me they only want black people to help them where I used to work because we worked on commission. These days many people believe that is okay but if a white person ever said that to a black person it would be all over the news.
@@timeforchange3786 Exactly
@@timeforchange3786 white racism is much worse than black racism since whites definitely started it with the slave trade and calling themselves superior so your point isn’t that strong 💪🏾
My best friend for 1 summer was a black girl. They were the only black family in our neighborhood.
We hung out everyday the summer before 9th grade, High School.
2 days before school started, she road her bike to my house to tell me we couldn't be friends anymore.
I asked why.
She said "You know"
I said, "No, I don't know"
She said "Because I'm black and you're white"
I said "So? I don't understand"
She said "I'm sorry" and just road away.
Yes, I would see her in school, but she acted like she didn't know who I was.
Im crying about it right now, just thinking about it. It broke my heart.
Racism cuts both ways but many won't admit that.
Riiiiiiight.........
That chick was racist. Sorry you were friends with such a racist segregationist.
Ironically not much has changed.
Not at all.
At all. I live in an all white neighborhood. It's been a nightmare!
now a days its the none whites that are racist
@@Nirobiscloset10 diversity isnt always a good thing
@@Angels1168 yes it is.
I’m white and when I was in high school, my mom sold a nearby house to a black couple, and a crossed was burned on their lawn and our house was vandalized. It really pissed me off
What an awful thing. What year was that? And well done to your mum for being open minded and working with clients of all kinds.
@Wompwomp ...Such strong words from someone hiding behind a keyboard. 😅
@@W0mpW0mp999 That doesn’t show you in a very good light!! It says that you think so little of yourself that you have to belittle and bully another group of people!!! I feel sorry for you and yours!!
By Democrats
I've in Louisiana with always a large black populace. NEVER HEARD OR SAW A CROSS BURNED. EVER. I have trouble believing this. We had David Duke run for Governor and almost won. Never saw or heard anything like burning a cross. You know why. We got along. There might of been a few things but never to this degree!
I have NEVER seen as many recommendations for ONE channel in my right hand feed. EVERY SINGLE recommendation is for Reelback One. There are NO other channels.
I love it 🥰
My granny said those are the meanest people on the face of this earth. They soulless
Your granny is wise.
Did you know that hate of any group of people will send a person to hell?
Your grandmother makes a good point! Whites hate on each other, but more so on BLACKS. They hate on a color line ALL people starting with themselves, then Chinese/Japanese, Middle Easterners, Indians and AFRICANS.
@@2dasimmons Not all whites, I would even say far from it.
Yes. They. Are.
"A typical family from a middle class neighborhood in a typical American town. A family wants to sell. A family wants to buy. A simple transaction in every dimension. Except, in the Twilight Zone"
Blind by choice??😙
Or does the old adage of ignorance being bliss, apply?😌
Or are you attempting to shoot a shot without revealing your weapon? 😳😯😶😏
Pablo... Exactly
Unfortunately it's America. Not the twilight Zone
:( yes Yolanda, it is. I'm sorry. I fight, my kids fight and my grandkids are being raised to fight too. There needs to be more white people fighting the bigotry.
Stay safe 💙
If this were a Twilight Zone episode, all the racists would wake up black at the end. If only all racists could.
This was still going on in the 1970s and 80s. I grew up listening to these conversations among my parents, neighbors, friends' parents, etc.
It still goes on today. Everywhere!!! It’s getting worse every day, week, month, year!!! It’s scary to live in this country now as a Black Woman with Black children, grandchildren, and great grand children, siblings, nieces, nephews, friends!!! Why do white men think all Black men want their woman? But they will readily disrespect a Black woman thinking we all want and find them attractive?? We don’t. We want the same things for our families that they do!!! Children are taught prejudice and bigotry by their families and other adults. Children play together until adults interfere!!! “Those people!”. I dealt with that in college at MICH STATE UNIV., in the late 60’s and early 70’s. My white roommates father tried to have her room switched because I was Black and wore a Natural hair style. This effects your thinking all your life. You trust others but always Waite for the other shoe to drop against you.
Trust me, its still going on in 2023.
Yup, a lot of folks forgot how deeply it was still rooted in the 70’s especially. I was the only black guy in my kindergarten class 1977. There were never more than 2 of me for the rest of my grades in elementary. I still managed to make some good friends despite how their parents felt about me. I guess I was too young to notice a lot. Wasn’t till I reached 9th grade when I realized all the crazy bigotry I went through. I used to just think my friends parents were just tired and grumpy from working. 😂🤣 I was definitely wrong.
@@bigcali173
I'm Asian and I grew up in an Aisan (Chinese) neighborhood, my parents who were born and raised in Taiwan were pretty much the only couple who'd think it was ok to have black neighbors. The home sellers actually wouldn't really care who the homes were sold to but other Asian neighbors were so concerned that they would intimidate them from selling any of the mansions in the neighborhood to any people of color whatever social statuses they were, otherwise they'd threaten to manage to turn them into haunted mansions before they even did, so they wouldn't even dare to try. You can come visit my hometown and the nearby cities such as Rowland Heights, Cerritos and Rosemead, you'd hardly spot a black person there. Of course I can't afford to live there either now. When a Chinese American's looking at houses, as the top priority they make sure the entire neighborhood is free from blacks, then they go into the prices. They're seropis;u scared of people with darker skin. 🤣😂
@@BeAManPodkast
Yeah and white people are much more accepting than Indians, Chinese, Koreans, and even Hispanics. Black residents are much more expected to be seen in a white neighborhood than in a Chinese or Korean one. The only reason a Hispanic would live in a neighborhood with a significantly large black population would be because they couldn't afford not to. It's not a Caucasian thing, black people have to deal with way more prejudice in most other countries, especially in China, it's common and considered ok for a restaurant there to reject black and any types of foreign customers.
I love that adorable scene of the girls skipping together, holding hands, faces full of joy! ❤ the heart is so pure and open when we are little ones❤
I lived in a mixed race apartment complex in the bay area in the 80s...Never thought about any differences between myself and the other kids. All I remember is one day noting how interesting it was when my friend and I held our arms next to each other, observing briefly our skin tones...then we started playing and laughing again.
I miss those innocent, pure wonderful beautiful days...wide open hearts and wide smiles❤arms linked, hearts linked. ❤ uncomplicated, free.....
I prefer to live in a black neighborhood. My family looked at house in the white part of town. They got a call sometime later that the house burned to the ground. This was @'72. That was in Staten Island, NY.
and Si is still racist
Staten Island is racist AF !
I live near them in the suburbs they respect me
Staten Island? Figures.
Maybe there is such a thing as institutional racism?
PREACHING IN NYC...
Judgement Day is coming, Therefore be ye Ready. Read the Bible, Pray, & Have Faith.
Carolyn Gaskin YOU ARE SO RIGHT THANK YOU MAY THE
MOST HIGH BLESS YOU ✌ OUT
Carolyn Gaskin last days my ass . I guess it wasn’t the last day when we were being raped slaved and killed . The white mans bullshit Bible has your head messed up
@@3rdeyedread750 You hate the white man for giving you a bible but you listen to white rock n roll music that the white man distributes.. Irony, huh?
@@charlestonrezz5188 How do you know what honk music a person listens too?? We Made Rock Dumbass
Because they think we are going to do to them what they did to us...
Exactly who fault is that Sad
White people, what can I say,hate there racist stuff,but there woman ,?
@Fanta Graham Truer words never spoken.
Only the bad ones would be afraid🤣🤣🤣
@Nicole Jessica hmm... It won't be the end of Black people. We're not our great grandparents.
I love these old school movies 🎬 reminds me of my great great great grandparents 😊they would tell me stories about this when i was little
This was a progressive film from that era.
Not really! Its Block Busting. Its about money! The first seller yo a black family knocks the prices down like a rock. If you work and pay a mortgage. You don't want have a worthless home. My Childhood home is abandoned in the city of Chicago.
The solution is the flight to the suburbs. I don't understand it. I know that blacks get redlined by realators.
Again, It's all about money. Money and realistate...
Morality doesn't exist in the value of a home.
I know right!
It was made in San Fran
It's a discussion that still needs to happen among the residents of so many semi-closed communities.
You should check out Dearborn now
I dont want to be nowhere that I'm not wanted!
It wasn’t like ppl imposed on had a choice.
Lincoln wanted to move blacks back to Africa and it seemed reasonable given those times.
@@JustSomeKittenwithaGun It would have been reasonable “during those times” for reprobates to have been satisfied with their own lot in life and stayed settled on their own land when the boundaries were already fixed by the Supreme Creator.
@Slim Pickens Yep, as long as you 🙉 no evil, 🙊no evil, 🙈 no evil and that you remain docile without question or any further investigation or might as well look forward to being afflicted.
You mean anywhere. Not nowhere.
I have noticed one reasonably consistent trend about white and ethnic neighborhoods.
In ethnic and/or city neighborhoods, we spend a lot of time outside. Our neighborhoods are full of mobile vendors, ladies with strollers, and 2nd and 3rd shift workers using their day as 1st shifters use their nights. It feels completely normal for our neighborhood to be alive and buzzing in the afternoon.
In white and/or suburban neighborhoods, I have noticed most people spend a lot of time indoors. Most people there work a first shift, and they are all on the same schedule. It is completely normal to walk through one of these neighborhoods in the afternoon and only see a couple of people outside.
For people that come from either one of these neighborhoods, they may feel odd or strange when they are in the other. Ethnic people may feel like the quiet of the suburbs is eery and creepy. White people may feel like the buzz of the city neighborhood is strange and abnormal.
The truth is, both are fine, and some white people prefer a buzzing inner city neighborhood, and some ethnic people prefer a quiet suburban neighborhood. We just have to be willing to let people define themselves as they wish, instead of disturbing those who live true to themselves, and not social expectations.
But it's whites keeping folk out of their neighnorhoods. In Berkeley, California whites have moved to black neighborhoods and being accepted. In fact there is a white motocycle gang that has existed for 30+ years in a black neighborhood😞
Amen!!!
-Jesus loves ALL ✌
Chris Diaz- Living in condense populated areas is strange and abnormal.
True
I agree this is so true...
My father's parents immigrated from Italy, and my father was born in the US in 1914. He was old enough to remember when Italians were discriminated against, though of course not as much as Black people were. The suburban street I grew up on (ironically, in a Tudor-style home like the one in the film) was mostly white, but had a Black family and a Korean/Hawaiian family whose kids I was friends with, as well as Catholic and Jewish families.
03:49 ...She dialed that phone with a QUICKNESS didn't she!?!?
Justin Aames ,
You make me Laugh Ha Ha Ha
She dialed that phone with Quickess didn't She ??
Make me 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂
Oh Man 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 can't stop Oh hurt my stomach .
Justin Aames she was ANGRY.
Fear is one hell of a motivator.
Fear is one hella of an opiod
Speed dial when there was none 😂
Alternate Title:
"A Karen Is Born"
A Starin' Like Karen production 👀
@foodbychefty 😂😂Yay!
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Holy crap! That one got me rolling!🤣
Yes you hit it on head.
They use that word fear they fear someone is going to take over their property but I think the word they are looking for is hate
No...it IS fear. Many of these white folks had never met or spoken to a person of color. Many are afraid that a black family will move in and show anger towards their white neighbors for the anger they possibly feel over slavery. Look, black people still hate whites for slavery, and no one alive today had a thing to do with it--nor would we.
Assumptions about other races is the ignorance that causes this type of situation. And it is wrong.
My family moved to an all white block in 1972...one night someone ripped the railing off our porch and threw it threw our front window...one of the other neighbors was mad and told us who did it...after that everyone on the block became friends ...the who did it moved after someone beat him up???
"Why go looking for trouble?" mate they were just buying a house!
This is what we should’ve been watching in history class
My life story, I WAS the black family that moved in, this movie depicts what is possible. My Dad having to CLEAN his guns on the porch for a WEEKEND, is the only way we got the death threats to stop, Corporate brat, (Kodak, Levis, Prudential) moved 18x by the time I was 18,
Yah sure
In the early-70s a black couple was preparing to close on a house down the street when some of yhe neighbors pooled their money and bought the house out from under them. It was truly despicable.
the one comment in the short video that stood out was at 10:22 the narrator said "why do they go were they're not wanted", the same phrase echoes in my head when I read and hear about how "They have exported all brown-skinned people from around the world"
Akim Smith that's what they are when they act like it.coins.the sellout blacks.who wants to fit in with in with whites
Blacks can work for them, make them rich, but never live next door to whites .
@Random Person White women love Black men.
This i cried watching this
@Random Person In your comment you said "black men love white women"; I'm pointing out what I see: white women pursuing black men.
I grew up in a white neighborhood in Birmingham Alabama 40 years ago. We were the only black ppl there . We had a blast with the white kids.
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Yeah up until middle or high school unfortunately then they just like the rest
I live in Birmingham, Alabama too. Of course things have gotten even better than 40 years ago. I’m glad you lived in a great neighborhood. My neighborhood has Black, Asian, Latino and Indian families. We all get along fine and help each other when needed, get together for cookouts, etc, that’s what being a good neighbor is.
I love hearing stories like this! ❤
62 years ago, and ain't a damned thing changed!
I know, look at those inner city crime rates.
C Hoc fuck George Floyd!
Gary Garrett yeah I’m pretty sure 62 years ago white people could refuse to service black people in a restaurant and the place wouldn’t get shut down because of it, white people would never even consider voting for a black man to be president of the USA, interracial relationship were illegal, so tell me are any of these things that I mention still relevant in the year 2020? (Or even in 2019 when you posted this comment?) No it isn’t, so it’s pretty ignorant for you to say that nothing hasn’t change in America since the 1950s.
C Hoc So what part of my comment offended you? There was nothing I said that was offensive at all so if it makes you upset it’s probably because you can’t handle facts, sounds to me that you are the one who needs to go change your diaper bitch
C Hoc ok first off Trump is not a racist, he never actually said anything racist and I bet the only reason you think he is racist is because you mindless believe everything you hear on CNN or some other bullshit news media out there, also no one can OWN division, racism, or bigotry these things are not animate objects they are a state of mind and no one is immune to it, people on the left could be divisive, racist, and bigoted as well.
If people realized that we are all one, literally, not hypothetically then they would know that everything does affect everyone. You cant separate yourself from yourself. Lol ❤ Took me years to know this one fact that healed me and changed eveything for me.
This is very interesting, at first I thought it was a racist film, however it is actually a racism film. Very educational on history. Not sure if this was forward thinking for the time but it feels like a forward film for what I imagine the time was like.
Yes, it was forward thinking but there were obviously a lot of people who felt that way, otherwise the movie would not have been made...and 7 years later the Civil Rights Act was passed, so, I think it was actually dawning on people that discrimination and prejudice is wrong. Not in the South, obviously.
Grown people act like kids . Maybe grown people should have let kids be kids .
It is a movie about ventriloquist dummies terrorizing a neighborhood in Washington state and the police came and put the dummies in a box 👮🏼👮🏼♂️ 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Why does this movie seem like a Twilight Zone episode? “They are peaceful people” but their hearts are full of darkness!
Because Rod Serling was the narrarator.
@@AndiAndrea
No he’s not
The narrator sounds like it too..
Where you been all your life? Blacks don’t want whites in their stuff. Don’t act naive
Their heart is full of hate because they're uneducated about the truth. They belived what was put in their heads.
This was awesome, I really enjoyed this! Thanks for uploading it!
Sadly we don't have to love each other or even like each other but we can not function as a society without respect
This is the most sensible comment I have read in a long time. People cannot be forced to like each other but respect is non-negotiable.
Or maturity
Respect is earned. With the retards calling the shots, this simple reality has been pushed out of people’s minds.
Right, I don’t want to “like” anyone but respect is key. I won’t bother you and don’t you come bothering me.
THIS!!!!!!❤
“KAREN’S” at 3:30! Some things never change lol
And Ken
Og karens
Lol
you mean UNC at 3:30! lol
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“Any place where a person is shut in or shut out because of the color of their skin, is a GHETTO.” And I oop- he said it not me. 🤷🏾♀️
Women of Brewster Place was a good example of that ..a must read or watch
So is Chinatown a ghetto is little Italy a ghetto is Korea Town a ghetto..no..a ghetto is when you have a bunch of low vibrational people all surrounding each other that's a ghetto
Higher Vibration that’s the hood you describing lol ghetto places are impoverished period
And I- oop you made me laugh I love that video
He told the TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!
PROFOUND...was so moved by this and the embedded wisdom--it's sad in some ways that the message didn't land back then in a way so many of us wish it had, BUT wonderful to know that great efforts like this DID happen, and surely still carries a message that's utterly timeless & of tremendous value...THANK YOU...❤...T.
I'm surprised this was made in 1957. Too bad this wasn't mandatory watching.
You force anything on anyone and it will never be truly excerpted.
@@theculturedthug6609
If it's presented and taught as the basic ternet of humanity, of how we're supposed to treat each other as human beings, then it wouldn't feel as though they're being forced. Any rules or laws imposed in order to force the control and oppression people is unequivocally contrary to the inalienable rights of humankind. There will always be those who seek absolute power to rule over others. Children must be taught the Golden Rule; Do unto others...
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Mandatory??????? That sounds like somthing they do to citizens in North Korea, China, or Russia. Not the US
@@200x-v4k Lots of things are mandatory in the USA - you are blind to your own culture/country?
“How long can we keep the door closed without locking ourselves in”, man that’s some erudite writing!
just trips me out!! just amazing, thanks Mike for sharing, this was a great share!
This just breaks my heart ❤️
Philadelphia USA 👍👍
For some historical context, the last US Civil War vet died in August 2 1956, less than a year after this film came out.
Eric Taylor wow
You mean before