The 1950s Inner-city Black Communities Were Strong
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2019
- The speaker is Robert Woodson. CEO and founder of The National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. A lifelong worker on behalf of community development. I interviewed him in 1989 as part of my television series of the 1960s. Several people who I interviewed spoke about how the black communities functioned in the 1950s. I found him to be one of the most articulate. It affected him profoundly and he devoted his life to creating inner-city enterprises.
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I’m 74 and black and can attest to what this guy is saying. We were poor but didn’t even know it. Take me back to yesteryear.
Most black people are content in being poor or getting by with less
Or, you really wasn’t all that poor, b/c you would’ve known if u were really poor. Society has brainwashed Blacks to think even their middle class lifestyle is poor.
@@april_dawn You’re an idiot or a racist or both Black people knew they were poor but it didn’t matter because their neighbors were also in the same predicament so it didn’t hurt as bad as if you’re poor amongst a bunch of rich people or middle-class people! Black people who have made it in the case of my parents and the rest of my family they like to say things like oh yeah you know we really didn’t know we were poor back then but then go on to talk about having to put cardboard in their shoes to cover the holes in the soles of their shoes.
Stop lying you! You do not wanna go back there! You want to give up your civil rights, you’re right to vote!
@@april_dawn the exact comment I was looking for
Even though I was born in 1988, I am familiar with the Black America he speaks of. My parents held these values and taught them to myself and I have not abandoned them. Baby momma/baby daddy culture has destroyed traditional Black America.
I hate those terms (baby momma, baby daddy). Not only does it normalize young people making children before getting their lives in order. It just sounds stupid grammatically.
@@Fermion. it's already normalized thanks to Feminism public policy and government welfare for over 40 years since the late 1960s to early 1970s.
The terms _baby momma & baby daddy_ are simply a reflection of how contemporary culture interprets OOW parenting.
But at the end of day, Feminism public policy and government welfare essentially caused all of this situation.
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@@willia3r That's bullshit. Black men were rolling stones WAYYYYYYYYY before those things. WAY BEFORE. The jokes about men having other families 'across the tracks' or 'going for cigarettes' and never coming home have been a thing since the turn of the 20th century. Cut that b/s out. Welfare was a RESPONSE to the reality that Black women had these children and no functional ability to provide for them. That means, Black men weren't around. Period. Has it been exploited, yeah. But you come off like Reagan and that b/s 'welfare queens' garbage he used to demonize Black women. That's awful.
How do you maintain the stories and cultures? My parents didn't transfer like yours did
Oh man, these interviews are GOLD!
I know people always mentioning”Wakanda” to inspire Black Americans which can be understood...but I always say ...show them Black People before integration ...this was an actual reality ...not a movie
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The Wakanda story is cute, but our real strength is in the "spite " communities that we established before integration .
@liam Anderson Wakanda is fictional.
On sex: "Everyone bragged about it, nobody did it." That's the quote of the week.
The 70’s & 80’s,was when the drug epidemic began to burn through black communities. That epidemic destroyed black men and women, which led to the arrest, incarceration and death of a lot of black men and women. It caused the break up of the black family structure.
You are right. You hit the nail on the head.
No less gifted ...Also the collapse of the manufacturing sector.
There are many periods in black American history where communities were torn down, on purpose. Because they knew we could not recover fast enough or at all. The drugs flowing into communities was one example. But there is an entire history of this tearing down of black communities. Of course the black community was strong in the 50's. There were signs that said you couldn't go, loiter or even be buried anywhere else. Which, people make it seem so bad, when it's equally as pissy where they live. Same problems and sometimes even worse. Folks need to be careful about the grass on the other side. It's not always greener as some keep lying about.
In North Carolina it started in the Late 80s, Manufacturing lost and Drugs.
Welfare in the 60s undermined the family , took fathers out of the home , dad's moved out drugs moved in,,, take away the fathers and discipline disappears. It's that alone that made the community vulnerable , I am a Gypsy man and they tried to move us out of our family's with welfare bribes to the women just the same but we saw what happened to black people and resisted ,
This generation was far poorer than we are now, but their communities were far safer. The difference is their family structures were largely intact and ours aren't. You cannot have a functioning community without men leading and mentoring their youth. A community without fathers will always crumble. No amount of money, or programs, or grants can take the place of an entire community where men are in the home. That is the ingredient missing from our communities today.
I know I grew up in the 60s I would take the subway the trolley car by myself at the age of six and seven and North Philadelphia
That is very true.
Unfortunately with the introduction of feminism and government welfare, the black father was effectively pushed out of the home.
REMEMBER, The true men were murdered, assassinated, marginlized in our community. Strategic. And documented. Those who stood then for injustice bled for us. Those who sang to our souls to soothe us bled. Those who taught us bled and we're discredited. The babies who were born & died old as chattel slaves. Bled as did those in ancient wars. Bled to build monuments for US today to read in stone. Our love and knowledge of our true selves today brings us to a time of universal justice and abundant love. It's ’now’ that the ancient families and priests, chipped into monuments. We are back upon the throne. And so very cool too! This video is about was a time when we knew ourselves our families and our business and where to go not into a toxic american relationship of neo exploitation ,further abuse and injustice just by different names and via the same families possibly.
@@willia3r feminisms and black feminism does not work the same way.
@@isaiah4600 if you are a black man please stop simping for an inherently traitorous political ideology.
He literally speaks like my uncle. My black parents and uncles also grew up in 1950s black South Philadelphia Pa. My parents, especially my father LOVED the 50s as a black teenager. He loved the cars, clothes, doo wop and cool jazz music, the cowboy movies. The only thing he complained about the 50s was the lack of sex and how risky it was to get a girl pregnant.
I was born in 62' to young responsible, hardworking parents. Two sets of grandparents. Aunts that were ladies. Uncles that were hard working men, some worked on the railroads. My family had pride. I never once heard I was a victim or less than anyone! I was told as a little boy i could do anything i wanted. And i eventually did just that making myself well off by age 40.
By the 80s my family was hardly recognizable. In fact, i don't recognize black people at ALL today,. Especially disappointing are how relentless black men bitch and moan about everything! They're PROUD to be thought of as victims! I never once heard my father, grandfathers or uncles complain once. They had plenty to complain about, believe me.
It was instilled in me by example. "A man never complains or explains himself." "Be a man of action and few words"
What this video reminds me of is how history has been revised today about the 50s. People, especially young blacks, are brainwashed to believe the 1950s were only good times for WHITES. Its sickening the lies!
Closing in on my 57th birthday i don't even recognize the country i love. Feels like I'm living in a twilight zone! God help us!!
Brainwashed? And I guess the civil rights movement was a total Hallucination?
I agree men should be unrelenting hard workers but don’t forget whose system you are under.
Solowolf Well I'm white born 73. I find all of this fascinating. I just want to hear real stories from real people, not the edited narratives of either the left or the right.
Sir I'm white and 60 years old and grew up in the getto back then. Things were hard but also great everybody looked out for each other and when the welfare lady would come we'd always get a few more kids to our house for the count and we'd go to our neighbors house for their count
Solowolf. Another thing that I strange now is grown men, meaning a man over the age of 18 , not having a job and lolling around their parents house and having no car!!! With no plans to BUY a car or get a job or to start their adult life!! Weird to me!
Donald Trump the war on drugs destroyed the black community.
I am 44 years old, in 2020. I grew up in a small town in Alabama in the 1980's, early 1990's. I managed to catch the tail end of the Black community that he speaks of. Those days are gone. So sad.
Yeh
In your opinion what caused the end of this community, he speaks about.
Integration
I’m born 1979 in Brooklyn NYC, I was telling a foreign born black at my job of these days. I got a snare as if she does not believe me but it’s truth and I’m glad I can remember enough to pass at least part of it to my children.
Them good ol days
This man embodies dignity.
5:12 “Integration was never our goal. We never saw integration as a solution to the problems. We were seeking desegregation. And I think confusion on that point has continued to erode the collective self-confidence of the black community today.”
John Paradise We need to think of new solutions. All I know is that what we are doing now does not seem to be working.
kbnice23 exactly! You summed it up very nicely..
He is the wisest of ALL men .
@@blah9500 It's hard to fathom today but imagine traveling across the country, needing a place to stay, and in most places being refused just because you're the wrong whatever. Call it whatever you like. We called it crap and getting rid of it was the objective So many things people do today without a second thought are because of those efforts.
@@kbnice2393 So basically integration with the people who don't like you.....
Older Black men were responsible, talented, highly intelligent and well spoken with vocabulary and grammer and dressed nicely. Compared to now, what a difference. Social engineering.
You hit it on the head. It's social engineering. Starting around 1890, the Western Nations got behind the Race Theory. The US was at the helm of it and conducted all kinds of experiments on Black Americans. The US was one of the first to lead in the eugenics programs. When Nazi Germany brought attention to their eugenics program, the US were convert with theirs. The Tuskegee experiment lasted nearly 50 years. When attention was brought to the organization that funded the Tuskegee experiment, they simply changed their name and they are the CDC today. But social engineering continues today and it's now spanning across many nationalities in the US.
i want this now, but my friends think it’s lame to dress clean and have manners
@@shaysmith6369 maybe you have shit friends I grew in predominantly black neighborhood and went to a predominantly blacks school. Most people don’t care how you dress and we didn’t really clown each other ofc you have some but that a just a tiny few who make it look bad for the rest.
Ok troll!
Yeah before the baby mama epidemic...who raised them
The fact that they served in the war and still couldn't be served at a restaurant is criminal. The fact that he could hold back his punches and put his energy towards peaceful revolution, speaks to a patience that I myself do not have. Good on this dude.
The thought that black athletes had been celebrated, going back decades (Jesse Owens etc) and there were movie stars and jazz stars and all of that, yet those same people couldn't sit down in a restaurant blows my mind. A soldier is someone who is basically out of sight, out of mind (the wars are always overseas) but the entertainers and athletes? They were heroes. Then again, these days I've seen lots of videos of people getting yelled at and denied service for wearing a MAGA hat. They wore a hat with the slogan of the sitting POTUS and were treated like shit. Unfortunately, people will always find reasons to be dicks to each other.
@@jasondashneyThat’s funny, a MAGA hat-toting supporter once told me to go back to China for speaking Mandarin on a phone call in the subway: What makes you think I can depend on MAGA supporters to celebrate someone like myself? If your movement treats me like shit, you should expect all the manner of dung flung back at you.
Soldiers in capitalist countries like workers are all exploited..
@@XiangYu94 also please don't go back to.china because you are clearly a neoliberal reactionary and China doesn't need anymore of that western bs
@@jasondashney There’s literally restaurants catering to each group so stop crying about it. Although I think today and how people behave has gotten worse.
My father always said integration is what destroyed the black community. I didn’t understand it until I really started listening to him. RIP Pop🙏🏾
Blacks were allowed to move up the economic ladder and they left the poor behind in the inner cities.
@Vito Manzel it broke the sense of community. You had outsiders coming in not functioning with the community because they're not part of it originally
@Vito Manzel The big myth that Africans come to America with a brown paper bag. Many of these people coming to America have money and many are very educated. However, Nigerians that coming to America, are faced with racism like other blacks.
Integration did not destroy the black community. Drugs are what destroy the black community!
@@anuday2022 I’m with my pops on this issue. He lived and experienced it firsthand.
Beautiful story. You can definitely tell the difference intellectually, linguisticly, and dutifulness of the generations of the 50s and 60s that had a strong nuclear family
“There’s a very big difference between being poor and being broke” 🙏
Wow what a powerful and incredible interview. I grew up in this era. It was amazingly wonderful. Everyone respected one another. There was so much support around. Black people were poor but we were “rich.” We had everything. We loved our teachers, neighbors, parents, churches, friends etc. We never saw drugs, violence, sex, bullying, cursing etc. Everyone respected everyone else. Peace was everywhere. You could travel anywhere and no one bothered you. These were the good old days.
Wealthy Black neighborhoods all over America - Past, present and both:
Oak Bluffs: www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a6668/oak-bluffs-african-american-community/
Olympia Fields: www.olympia-fields.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=77
Sag Harbor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sag_Harbor_Hills,_Azurest,_and_Ninevah_Beach_Subdivisions_Historic_District
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/t-magazine/sag-harbor.amp.html
ua-cam.com/video/QoniFMtSXcw/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/lWwPy8i9gfg/v-deo.html
Highland Beach: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Beach,_Maryland
www.highlandbeachmd.org/?mobile=false
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/greathomesanddestinations/04Highland.html
whatsupmag.com/news/highland-beach-chesapeake-bay-maryland-s-first-african-american-incorporated-town/
Sweet Auburn: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Auburn
'The Black Beverly Hills' - Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, View Park and Winslow Hills: www.google.com/amp/s/abc7.com/amp/black-beverly-hills-baldwin-ladera-heights-real-estate/7222331
www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-ladera-heights-20180707-story.html
www.latimes.com/local/la-me-adv-view-park-20150719-story.html
www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-baldwin-hills-crenshaw-20170429-story.html
DeSoto: www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/affluent-african-americans-flocking-to-desoto/132513/%3famp
Prince George County: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland
Bronzeville: www.urbanjuncture.com/community
www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/September-2015/Margo-Jefferson-Negroland/
Idlewild: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlewild,_Michigan
Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, FL: www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/americas-lost-towns-of-black-affluence/
www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/vintage-photos-sugar-hill/
Sugar Hill, NYC: above110.com/harlem-nyc/sugar-hill-nyc/
www.google.com/amp/s/ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/sugar-hill-once-harlems-most-glamorous-enclave/amp/
Durham, NC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wall_Street_(Durham,_North_Carolina)
There are many more but these are a good start...
Lies
Pure lies if you’re from the south of the southern part of your city you very country place it’s not the hood the hood in the south in your city was and still is in the west side in the south side of your city no tv just radios events and theaters 🎭 no tv a lot of racism and violence tho
@@catalinamaria9169right !!!!!! Like are they talking about earth ? Why are they acting like nothing bad happened ? Everyone & everything was so perfect . I understand certain things were different, but a lot of things weren't that different & many things are the same . Many people talk like this because that's what they experienced . Everyone has a different story . Everything wasn't put on the news & in the news . Many children didn't know about all the bad things that were going on . Now that we have social media, we see & hear about a lot of things that go on in the world . And just because you didn't say & do the things your parents told you not to say & do, that doesn't mean no other children didn't either . No child obeyed their parents 100% back then & they don't today either .
You can tell he's sharp as hell
My Mother talks about this! What the Black Community was like when she was a young child. My Mother stated YOU MUST be respectful toward your Elders! If Elders in the community caught you cursing, fighting, and/or stealing Elders would discipline you "literally;" and they inform your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and/your guardians and you were thoroughly disciplined, and you were disciplined by your parents, extended relatives; and/or guardians! My Mother played in "Liberty Park," and my Mother describes it as a "Gold Mine!" My Mother's Maternal First Cousin played baseball in the "Big Park;" while my Mother and her friends enjoyed playing in the "Little Park." My Mother learned arts and crafts at the "Park House" and attended parties at the "Park House." My Mother's Maternal First Cousin Jesse whom played baseball in the "Big Park" stated parks upon Long Island, N.Y. were not constructed like "Liberty Park" in Jamaica, in the borough of Queens, N.Y. My Mother and her two sisters grew up in Jamaica; in the borough of Queens, N.Y. My Mother was skipped twice in school as a young child; she attended "Jamaica High School" in Queens, N.Y. at the age of twelve as a Freshman. My Mother also formed a "Social Club" with her friends. They had sweaters and jackets, and they gave dances and attended dances of some of the other "Social Clubs" in the neighborhood also. My Mother stated everyone looked out for one another. It was a genuine "Mixed Income" Black Community. There was a Dentist, an M.D., Teachers, a Brick Mason, Merchant Marines, an Attorney, Hair Dressers, Domestic Workers, Floor Buffers, Property Owners/Investors; etc. My Mother attended school with White Children and my Mother noticed they were NOT as intelligent as she was! Unfortunately the neighborhood drastically changed as the years went by. My Mother stated many of the children she grew up with married, and/or moved away. My Mother moved away also when she became an adult. "Liberty Park" my Mother's favorite childhood past time was merely a shell of what it once was honestly. Selah, Sister Hasiah 1863
@Joe Blow "Liberty Park" no longer exists. The Park was split and renamed after a former Black Police Detective whom was shot in the line of duty. "Liberty Park" was originally located upon 172nd., 173rd. and Liberty Ave. in Jamaica, Queens. Sister Hasiah 1863
Yes all neighbors on that particular street looked out for ones children and house
Wow, I just heard my 1950s life pass before me. This man speaks the truth. I still say that all I want is to be treated equally. Not interested in "integrating." That either comes along with equality or it doesn't.
My growing up in the 50s and 60s, I can easily identify with this man's experiences in a segregated community, educational environment, and military service....I would sew up my damaged tennis shoes by hand, and put cardboard inside of them...
Thank you David Hoffman. Another great video. Have a great day everyone.
Thank you.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
I lived the experience you are talking about. You nailed our reality in a great manner. Thank you Sir.
I have been following this gentleman for a few years now. Mr Woodson used to be a regular guest on the Greg Garrison show out of Indianapolis. Thank you for posting this excellent interview!
Sounds similar to Lansing, Michigan during the 50's. My father worked for GM so we were far from being poor.
Still have photographs of that time and our family looked like the Black version of "Happy Days".
Mother, Father and four kids. With one sister growing up in Boarding School in Birmingham (under the supervision of my Grandparents).
Was lansing like other places in the usa at that time that's pretty far up north
I'm from South Africa and what this brother just discribed is exactly how we grew up in the 70's.
"we went from brothers and sisters to niggas and bitches, where did wo go wrong" Tupac
The moment the white democrat replaced the black father of the family with the state and started to subsidize black housing and force black families against one another instead of being a community. Lesson is democrats ruined a beautiful community poor or not it was beautiful there was an actual community people looked out for one another they supported each other business. Now it's about if that man got more than you take him out and take what he got. If black communities continue to vote Democrat it will get worse and worse.
@@TransparencyandMerit Where was the harmony in South Africa under apartheid?
@@johncampagnola2969 Republicans love to talk a lot of crap, but when they are in power, there is no material improvement in the lives of black people. Just a different form of excuse.
@@TransparencyandMerit Your comments about Marxism says nothing about the oppression in South Africa under apartheid.
@@TransparencyandMerit I don't quite understand your nostalgic fondness for the brutal oppression of apartheid. And there certainly was no ... "harmony" to be found.
This is beautiful and sad to see what was lost. Let's live in hope that these communities can rise again. Education. Education.Education. Invest in the future of people. Peace from Ireland!
Yeah! I can definitely relate to this narrative. I was offered an opportunity for higher education (PROJECT 500) after graduation (1968), where 500 inner city children were chosen to attend any top ten state colleges, of choice. free if we returned to teach or uplift the community, in some way. We excelled in all our endeavors, without a doubt. I took a course in social stratification. And, that's how I found out we were in the lower poor class. Based on Mom's and Dad's annual income. Mom didn't work until I reached junior high. Bbut, we had what we wanted and a trip South, in the summer; by the grace of God. I REALLY THINK INTEGRATION DID US IN! we already had so much going for us and to be thankful for. but, we wanted to be on the same level with the Joneses. we as a people have learned a bought lesson. Now we want to separate ourselves, get away from the misery. But, after all the things we've been through, we still have God!!!👁️
And, God ain't through with us, yet!👁️
That was your parents but my parents grow up in the hood in the projects and my mother never went back when she got out my dad would go back and visit people he knew but they are not looking to go back to that time at all! Stop blaming this on Black people… the reason why things are the way they are is due to the systemic racism, the southern strategy and poor black communities being inundated with drugs, guns and gangs!
Just what I remembered about growing up in South Philadelphia. Never once did I think I was poor. Love my days playing with friends in the street bicycling, skating and jumping rope.
I love your interviews. This was one well worth listening to.
I was born in 1951 and I can relate to this 💯
That was a beautiful interview.
What an amazing man.
This is definitely something I would keep open in my archives or put in a time capsule.
Thank you David I appreciate that you share all your videos.
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I’m in my 70’s and I say what the scriptures “We have sown to the wind and reaping the whirlwind “
Great call on this clip, David. Beautiful.
Even after Black Wallstreet we flourished....then came the dismantling of the family unit and then the drugs and incarceration....we are survivors....we have to be. Great video.
67yrs old widow.I was born in West Philadelphia.My father and I graduated from West Philadelphia High,my mom from Bartram.The rest of the relatives Overbrook.5822 Addison Street is where I grew up..Black families were strong in the fifties and early sixties.The liberals tore away at that.My parents had a big wedding 1952,gave birth to me.My father played classical music on our piano.He worked at the 30th Street post Office for 45yrs, my mom at Strawbridges.I had 2 younger brothers.I had a childhood people.My classmates parents were all married.Church was important in growing up back then.The drugs,and deviant behavior was obsolete.For me,I saw the community changing in the late 60’s,early 70’s.
Thanks for the comment. This is a good history lesson for me as I try to piece together how we got where we are.
In your opinion, what happened in the late 60s to make such a drastic change.
Thanks for sharing
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So true... great interview...
Of course these communities were strong. Then they were systematically destroyed by the very people Malcom X warned us about.
This channel is everything we need to remember
David, thanks for these uploads of yours...they are very interesting and enlightening...keep up the good work...you have an audience out there.
Another excellent piece of history, thanks David!
In the 1960s when I was a child even though I was a darker ( I'm of native American descent) than most of my black frends, they weren't allowed to be seen playing with me. I wasn't allowed in their homes. I couldnt even cross the property line into their yards. So the black community was just as mean to me as white people...but my father still marched with Martin Luther king , and he went to jail fighting for civil rights he was still there the day I was born. My father was a Great Man, miss you Daddy. Thank you for your great historical work. Brings back memories 😪
Its not like natives treated blacks nice and they are use tongetting treated like that son they did it back to somebody else
The civilized tribes of native Americans enslaved black people and went along with the fugitive slave act about 150 years before you were born. Maybe they didn't trust Native Americans because of that. Everything has to be put in proper context.
SSJ- ROSE 5 tribes of over 600 tribes in North America owned slaves. Cherokee, creek, choctaw, Seneca and Chickasaw. You have problem take it up with them. I’m Blackfoot and the Blackfoot nation never owned slaves. Many tribes also helped fugitive slaves escape to Canada or allowed them to join the tribe. Because of this many tribes were punished and removed from their homelands. So please, I hate what was done to black people. I also acknowledge there are some bad Native Americans who are racist towards black people. I know because I took my best friend, who is Jamaican, to a powwow. Had an ignorant idiot who kept saying he smelt something burnt. Told him he better leave this moment or I’m going to boot him down the bleachers face first as I was sitting behind him. Same thing happened when I went on vacation to Jamaica with my friend and his family. People called me Chiny and Chinky cause they thought I was Asian. This upset my friend and he told them off. Slavery was horrible but I get tired of people making false accusations or assumptions that all Native American tribes owned slaves to bolster their agenda to the point where I’m called the fake Indian and black people where the original people of the Blackfoot tribe. What’s going on now is horrible especially with what happened to Floyd but please remember there are other groups who have to fight systemic racism like us native Americans.
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Respect for your words sir...
From the African continent 🙏
I'm sorry that you experienced that. Its actually kind of surprising to me as I would expect that the African-American community overall would not give a fuck about the race of their kid's friends.
An exception was made for white friends because it could have brought a lot of trouble and if they did something stupid, they would be blamed for everything.
But for native Americans? Wow, bro. That must have been a really messed up town.
I mean, I would expect them to make jokes as all people do, but that level of racism?
its amazing how the generation of black people that had so much adversities were able to overcome them. Arguably better than the ones whom have it better off now.
David- this is amazing. The videos U produce are just amazing.
This was such a good documentary that I actually read through all the comments! It's amazing to see how many older people like me agree with this man and yet how some younger people find it utter bs. It's sad to see how far we've come since those days.
That is incredible to me too. Young fellas here telling the people who actually lived this era that they have it all wrong. The arrogance is breathtaking. That's what being force-fed an ideology will do to you.
@@jasondashney It's the arrogance of youth. People will really think they know better about something they weren't even around for. I was like that when I was younger too. Don't know many people who weren't.
Even as a kid I thought it was weird that young people, who by definition don't have the experience of the older folks have, can seem so certain they are right. It's interesting to me how each generation can't figure out why all the old people are so conservative. Hey kids: you are the next generation's old stodgy bigots. All the whining about boomers cracks me up because they were the original SJW's. Today's kids think they invented social justice and ignore the fact the boomers were hippies.
Can’t believe I never made a clear distinction between non segregation and integration. Just because you were against segregation didn’t mean you were FOR integrating with whites. I think a lot of us have that twisted. Black folks listen to this, We have to listen to the thoughts and opinions and arguments of those who came before us in order to properly navigate today’s black issues. Another take away from this video is that the way community was for this man as a child never really left the white community. For them it’s just the “norm”. We are the ones that got robbed of that reality. WE SHOULD BE WAY MORE PISSED OF THAN WE ARE!!!!
I'm thinking the word is discrimination...so we should be against discrimination and for segregation??? Maybe that's the way to connect what he is saying. 🤷🏽
Unfortunately you guys got duped by people Lyndon B Johnson and Bill Clinton into believing that they wanted to help you, instead they were just buying your votes with government money..
We are not “black” ... my hair is black my skin is brown .. let’s start there
Check out Manning Johnson’s Farewell Address on UA-cam, it’s a little speech made in the late 50’s. He was black, he was talking about things like how blacks should focus on building up their own communities and why is anyone worried about the color of the kid sitting next to someone at school anyway.
"Another take away from this video is that the way community was for this man as a child never really left the white community. For them it’s just the “norm”."
Um.....you don't have much experience dealing with white people or white communities, do you? That's a rhetorical question because you clearly haven't. Where exactly is this Leave it to Beaver community (let alone all white people, as you mention). Jesus that's racist.
Desegregation was coming, it was snail paced, but everything changed that November of '63. LBJ brought a war in Vietnam, and a war on blacks in the guise of welfare. Black families were torn apart, and the flames of segregation, and discrimination were fanned again. I remember the water fountains, bathrooms, and businesses with those signs beside the doors. Even in death, the cemetary was segregated...so what has changed in 60 years?
The civil rights along with the feminist movement in my opinion were two decisions that had the greatest negative impact on so-called black people. LBJ. Gloria Steinem aka CIA pawn as well as MLK were the major players in the demise and destruction of the so-called black people. This brotha is a few years older than I but I remember growing up with similar experiences.
I know
The drug war tore black families apart, then welfare
@@AntoninusPius100 drugs were around in the 50s. (The always have been), but blacks and other minorities had two parent families, and many black people owned and ran small businesses, some not so small. Mid 60s, LBJ had a war against families( welfare) a war in Vietnam, killing thousands, a war on poverty, then Nixon's war on drugs. Meanwhile our own government agencies made tremendous profits off it all. And it seems to only get worse.
@@nickv1008 except the 50's was the last golden age of the black family until JFK died in 1963, that's when it all went downhill.
My ❤️ goes out to you and your family
Hi David, thanks for this reminder. My grandparents were educated, Greek pledged, Marine family from North West Philadelphia, by way of the Carolina's.
this is so fascinating
What a beautiful story!
Those were truly the "good-old-days".
I'm loving my new subscription! And thank you!
Thank you!
If one peruses the comments, it’s fair to say that there are examples where both political parties share blame. At the end of the day we can’t just throw money at it but the majority of people have to actually care. Seems like many are unaware how economically underdeveloped some parts of the country are, & frequently when money does enter certain neighborhoods, minorities get priced out through gentrification. This is to be contrasted with investment that brings well paying, accessible jobs to the initial citizens.
I recently heard some really insightful comments from a black conservative commentator about the unfortunate cultural habits that make it hard for black Americans to create wealth, link below. If what he says is true, what a travesty that black Americans aren’t being told/taught this so that they can be empowered to change their life circumstances!
Ice Cube Sets Record Straight On Trump W/ CNN's Chris Cuomo... "Black People Have No Capital”...
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Interesting perspective.
You, my brother, are a stupendous example for others to follow. People like myself are trying desperately to be the same.
In 2021 we have alot to learn from these interviews ironically we were better off then because we had each other. If we had that mindset and family today we would be much further ahead instead of going backwards. Today its epidemic of single parents and much more. Keep sharing these videos fam.
No, people were better off then because times were better spiritually.
Exactly
Because black people in these communities used to have OWNERSHIP over their communities. They owned the banks, the grocery stores, etc. Through redlining and racial policies, and the prison industrial complex, black people own very little in their own communities.
Thank you thank you thank you call it like it was God bless you brother
San Antonio texas 1962 to 1971. Eastside Collinsworth and Sprigsdale. life was so nice as a child!. i never knew about a lot of things and i liked it that way!.
Back when black fathers actually existed. 70 percent of black children are brought in to this world without fathers. Absolutely mind blowing.
That's completely false. The statistic is that 71% of black children are born out of wedlock. Not the same thing at all. Also, that statistic is only regarding the USA, not 'this world' as you put it.
Semantics. People are not simply "partnering" as one might try to suggest. And we're discussing the contents of this video: safe to assume it's about the U.S..
@@Kradiancy Ohhh... I'm sorry, smart ass. After doing a quick google search, it appears that 65% of black children are living in single parent households. Equally as terrifying... but thanks for correcting me on that 5%.
@@chrisallot66 Perhaps you should read a bit deeper than a google search. If you actually looked at the study which you have now misrepresented twice, you would see that "In this definition, single-parent families may include cohabiting couples". All you have proved so far is that black couples are less likely to be married.
You might also be interested in the meta study 'Reframing the discussion on African-American fathers: Implications for positive development of African American boys', which can be googled and read freely online. Here are some key quotes:
"research has shown that African-American fathers are generally involved and engaged in the lives of their children. Investigations have shown that African-American fathers, when compared with other ethnic groups, have greater or similar levels of involvement with their children (Cabrera, Ryan, Mitchell, Shannon and Tamis-Lemonda, 2008; King, Heard, & Harris, 2004)"
"studies have indicated that, in comparison to white and Latino fathers, African-American fathers with sons reported the highest levels of engagement in caregiving and play activities (Leavell, Tamis-Lemonda, Ruble, Zosuls and Cabrera, 2012)"
The essential takeaway is that while black fathers may be more likely to live separately from their children (and this is often due to social or economic pressures, such as the preferential treatment of single parent families by social housing initiatives) they are no less involved with their children than fathers of other ethnicities.
@@Kradiancy That is the biggest crock of horse shit I have ever read.
Yep. The lack of fathers is a huge problem.
A child born without a father is 9x more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, 12x more likely to drop out of school, and 20x more likely to end up behind bars.
It’s all from the welfare state and government intervention.
Everything he’s saying is true.
Another person of no color running your mouth with no lips in black peoples business. Black fathers are more involved in their kids lives than all other races of fathers that’s not a problem in the black community. Second black Americans are the most family oriented in the world we have family reunions, cookouts, we go to church together everything you cave dwellers don’t do & frown upon. So stfu stay in your lane mind your business F off. Whites are the main welfare recipients & the main ones begging for someone else to do the job for y’all.
Facts
Mr Hoffman, thank you for uploading these! Gosh I wish I grew up during this time.
In west Philadelphia born and raised on the basketball court is where I spent most of my days
Democrat president Wilson was the first southerner elected president after the civil war, he was from Virginia, at that time ït would have been impossible to not have been affiliated with the KKK to attain political office. Wilson loved the film 'Birth of a Nation ' which portrayed the KKK as saviors of the white race, he screened the film in the white house. He also resegragated the federal government departments which had been desegregated under Republican leadership. We're the Democrats and we're here to help you. ....
This was the Westside of Chicago up until the 80's.
I was born in 1955 and my experience was much the same. I grew up on the Westside of Chicago and my grandfather owned the cleaners. Ms. Wright owned the store across the street, and don’t remember any single parent households.
Blackstone hoods were tough. VL hoods were tough but getting cleaned up by the Conservative party 🖤💛
Yes that’s when everything started to go bad because the factories were shutting down on the west side remember Brachs, Leaf Candy Company ? A lot of the factories that were on the west side which allowed a lot of white people to dig themselves out of poverty when they started letting Black people in past being janitorial employees….that’s when the factories started going down and out of business and overseas! Then this country inundated the black communities with cocaine, crack cocaine and guns remember the Iran contra hearings that was all done by design because they saw that we were pulling ourselves out of poverty they encouraged drug use, gangs and guns! Not to mention Reganomics! Look up the Southern Strategy by Lee Atwater if you feel so inclined…Black people have been under attack in this country since 1619!
Nice interview young man.
Nice. This is a younger Bob Woodson founder of the Woodson Center in DC.
Beautiful brother. No bitterness but, as if he were someone else, reflecting on bitter times. Never even said his community thought about other communities (not even sure he mentioned 'white' people). Just the nasty law, upset him. Never really cared about whites:)
This is a point Walter Williams makes in his memoir, Up From The Projects, which is worth reading, even if you're not particularly interested in economics.
Great man.
Inspirational. I just reached out to Mr. Woodson on LinkedIn. Thanks again David! #RealAmericanHero
Thank you
Sometimes I wish I could go to this time period
Same so fed up with modern live at this point
Nowadays the neighborhoods are still segregated by race and class. It's just the middle class and rich black people moved out to the suburbs to live a better life. So all you have left in the black neighborhoods are the poor black people.
This is amazing.
Where in the peanut butter and jelly did he get all these videos from. I’m hooked!!!
God Only Helps Those Who Help Themselves. The African-American community sold out it's dignity, self-respect, self love and love for black men and women and the black family. The black community traded in the importance of family, self-reliance, hard-work, self-discipline and community support for the glitz and promise of, jobs for white owned corporations, living in the suburbs, attending integrated schools and universities and marrying out of our race. We already had our foundation in place. But walked away from it, thinking the grass was greener. Now we know that the grass was poison.
Why did they do that?
If I was black and living in a poor neighborhood, I would want to move out to a rich neighborhood too.
@@hsun7997 what if you were white or another race or ethnicity?
who assisted with that demise?
@Bree Nouveaux both are accountable, but people tend to remember that outside forces have always worked against both. Why would someone choose an options that will destroy themselves and their community? There is way too much more to the puzzle that is being left out of the conversation. It's like blaming those involved with the Tuskegee experiment for their own demise.
As a white girl growing up in the sixties, we too were poor, one pair of shoes. But we were rich in family life, doors were not locked at night - it was safe and comfortable. Today, you would never recognize what it was like back then. It’s all torn apart now, people killing, stealing, robbing, raping. No family life, no morals. The solution is to put God in your life first, followed by family, a mom a dad to lead their children. The dignity of doing right not wrong.
You might be interested to know that nationwide, the crime rate is lower today than it was during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker wow! looks like you really thought this through.
Great Video!
Hey man the same thing happen to me in Detroit during the 1960's and I was also in the Air-force
My grandfather used to say they never wanted segregation, just equality. If we could have gotten that we wouldn't have ever integrated. I wish we never had.
Wow. So you basically want a separate black everything within America? WTF is the point of that? Isn't that just racism?
@@mogznwaz No, it is a way for Black people to know themselves before integrating with other people. As a result, there was never a chance after the slaves were freed, reconstruction, and Jim crow for Black people to be who we needed to be for us.
@@bertramdavis7120 Why do you have to consider yourselves so defined by your race??
@@mogznwaz Because America defines us by the color of our skin. When I'm out and about I'm seen as a woman with brown skin which they call black and they immediately view me just like they do most black women with all the stereotypes.
I have actually seen some white people do a double take when I speak because my 'hillbilly' mother decided she wasn't going to talk improperly, married a man who didn't and taught us children not to. Preconceived perceptions are a heavy burden and sometimes hard to ignore but that is the life of any person with brown skin, something few white people can understand because they've seldom been put in that spot and most have never lived as a minority that has been looked down upon so terribly. I hope this helps you to understand.
@@DreamingDarlin How can you in the same breath talk about your own mother making a conscious effort to make sure you talk a certain way and then be mad at white people for noticing.
Please read books by Jason Rileys, Thomas Sowell among many others to get a sound perspective on these issues.
@Ethan Elston like who, Barack Obama?
He sounds like my dad who grew up in the 50s in Philadelphia.
What a beautifully sounding community.
In that era Blacks owned more businesses than in 2020. The rate of children born out of wedlock were at it's lowest, rate of marriage the highest.
Now:
76% black children born out of wedlock
Asian's (in some cases) bought out black owned business. Including in black hair products!!!!
Asians didn't buy out anything.
Those businesses were destroyed or targeted.
Then, when Asian immigrants were forced into our communities, they were given loans to start businesses we were denied.
Get your history right.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater strong tight communities with fathers don't lead to young teens shooting each other and doing drugs.
Who said the father's where any good?
@@internetprincess788 It's been proven that having a father in the home benefits children. Obviously not all fathers are good but when the black families broke up things went downhill from there.
Great!
#Needed #BlessYouHoffman....and I guess, happy belated new year!
We had on-shore manufacturing jobs and zero to little immigration!
I can't even say welfare is solely to blame for destroying the black community. I think our core values have been lost, along with good paying factory jobs that didn't require much education. Back then the black community made the best of things with what they had in order to buy homes. Nowadays black people want shoes or a used Mercedes more than anything! Back in the days we had a strong black community because we owned the community. We had homes and businesses That's not the case anymore even with all the resources that we have.
Interesting and great point!
So why can't all of the great minds come together and figure out how we strategically get out people back on track... without the unlikely help of the government...is there a way for us to do that... rebuild without the governments help?
@@luckysmom4302 it's so hard because we aren't on the same page anymore. Think about how it was when we were growing up....whenever any black adult saw a child doing something they had no business, they would stop the child from doing it or give them a lil discipline. Nowadays if you do anything of the sort, the parent wants your head on a platter, even when they know their child is cuttin up! This new generation really doesn't know how to take constructive criticism without getting upset. I don't know how many more black communities we have to lose in order for people to wake up.
Thanks to the vote
@@db60615 your right about that people can't take any criticism and that's one of the main problems.
Wow, 100% correct. Everything in our community was black, segregated and safe. Just like segregated communities in the north with other ethnic communities. I don't recall ever hearing the word poor growing up in louisana in late 50th
David thank you for this and your effort. This reality of black culture has been decimated and breaks my heart as to what particular groups have done to this community. There is no reason why we can’t have this again but certain groups need to perpetuate this to have a perpetual victim class to control. Thank you.
Not the white racists who decided to invade and destroy many successful black neighbourhoods? Who are these groups you’re referring too?
You can’t help but notice how the black community has declined almost beyond repair. Especially in the USA and the Uk, It’s very sad to see😞
You say it as though it wasn't through intentional programs.
You say as thought it was an accident, lol.
It's so funny.
The 1950s weren't perfect but things seemed easier back then
They were almost no drugs so way less drug dealers and drug crimes no glorification of thug life, there was still segregation so we needed black owned businesses. Families stayed together. Cohesion was necessary to keep civil rights movement alive and going
Sounds like a good time within the community.
I am a white male, and this man and myself could have grown up in the same house.
Segregation still exist today.
The common is a supposition
Yes actually the reason we still talk about redlining because it has never changed for many folks economic and racial segregation still exist.
Such a beautiful thing!
My childhood was very similar to this in the 50’s and my teenage years in the 60’s in Texas. Nobody was on welfare, all neighborhoods were safe, both parents in the home. Everybody
lived in a house. There were no apartments or fast food restaurants in the neighborhood. School were all black teachers, students, administrators. I also went into the military, and later use my GI Bill to enroll and graduate from
UCLA. No drugs, No teenage baby daddy, No jail or prison time or criminal record. I read the autobiography of Malcolm X and the Quran at 18 years old…it was the difference for me. I took the road less traveled.
Not exactly my experience and I grew up on the Southside of Chicago (the largest Black Community in America) in the 1960's and 1970's.