@@dandross it was bad. Black veteran got lynched. This is a propaganda film created by the state of Georgia. No mention of the wealth gap, no mention of civil rights. No mention of the kkk roaming like free birds. Did you know back then like today you can openly tell blacks in some counties after dark if you come through here, you come at your own peril.
facts, I can barely get my kids dad to even keep them 1 day outta the month, I Applaud dads that wanna be involved, I had a stepdad and he treated me n my siblings as his own.
@@u-knobreezy4035 according to the CDC, black men are more likely to be involved in their childrens lives than any other group of men. Particularly due to many black men not having access to good decent employment or higher education so that reflects to having more time to tend to children
Life so much more simpler with children being able to play, laugh, love and learn about morals and values from strong, nurturing women. Two parent households attempting to provide for a family. Boys drawn and connected to the Father. Family sharing a meal together at the dinner table.
LOL! Welfare state? Typical white response. There's more whites on welfare than blacks and always has been, so that statement is false. No, it's way deeper than that. Jim Crowe laws had a big hand in it, but what really pushed it over was the War on Drugs which led to the breakup of 'the family' and the mass incarceration of Black males since the 1970's and especially the 1980's. There are a few other factors too, but the blame of the welfare state is a typical White racist response.
Yes, Reel Black! this channel is infinitely valuable. I love seeing us be us. No stereotypes, just normal. When we look at us from the context of how we have been across time, we really see who we really are without the systemic bias and the covert attempts to destroy us. Please, please, please keep doing what you're doing.
@@douglasvilledarling2935 lol school is where you teach people things you intend for them not to care about. I say this as a college professor with a doctorate in engineering, and I genuinely mean it.
Most of the children in this video, if still alive, are in their 70,80's. These old school folks can tell you what it was growing up then and black families then were tough when it came to discipline . I see a lot of pride and love in people who had to endure racism and inequality back then before civil rights laws. Black women back then we're tough as nails and loved and respected their men because they knew the battle wasn't with each other ...but a racist unfair society. God bless those women who raised the future activists and leaders who fought to make life better not for just black people but for ALL.! Anytime I see old videos,photos of black men and women I notice the strength,pride and beauty of them. What happened to society since then is so sad, but we know who and why caused it..Right.? God bless ALL.!
Harry Vanderveer - you are right. You can see it in some older people and they way they carry themselves. Real talk - personally all I have to do is look at my own mom. Through thick and thin, she was{is} a devoted wife/mother/worker. In spite of it all, she is still working and together with my father. Some men have this man or than person as his personal hero. My father is my hero. My inspiration. My supporter. My mentor. When I was in the military, I attempted to share a bit of that old-world strength he instilled in me with those men that had told me they never had or knew their own dads. Did any of that stick. Who knows. As you said H V - those folks were/are made of the sturdiest stuff. - It is a different world today -
Harry Vanderveer So true, reading what you wrote brought tears to my eyes. My father was born 1918 New Orleans. I remember him telling us what it was like back then sometimes I would weep. Because he was a good and kind man and someone would treat him like that. They better be glad I wasn't born back then. They would probably have me swinging in a tree.
I'm 70 years old I can tell you about the village in the black community when I was growing up in Detroit. It was beautiful. Everyone looked out for all the children on the Block. I had a mom and dad at home. Most of the black families had moms and dads at home. The culture was totally different from what it is today
I hear what your are saying but didn't you watch the verbal skat between the woman and man? What you call respect might just be fear of getting their nose broken so she shut down and kept her struggle to herself. Then live in fear and unhappiness their entire marriage. That doesn't seem too different from the life black people have to live dealing with racist white people. Black women suffer double jeopardy in life. We are unfortunate to be TWO considered "inferiorities": black and a woman. Just so everybody have a good understanding: It is hard to respect a man who resolves conflict with a WOMAN - his wife - with his fist. But I guess you may see things differently...
@@vanessadorahill8057 That was my point....Ive been awake so I'm sure we are on the same page...Its sad not everyone understands that...Thank you for your comment..
There is strength in Black Families..If only WE understood there was a systematic plot to destroy and uproot black families maybe we would stop blaming each other and Once again come together...
The scene where they took his boots of was so valuable to me it showed how much care we had for each other back then we was even raised to care about each other wtf done happen smh
Wished I had some of those delicious organic fresh shelled peas now..along with roasted r boiled peanuts. My father house had a big pecan tree n the front yard n a peach tree n the back..I totally miss fishing n bike riding as a child. This ideal that Blacks didnt bird watch is the biggest lie..The southerners had names 4 the birds the flowers the trees also they knew the herbs plants. The respect the land adored the world around them. They took pride n growing building,the cared.
That was actually a really good movie... it brought back memories of helping my father take off his boots while he held my baby brother and kissed my mother... It also brought back the reality of my mother getting addicted to crack and my family ultimately breaking up... due to her sickness... and everything coming full circle, when I washed my dad’s feet... as he lay dying in his hospital bed... I guess we shall overcome it’s still just a saying...
I didn't want it to end! This gave me more insight about family structure! Being patient is key! 💞 I loved watching this because we as African Americans don't see this type of films anymore, movies/ shows for us are always about slavery, drugs, sex, molestation and just plain roughness. Films like this we see love, compassion, working through family hardships, working, loving parents, good children! Etc, etc! ❤❤❤🤧
There are so many lessons in this video for all of us. A father is so important in the family as children's sense of security and safety comes from him.
@Psalms121 No it's my mother that is the daughter in the family although the person playing the role is not my Mother who is a neighbor kid. My Mom has a darker complexion and the White director really wanted to make the point of like mother like daughter so he used a neighbor kid in the roll. The eldest son is also replaced the only person with a truly light complexion is the youngest son my Uncle Vernon.
I’m fairly young... late 20’s. And this is exactly how my family and neighborhood was. My neighbors could discipline me. Mom and dad worked, but dad did most of the money making. This was truly a walk down memory lane.
19:12 is what boys are missing in alot of household's now...a strong, loving dad ..dad's are so needed and wanted in the homes. Father's, please stay with your wife and children because families need you. Women need you. Son's and daughter's need you. Society needs you.
@@atlienrider6048 we're talking about black children right now on this post. The issue is black families. Should this not be talked about. When ever their is a issue about the black community racist white people love the ring in and say it's not only black people it's all people who are having problems. You've taking a page out of their racist Playbook quotation. You are assimilating. No way Should we feel guilty about calling are children precious that does not including white kids at that very moment and second. Your comment was silly and discounting the reality in our black communities
I'm a 21 year old(I just recently just turned 21) African American Woman & I understand this & I'm so intrigued in learning facts of my heritage so I can really understand where I come from. & what they needed fo teach me in school. & also to teach my daughter the truth about our black history. DONT BE SO HARD ON MY GENERATION, WE ARE STILL SMART AND READY TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER!✊🏽
This is how it was when I grew up except my mother did not work. Her name was Esther though. I know what these children are going through (=:. My mother did not miss a beat. We could not get anything over on her. There was also the extended family and friends. I miss those days very much.
My great grandmother shared stories with us as children. She spoke of how they had their own newspaper, bank, grocery and clothing stores, restaurants, movie theaters and more..but their town was burned down by the klan. She stated that because they were striving and becoming a strong community having their own local leaders gaining strength and support in the community, they were seen as a threat to the klan. She said some tried to rebuild and some did ,but others were to afraid. The town was never rebuilt to the way it once was. Alot of families ended up working back on the farms owned by white people.
Amazing to watch as I think about my own family now and the past. My Mom was born in 1949. I get a glimpse of what the world was like then. This is both precious and timeless. Thank you Reel Black.
Looking at this just make my eyes water I was born forty three years later and I’m in my thirties and the things I see now I wish it was still like this, I swear my generation just don’t value life or take it serious smh
I remember the times! when we all wore dresses and taking off of papa's shoes. and grandmother having papa's food ready every day at the same time ready on time! i actually had a tear or two with this one.
Wonderful documentary. Back then, women worked their tails off for their families. They gardened, shelled peas, picked and cleaned collard greens, washed clothes in a tub...and even took the cushions off the couch and beat the dust off with a broom. There were no pampers, only cloth diapers. Most men would smack the shit out of the woman if dinner wasn't ready when he got home from work. I wasn't easy. Lots of women had to go out and work for another race, washing, cooking, ironing and then go home and do the same for their own family. I rarely use this term but life just isn't fair is it??
I live in Gainesville Ga now. When I saw the title you know I jumped to watch it immediately. In the credits I saw EE Butler MD. There's a street named after this doctor. Loved this short film. Thanks Reelblack💖💖💖
Lashon Hunter we are bouncing back and stronger than ever! I am a stay at home African American wife and mother. We have two sons my husband is an amazing African American man! Thick as thieves!!
I was born April 15th 1976 in Gainesville Georgia. So glad I glad I clicked on this. My heart ❤ is still set on family btw. Teamwork. Growing together ❤. Much love and respect if you're reading this comment
Seeing this film is like pulling it from a time capsule. It brought me a wonderful case of nostalgia. ☺️ I remember being so excited going to my Nana and Grandpa’s house especially for Thanksgiving. Running in the kitchen wanting to help my Nana. My mother would tell me not to bother my Grandmother, but of course Nana would say, that’s ok, let her help. I’d have more flour on me...😉. I’ll be 61 in October and I miss simpler days gone bye. 😥
they are a beautiful united family, with a lot of patience and slow to anger. yes once in a while people have a bad day and act badly but like the narrator said, as long as most of the days are full of love, teaching, patience and understanding, a few bad experiences won't be damaging. I'm struck by how contented with family life this young couple is. They were probably just in their twenties, but took their roles in stride and carried their weight in the relationship. remember now, there was no disability insurance or much of a safety net available. an illness or work accident could destroy a family.
I hear a lot of I wish &too bad black families aren’t like this anymore well we’ve all strolled upon this for a reason “guidance” and if anyone us don’t use it will be like gaining knowledge &never using it love peace &respect 🙏🏾💪🏾✊🏾
apparently you are not a native. gainesville was a known "sundown" town only a few decades ago. when it became part of metro atlanta and the migration pattern went around the perimeter (again) things changed.
@@cflowers29 Brother,don't discount EVERYone of them.Underneath it all you sound passionate for your ppl.I feel you....but I will ask this of you as a sister.Please don't let HATE turn that passion and love for our ppl into something as cold and ugly as what some whyt ppl have😔
This reminds me of my Grandmother, Grandfather and Mother and Father Kept these same traditions in raising me and my siblings. I use their same family values in raising my children. I pray they carry on.
I enjoyed this. Almost like a TV show that revolves around this family except it's not a TV show. This was a real family doing things that families do.
Too bad prices for everything didn’t stay the same because I would rather be home with my children! I wish I could stay at home...too much stress at work.
We have good maternity leave, I'm glad I'm in Canada.We are not wealthy but I am able to stay home with my children my 1st is much older and she turned out really well adjusted even thru her teens, as I was always there for her. I treat it like a full time job. If one can do it it sure makes a difference.
@@elmobolan4274 if she is in U.S. they have the worst maternity leave also its so unsupportive of families, I cannot imagine going to work with an infant in care. here in Canada the fathers get paid leave after baby is born too. Well the parents have a choice who takes it here the father could opt to be primary care giver and wife can take the paid leave. It's amazing and we are thankful our tax dollars provide it.
I miss my grandparent and great grans...it’s so hard to describe the love and wisdom I experienced by being in their weathered eyes. This is a nice video.
Not just black families but all humans families are stronger when both parents are together raising their children because preparing life ahead needs a good start and the rest kids will grow up stronger and fight the battles of daily struggle.
The love this family has for one another is beautiful. So matter-of-fact. How to face all the hardships life would bring and still love one another and stay family strong.
What you wrote was very illogical. If families are important to Europeans, and we're assimilating, it would follow that families would (still) be very important in the US Black community. The roots of what killed the Black family in the Americas goes back to slavery itself, when families were literally ripped asunder in order to exploit their members for free labor. And we all know that during slavery most enslaved people couldn't marry ("jumping the broom" has emotional - not legal - significance), and an enslaver's greed, debt or death could lead to members of a family being shipped off to parts unknown - never to be seen again. Add to that the post-Emancipation "plantation" - in other words: prison - as well as the dismantling of any nascent independent and economically strong communities, to so-called "social" welfare system and drugs pumped into our communities, and it's a wonder any of us is still functioning... Some of the most poignant newspaper ads I've ever read were published by newly freed enslaved Africans in America trying desperately to locate family members who had either been sold/taken away pre-Emancipation or lost in the wind of war.
I knew the negative comments would be overwhelming. I'm sorry for ya'll but I came from a good home. My husband and I are raising beautiful kids and a well structured home.
Beautiful melinated family! It took our enemy 100's of years to break the black family. It wasn't until they deployed chemical/biological warfare (crack cocaine) could they even break us. No other group could even walk a mile in our shoes and that's spiritual. We almost home family.
I grew up in a small town in the 1950s and 1960s. This is how all families lived no matter their race. We didn’t see color and we all played together. I was so blessed.
This is my first time ever seeing a short film like this. I'm glad to see beautiful black people like that portrayed in a positive way in 1949! I've only seen 12 minutes thus far & I have laughed😂😂😂. Miss Esther told them they were "dancing to the devil!" - get off her porch! And I "declare to goodness" that Mr. Rogers came home with an attitude! He was sweating his guts out & he wanted to bust the Mrs. in her mouth!!!😱😱 To be continued........😳😳😳
You too! Girl, I was laughing my butt off at them arguing. It was funny! He hadn't wash his hands nor change his dirty clothes. I loved looking at those funny eyes of his.
I grew up in Jamaica, and its amazing how the structure is the exact same. From taking off Dads shoes, to running out to meet mom with her bags, shelling peas, and the community itself looking like 1 huge yard.
I really love this documentary/movie. This is my 2nd time watching from some months ago, but it's just as interesting as first time. Not only do it bring back a warm reminder of my growing up years, but also because its a good family movie, of how moms and dads should be, and children, too.
I find it interesting that POC is commenting negatively about the state of the black people today. We don't have to worry about the white man because we do such a great job tearing each other down. I have hope for my people.
This video is so pure and great. I wish everyone could have families this strong and positive. As a white woman, I am ashamed of what my people have done to others. Some of the family I grew up around were racist, and I learned as I grew that that wasn't right. Now, I welcome everyone into my life. As long as we show mutual respect, I don't care who you are, where you came from, or what color your skin is. Human is human.
Random: I didn’t know they had white tees back then. My grandparents were young adults having their kids in this era. Never thought I’d see this kind of footage ♥️
I am 72 and lived this era in the north...Chicago....before it went nuts. We were a family of four, mother, daddy, my baby brother and myself. We lived in a great neighborhood and due to our parents ability to work and save, had no poverty story to tell. We not only had a lot but we were taught to share and always help others. Our parents were from the south and had horrid stories to tell about their life in the 1920's and beyond. Manners, morals, graciousness was our life. Daddy was not a mean man and mother was soft spoken and contributed to the family with her many talents and creativity. I would not trade my upbringing for anything. Everything was not perfect. We lived in neighborhoods that regarded us suspiciously until they discovered we were hard working and not some kind of threat. Yes, there were and remain areas that do not trust anyone who does not look like them. We were not on welfare or relief as it was called in those days, but I married young and as hard as my husband worked, he would get laid off and discouraged. Enter welfare as a replacement for the man. Sad situations followed. I have never seen a film such as this. Many have not, therefore assuming that all black life is the black life they either heard about or witnessed on television. "Good Times" was not real, nor was Julia, but they were depictions with no in between to show progressive people who attended to life with all of it's challenges, just like any other.
👍🤔Fast forward to June 2020.....since I’m here in Georgia not too far from Gainesville and have a boat in Hall County at Lake Lanier....I think I’ll try to find this Palmour St and local residents. I’ll update y’all later. 💝
There is a lot that broke down the family-friendly first acknowledgement of God, stress in the cities, working parents, missing dads or strong grandparents, alcohol and drugs delivered to inner city communities, welfare traps, a few in our generations that were abused by their own parents and did not know how to love their own teens, etc. As a child in the 70's, I saw a mother who went back to church, a stepdad that preferred to deal with the girls and not my inquisitive and outspoken brother. My mother always worked and called to find out how we were. I was the one who went down the block to call my brother home as some boy was always fighting him. I don't have time to tell the rest. My brother did graduate and had problems with substances. Today he has a wife but is bipolar. I am glad that he is free in other ways. God raised up 3 kids in the inner city. I am so blessed to have known my great grandmother and grandmother. She showed me love even when I became a mother. I never stopped going to school. My family still has a heritage and light because of the covenant my elders had with the Lord. May the Lord of the Harvest send laborers.
This reminds me of my childhood in Tulsa ok. I'm 61. This just melts my heart.
a c it does I’m 61 also from NOLA
And we love you for that...
It's funny how white people make it seem like things were hella bad for us back in those days.
@@dandross it was bad. Black veteran got lynched. This is a propaganda film created by the state of Georgia. No mention of the wealth gap, no mention of civil rights. No mention of the kkk roaming like free birds. Did you know back then like today you can openly tell blacks in some counties after dark if you come through here, you come at your own peril.
@@Mrk3lly Oh yeah most definitely. I'm 26 and I don't go to certain places period and it's 2019.
I loved how dad came home and took the children out on the porch, giving mom a break. 😊
Give her a break and or spend time with his children. So many men don’t really pride their selves on bonding with their kids.
facts, I can barely get my kids dad to even keep them 1 day outta the month, I Applaud dads that wanna be involved, I had a stepdad and he treated me n my siblings as his own.
@@u-knobreezy4035 according to the CDC, black men are more likely to be involved in their childrens lives than any other group of men. Particularly due to many black men not having access to good decent employment or higher education so that reflects to having more time to tend to children
Ben Judah hell no
smoothcollected I never opened my legs first of all I’m only 17 I’m a balck male myself and I don’t have kids and don’t want wany
Life so much more simpler with children being able to play, laugh, love and learn about morals and values from strong, nurturing women. Two parent households attempting to provide for a family. Boys drawn and connected to the Father. Family sharing a meal together at the dinner table.
Oh wow if only the continuity of the black family could have remained so strong! 🙏🏽💕🕊
WHO TOLD YOU THAT!? Yes you're right.. but the breakdown was caused by.. well.. if you're black and enlightened you know the answer.. God Bless..
Helen Hines ...i totally agree
Manny Akintunde yup
MAN WE BE EQUAL TO THE WHITES
LOL! Welfare state? Typical white response. There's more whites on welfare than blacks and always has been, so that statement is false. No, it's way deeper than that. Jim Crowe laws had a big hand in it, but what really pushed it over was the War on Drugs which led to the breakup of 'the family' and the mass incarceration of Black males since the 1970's and especially the 1980's. There are a few other factors too, but the blame of the welfare state is a typical White racist response.
scene 12:57 shows how so important black men are to obtaining a good and stable home. those babies look so content and loved playing with Dad.
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Exactly(:
That's why the government put black men in prison! It was done to break the black families home it's sick but this is our government in the USA!
Yup, very true!
Reel Black I am Addicted to your Channel! I have no Idea how you find these old videos! But please keep them coming! I love!!
Thanks for the love.
Yes, Reel Black! this channel is infinitely valuable. I love seeing us be us. No stereotypes, just normal. When we look at us from the context of how we have been across time, we really see who we really are without the systemic bias and the covert attempts to destroy us. Please, please, please keep doing what you're doing.
FACTS
Me too
These wete the good timed
This should be shown in parenting classes. These parents today need help bad. Thank you so much for sharing this film, this is theropy.👍
It should be taught in schools against
@@douglasvilledarling2935 not in schools wqste of time
Please repost
@@douglasvilledarling2935 lol school is where you teach people things you intend for them not to care about. I say this as a college professor with a doctorate in engineering, and I genuinely mean it.
I think every person born after this period should watch learn and reflect.
As a young millennial, I can definitely say the old school is the way to go, this new age stuff is not the move.
Share this❣️I will (9/23/2021 #PostInsurrection)
@@KhemMagnus cry
The period black people couldn't legally vote? Nah, I'll pasd
I enjoyed this back then family really stuck together.
Most of the children in this video, if still alive, are in their 70,80's. These old school folks can tell you what it was growing up then and black families then were tough when it came to discipline . I see a lot of pride and love in people who had to endure racism and inequality back then before civil rights laws. Black women back then we're tough as nails and loved and respected their men because they knew the battle wasn't with each other ...but a racist unfair society. God bless those women who raised the future activists and leaders who fought to make life better not for just black people but for ALL.! Anytime I see old videos,photos of black men and women I notice the strength,pride and beauty of them. What happened to society since then is so sad, but we know who and why caused it..Right.? God bless ALL.!
Harry Vanderveer - you are right. You can see it in some older people and they way they carry themselves. Real talk - personally all I have to do is look at my own mom. Through thick and thin, she was{is} a devoted wife/mother/worker. In spite of it all, she is still working and together with my father. Some men have this man or than person as his personal hero. My father is my hero. My inspiration. My supporter. My mentor. When I was in the military, I attempted to share a bit of that old-world strength he instilled in me with those men that had told me they never had or knew their own dads. Did any of that stick. Who knows. As you said H V - those folks were/are made of the sturdiest stuff. - It is a different world today -
Harry Vanderveer
So true, reading what you wrote brought tears to my eyes. My father was born 1918 New Orleans. I remember him telling us what it was like back then sometimes I would weep. Because he was a good and kind man and someone would treat him like that. They better be glad I wasn't born back then. They would probably have me swinging in a tree.
Harry Vanderveer so true My mom was born in 1944 her sister 1948
I'm 70 years old I can tell you about the village in the black community when I was growing up in Detroit. It was beautiful. Everyone looked out for all the children on the Block. I had a mom and dad at home. Most of the black families had moms and dads at home. The culture was totally different from what it is today
I hear what your are saying but didn't you watch the verbal skat between the woman and man? What you call respect might just be fear of getting their nose broken so she shut down and kept her struggle to herself. Then live in fear and unhappiness their entire marriage. That doesn't seem too different from the life black people have to live dealing with racist white people. Black women suffer double jeopardy in life. We are unfortunate to be TWO considered "inferiorities": black and a woman. Just so everybody have a good understanding: It is hard to respect a man who resolves conflict with a WOMAN - his wife - with his fist. But I guess you may see things differently...
It's funny how we were NEVER shown this in history class....Only the negative 😔....
What you expected, your enemies taught you.
@@vanessadorahill8057
That was my point....Ive been awake so I'm sure we are on the same page...Its sad not everyone understands that...Thank you for your comment..
European Version:Brain Washing
@TV Show Reviews : Where is the incubator
for White male mass shooters? They like the Walmarts,Country Concerts,and Bars.
@TV Show Reviews : Your thesis on that old 40's film sucks bone dry!
There is strength in Black Families..If only WE understood there was a systematic plot to destroy and uproot black families maybe we would stop blaming each other and Once again come together...
STOP VOTING FOR THE DEMOCRATS WELFARE STATE.
Thank you SISTER
@Planetary Queen true..but for the sake of this conversation I'm focusing on Black Families..but yes, very true
@@enchantedalchemist6658 🌷🌷
@Not This Guy Again true
I used to help my dad take off his work boots...
ieattofu68
🥰I use to help my Father as well. We did, but I thought that I was doing a big thing and contributing if you will.❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mee too. I used to make my grandfathers lunch the night before and help my grandfather with his boots when he came home..
Yep lol
ieattofu68 those morals ,morals ,respect all gone ,
same here but not boots tho
The scene where they took his boots of was so valuable to me it showed how much care we had for each other back then we was even raised to care about each other wtf done happen smh
Strategic attacks on our communities, drugs, guns and cointelpro
Welfare State.
OG DUKES shit is scary how things have changed.
Crack
1949 reality T.V.😊
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Peyton Bell yup
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Beautiful
The real deal reality tv
I remember the first time I helped shell peas with my Grandmother in SC.
Me too, sitting on the front porch.
Right we still do that since a kid
What part of South Carolina?
me too i remember doing the same with my mother..i really do
Wished I had some of those delicious organic fresh shelled peas now..along with roasted r boiled peanuts. My father house had a big pecan tree n the front yard n a peach tree n the back..I totally miss fishing n bike riding as a child. This ideal that Blacks didnt bird watch is the biggest lie..The southerners had names 4 the birds the flowers the trees also they knew the herbs plants. The respect the land adored the world around them. They took pride n growing building,the cared.
That was actually a really good movie... it brought back memories of helping my father take off his boots while he held my baby brother and kissed my mother... It also brought back the reality of my mother getting addicted to crack and my family ultimately breaking up... due to her sickness... and everything coming full circle, when I washed my dad’s feet... as he lay dying in his hospital bed... I guess we shall overcome it’s still just a saying...
I didn't want it to end! This gave me more insight about family structure! Being patient is key! 💞 I loved watching this because we as African Americans don't see this type of films anymore, movies/ shows for us are always about slavery, drugs, sex, molestation and just plain roughness. Films like this we see love, compassion, working through family hardships, working, loving parents, good children! Etc, etc! ❤❤❤🤧
Threatening to hit your wife isn’t exactly setting an example of love or anything positive.
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There are so many lessons in this video for all of us. A father is so important in the family as children's sense of security and safety comes from him.
If only the black family structure was still this important to us.
Lovely Aboriginal American family.
//real BLACK PANTHERS support the 2nd Amendment\\ um no. Don’t do that
Cristy LuvIf only the Black Village was this important to us! Family is a White European construct!
Popeye Doyle ?????
it is to black women..
That mother is real nice and beautiful ❤️🌹
I wonder how that actresses life was, hope she had a happy one.
I'm her Grandson. She did.
@@BrilliantbridgeOrgAdept2u woow for real ??
Yup!
@Psalms121 No it's my mother that is the daughter in the family although the person playing the role is not my Mother who is a neighbor kid. My Mom has a darker complexion and the White director really wanted to make the point of like mother like daughter so he used a neighbor kid in the roll. The eldest son is also replaced the only person with a truly light complexion is the youngest son my Uncle Vernon.
I’m fairly young... late 20’s. And this is exactly how my family and neighborhood was. My neighbors could discipline me. Mom and dad worked, but dad did most of the money making. This was truly a walk down memory lane.
May I ask what part of the world you grew up in?
You lien ass bitch
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@MissAniyahSimone omg 😂😂😂😂😂
Noooooo........🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
19:12 is what boys are missing in alot of household's now...a strong, loving dad ..dad's are so needed and wanted in the homes. Father's, please stay with your wife and children because families need you. Women need you. Son's and daughter's need you. Society needs you.
Amen! Amen! and Amen! But, I was bless to have both my mother and father in the home for 56 years.
little black children are precious
Excuse me... All children are precious. The creator gave them as blank canvases. WE corrupt them.
@@atlienrider6048 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@@atlienrider6048 we're talking about black children right now on this post. The issue is black families. Should this not be talked about. When ever their is a issue about the black community racist white people love the ring in and say it's not only black people it's all people who are having problems.
You've taking a page out of their racist Playbook quotation. You are assimilating.
No way Should we feel guilty about calling are children precious that does not including white kids at that very moment and second. Your comment was silly and discounting the reality in our black communities
Black ppl/children will take their rightful place on top... again. We ain't worried about nobody else.
@@denisshillingford5891 Exactly, we can't have nothing to ourselves without them always interrupting us.
This here is something this generation will never understand.
This is purely propaganda
@TV Show Reviews
I can't understand this generation Now....lol
@@Mrk3lly What is propaganda? This is literally how someone lives.
I'm a 21 year old(I just recently just turned 21) African American Woman & I understand this & I'm so intrigued in learning facts of my heritage so I can really understand where I come from. & what they needed fo teach me in school. & also to teach my daughter the truth about our black history. DONT BE SO HARD ON MY GENERATION, WE ARE STILL SMART AND READY TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER!✊🏽
Never
Wait ... we had to take my Dad's shoe off after work too, ha ha🤣
Too funny, we would be fussing and he would be laughing... those were the days😁
BUT DAD LOVE U FOR IT
i did the same with my father
I'm 54, and yes when my father got home we had to take off his boots.
Lol we did the same for my grandfather and brought him his plate too
And felt comfort in knowing he was not leaving home again until the next day
This is how it was when I grew up except my mother did not work. Her name was Esther though. I know what these children are going through (=:. My mother did not miss a beat. We could not get anything over on her. There was also the extended family and friends. I miss those days very much.
My great grandmother shared stories with us as children. She spoke of how they had their own newspaper, bank, grocery and clothing stores, restaurants, movie theaters and more..but their town was burned down by the klan. She stated that because they were striving and becoming a strong community having their own local leaders gaining strength and support in the community, they were seen as a threat to the klan. She said some tried to rebuild and some did ,but others were to afraid. The town was never rebuilt to the way it once was. Alot of families ended up working back on the farms owned by white people.
That's awful, but I'm not surprised, the Democrats do those kinds of things.... :(
I read about this.
@@teresarenee3829they where not known as democrats at that time you gaslighting idiot
Amazing to watch as I think about my own family now and the past. My Mom was born in 1949. I get a glimpse of what the world was like then. This is both precious and timeless. Thank you Reel Black.
It's wonderful to see the past how how black people live! 2019
Looking at this just make my eyes water I was born forty three years later and I’m in my thirties and the things I see now I wish it was still like this, I swear my generation just don’t value life or take it serious smh
I'm in my 30s too and I fully agree.
Choose someone in your life that have these values, don't just settle. 🌹
This is so beautiful! I love it!
I remember the times! when we all wore dresses and taking off of papa's shoes. and grandmother having papa's food ready every day at the same time ready on time! i actually had a tear or two with this one.
Wonderful documentary. Back then, women worked their tails off for their families. They gardened, shelled peas, picked and cleaned collard greens, washed clothes in a tub...and even took the cushions off the couch and beat the dust off with a broom. There were no pampers, only cloth diapers. Most men would smack the shit out of the woman if dinner wasn't ready when he got home from work. I wasn't easy. Lots of women had to go out and work for another race, washing, cooking, ironing and then go home and do the same for their own family. I rarely use this term but life just isn't fair is it??
J. Korbyn you sound like a dream wife for a women beater you'll be his dream come true,wow you like that,that's wierdo
Most men smacked the women? How do you know?
J. Korbyn there was hard working good men to but I feel u. Sweet Sadie from days gone by. One love.
Yes life was hard for black women
U SAID IT MRS HUXTABLE.
Little Kenny's haircut looks like he's been to a Barber Shop in 2019!😉
Dominick Viney lol I was thinking the same thing.. lol his fade is tight
He did have today's haircut and was cute. He looked mixed.
Watch and learn young parents , this is beautiful .😉
yep i shared with my daughter who is a parent
Yea right!. Those young parents have already dropped their children off at their mom's house while they have gone out clubbing to make new babies.
I miss these days although I was born almost 40 years later during the crack epidemic. This warms my heart.
You can't miss something that you were never a part of, lol
sandy xx lmao
Jackie Mason ah yes the devil speaks .
@@petal979 Make some sense. She obviously means she misses when people used to support each other and help one another.
I live in Gainesville Ga now. When I saw the title you know I jumped to watch it immediately. In the credits I saw EE Butler MD. There's a street named after this doctor. Loved this short film. Thanks Reelblack💖💖💖
Thank you for preserving our culture and sharing our stories. God bless you 💚
Our pleasure!
My dad came home from work at 5:30 every evening he was and is still my hero
Aunt Esther sounds like the character with the same name on Sanford and Son! LOL. Enjoyed it.
Very Normal and Pleasant Video on African Americans Living in Those Times😊
Alicia Young not Africa American
@@anthonyjackson5698 I agree with you. Black people still believe they all came from Africa.
We've completely dropped the ball as a whole 😔
Lashon Hunter so true and sad😢😢
We have, but when we had the ball we definitely got fouled.
Sad but true. How can we get back to having black power and black strong families & communities again.
Lashon Hunter we are bouncing back and stronger than ever! I am a stay at home African American wife and mother. We have two sons my husband is an amazing African American man! Thick as thieves!!
Was no fault of our own
Back when the South was segregated
Colin Jenkins no doubt about it😀
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We still segregated just took the signs down in some places. Js
Segregation is best for everyone.
Chuck Collins Bullshit You Ungrateful Nigga
The music destroyed our love .It thought us to kill our brothers and sisters.And call our women bi___hes
And gangs targeting their own people.
It wasn't the music. The music came from the poverty. The poverty came from government induced welfare dependency.
I agree!
@@cheeesonatortalk to em
Beautiful..
I was born April 15th 1976 in Gainesville Georgia. So glad I glad I clicked on this.
My heart ❤ is still set on family btw. Teamwork. Growing together ❤. Much love and respect if you're reading this comment
Wow, natural beautiful black women
😁 Yes, they were natural, but beautiful.
😁 They were natural, but beautiful.
Seeing this film is like pulling it from a time capsule. It brought me a wonderful case of nostalgia. ☺️ I remember being so excited going to my Nana and Grandpa’s house especially for Thanksgiving. Running in the kitchen wanting to help my Nana. My mother would tell me not to bother my Grandmother, but of course Nana would say, that’s ok, let her help. I’d have more flour on me...😉. I’ll be 61 in October and I miss simpler days gone bye. 😥
they are a beautiful united family, with a lot of patience and slow to anger. yes once in a while people have a bad day and act badly but like the narrator said, as long as most of the days are full of love, teaching, patience and understanding, a few bad experiences won't be damaging. I'm struck by how contented with family life this young couple is. They were probably just in their twenties, but took their roles in stride and carried their weight in the relationship. remember now, there was no disability insurance or much of a safety net available. an illness or work accident could destroy a family.
I hear a lot of I wish &too bad black families aren’t like this anymore well we’ve all strolled upon this for a reason “guidance” and if anyone us don’t use it will be like gaining knowledge &never using it love peace &respect 🙏🏾💪🏾✊🏾
Thank you so much for taking out the time and energy to post these videos. Much obliged.
Wow. I live in gainsville GA now. I wonder if any of this fam still lives around here.
apparently you are not a native. gainesville was a known "sundown" town only a few decades ago. when it became part of metro atlanta and the migration pattern went around the perimeter (again) things changed.
I wonder too
@@cflowers29 Brother,don't discount EVERYone of them.Underneath it all you sound passionate for your ppl.I feel you....but I will ask this of you as a sister.Please don't let HATE turn that passion and love for our ppl into something as cold and ugly as what some whyt ppl have😔
@@cflowers29 LoL so no one but black people can't watch this film? The narrator is white..🙄🙄
@@cflowers29 can you fight like a real man
BEAUTIFUL, I LOVE OUR BLACK BROTHERS AND SISTERS❗️💯
Black people stop buying from these Chinese restaurant s all the time
Me too my sistra✊🏽
Indeed!!!! Same here!!!! Love y'all as well💓💓💓💓💪💪💪
We Love you too 🖤✊🏾🖤✊🏾🖤✊🏾🖤
I love my people 💯 we've been through a lot and still surviving!
This is very good this movie is exactly how I was brought up those were the good days to me and my family thank you for posting
Thank you for posting this. I’m crying seeing how family oriented we were. We’re special people.
This reminds me of my Grandmother, Grandfather and Mother and Father Kept these same traditions in raising me and my siblings. I use their same family values in raising my children. I pray they carry on.
I enjoyed this. Almost like a TV show that revolves around this family except it's not a TV show. This was a real family doing things that families do.
Too bad prices for everything didn’t stay the same because I would rather be home with my children! I wish I could stay at home...too much stress at work.
Lisa Lashawn staying home is stressful too ,but it makes you feel good to know your children are getting everything they need!!
Unfortunately the feminist movement distroyed the family unit...
We have good maternity leave, I'm glad I'm in Canada.We are not wealthy but I am able to stay home with my children my 1st is much older and she turned out really well adjusted even thru her teens, as I was always there for her. I treat it like a full time job. If one can do it it sure makes a difference.
@@elmobolan4274 if she is in U.S. they have the worst maternity leave also its so unsupportive of families, I cannot imagine going to work with an infant in care. here in Canada the fathers get paid leave after baby is born too. Well the parents have a choice who takes it here the father could opt to be primary care giver and wife can take the paid leave. It's amazing and we are thankful our tax dollars provide it.
@@elmobolan4274 Facts!!!!
I miss my grandparent and great grans...it’s so hard to describe the love and wisdom I experienced by being in their weathered eyes. This is a nice video.
17:10 ... Wow , I remember as a child singing that same rhyme, and I’m a 70’s child.
Me too!!
We all played that game. Things were simple back then.
Let ishia denise green
L B I’m a 80s Baby and we sung this rhyme.
I remember singing the clapping rhyme too.
That’s why it was so important to lock away the black men to get them out the households because they build strong families
FACTS
@@jaybloc6485 that's a fact Jonathan
They sure did and I stopping watching the show.
Not all these days and they’re not locked up.
Not just black families but all humans families are stronger when both parents are together raising their children because preparing life ahead needs a good start and the rest kids will grow up stronger and fight the battles of daily struggle.
I grew up in Gainesville, GA, in the 90s. This is so very interesting! Thank you for sharing!
Georgia has changed a lot but i still love it there whenever i go for vacation. People still kept the vibe. You can feel black love around
Really
Those are some beautiful children. The whole family. I must say, I hated when he threatened to hit her.
I laugh at that part. It was funny how they were arguing and he just walked in wanting to eat without washing hands and changing dirty clothes.
The love this family has for one another is beautiful. So matter-of-fact. How to face all the hardships life would bring and still love one another and stay family strong.
Agreed
GO AWAY
@dwone jones I actually laughed out loud.🤣
I really enjoyed that
“You ought be ashamed of yourself dancing to the devil like that” 🤣🤣🤣 brings back memories!
Blessed Too funny.
Exactly!😂😂 I had flashbacks to my great aunt and grandma telling us that 😆😆
Yes it does
These days, the girls will dance to anything and to the disrespecting rap songs(some of them) that disrespect women and call them B__ches.
brings tears to my eyes .... legacy
Ladrevious.
I'm so glad I've discovered this fantastic channel. I watched Sister, Sister yesterday. Wonderful
If only the Tribe was as important to Blacks as the European family! Assimilation is killing us!
Assimilation into wha
What you wrote was very illogical. If families are important to Europeans, and we're assimilating, it would follow that families would (still) be very important in the US Black community.
The roots of what killed the Black family in the Americas goes back to slavery itself, when families were literally ripped asunder in order to exploit their members for free labor. And we all know that during slavery most enslaved people couldn't marry ("jumping the broom" has emotional - not legal - significance), and an enslaver's greed, debt or death could lead to members of a family being shipped off to parts unknown - never to be seen again. Add to that the post-Emancipation "plantation" - in other words: prison - as well as the dismantling of any nascent independent and economically strong communities, to so-called "social" welfare system and drugs pumped into our communities, and it's a wonder any of us is still functioning...
Some of the most poignant newspaper ads I've ever read were published by newly freed enslaved Africans in America trying desperately to locate family members who had either been sold/taken away pre-Emancipation or lost in the wind of war.
I knew the negative comments would be overwhelming. I'm sorry for ya'll but I came from a good home. My husband and I are raising beautiful kids and a well structured home.
R.I.Pfor those people WHO DIED⚰🖤AMEN🙏
Great family. So glad the dad was alright. Jobs were so dangerous back then. We have way better laws and safety regulations now. Thank God for that.
Beautiful melinated family! It took our enemy 100's of years to break the black family. It wasn't until they deployed chemical/biological warfare (crack cocaine) could they even break us. No other group could even walk a mile in our shoes and that's spiritual. We almost home family.
Thanks for posting this. It's a rarity to see things like this. Is there a part 2?
I'll be posting Mr. Stoney's All My Babies soon. If you can't wait, im sure it's somewhere else on UA-cam.
@@reelblack did you post part 2 yet?
@@reelblack part 2 available?
I grew up in a small town in the 1950s and 1960s. This is how all families lived no matter their race. We didn’t see color and we all played together. I was so blessed.
This is my first time ever seeing a short film like this. I'm glad to see beautiful black people like that portrayed in a positive way in 1949! I've only seen 12 minutes thus far & I have laughed😂😂😂. Miss Esther told them they were "dancing to the devil!" - get off her porch! And I "declare to goodness" that Mr. Rogers came home with an attitude! He was sweating his guts out & he wanted to bust the Mrs. in her mouth!!!😱😱 To be continued........😳😳😳
You too! Girl, I was laughing my butt off at them arguing. It was funny! He hadn't wash his hands nor change his dirty clothes. I loved looking at those funny eyes of his.
I grew up in Jamaica, and its amazing how the structure is the exact same. From taking off Dads shoes, to running out to meet mom with her bags, shelling peas, and the community itself looking like 1 huge yard.
I really love this documentary/movie. This is my 2nd time watching from some months ago, but it's just as interesting as first time. Not only do it bring back a warm reminder of my growing up years, but also because its a good family movie, of how moms and dads should be, and children, too.
Aunt Easter look like she don't play.🤣
I find it interesting that POC is commenting negatively about the state of the black people today. We don't have to worry about the white man because we do such a great job tearing each other down. I have hope for my people.
Thanks! This is a part of our black history. 💗your uploads!
Loved this!
This video is so pure and great. I wish everyone could have families this strong and positive.
As a white woman, I am ashamed of what my people have done to others. Some of the family I grew up around were racist, and I learned as I grew that that wasn't right. Now, I welcome everyone into my life. As long as we show mutual respect, I don't care who you are, where you came from, or what color your skin is. Human is human.
She sounds just like Aunt Esther on Sanford and Sons
Random: I didn’t know they had white tees back then. My grandparents were young adults having their kids in this era. Never thought I’d see this kind of footage ♥️
This was an amazing find! Thanks for sharing!
Comforting to watch how the Black family once was. We can bring it back with our values, again. Loved this.
This is the kind of documentary that needs to be shared with all families, to give them a good idea of how family life is supposed to be like
Good women. They really knew how to take care of home
@Psalms121 💀
I am 72 and lived this era in the north...Chicago....before it went nuts. We were a family of four, mother, daddy, my baby brother and myself. We lived in a great neighborhood and due to our parents ability to work and save, had no poverty story to tell. We not only had a lot but we were taught to share and always help others. Our parents were from the south and had horrid stories to tell about their life in the 1920's and beyond. Manners, morals, graciousness was our life. Daddy was not a mean man and mother was soft spoken and contributed to the family with her many talents and creativity. I would not trade my upbringing for anything. Everything was not perfect. We lived in neighborhoods that regarded us suspiciously until they discovered we were hard working and not some kind of threat. Yes, there were and remain areas that do not trust anyone who does not look like them. We were not on welfare or relief as it was called in those days, but I married young and as hard as my husband worked, he would get laid off and discouraged. Enter welfare as a replacement for the man. Sad situations followed. I have never seen a film such as this. Many have not, therefore assuming that all black life is the black life they either heard about or witnessed on television. "Good Times" was not real, nor was Julia, but they were depictions with no in between to show progressive people who attended to life with all of it's challenges, just like any other.
If the young mom of these days could be like this today.......
What a wonderful world it would be.....
They need men to depend on to be mothers like this and too many men don't want to be depended upon nowadays
Bishop Fuller
If the women, black women, of today weren't abandoned and saddled with all the work and the blame .....
It could still be this way if Black people will love each other and stick together. Yea Right! That'll never happen again!
I love to see black family strong and together. Too many negative stereotypes out there. We need to see more family in a positive light
👍🤔Fast forward to June 2020.....since I’m here in Georgia not too far from Gainesville and have a boat in Hall County at Lake Lanier....I think I’ll try to find this Palmour St and local residents. I’ll update y’all later. 💝
Thank you. That area may now be an expensive high-rise apartment building for rich White folks.
@@valeriebyrd70 - 👍Sadly, that’s probably accurate. 😩
My mother was 3 at this time and still alive. These kids may be so as well.
My dad is 95 almost 96 in two months so the children may be alive.
There is a lot that broke down the family-friendly first acknowledgement of God, stress in the cities, working parents, missing dads or strong grandparents, alcohol and drugs delivered to inner city communities, welfare traps, a few in our generations that were abused by their own parents and did not know how to love their own teens, etc. As a child in the 70's, I saw a mother who went back to church, a stepdad that preferred to deal with the girls and not my inquisitive and outspoken brother. My mother always worked and called to find out how we were. I was the one who went down the block to call my brother home as some boy was always fighting him. I don't have time to tell the rest. My brother did graduate and had problems with substances. Today he has a wife but is bipolar. I am glad that he is free in other ways. God raised up 3 kids in the inner city. I am so blessed to have known my great grandmother and grandmother. She showed me love even when I became a mother. I never stopped going to school. My family still has a heritage and light because of the covenant my elders had with the Lord. May the Lord of the Harvest send laborers.
This all seems so familiar. Wow, just, wow!
Again. Thank you for bringing this to me. And countless others.
I remember crying for my mom when i had to go to the baby sitter. I also remember that song Mary Mac. Oh precious memories....
When Dad reassures his little boy he won’t hurt him 😍