Wow! Time certainly fly. I was 12yrs old. I will always remember that era.😔 It was sad because my brother and I had close Italian friends , so close that we had dinner at each other's house and had sleep overs as well. This played tricks on my mind , I was thinking that our friends were really hating us behind our backs. As a kid it really messed me up. Thank God for my parents, they really got me out of that mindset. I have grown and learned that one individual doesn't represent a whole race of people. That's also how I raise my children, go off of the way a person treats you as an personally as an individual , not by what another person has done that just happened to be the same race. If we all lived by that I believe that we would be better as the human race.
I agree. I lived in bensonhurst most of my life. And I always refrained from telling ppl that around that time and soon after. I was pegged as an Italian racist many times for that.
I wonder how many black-owned businesses are there in Bensonhurst? Not impressed by the "minority majority" because other groups can be just as racist. We as black people must learn that we have to strive for our own individual racial group.
Went to Junior and HS over there. No picnic. Had to RUN THE GAUNTLET every day. Not gonna LIE, there were some decent, cool Italians but they were complicit in their silence. Little kids running from grown men. WTF??
American not Italian, just American havent been Italian for generations. America is so tribal about backgrounds. Y'all Americans so get on with it stop arguing its stupid. Sorry you had to run the gauntlet to get to school.
Same here, I was chased through Berwyn, IL (Chicago) suburb I was 11yrs old, my cousin 12. We heard N... N... N... get TF out our neighborhood. We did exactly that. My Cousin bike broke down, he left the bike, jumped on back of mine and we went. Returned with my cousin's Dad, my uncle which was in law enforcement at the time. Do you think those ppl lightened up their stance? No, they continued with the N....N....N... yes indeed. BERWYN, IL 1984! Although Berwyn has integrated, mostly Hispanic, I can't help but wonder what the Hispanic/Latino ppl went through when they moved into the area?
Chicago too , just not spoken about. All you hear is black on black but they don't talk about the "sundown" towns around and which neighborhoods you better not walk in alone and they aren't black hell , anyone who's anyone comes in our neighborhood and are more safe than we are and are treated better by us but again , the other side isn't mentioned.
They need to stop expecting black mothers to accept worthless apologies when they kill their babies. Outrageous My heart goes out to that mama... I won't forgive at alll
Exactly stop with that. Ask a white mother do they forgive the murderer of their child. An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. We not doing that forgiveness nonsense with them.
There were 2,605 murders in NYC in 1990. I lived in Brooklyn in the 1990s. One of those murders was my friend's Jewish mother, who was shot and killed in an attempted robbery of a grocery store on Flatbush. The murderers were two black males in their early 20s. Four years later a Russian Jewish friend and classmate of mine was stabbed and killed by four black youths in Midwood, in broad daylight. There was almost certainly at least some racial motives in the murders, yet no marches took place and each of these murders just got a single small writeup in the Post. Mass media is a bunch of vultures that prey on what's trending in politics, rile up communities and create a false sense of victimhood and blamelessness. Was it completely safe and pleasant for a black teen to walk around Bensonhurst in 1990? No, it was not. Was it completely safe and pleasant for a white teen or a Jewish woman (chinese people, arabs, indians, etc.) to walk around a black neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1990? No, it was not. Racism is wrong, period. ANY race can be racist towards another race. Persuading people otherwise is both morally wrong and dangerous.
Ironically this is pretty racist. Why does the fact that they marched bother you? You could’ve planned marches for your lost ones just like they did, but instead you did nothing and became envious. Then maybe the media would’ve paid more attention. Black learned a long time ago you have to make people pay attention, why haven’t you? You clicked on a video about a certain event and felt the need to make it about you and how black people can commit murder too. Newsflash any human can, but that’s not the point of this video. Don’t use someone else’s situation to bring up something that takes away from this innocent kids story. Do better.
This young fella talking about the incident looks like he wasn't even a thought in his daddy's pants when this happened. I remember it all too well. I lived only a few miles from that area and remember me and my friend being threatened and chased on our BMX bicycles when we got too close to Italian neighborhoods. I don't know what the heck these Italian parents were teaching their kids around the dinner table. So much friggin hate. It's crazy. They say NYC is a big melting pot of cultures but that's only on the surface.
what's funny is that everyone thinks this was a racially motivated attack when in fact it was group of youths protecting themselves after a crackhead Ho threatened them that her black friends were coming to beat them up., (btw there was a black, irish and Puerto Rican kid amongst the Italians that attacked Yusef)This story was spun by the media and that provocateurr and former drug dealing rat and FBI informant Al Sharpton.
@@santinoboy7063 bull fucking shit. There was no black guy amongst those Italians that killed Yusef.. I lived about 15 minutes walk away from bensonhurst. Stop spreading your bullshit lies. During that time, bensonhurst Italian kids were not hanging with black kids I was there and I lived that time. Even my own neighborhood was predominantly Italian and Irish. There were only a handful of Caribbean families in my area in the 1980s.
@@Skyjuice70 please. 😅😅... Whites were getting Chased out of black hoods back in the day. Now their no ethnic borders... Everyone is moving everywhere... The only one spewing hate is this skyjuice70 fella. 🤔😉
I was raised in Bensonhurst all my life I was born in 93 & raised since then my dad heard the gun shots & my dad use to get to fight with Italians but my dad use to say they never like to fight alone or with hands it’s ethier They jump you or they hit you with with thing my dad use to work in a bichorshop but the owner use to tell people don’t touch him he works with me !!! When I grew up it was still Italian they never did anything to me cause most of them were 1 or 2nd Generation Italian - American I am Mexican american & I grew up with these people
@@normreye7430 Are you frm CA? How would you know about us Mexican Americans? We are different from the ones in NY or the East Coast. From what I've heard, many Mexican ppl in NY or on the East Coast are Indigenous-blooded immigrants there to work usually. Cali4nia Mexican Americans are generations deep (like Italian Americans in NY) and we are usually Mestizo, not full Indigenous.
So this area has accepted many immigrant cultures as mentioned since then because these groups that have moved in do their best to assimilate as White. Many Turkish,Albanian, Syrian even go as far as to pretend to be Italian and Catholic. So the remaining Italians in area are much more tolerating of them because they see them as groups that respect them and see them as superior. Blacks on the other hand may be sprinkled out but the sentiment towards them is still there. This area Bensonhurst/Bath Beach is not the place to be if your black still true now. This interview aimed to pretend that this no longer the vibe out there.
This guy doesn't sound like he's from New York City at all. No thick accent or detectable accent at all (to me😶). Very clear and easy to understand. It was pleasant to listen to him. Obviously a smart young man.🧠
cacoca79 Mexicans dominate urban LA, always have, always will. And now they’re taking over the southern neighborhoods which were predominantly black from the 50’s-60’s till the millennium and before that, white. Compton was white up into the 50’s when the postwar migrants settled into the neighborhood in the migration boom. It started to deteriorate in the late 60’s-early 70’s with the urban decimation blight across America.
@@cacoca79 it happens to blacks all the time in Latino neighborhoods. Like the piece of nothing that firebombed and killed a black woman and her child.
@@cacoca79. I’m from Brooklyn and my ex is from Cali his dad is Black and mom Mexican. Generally and collectively Black people nor Mexicans , are socialized to believe themselves superior to each other or any other ethnicity. It’s all love . I have many Mexican friends and never felt unsafe in any Mexican space because of my skin color . There might be individuals who internalized racism but generally the collective never had a system that peddled supremacy. Some white people believe the lies of racism and there might even be some POCs that Bro to but generally if you’re white or any other ethnic group and you’re not looking for trouble you will have no issues walking in Bedstuy or any other Black neighborhood- in much poorer neighborhoods like some areas of the Bronx , where there’s more social problem brought on by poverty, fair game that you might get robbed or killed regardless of your skin color for dumb shit . In Cali there was tension between Korean and Black community after the Rodney King riots but that’s also mostly gone . You might find some ignorant Black people but collectors there was no systemic teachings of Black superiority or supremacy so we don’t think of others less deserving than us . Whereas there was whole systems where schools taught it, churches preached it government peddled it for centuries so some white people struggle to see others as an equal human that is no different and equally deserving as same rights and freedoms as them and can celebrate the differences and commonalities of humanity but relate that we’re one.
Well I for one am so glad that the fabric of Bensonhurst has changed! Makes me feel good. For myself I don't like Moses Stewart thats just me & I fully agree with Yusef's Mother & how she feels. That was her son, those cretins in BH murdered him over something so stupid just because they didn't like what he looked like? I saw the Yusef documentary and for the first time got the whole story. I was both sad & disgusted. So glad that the old makeup of BH is gone.
Cuz our neighborhoods are gone a long time if your us were not allowed to have our own!!!! Everybody hates n discriminates on us all sheer fuckin Jealousy!!!! An even more the regular neighborhood person where come from don’t exist anymore I’ll always be me!!!! a SoUTHBROOKLYNBOY when THEiR was one the LL’s started taken it over as far back as 85 an it’s been done fa ages it’s a fuckin white bread Disneyland is what it is!!!! Be good mo!!!...iTALiANO Faeva baby!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🦏🐼🦍🐅🐬🦖
I was 14 years old a freshman in Canarsie hs....now I'm 50, it seems like it was yesterday... all those racist kids moved to Florida and are now in government lol
@@lovethyself744 IT DOESNT HAPPEN AS OFTEN BUT IVE HEARD MORE ABOUT those crimes on the news compared to when we get jumped or killed. when a black is killed by a white person or cop its national news but when it happens to us not one word.
@@jerrywoods4066 im not saying he's innocent. Im saying he didn't pull the trigger. Everyone knew from the neighborhood that he didn't pull the trigger. The one that went free is suspected of that. Mob ties
Only the parents of all individuals involved relive the incident. Not many Italians there for many years. I would love to see the article for a car for sale. 40 kids & Fama wasn’t the shooter. NO WINNERS in the sad incident.
I grew up in the 70s, and this was an every day Occurance, back in the day, no one dared, walk through either neighborhood, if you were the opposite race of that neighborhood! You were either a wise ass and asking for trouble, or just plain stupid! That’s just the way the neighborhoods were back then! there were 1000 howard beach and Bensonhurst incidents Happening every day across the five boroughs! If I would have walked through the projects, they would be a 99.9% chance I would have got jumped! Anyone that grew up in the 1970s will agree with me. I am not saying it was right, it was just reality! These two cases were put under the spotlight only because it was white people doing it to blacks! The jail terms were out of proportion with the incident and these kids were sacrificial lambs!
“Hey, yo paulie, you heah da fuckin moolies ah tryin to moove inta da neybahud? Da noive a dem fuckin moolies. Do me a fava huh. Go get paulie, tony and paulie, and we’ll do sumptin ‘bout it, italian style!”
Lets just jump right in it: #1 Hawkins wasn't killed cause he was black, He was going to hangout with the neighborhood Skeezer and her ex boyfriend found out and in a jealous rage he snapped #2 There was not 1 but 3 black kids in the Fama/Mondello group that went to confront Hawkins And they were literally told to beat it, by cops. This was NEVER about race, this was over a girl. Hawkins being black was just a mere detail, not the reason.
monte capultti That’s false Yusuf was going to buy a used car and mistaken for someone else. As far as race goes, there are dozens of racial incidents that took place in Bensonhurst over the decades. I know some friends who got attacked on Bay Parkway after leaving the movies. The Marlboro Projects another flash point between blacks and Italians FOR DECADES.
AboveTheClout a lie? It is not a lie, it’s a bonafide FACT. My ears tell me stories but my eyes never lie. That’s like saying drugs being dropped in inner city neighborhoods couldn’t be true because cops via the gov had “Just Say No” & a DARE program. Come on.
Wow! Time certainly fly. I was 12yrs old. I will always remember that era.😔 It was sad because my brother and I had close Italian friends , so close that we had dinner at each other's house and had sleep overs as well. This played tricks on my mind , I was thinking that our friends were really hating us behind our backs. As a kid it really messed me up. Thank God for my parents, they really got me out of that mindset. I have grown and learned that one individual doesn't represent a whole race of people. That's also how I raise my children, go off of the way a person treats you as an personally as an individual , not by what another person has done that just happened to be the same race. If we all lived by that I believe that we would be better as the human race.
I agree. I lived in bensonhurst most of my life. And I always refrained from telling ppl that around that time and soon after. I was pegged as an Italian racist many times for that.
I wonder how many black-owned businesses are there in Bensonhurst? Not impressed by the "minority majority" because other groups can be just as racist. We as black people must learn that we have to strive for our own individual racial group.
Went to Junior and HS over there. No picnic. Had to RUN THE GAUNTLET every day.
Not gonna LIE, there were some decent, cool Italians but they were complicit in their silence. Little kids running from grown men. WTF??
Hell yea, everybody knew what was up but didn't say anything to help him out.
American not Italian, just American havent been Italian for generations. America is so tribal about backgrounds. Y'all Americans so get on with it stop arguing its stupid. Sorry you had to run the gauntlet to get to school.
@@somniumisdreaming Interestingly enough, in my Senior year, IT BECAME FUN! TRUE STORY 😃😃😃. I would like to meet some of them now and REMINISCE.
somniumisdreaming where are you?
You ain't lying. Even the teachers would turn a blind eye.
Its crazy 30years
I went through the same ish in Rosedale running from Italians coming back from sunrise movie theater in the early 80s
I lived 88-93 143rd Avenue & 241st Street.
My block was mostly Irish but NEVER had no encounters. We all played together & got along, our families too.
It's crazy how rosedale is mostly black now
Same here, I was chased through Berwyn, IL (Chicago) suburb
I was 11yrs old, my cousin 12.
We heard N... N... N... get TF out our neighborhood. We did exactly that.
My Cousin bike broke down, he left the bike, jumped on back of mine and we went. Returned with my cousin's Dad, my uncle which was in law enforcement at the time. Do you think those ppl lightened up their stance? No, they continued with the N....N....N... yes indeed. BERWYN, IL 1984! Although Berwyn has integrated, mostly Hispanic, I can't help but wonder what the Hispanic/Latino ppl went through when they moved into the area?
@@mustafahajj have you ever watched Svengoolie on TV and that use of "Berwyn" on his show(I am in Chicago) mustafa?
The sad thing is this was the norm in NYC at one time.
Chicago too , just not spoken about. All you hear is black on black but they don't talk about the "sundown" towns around and which neighborhoods you better not walk in alone and they aren't black hell , anyone who's anyone comes in our neighborhood and are more safe than we are and are treated better by us but again , the other side isn't mentioned.
@@kubbykush420 game facts
now is the NYPD doing the killing.
ITS STILL THE NORM but its usually non blacks on the receiving end always has been thats why we never hear of it
They need to stop expecting black mothers to accept worthless apologies when they kill their babies. Outrageous
My heart goes out to that mama... I won't forgive at alll
Exactly stop with that. Ask a white mother do they forgive the murderer of their child. An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. We not doing that forgiveness nonsense with them.
Why does it have to be black mothers? Why can't it be all mothers?
@@kimberlyrowden784 them? You sound a bit racist no?
@@heather1872 cause they don’t ask other mothers if they forgive. They only ask black mothers that stupid nonsense.
@@Mrjonezzz who's they?
There were 2,605 murders in NYC in 1990. I lived in Brooklyn in the 1990s. One of those murders was my friend's Jewish mother, who was shot and killed in an attempted robbery of a grocery store on Flatbush. The murderers were two black males in their early 20s. Four years later a Russian Jewish friend and classmate of mine was stabbed and killed by four black youths in Midwood, in broad daylight. There was almost certainly at least some racial motives in the murders, yet no marches took place and each of these murders just got a single small writeup in the Post. Mass media is a bunch of vultures that prey on what's trending in politics, rile up communities and create a false sense of victimhood and blamelessness. Was it completely safe and pleasant for a black teen to walk around Bensonhurst in 1990? No, it was not. Was it completely safe and pleasant for a white teen or a Jewish woman (chinese people, arabs, indians, etc.) to walk around a black neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1990? No, it was not. Racism is wrong, period. ANY race can be racist towards another race. Persuading people otherwise is both morally wrong and dangerous.
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100% Right
Ironically this is pretty racist. Why does the fact that they marched bother you? You could’ve planned marches for your lost ones just like they did, but instead you did nothing and became envious. Then maybe the media would’ve paid more attention. Black learned a long time ago you have to make people pay attention, why haven’t you? You clicked on a video about a certain event and felt the need to make it about you and how black people can commit murder too. Newsflash any human can, but that’s not the point of this video. Don’t use someone else’s situation to bring up something that takes away from this innocent kids story. Do better.
As a mother that would be me too No apology . Death or life
If dude had glasses he look like 1981 era Wayne Williams.
Facts
This young fella talking about the incident looks like he wasn't even a thought in his daddy's pants when this happened. I remember it all too well. I lived only a few miles from that area and remember me and my friend being threatened and chased on our BMX bicycles when we got too close to Italian neighborhoods. I don't know what the heck these Italian parents were teaching their kids around the dinner table. So much friggin hate. It's crazy. They say NYC is a big melting pot of cultures but that's only on the surface.
what's funny is that everyone thinks this was a racially motivated attack when in fact it was group of youths protecting themselves after a crackhead Ho threatened them that her black friends were coming to beat them up., (btw there was a black, irish and Puerto Rican kid amongst the Italians that attacked Yusef)This story was spun by the media and that provocateurr and former drug dealing rat and FBI informant Al Sharpton.
@@santinoboy7063 bull fucking shit. There was no black guy amongst those Italians that killed Yusef.. I lived about 15 minutes walk away from bensonhurst. Stop spreading your bullshit lies. During that time, bensonhurst Italian kids were not hanging with black kids
I was there and I lived that time. Even my own neighborhood was predominantly Italian and Irish. There were only a handful of Caribbean families in my area in the 1980s.
They definitely learn hate from their parents. They should hang their heads 8n shame.
@@Skyjuice70 please. 😅😅... Whites were getting Chased out of black hoods back in the day.
Now their no ethnic borders... Everyone is moving everywhere... The only one spewing hate is this skyjuice70 fella. 🤔😉
@@santinoboy7063 you sound fucken stupid!
Still racism going..............
I was raised in Bensonhurst all my life I was born in 93 & raised since then my dad heard the gun shots & my dad use to get to fight with Italians but my dad use to say they never like to fight alone or with hands it’s ethier They jump you or they hit you with with thing my dad use to work in a bichorshop but the owner use to tell people don’t touch him he works with me !!! When I grew up it was still Italian they never did anything to me cause most of them were 1 or 2nd Generation Italian - American I am Mexican american & I grew up with these people
Go back to school. Your grammar is fucked up.
I agree. Mexicans don’t fight alone either. Look at LA
Lmfao 🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️😂🤣.. that shit was funny
The first and second generations were the older men.
@@normreye7430 Are you frm CA? How would you know about us Mexican Americans? We are different from the ones in NY or the East Coast. From what I've heard, many Mexican ppl in NY or on the East Coast are Indigenous-blooded immigrants there to work usually.
Cali4nia Mexican Americans are generations deep (like Italian Americans in NY) and we are usually Mestizo, not full Indigenous.
WHEN I THINK OF AREAS LIKE BENSON-HEARSE NOTICE HOW I MENTION HEARSE...BIG DADDY KANE-ERASE THE RACISM.
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So this area has accepted many immigrant cultures as mentioned since then because these groups that have moved in do their best to assimilate as White. Many Turkish,Albanian, Syrian even go as far as to pretend to be Italian and Catholic. So the remaining Italians in area are much more tolerating of them because they see them as groups that respect them and see them as superior. Blacks on the other hand may be sprinkled out but the sentiment towards them is still there. This area Bensonhurst/Bath Beach is not the place to be if your black still true now. This interview aimed to pretend that this no longer the vibe out there.
This guy doesn't sound like he's from New York City at all. No thick accent or detectable accent at all (to me😶). Very clear and easy to understand. It was pleasant to listen to him. Obviously a smart young man.🧠
Maybe he just moved there.
I used to live in Bensonhurst Brooklyn and I kind of miss it
Fck bensonhurst
How many blocks did you grow up from where Saturday Night Fever and Out For Justice were filmed?
Props to Yusuf's mother for staying on code, and not about all of that forgive forgive forgive bullshit!
try getting jumped for being mexican in a black area in los angeles , never one word from the media about it, past or present, gee i wonder why??
cacoca79 Mexicans dominate urban LA, always have, always will. And now they’re taking over the southern neighborhoods which were predominantly black from the 50’s-60’s till the millennium and before that, white. Compton was white up into the 50’s when the postwar migrants settled into the neighborhood in the migration boom. It started to deteriorate in the late 60’s-early 70’s with the urban decimation blight across America.
@@cacoca79 it happens to blacks all the time in Latino neighborhoods. Like the piece of nothing that firebombed and killed a black woman and her child.
@@cacoca79 try being black in cali and getting jumped and killed by Mexicans. No one hears about that
Smh Patty dukes from hot 97 was down with it. So glad he got fired.
Two decades late!!!!!
August 23rd 1989 the day nobody never forgets when Yuself Hawkins was killed its sad I pray for his family may He rest peacefully 🙏🏾
Bensonhurst changed a lot it’s way more diverse now and less racism compared to 30 years ago
try getting jumped for being mexican in a black area in los angeles , never one word from the media about it, past or present, gee i wonder why??
@@cacoca79. I’m from Brooklyn and my ex is from Cali his dad is Black and mom Mexican. Generally and collectively Black people nor Mexicans , are socialized to believe themselves superior to each other or any other ethnicity. It’s all love . I have many Mexican friends and never felt unsafe in any Mexican space because of my skin color . There might be individuals who internalized racism but generally the collective never had a system that peddled supremacy. Some white people believe the lies of racism and there might even be some POCs that Bro to but generally if you’re white or any other ethnic group and you’re not looking for trouble you will have no issues walking in Bedstuy or any other Black neighborhood- in much poorer neighborhoods like some areas of the Bronx , where there’s more social problem brought on by poverty, fair game that you might get robbed or killed regardless of your skin color for dumb shit . In Cali there was tension between Korean and Black community after the Rodney King riots but that’s also mostly gone . You might find some ignorant Black people but collectors there was no systemic teachings of Black superiority or supremacy so we don’t think of others less deserving than us . Whereas there was whole systems where schools taught it, churches preached it government peddled it for centuries so some white people struggle to see others as an equal human that is no different and equally deserving as same rights and freedoms as them and can celebrate the differences and commonalities of humanity but relate that we’re one.
@@cacoca79 mexican mafia declared war on the blacks. They even shot a 14 year old black girl. I see you dont mention that
I will never forget!😢
Storm Over Brooklyn HBO 2020 Yusuf Forever make sure u guys watch 🤟🏿👌🏿
I'm still waiting for it
Jasmine Williams going to announce in two weeks from what I was told
Obviously time fly so fast. I was 19 years old at that time were when crime in the city was outta hand..
Well I for one am so glad that the fabric of Bensonhurst has changed! Makes me feel good. For myself I don't like Moses Stewart thats just me & I fully agree with Yusef's Mother & how she feels. That was her son, those cretins in BH murdered him over something so stupid just because they didn't like what he looked like? I saw the Yusef documentary and for the first time got the whole story. I was both sad & disgusted. So glad that the old makeup of BH is gone.
“Our”neighborhood!🇮🇹
Cuz our neighborhoods are gone a long time if your us were not allowed to have our own!!!! Everybody hates n discriminates on us all sheer fuckin Jealousy!!!! An even more the regular neighborhood person where come from don’t exist anymore I’ll always be me!!!! a SoUTHBROOKLYNBOY when THEiR was one the LL’s started taken it over as far back as 85 an it’s been done fa ages it’s a fuckin white bread Disneyland is what it is!!!! Be good mo!!!...iTALiANO Faeva baby!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🦏🐼🦍🐅🐬🦖
Now it mostly Russian and Chinese now
Bensonhurst is very mixed algerians , albanians , turkish, russian ,uzbec, chinse ,armenian ,mexican ,el slavadoian ,Pakistanis
BLM was marching in bensonhurst last year!.. unfortunately they came like 30 years too late! The whole neighborhood is like Chinatown now 🤣😭🤦
Great job great interview
I was 14 years old a freshman in Canarsie hs....now I'm 50, it seems like it was yesterday... all those racist kids moved to Florida and are now in government lol
The Irish was the only race that had my back against Italians.
In New York not in Boston
There were 40 dudes. How many still walk free? Pasquale Raucci is Paddy Duke from HOT97 and he worked there for 25 years.
try getting jumped for being mexican in a black area in los angeles , never one word from the media about it, past or present, gee i wonder why??
@@cacoca79 just like no one hears about the Blacks being jumped in Mexican districts neither...
@@cacoca79 but you look great tho
@@lovethyself744 IT DOESNT HAPPEN AS OFTEN BUT IVE HEARD MORE ABOUT those crimes on the news compared to when we get jumped or killed. when a black is killed by a white person or cop its national news but when it happens to us not one word.
@@cacoca79 I agree with you on that as well. Because even Natives are killed by the police but you don't hear it neither. You're right
Bensonhurst was the epitome of cafonery.
what kind of father forgive his son's killer his wife should divorce him
Changed to the worst -------------
It's not worst, slavery than segregation was worst. Now there's just cameras everywhere
Free Joey he's innocent and won't rat on the real shooter
He won't.. even till this day we still don't know who pulled the trigger. So why is he in jail still
R.i.p Yusef
@@heather1872 cause he's guilty ?
@@jerrywoods4066 im not saying he's innocent. Im saying he didn't pull the trigger. Everyone knew from the neighborhood that he didn't pull the trigger. The one that went free is suspected of that. Mob ties
@@heather1872 possible.
Only the parents of all individuals involved relive the incident. Not many Italians there for many years. I would love to see the article for a car for sale. 40 kids & Fama wasn’t the shooter. NO WINNERS in the sad incident.
How do you know?
I grew up in the 70s, and this was an every day Occurance, back in the day, no one dared, walk through either neighborhood, if you were the opposite race of that neighborhood! You were either a wise ass and asking for trouble, or just plain stupid! That’s just the way the neighborhoods were back then! there were 1000 howard beach and Bensonhurst incidents Happening every day across the five boroughs! If I would have walked through the projects, they would be a 99.9% chance I would have got jumped! Anyone that grew up in the 1970s will agree with me. I am not saying it was right, it was just reality! These two cases were put under the spotlight only because it was white people doing it to blacks! The jail terms were out of proportion with the incident and these kids were sacrificial lambs!
I'm more confused now then when I started watching 🤦🏿♂️😂
It’s Bensonhurst
His father crazy only thing that would satisfy me at that point is tho opportunity to is putting him in that same position he put my son in
“Hey, yo paulie, you heah da fuckin moolies ah tryin to moove inta da neybahud? Da noive a dem fuckin moolies. Do me a fava huh. Go get paulie, tony and paulie, and we’ll do sumptin ‘bout it, italian style!”
He’s 12yrs old what does he really understand about this history?
People nowadays weren't in World War I nor World War II, it doesn't mean u don't grasp the horrors. History sheds light regardless of age.
Called research 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Ask your mother
We subscribe to your stupid ass page and that’s the bast you can say?
Anyway it’s a shame how ignorant people can be
The title of this video is dumb as hell. Yusuf Hawkins: 30 years later. Almost no one would ever no about this video because of the title.
Still nothing change in 2022
Joey Fama was framed
The gunmen Joseph shoots/kills Yusef(Joseph) so sad☹
Yeah but it wasn't the neighborhood that killed him
Yes it was. That environment created those idiots.
Neighborhoods create mobs
They could use the courts, whom 16 goes to buy a car as they say on this Video. Italian & Jewish neighborhood.
Lets just jump right in it: #1 Hawkins wasn't killed cause he was black, He was going to hangout with the neighborhood Skeezer and her ex boyfriend found out and in a jealous rage he snapped #2 There was not 1 but 3 black kids in the Fama/Mondello group that went to confront Hawkins And they were literally told to beat it, by cops. This was NEVER about race, this was over a girl. Hawkins being black was just a mere detail, not the reason.
If they makes you feel good you can believe race wasn't a factor..
you´re trying to fool others or just yourself?
Utter bullshit.. If that story makes you sleep at night...
monte capultti That’s false Yusuf was going to buy a used car and mistaken for someone else. As far as race goes, there are dozens of racial incidents that took place in Bensonhurst over the decades. I know some friends who got attacked on Bay Parkway after leaving the movies. The Marlboro Projects another flash point between blacks and Italians FOR DECADES.
Idiot
Don’t F with the Itals 🇮🇹
Youareamericannotitals
Wrong beretta
Hot97 started some of the biggest “Stop Snitchin” campaigns ever produced over 20 years ago this month. Coincidence? Nah. #RIPowerYusuf
That’s a lie. How can there be a stop snitchin campaign when Lisa Evers, a crime news reporter, came on every Sunday with “street soldiers”
AboveTheClout a lie? It is not a lie, it’s a bonafide FACT. My ears tell me stories but my eyes never lie. That’s like saying drugs being dropped in inner city neighborhoods couldn’t be true because cops via the gov had “Just Say No” & a DARE program. Come on.
I diSagree if youre saying there was a stop snitching campaign in hip hop ok. But to say hot 97 ran an actual campaign ur lying or have been misled
😭🤣😀.. hot 97 is gangsta 🤦