"Black on Black" (1968; journalism professor Joe Saltzman)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- "Black on Black" has been hailed for its pioneering effort to capture the voices and experiences of black America during one of the most volatile times in the nation's history.
Being an African immigrant from Nigeria who came here and took advantage of the products of the civil rights struggle to get a sound education and a nice job that helps me afford a beautiful lifestyle. I say THANK YOU to our dear black brothers and sisters who had to go through hell, that we may have the good life today . It is on your shoulders that we stand ! WE ARE GRATEFUL . THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏.
I'm surprised you even acknowledged the civil Rights and what American black struggled for so other people from other countries can also take advantage.
@@freemygrandma8752 Our struggle has been everyone elses salvation.
I have to say, I have never heard that perspective from anyone of African decent who immigrated here. I appreciate you!
@@Taytay_79 You are welcome Cherise. TRUST ME. This is the way most of us think. We hold the civil rights heroes of America in very high esteem.
In some circles in Africa, martin Luther King Jr is a god. He is worshipped in a shrine like Catholics have virgin Mary on a shrine.
You probably only see that Africans resent the way some black kids of these days have no self control, and a penchant for violence, and you mistook that for a 'dislike' of the entire black Americans right ? 😊
@@Taytay_79 You appreciate the very people who rounded you up and sold you to the Grecians and the Arabs? Who are taking your benefits from your struggle because they have the same skin color as you?
" The liquor stores inflict the greatest amount of pain to the community."
Still, the liquor does not drink itself !11
@@jellyrun1 right!
Abortion Clinics. Margaret Sanger.
Baptist church!!
@@SaturnStarOfDavid Abortion wasn't legal while Sanger was alive.
People were more intelligent and well spoken back then they had a proud sense of self
so what happened?
@rattlesnake pete that's some serious bullshit you are claiming.
Failure of the US educational system.
Yeah…. And than Jerry Springer came and changed everything. 😒
@@davisworth5114 Rap music
Black has and will always be beautiful. Thanks for posting this. 👍
...but how is working
Can't get a job cuz the white man !?
The color of the skin is brown though
Racist
Damn right black is the most beautiful race ever✊🏿✊🏿
I love this RUclips video I have been sober for 1 Year and 18 months after 22 years of drinking gambling and drugs just to look and see what the black man and black women had to go through back then I really really really really really take my hat off for them as of a black man turning 60 September 28- 2021 if I knew back then what I know today I would have listened more from MOM AND DAD AS OF A BLACK MAN I ENCOURAGE EVERY NATIONALITY STAY SOBER YOU WILL GO A LONG WAY IN LIFE OVER THE LAST 1 YEAR AND 18 MONTHS SOBER I HAVE BEEN VERY VERY VERY VERY BLESSED NO MORE HANGOVERS FEELING BAD LOOSING JOBS THANKS AGAIN FOR SHARING THIS RUclips AND STAY DRUG FREE ALCOHOL FREE AND GAMBLING FREE 🙏❤️🙏
So right my friend.
Congratulations on winning your constant fight
I hope you're still doing well. Keep the faith.
SHALOM ✡ BROTHER ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH GOD 🙏🙌✨
May God continue to bless you.
These Classic Documentaries
Should be Required Viewing
For all our households.
That will never happen if I tell someone about this video they're going to say how old are you that video was so long ago
True, But I doubt it would change racism but you do have a good point and yes everybody should learn about these things in every household
@@1990758 sorry I grew up through those times in LA and I always thought black people were beautiful, much more fun and I was proud of my friends.
Staying in school, getting a job, working hard, avoiding unwed pregnancy, and staying away from drugs and gangs should be required by all household.
I agree 💯
Not a single victim in this documentary. Just honesty, pride and pure drive. People today, of all colors, need to take notes.
I dislike your comment, because it lacks historical understanding. We WERE victims THEN, and NOW, but the way to express our issues, was to immerse ourselves in that which made/makes us a unique people...the ability to survive EVERY atrocity meted against us, and STILL be innovators. If the trauma my people are forced to suppress, does not make us victims, then WHAT is the definition of the word "victim".
@@BriC7 no one is trying to suppress it and you are not a victim NOW. That's completely asinine to suggest that you are.
@@BriC7 we have no other option but move forward. Ain't no one trying to suppress what happened but when you only focus on that. You fail to see the reality of today. People act like society is deteriorating when society has always been sht. You can't name a time in human history where we all were at peace. Where there's difference there's conflict. That's just apart of human nature.
@@BriC7 you are literally lacking historical understand. Because the Jews dont play victim about the holocaust. They dont play the victim when they've been prosecuted for over 2000 years. I'm not denying or trying suppress the black struggle but I guarantee you I know more about that struggle then you. But because I'm white it gets discredited. But yet when I do the same I'm in the wrong for speaking truth. Even tho I've dealt with the struggle more then you. Only difference being you can sue someone if you're being discriminated against for being black. If I'm being discriminated against for being white I can't do sht. If I swing I'll go to jail not you. But if the shoe was on the other foot... so yeah you're not a victim. Being black in america is more of a privilege then being white.
@@kevingarth6682 It would be an exercise in futility, to debate this subject with you. Your knowledge of "history" AND current events, appears to be from a viewpoint of either privilege, ignorance, or both. Whatever the case, your word salad is just that. Lots of words, no substance. But, thank you for trying. 'C' for your effort. Good day.
How can we get this video mainstream again...this is a masterpiece and must be seen by everyone everywhere
But sadly, during the segment where they are talking about food. Sure that’s pretty much all we could eat, but the generational physical damage, how can we save ourselves???
It's ALREADY mainstreamed....didn't you get the Message?
I said the same thing
Huh? Mainstream for what? Were you encouraged watching this? All I hear is a people without hope. A people who have been stripped of who they truly are. They have allowed another being to take everything from them including who they are. I can imagine this being on basic TV just to reinforce the insignificance they already feel.The only thing that made sense was the man at end that spoke how he hated church & the blue eyed white haired dude on the wall at church. Rev ike should be mainstream and others like him!
I saw/heard so much more. Perhaps it’s just the perspective of which I am viewing.
This video was very powerful it’s crazy this was made in 1968 and we still going through the same thing today 💯
So sad
I thought it had improved a lot.
Yes still going through the same things in 2022. Jobs. Police. Food. Businesses. Education. Health. We are constantly being oppressed.
When Jim Crow ended we all live under the same laws. It's an individuals choice what to make of their lives.
Black men ain’t changed since
My mother is from this era, and she said the same thing about the grocery stores. We had a grocery store like that growing up in the 70s, and when the people came out to complain about the quality of the canned goods and produce, instead of correcting it, they just shut the store down. We've never had a grocery store since, and that was 50 years ago.
Damn they shut the store down instead of just bringing better quality food?
Wow we have its n lil town called Brotmanville.N.j.always it would exchange hands to another family of blacks we all r greatful for
We had vegetable and fruit trucks and stands. We own most of the businesses., and I am 80 from Chicago,, Oak Park and Waukegan, but moved to Queretaro, Mexico since 2021. I love here, and over 60 years of traveling Mexico and the world. I than God. Allah u Akbar MGT GCC Sister Judith 3X. Temple #2.
@@acajudi100Asa Sister! What made you decide to move internationally at 77-78 years young? I have been researching Latin countries recently
Whose fault is that? Go start your own grocery store.
Every generation of our people should make their babies watch this ... its imperative
@@jacoboc2244 it has nothing to do with that genius...
People need to understand history so it doesn't repeat itself and so they grasp the concept of sacrifice and struggle to have more gratitude in the times where they are down..
Wow ,learn how to think outside of the box guy..
@@BlancoToldYou I totally agree with what you was saying we need shit like this. The problem is the younger generation is off guard because of social media and bullshit . Then when random shit like mass shooting in buffalo NY go on they are dumb founded. They always talking about forgiveness and shit and this Juneteenth shit fuck that pay us our respiration and land so we as a people can get the fuck on . The did it to the native Americans and this our land just as much of not more the black man and woman our the original people on earth. Every younger person should watch this just like I grew up in the 80s and 90s watching Roots.
@@traviscarter1023 I couldn't have said it any better fam. I'm 40 and I feel the same way
@@BlancoToldYou Facts Queen always talking about forgiveness fuck that. Shit that happened in upstate NY you would think something like that go on down south. But they tried hidden shit like this in NY. We as blacks got to get our shit together really and start investing in land and business in Africa. Spending our black dollars with our own people they not going to do right over here. America going down hill anyway for the most part look at that gas prices. Africa needs us more for real not trying to sound like Nas in Belly but for real this shit for the most part is at a end of a era if I ever have kids I don't want to rise them over here in Babylon it's so backwards. Would love my kids being home school by black teachers.
@@traviscarter1023 that's why we are homeschooling our 9yo, ppl need to get away from government indoctrination (public school) and the LIEble(Christianity) institutionalized paganism, and get back to their essence-their roots, we've been lied to soo much. My mom is Puerto rican and even she taught us black history and made sure we knew our roots derived in Africa.
" The reason I have a picture of me is because I love me.." I love that, and I love listening to him..
I love the fact that you love the fact that you love the fact that he has a picture of him and he loves himself and you love listening to the fact that he lives him.
Dumbest thing I ever heard. The man said “me” so many times it made my head spin.
I watched the area of 25:30 or so when they discussed food; black food or soul food. I fel so awful that we were subjected to regarding what we ate. That filthy swine for the most part. It did not have to be that way. That animal was not designed for human consumption. But I have to give everyone who was innterviewed in this documentary.. This ws shot during the time in this country I was growing up.
Yes it was dehumanizing,!! That they made us eat like that, they knew exactly what they were doing,!,,
15:00
The black experience is Soo real. Gotta respect it. Much love to the ancestors
💯💯💯
Wasn’t that long ago smh
@@SunnyandNova Still cooking breakfast over this, it was two seconds ago
@@LEllis-ui3lx I’m not asking I’m telling him it wasn’t that long ago so using words like ancestors make it seem dated
@@SunnyandNova I agree. Yup that's true
This video is Golden!!! Someone should remaster it digitally and put it back out for people of today to see 🙏🏽
That Ain't No Secret 👍🏿💪🏿✊🏾
Exactly! This generation is not like this no more!!
Number one why did he interview this depressed man very negative no hope get yourself together positive thoughts and positivity of of yourself . Number two this video does not need to be remastered with all the negativity please!!! Come again
@@forensicflies7272 maybe your just negative they are speaking the real of the way it was then. Nothing is negative about it besides the one watching it negatively
@@teetot5276 First of all loose the attitude it's my opinion and my right to express myself making a video to feel sorry for one's self is depressing you make change within yourself life is not easy that's why it's called life and black on black crime is not the wave look in your own back yard before you try and come for me
Me and my DAD used to listen to this Live LOU RAWLS Album tobacco rd.when i was a kid in the 60's.rest in peace , to my DAD. OMAR HASSAN my first hero.
I enjoyed this. There seemed to be more unity back then amongst us. Yet we had much less.So much has changed, yet not a lot has CHANGED.
Get ready to laugh black people. 😄
Preach
Talk about the irony of it all.
Most blacks are still just as racist as the folks in this video. That’s an unfortunate fact.
there was much more of a community.
I grew up in South Central L.A. I been truck driving for 7yrs. I been to every ghetto in America. I can relate to this video from the jump. I might not want to live in the ghetto. But I will always get my good eatin from my people.
These places you call ghettos are highly sought gentrification targets now.
This is such a powerful story about how black people live and what they had to go through too. I really like this film and this really inspires me a lot. And this film also teaches me on how to be proud of who I am as a black man. This film was recorded before I was born and I was only born on December 26, 1976. And this film also inspires me to be who I am and to also to accept myself for who I am. I really love this film a lot.
Your a loser if you needed this to respect who you are.
@@kool9174 in all due respect, I’m curious as to what motivates someone to be disrespectful to a stranger online. I’m writing a paper for school about race relations and how different sides are affected by it. If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, would you mind taking a moment and telling me, as honestly as possible, what would make you think it’s okay to call another human being a “loser” because they expressed their self pride after being inspired by this video. I’d like to know why one person will wish a person well and someone like yourself will call that person “a loser”. I have no judgment of you, I’m just curious as to your honest though process that allows you to choose to be dismissive instead of uplifting. Thank you in advance for indulging my curiosity. Be well.
@@barboza009 I don’t have time for your politically bullshit ass views to garner attention.
If you need a video like this to love yourself and or uplift yourself then you’re a fucking loser with no education of who he is.
Hope this answers your fucking question.
@@kool9174 perfect answer. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Be well.
@@kool9174 No! the big losers are the people that get so upset just because some body feel proud about something what you fail to realise you educated idiot Is that most of the new generation never seen our black culture in this way before So yes it make us proud to see that we are more than just Rappers and thugs Like television try to make us out to be Yes it give us a sense of pride to actually see black men walking around with their pants pulled up yes it give us a sense of pride to see black women fully dress going to work being real mothers Yes it gave us a sense of pride to know how the media moves and television try to make us out to look like We are nothing more than just thugs But if you was really one of us you will understand this already and it wouldn't have to be explain to you for the simple fact was understood should never have to be explained Now go have a heart attack or stroke or something because how Easily mad you get about the next person happiness it just might happen 😅🤣
Thank you for posting!
As a 28 year old black man living in 2022 I see many comparisons of now and back then and some things are the same. Glad I watched this
Their conversation fell on my ears like poetry. The highs and lows of being black
Powerful. Everyone is so beautifully spoken. I could listen forever.
Points out so much about the soulessness of whyt culture.
Now we can’t speak basic English it’s sad
Back in 1968, people had better analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as the ability to use reason and logic. Today in 2022, we've lost those abilities due to being dumbed down.
@@SunnyandNova You bet it's sad. And it's going to get worse. You can count on it.
Right on!
very strong documentary
Born and raised in Watts in the Jordan Downs Project 1968
I heard about those projects. They're known all over the world!
Where u their when they filmed menace II society? (My favorite movie besides fridray)
I love the way my people can put words together... groovy
Leaning different languages after 450 years of slavery ! Go Figure ?
@Devon Digby he could do it bc he was an intellectual ...what’s your problem?
@@MuvaTwerks Malcolm X could do it All. Harvard - Yale - Harlem - Compton..
Pure and True..
In Swahili
isiyo na wakati..
( Timeless )
@@kewsiyehboah6058 Asè
The police hasn't changed.
Same ole tactics, same ole bs.
Same ole harrassment.
And people say " Its not All Cops"
Well maybe so. But the nature of the beast, PD, Is ,and always be to harass people.
Black american southern accent is amazing. I am a brotha straight out of Africa speaking, Salute to Blk Americans only!!
Mississippi native black man approves this comment 😁👍🏿
One love
Peace unto you!
Unfortunately alot of our brothers and sisters from africa shun the black american and look down on us here, not understanding how the enemy of us both, use divide and conquer techniques systematically, especially through false propaganda,to make africans not want to associate or build families with black americans. This divide i see everywhere. A business associate of mine, that's from liberia asked me why do i wear jewelry and whas does it mean to wear it like that. I felt the pain for him, and shame, ...for allowing white american influence, remove him from his culture in or to similate and make money here in newark nj. He has become like the enemy. Ashamed of his culture, has a distane for mine, marry outside of his race, live in a white neiborhood and own multiple properties in newark nj. Looking down on the people. He refuse to be a friend of mine,only contact me for business because to him, I am not on his level. What he refuses to see, is that i have something he lacks..self love, knowledge of self and others, and the knowledge of history in africa and america. Do everyone a major love favor and share your thoughts with our people from africa,, because we love them so dearly, but alot of them are lost in the old mind the oppressor created against us.
They use oppression to keep us divided.
.Love Preech.
Honestly this is was one of the best documentary to see as a BLACK MAN...... its 2022 my people
These documentaries need to required viewing in many schools.
I agree 💯
One of the famous words from Tupac the ghetto is good for nobody I love being black but it's more to life then just stand in the ghetto
My bad Tupac the hood is all good for nobody me there's more to life then staying in the ghetto
Hows that a good proverb/saying? An area is what each person makes it.
They had no choice back then.
@@DJB635 We have a choice now but look at this young generation acting ignorant
Exactly!.They don't realize how lucky they are.@@rawdrizzy
Damn, this is a great documentary, a keeper for sure!
Love this documentary about our ancestors, we still in the struggle in 2021.
That's everywhere man. And in all races. It's the ones who rule and the one who follow the rules. That's in every structured society
@@mempho38128 Dont' lump Black ppl in with "all races". It's the easiest way to water-down and ignore Black issues that are disproportionately worse and have been continuing for decades....
@@penguin902 yes blk is in it as well. Nobody excluded. We as bulk folks need to speak on the ills our people did to our people as well. No exceptions.
THE CHILLINS IS STILL STRUGGLIN, Y’ALL
Still!? We are deeper into the problem
So many people migrate here and know nothing about black people. It should be a mandatory course before graduation. Black Power!
They know. Trust me
You would be amazed that they have more artifacts of us where they are from... They know exactly who we are...
This was a very good film. What is truly sad, however, is that the same conditions the people are speaking about in the film still exist today. You could even argue that conditions are worse. We all have this belief that we now live in a post-racial society now based on equality. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Your a moron or been brainwashed by mass media if you think America is more racist today then in 1968....
It's culture destroying the black community, not the white man...
@@KnightsUnion white boy alert 🚨
I am 68 an I can tell you in 2020 you just seen how raciest America is way more today than 1968 more people go and check the votes for Nov. 3rd election 2020
@@brianbrown6806 you mean WHITE MAN... That knows the game y'all play...
@terrance thomas nah
I'm in my 50's and everything in this documentary that was shown or talked about I've seen, experienced or can identify with, the only thing that's changed is time, the same things exist just in a modern, technological and scientific era which actually makes it more volatile, extreme and worse...on a national and global scale, smh. It's like the echoes if my grandparents, parents and older siblings!!!
Your comment was absolutely correct assessment of black America but can I add something in the video I comment was made about black people losing their identity and given one by our oppressors the truth of the matter is we are the Jewel of God ! And if pick up ⬆️ your bible and read in the book 📖 it talk about that will go in captivity for 400 years in a strange and The people of that land will always forever oppress those people! To the time of our captivity returns and we are put back in our own land Monahans of our creator our Lord our God we must repent from our sins and keep God‘s laws and Commandments
78 here, but happy, I obeyed my family and ancestors
Things have changed but the situation remains the same, the generation after this film has had more opportunity and chances to make a difference but the situation remains the same.
Same here, but I'm the white man they blamed in this video so...
the story of the struggle
past present and future
This film is a magnificent achievement and a true labor of love. I entered the University of Southern California in 1960. Joe Saltzman was editor of the Daily Trojan. He ran that newspaper with the same passion as the editor of a big city daily. Yeah, I did get pilloried for a reckless anti-communist letter to the editor. I deserved it. We were all learning, but Joe seemed to already be the tough as nails pro. Our school was then and now close to the struggles of black South Los Angeles. Between 1960 and 1968, when Joe made this documentary for local station KNXT, race in America went through an upheaval. It was an exciting, painful and hopeful time, days that need to be remembered for black is beautiful as much as for urban unrest. USC is lucky to have Joe on its faculty today. As of 2022 he still teaches a course on the Culture of Journalism and guides graduate research.
Is he a Communist?
@@Geezerelli Joe is a news guy. Back then, news guys were interested in facts and exposing the truth, the opposite of an ideologue like a communist. Our difference did not have anything to do with any communist tendencies in his publication. Rather, it was about sources and documentation, classic journalistic stuff.
@@slowtony2 tell that to Yuri Bezmenov.
@@slowtony2 news? Like CNN?
@@Geezerelli Yes news, like CNN, all the other cable news channels, and most remaining newspapers (including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times) pretend to be. The news business always had its biases. The old Los Angeles Times was for many years an anti-union newspaper. However, the guys behind the typewriters (I remember those newsrooms) were hard to fool and dogged in getting to the truth about what was going on. And their owners had the guts to publish it.
I wish young people today who have rightly lost their trust in "mainstream news" could have known what the news business meant back in the 1950s and 1960s. It wasn't just print and radio. Televison introduced a new immediacy that was coopted by charismatic characters like the strident anti-Communist Joe McCarthy. Then Edward R. Murrow, a real news guy who had earned public trust from his radio broadcasts during the London Blitz, had the courage to step up and expose McCarthy as a liar and charlatan. I still remember that television broacast. It was mesmerizing, even to a young boy. The power of Joe Saltzman's 1968 video for Los Angeles TV station KNXT is a product of that era. A determined news guy, a REAL old-fashion news guy, did his best to tell a story that America needed to hear.
Yuri Bezmenov was a Russian KGB agent who specialized in planting divisive news stories in the media of many countries. He defected to the West in 1970, when on a trip to India. Today Russia (and now many others) still do the same thing. They pick cracks in a society, like ethnic and racial divisions, and use those points of entry to inflame dissent. In 2022 it is widely recognized as war by other means. The best defense is an educated populace who are good at judging which media and which stories are more reliable. If you simply distrust ALL news, you are putty in their hands. I deeply worry that a failing education system has created lots of that putty in modern America.
Very little has changed in the decades since the premiere of this program. Blacks still have the same mindset today as they did then.
If you are referring to pride in one's own community.....I just don't see it. At least I don't see it in some places in the country or when BM insult BW and chose to marry outside their race or walk around saying they hate dark skin etc.
@@joywilkins64 those insults go both ways
Most black women love black men. Their just not receiving that same love in return. It's been slowly progressing in this direction since back then, and it's a great deal worse now.
@@natalieac8409 lmao yeah right
@@joywilkins64 go away with the bs.
@ the 50 min mark, they begin to go over the issues we still face in the bc. the same curses remain generational
This is no curse just the devil doing , at least woman didn't feel then they don't need a man ,or that black man ain't shit . The woman then knew the reason you feel we are " curse"
You need to learn from the pass or DOOMED to repeat the negative.
Our curses just like in Deuteronomy 28 in the Bible , we didn't keep the laws , statues and commandments.
@@sankaragarvey5862 THE MOST HIGH PUT US THEIR..
Black peoples’ issues are self inflicted.
54 years later not a damn thing changed but the times.
Exactly..However, the police start unaliving us more frequently now
@@mistyblue5158 they been killing blacks u just didn't know about it they could easy cover it up back then there was know questions asked
Many of the inflictions that black people have are inflicted by themselves……
Many things are out of our hands, we as woman/men can avoid poverty by not having so many unplanned pregnancies.
Even in 2023 women residing in the projects continue to have so many children..
I always wonder why?
No one has ever taught them that they deserve better and stop believing that struggling is normal..It’s not…..
@@Essence56 You brought up so many problems, But the prego thing comes from them not feeling beautiful and sex being the only thing or being sexualized, is the only way they know how to be perceived as beautiful. And being ashamed of how they look comes from things like, telling black women they are ugly for more then 100 years. OR making Bandana laws ect. This was addressed in the video too which makes me think u jumped straight to the comments
After Continuously seeing
Documentaries like this,
One would think the
second we become
Successful, Community
Empowerment would be
Top Priority over a Icy
Rollie, and Some Rims.
You can't be healed in the same place you got sick. Remember that.
@@borngreat-4-life930 That’s why successful black men leave their communities.
Why would you think that? The youth is not watching this and we do far more than wear ice and rims, black people dont call jewelry ice no more bud..lol...this is white control at your finest back then, which they still have because fear is a dangerous weapon against the righteous by nature.cream will only rise no matter how much its kept back...
As a native of Los angeles my sister an I along with my mom lived in Nickerson Garden back in the 60's but my mom left shortly after the watts riott and she went on to be a nurse and my dad went on to work in the aerospace industry but I still had relatives that stayed there for many yrs!!! This document makes me sad & happy at the sametime really makes me think of my dad ..I sure miss him too !
I love this song to bring at home
...there can be a deep unspoken bond of love..between father and son..and son and father BECAUSE it may often go unsaid...even thou it is eternally there 🐝🌈💫
@@cosmicman621 ...and that's WHY it Needs to be SAID, my brother.
The injustice continues pray for the chaos to stop
@@amazin997 : IT'S DONE IN JESUS' NAME.
I was born in 1968 and I was born in the ghetto (Harlem). Even though this doc is about South Central, it has special meaning for me. I’m always fascinated with Black American life in 1968.
After 1968, black people and business went down to the drain.
@@lovelyvanessadorahill8585 That's definitely arguable.
@@lovelyvanessadorahill8585 Strange that 1968 was after landmark national Civil Rights legislation that eliminated or outlawed stubborn pockets of segregation and made Affirmative Action a national policy for employment.
Then, nationwide riots in various cities.
I believe that many of these Black Barber's "should" write books on life wisdom of Black Communities and the true character of our beloved Negro Communities. I think one or a few of these would be number one best sellers!!
I was a white boy growing up in the south in the 60's. My dad was a notorious tightwad. He took me to the village barber, who was a deaf mute, and the cheapest cut, to get a "crew cut", or "G I" cut. When that guy closed, he took me to a black "barber school" for a cheap cut. I remember sitting in the chair with the pictures all over the wall of black hair styles. Afro's, Jerry curls..Dad tells him to give me a crew cut. The guy had no idea what to do with my mop, and nobody looked too happy that we were there..😏
Who would dislike this video? it's well done and very informative..i enjoyed it
An idiot!!!!! Plan and simple
This video is amazing! I think EVERY home needs to see this. Many of the issues they talked about are happing today. I think this will help younger people understand the why when someone says don’t have children out of wedlock. This will also educate whites who are in denial of the obstacles that were placed before blacks.
It’s a bit too much complaining and excuse making in this video. And at the very end they displayed a poor image of themselves. Accuse others of being racist when it’s the very same way you feel maybe even worse. Straight hypocrisy.
That whole bit where that guy was saying that he’s gotta keep his guard up and keep a close eye on the white devil whenever he’s around? I almost wanted to punch the stupidity out of that fool.
This generation cannot relate to this video.
@@1990758 If you feel that way, you must be around people who haven’t fallen into the pitfalls observed in the video. nevertheless they can learn from the video.
@@beesworld04 what is a pitfall in your opinion?
@@1990758 This is a sociological perspective on where we were - and where we should no longer REMAIN. Humans are here to evolve.
@beesworld04 is right.
I'm a white 38 yr old single father watching this right now I'm so far it's giving me great insight into life in black communities before drug use became epidemic along with the gangster rap culture but even at this time in 1968 you can see the family structure is struggling men can't find jobs to support their families men are having to leave their wives and kids just so their wives can get government support to feed their children to be honest its heart breaking I sincerely feel for these people and communities and I have to say even though I'm a white conservative male and the media likes to make us out to all be racist I'm rooting for y'all and I pray y'all can rise above it all.
The only Black History ignored by Blacks is THE NEGR0 PROJECT started in 1939 to lower the Black population in America.
THE NEGR0 PROJECT? 38% of Black pregnancies are terminated, over 50% in NYC. Black women are most overweight, least likely to marry, most in debt, and 78% of their children have no Dad BY DESIGN.
THE NEGR0 PROJECT is now called Planned Parenthood💥 The Welfare Act finished the job of destroying the Black Family.
1854 founded to STOP SLAVERY...
Republican Party
1860 founded to KEEP SLAVERY...
Democrat Party
Republicans literally beat the Democrats in the Civil War in 1865.
"... we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
-Margaret Sanger, founder of THE NEGR0 PROJECT/Planned Parenthood
May God bless you sir - thank you
I appreciate this comment.
My people are under the curses of Deuteronomy 28:15-68
“They’ll try to sing with soul; they’ll try to dress with soul …” That basically explained the music industry of the 00s.
This randomly came up in my recommended. And I'm so glad! What an interesting watch. Sad how much is still relevant in the US today
The enemies plans have never changed, its systematic and automatic, its our job to keep the history passed on, if not no one will, sit our children down and make em watch this! Its our job.
South Central L.A., *Compton,* and Watts.....my throne, my home!!!!
Rep yo set cuzzzz
Stay there.....dont leave!
A lot of history in those areas.
@@KennyE0311 shut up.. don't nobody talk like that from there.
Absolutely priceless insight!!!!
When they saw we felt this way about ourselves, they went into phase two and dropped crack into our community!
@terrance thomas no the government did
@terrance thomas you don't know your history!
AND IT BACKFIRED WITH THE OPIATE MASS OVERDOSES/CRISIS WITH THEY WHITE SONS & DAUGHTERS. DON'T MESS WITH GOD CHOSEN PEOPLE!
@terrance thomas the feds & dea did/allowed it and turned a blind eye until it hit their white suburbs! NOW IT'S A "CRISIS/EPIDEMIC" soon as Blacks smarten up and started pushing that shit to lil bobby and he overdosed that's when they stepped in. Now opiates are kicking they asses that's karma!
@terrance thomas Your White government gave yall Methamphetamine as well Have you ever heard of the Vietnam war go ask your great great grandfather im pretty sure he can tell you The White government been given people drugs every since then and still do to this day Have you ever heard of a drugstore buddy where you think acsi cotton come from xanex Obi oits Narcos Percocet Why do you think America is so addicted to pills now days and lets not forget the drink syrup Codeine And pramitha Xen pay attention because attention is not gonna pay you buddy And do your research and think before you speak
Food for thought🤔💭
Exactly, I enjoy living in the ghetto. My dream is to make our ghetto so beautiful and nice that everyone else will wanna live here also.ijs. with the right leadership it's definitely possible. Shout-out to Mayor Ras Barraka in the city 🏙️ of Newark, he's been doing a wonderful job. Surely bringing the pride back to our town.
What if that causes gentrification? Which would then cause the local population to move out as rent, cost of living and land value increase?
Would that not be a problem? Development is good if it serves the local people
You love living in a ghetto ????? Wth
That's insanity
@@kidjustice7945 I think this is a white person imposing.
Right … until they start shooting-up, or breaking into your crib.
Keep the truth coming forward BE AWESOME
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
Digdat!
17:56 "They just not, in that, in that bag man."
Using the word bag and how it is used now, that's soul!
I love seeing this old footage of black los angeles. Its gone now. This time period( '68) is very instructive . Two years later ('70) Raymond Washington would start the Crips in these same neighborhoods.
Damn
State agency!
Yes I remember I used to live in Imperial courts after the riot I was not afraid now no hell no
Because the projects and ghettos are now “hoods”. You still felt love in the ghetto and projects. You don’t feel that in “the hood”.
I have much Love and Respect to our
Ancestors they Paved the way for us
Here they really went through so much
All PRAISES TO the Most High God 🙏🙌✨
YES, THEY DID. I'M SO PROUD OF OUR ANCESTORS. MAY THEY ALL REST IN PEACE..
His description of Soul is on point!!! I really miss the vibe of the 60s 70s!!!
If they only knew that in 12 years a crack pandemic was going to start
It was bad enough with heroin.
The CIA started that epidemic in black neighborhoods to simultaneously poison us and to lock up those that are left
Damn. 50 years and some things are still the same.
its all still the same
@@markhym2280 no it isn’t, blacks have equality now but we’re lazy, ignorant, and uneducated for the most part. Stop the victim playing
@@thecraplordsell4575 plenty changed for the worst.
@@doeb3 yeah because of our ignorance and stupidity.
@@thecraplordsell4575 that is true to an extent.
My father told me once, “Go to the Filmore district.”
This documentary is of great historical significance; thank you so much for sharing it with us. It's mesmerizing looking back on this footage from 54 years ago and realizing that the issues affecting our society here in the U.S. were also dealt with by previous generations.
I’m sorry this should have way more views period
This video is so true right now 2020 black people don't like to leave there neighborhood and then when they go downtown Chicago where mostly White's are at they feel uncomfortable and want to leave and go back to the black neighborhood or the hood still today this going on video is so true . I love my natural black women all the blond long weave not into that.
A lot of people benefitted off the struggles and the horrors and success of being black in America including those of the diaspora who spit on our history and step on our backs. If it wasn't for our fight, our determination it would not have been easy for them. They're black when it's convenient but of their native born places according to their identity. No other country where slaves have survived has fought so hard for human rights. So thank us.
After watching this video,march2021,I love my race,wouldn't want it ANY OTHER WAY
You should love your race. I'm sorry you didn't feel that way before then. Be proud your beautiful. I have always felt that way. My black friends are the most fun friends, snd the most sincere. I am proud to call them my friends.
I love being Black! 🖤
I love being white...but I suppose that's racist to say
I love being human. Everybody's culture is different, which means their food , way of life , idea of fun ect is different. I wanna experience it all.
@@mynameisyumyumgivemesum1412 this is a black documentary. Take that nonsense somewhere else
Wow..Los Angeles..My mother took me there that year on my very first plane ride to see relatives that migrated to L.A. from Louisiana and Mississippi in the late 40s and they lived in Watts and Compton. The ones that are still living have either left California or moved further out from L.A.
That is why the govt incorporated integration because they didn't want unity , money kept in the community etc
Desegregation was and still is a military social mandate issued by the department of defense after WW2, to prevent another red hot summer of 1919, and to keep black men volunteering for military service. It was common knowledge after WW,1race riots popped off all over the United States. White people looking to uphold the status quo, along wiith black people feeling a new pride of citizenship, due to our participation in the war, it was the perfect powder keg and in 1919 it erupted . Fast forward to the end of WW2, and things was about to repeat, with the Colombia, Tennessee riot of 46. But something remarkable happened Jackie Robinson, Hof baseball player, civil rights activist, and before all that a "military officer." That was 47, by the 50s the military desegregated its ranks, and soon after the public social order was desegregated. I use desegregated only because true integration is a willingness of the people to do so. There are few areas of activity where Americans choose to integrate, musicians being one area, white dudes that wanna be the best basketball players, and interracial couples.
@harry Johnson The boomer generation and the crack epidemic broke down family values.
@harry Johnson Like voting Republican is going to change anything. Two cheeks on the same ass.
@@janetownley Hey America always been divided race, wealth, gender, education, North, South, Democrats, Republicans, red state blue state, religion, Boomers, Xers, millennials. Okay we Xers where the generation that went full crack kingpins, I admit we where a major degenerate generation, but boomers where our biggest customers. All that aside I not about to point the finger at a particular political party and say yeah it's their fault, but I will say the boomer generation was the beginning of the fuck ups, and my generation pass the torch to the millennials. If you got the solution I'm all ears.
This is false! Go read on Thurgood Marshall! Integration was because we were BY LAW discriminated against even in the courts+ no representation yet we pay taxes! Stop the lies! Black people worked their tales off for integration to remove how bad segregation was and here you come to undo that because a. You don't know and b. You're frustrated at how WHITES STILL fought hard then and now to keep us from having and passing down ANYTHING
We need a renaissance. We’ve been in the dark ages for the last 30 years. We need to bring this type of Black, BACK, and remember what soul is.
Women would have to first, need the Black Man back
@@leestyles6687 Starting with changing the mindset of women like Jada.
Odd how comforting and welcoming the "ghetto" felt to the
narrator during those times...how could he have imagined what the gang explosion and drug pandemic would have done to these communities making
them more unsafe than anywhere else in the US
Sadly that all started just two or three years after this documentary was made.
Whose, video is deep, 🤔with a lot of facts and true meanings that we still live in today.🙏
We must find ourselves a RIGHTEOUS MIND to LOVE AND VALUE OURSELVES. We must realize that OUR DIVISION IS OUR DESTRUCTION. WE MUST UNIFY! NOT ONLY on the DANCE FLOOR !!!ł
We would still be united. Buy first the ignorance of self need to be looked into.
Thank you for uploading. The information in this video is much needed.
The music at the end was powerful especially that lyrics they call me Sarah they call me safaniya they call me peaches and I pray that all who suffered then and now in this life because of skin tonee colour and racism or because of their ethnicity I pray they all go on to be blessed by the lord and rest under his mighty wings while having the things one can only dream of as part of their blessings and have eternal life because of the treatment they got on earth.
Fuck heaven. Death is a slave's freedom.
I love this video. The sad thing is we see these videos and seem to have the same problems because of economics.
So when we as black people stop putting so much emphasis on material things like clothes, sneakers, cars and alcohol and learn how to save and invest money in their own communities. When we will be better off as black people!
We put our pennies into banks that are making millions of dollars off our money but pay us less than 1 percent interest. We buy expensive cars that depreciate by thousands of dollars as soon as you drive it off the lot. Many of us will spend hundreds of dollars on jewelry that is worth much less when you try to pawn it.
We complain about how we are treated by society but all of the money we spend leaves our community and goes into the hands of people who have no respect for us.
When our actions begin to support us and not the people who oppress us America will take notice and rethink how their actions have affected us as people and may make the necessary changes to level the playing field for blacks and whites.
Wrong. This shit was designed this way. That's why the liquor store is in our community to begin with. If anything we've showed resilience over any and every circumstance they throw.
And the game you're talking about is rich vs. poor. Most just unaware they're playing.
@@rchar9757 It is not designed that way. Just because a liquor store opens up doesn't mean you buy there. I grew up on the south side with liquor stores, which didn't mean anything. Hold yourself accountable.
White people will never feel bad for anything they have done. They are proud of their legacy. Black people have 3 choices: 1. Leave and establish a home in an uninhabited area not occupied by a military force. 2. Unite, establish a nation, build a hierarchical order, set moral guidelines and rules as to how to conduct oneself, develop military armed forces equipped with the most highly advanced severely deadly weapons and artillery, choose a spot to inhabit, ruthlessly take over and occupy that spot, and continue to defend and launch preemptive attacks against the onslaught of US military backlash, and expand our territory until we have occupied the world. 3. Simply abandon our black identity and fully embrace the Ways of the White Civilization turning a blind eye to All inequality.
@@bossthemessiah409bigron6 The third option isn't a choice. It's no different from giving up, and that's not a choice.
Don't forget this was 1968. Just 3 years after the civil rights bill. The country was still IN JIM CROW. They couldn't help but bow to a system that oppressed them.
2 years later came the gangs and drugs changing those communities forever
My mother and dad went through some shit for us
I totally agree with her. Most fathers is not in our kid’s lives anymore!
Amen
I couldn’t do it!!
I’ve been down that road
That’s so jacked up
Born 1966 and listen to each person express their experiences growing up during that time which I were only an infant!!! My parents would be that next generation talking about the life of her parents!!!! I love listening to the struggle of my people and 2024 we are still struggling to get ourselves and others to know we are somebody if you give us a chance!!!! Some of our people are still living in yesterday pass and not teaching our children to rise above their circumstances and do better !!!! We still got a long ways to go!!!! Father Yahawah Bahasham Yahawahshi help us and forgive us of our sins and ancestors!!!!
Now we against us
Great point and during this time our people where in stage two of your own cancerous (demise) by *design* put in place for us to turn on ourselves, with cancerous self hatred while chasing our own denial of self pride😔 here's the start dates stage#1(1619 thru 1933) stage#2 (1934 thru 1980) stage#3 (1981 thru 2000) stage#4 (2001 thru 2021) this is and was by *design* for example here in Philadelphia we had 499 homicides in 2020, and 99% is African Americans with our own cultural demise by *design* 😥😔🤔 peace to you all anyways and much love❤. We have been put into this system of systemically purging ourselves from life., The End result is Extinction by Extermination while trying to appease your oppressors The Failure of an *president donald j trump*.
The. Lord is blessing me right now. Amen
24:10 or -1:03:10
The brother in the Barber's chair is thinking; "Bruh, you doin all that "deep" talking with a straight razor on my face".
In the beauty salon scene when that girl gets an afro, I hear Aretha on the radio. Cool .
This is powerful... and it should be seen in classrooms across this county. Not to bring forth hate, but to work on the differences and build together and promote being good humans is a must... Signed Peaches. Peace.
This white grandma agrees. I want my grandchildren to see this.
I'm pretty sure portions of it was shown and certain black communities. Or i'm pretty sure at one time it was on sixty minutes.
Best documentary on Black culture i have found so far. Brilliant, thank you!
I love my afrikan people
😥🥺" i 💘 love 💕you my Bobby E. Wright! Rest in peace with the Ancestors 🥀😔
Ma Ma DeeDee ♥ love 💕you Bobby and thank you for your wisdom and knowledge 🙏🏿 o4/17/2021 💪🏿✊🏾✊🏾❤🖤💚
We are all from Africa, here in a America we are connected to this soil Way more than you know. This is why our labels keep changing over the decades. We have to see what's happening. #papergenocide
WE ARE NOT AFRICAN, WHAT TRIBE ARE YOU FROM..WE THE HEBREWS THE ISREALITES OF THE BIBLE.
@@sisyaffayahyisrael2112 You took the words right of my mouth.
My uncle Henry "Pim" Irby back in 1967 was the first person in rock hill,SC fresh out the Air force to be riding around in a brand new GTO. My uncle always kept it full beard and wore shades and the police would always pull him over and give him a ticket because they thought that he was a militant and the police were jealous of him because he was driving a nice GTO. My uncle had lost his license because of them police jealousy.💜
White dude here. These videos are great. Doesn't take much to learn about other's culture, just have to try and care but unfortunately that's up to the individuals and not all care.
Was this video on your timeline or did you set out to find this?
@@ronaldtaylor8901 On the timeline. I enjoy social docs so some how the algorithm threw it in.
White woman here, age 67 so I lived through these times. A lot has changed, but a lot hasn’t changed at all, and that’s really sad. One thing I do see changed, not for the better is that it isn’t just racism, but economic discrimination. Opiates have screwed over an entire generation, all races.
Nobody cares that you’re white.
@@willpower3317 haha. Well I guess you do.
Thank you for the Black History films. Great to look at this because I love Black History for life.
Blue Chip Stamps took me back to my childhood oldschool wow.
OMG !! Blue chip stamps. I remember them so well, my mother loved these stamps so much, she actually saved enough to get a lamp and a few other things. 😊😊
In oklahoma we had green stamps
Dude's hair tho.
LOL!
@@teresawicks9859 In North Carolina we had green stamps too. I think they were called S&H green stamps? As my mom saved to get things we needed she would give me a few, here & there, for chores or grades. I was able to save and got a couple of toys. We were poor but we had a big family and helped each other, including our neighbors, of all races. When you struggle next to each other you develop a love and respect for each other. I am thankful for those humble beginnings.
Me too! I grew up collecting Blue Chip stamps and green stamps too! I got my son's high chair with Blue Chip stamps! Collected them at "The Boys Market" in Los Angeles.
Am a Mexican and i hope the world working together United God bless all human being and let's be proud
Shut up
Likewise and thank you brother
N O T H I N G has changed. ✨
Plenty has change. You’re just too lazy and ignorant about it. This is why people hate you.
@@thecraplordsell4575 hurt dogs holler. ✨
Change is coming. 😄
@@borngreat-4-life930 : SAM COOK
As I grew older and wiser these events that you see in this video were fore-told through out the scriptures that the children of Israel would have to go through and endure for 400 plus years from thy enemies.
Stand tall kings and queens. Time is up for them. They can't kill us, we were spirits before we came to this place.
Shalom yah bless up
This man sounds so ahead of his time but really it’s just that nothing has changed much, and the same things have been going on for forever.
Im proud to be a Black African American and im a huge sweet potato fan. Aint nothing better than soul food.
We all aren't African or have African ancestors...
Black is Beautiful
I remember graduating high school in Virginia 1991, and it was difficult getting a job. So many doors close, because they required experience. I asked one potential employer, how am i suppose to get experience when no one is willing to hire. Needless to say, my family had independent businesses, and i went to work until i could enroll in a program through college offering a work study. I commend any parent that works laborously to position their children to excel when doors are closed to them. We have two options: either knocked down that door or go around the door looking for another way inside.
I was born in 1968 at Harbor General Hospital and lived off 124th Street and Main.......APB. When I was 6 yrs old, my mom moved my brother and I to The Imperial Courts Projects. I went to Grape Street Elementary School and 99th Street School. One evening while at church, the neighbor gang banging son broke into our apartment and stole all my mom electronics. That following month, we moved to 104th Street & Mckindley. There, I was surrounded my The Baby Crips and saw a lot of foolish in the community. When I reached the 6th Grade, my mom moved us to my Grandparents home in the 135ives. I loved that community and the people. From there, we moved to Lynwood and then Compton, PBC. By the time I reached High School, my mom purchased her first home back in 135ives Piru area. After College, I purchased my first home in Inglewood. In 2004, I moved my family to Atlanta, GA where I reside for the past 19 years.
1:00:40 “It all stems from one factor, the unemployment of the father.”
In the Caribbean we had it rough,but not that bad African Americans you guys come a long way
Excellent. Thank you!
Great Video Truth and very Informative Thanks
This video was phenomenal