1970 -1977 SPECIAL REPORT: "WELFARE MOTHERS"
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2022
- A question debated was whether welfare mothers had a right to “stay home” while receiving welfare. The article shows that a radical strain of welfare mother activists at this time demanded recognition of women’s unpaid work. While mainstream women’s groups were generally sympathetic to welfare mothers, their overriding focus on employability as the solution to their poverty served to derail the radical possibilities of welfare mother politics and solidify a policy agenda that undermined the deserving status of welfare mothers.
#WELFARE
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Hey Hezakya! I’m not black but I am Mexican American and was raised on welfare too, my mom would say she couldn’t work over a certain amount of hours because we wouldn’t get benefits and not make ends meet…it was really a hard spot for those who wanted an out but we’re to burdened with all the bills. My dad bailed out when I was 9 and I can see how fatherless homes are a disease and generational, these videos are very important and educational. I yearn for all babies to grow up with a healthy family as God intended. I have a family of my own now and made better choices I’m very grateful God gave me a second chance. God bless ❤️
even if god didn't intend for babies growing up in a healthy family, we should make sure it happens.
@@mito88 BRAVO!!!!!
Wow must be nice....my mom was too proud to use welfare, why wasn't yours? we went hungry a lot...never used Heater.....oh but I had so much white privilege at an all black school full-on racist demon children and no escape.
@@Purple_911 must be nice to be too proud and let children go hungry , their little asses frozen.
right?
You make no sense.
We wore layers of clothes to stay warm instead of using our homes heater or electric space heaters.
My point is that people abuse it and become dependent on it yet claim they are oppressed. Not saying OP said that but i hear it from people who cheat the system.
Welfare is considered temporary assistance to get out of tough times yet OP said she was RAISED ON WELFARE.
Wow.
She said her mom worked less so she would qualify for welfare "to make ends meet". Bullshit.The ends often didn't meet for us..
It's like the people that leave out a bowl of candy on Halloween for trick or treaters. Some take one candy and others take all the candy and steal the bowl too. Not admirable at all.
I admire people who take pride in doing the right thing and not being a leech way more than I pity able-bodied people who have no shame about leeching for years.
I was fortunate that I grew up with both parents and they both worked. My dad earned $7.50 an hour but it was in about 1970 which was a lot at the time. My mom brought home around $50 or $60 a weak. I only have one brother. So we lived pretty good. But it wasn’t always good. They struggled when they first came to New Jersey from Jim Crow south in the 60’s. We lived in public housing as well. By the grace of God they got us out. I appreciate my parents for that.
hi
7.50 in 1970 yall was rich I was making 6 dollars in hour with a max of 7 some in 2005 to 2008 between Maryland and Texas damn what did your dad do
@@KingTay-xg4mi both my parents worked in factories. Dad worked for the Ford Motor Co. and my mom worked for Johnson and Johnson. I lost my dad in 2016. He had mesothelioma from that company. They both belonged to powerful unions as well. I miss my daddy terribly though 🥺😢
Yeah that was alot of money back then. Glad you had your mom and dad.
@@rockieleftwing I’ve been blessed tremendously!
Poverty in the US has skyrocketed since the early 70s and hasn't stopped.
2023 smh
Its actually gone way down, along with crime & inflation. The difference between the 70s and now is that news is more available in all places, so it may seem that things are worse, while the 70s were actually wayyyy worse in all ways from crime, to standard of living, to median income to war overseas (Cold war).
Man black peoples hair was so good and healthy back than
It all changed now
It changed for the better in a way because most blacks ditched the chemicals that jacked up our hair even in the 70s yes many black women still weaves because natural hair still is frowned up even with other blacks there are many black people growing their hair at lengths they didn’t was possible to achieve with black whether their hair is still relaxed or even natural don’t forget they even wore wigs back then too
@@tevinthelifestyleguy2570Chris rock "good hair"
Poor genetics and diet !
True but we're slowly going back to that
I hate that earning a little money cuts benefits. They should encourage working.
They do but if you don't report your earnings or make to much (which you can't make much at all) you get cut. You can win for losing
Right? I work 5 days a week and still need to dip into savings to make ends meet supporting just myself and a dog. I feel like I don't have time for school because I can't afford to work less. I don't live lavish and haven't been on vacation in nearly a decade. It would be nice to be tax exempt, or get free health care or get rent or food benefits. Any of those would make such a quality of life difference.
It was set up that way, to keep people poor.
@@cmmochalatte nothing free somebody is paying
yea it's apart of the whole plot sit in despair or struggle trying to get up and out you choose
Nothing but minorities they showed on welfare back then I grew up on welfare and my mom was white with 5 children!! Luv ur channel by the way
Where was your dad?
As a minority myself it’s just facts. But poverty knows no color.
@@jellybean5326 her dad was blk and not around
@@jellybean5326 ..? Fuk you gonna ask a stranger on RUclips, “where was your dad.”
Probably the same place where yo’ momma was.
Exactly
What’s crazy is not too much longer it was embarrassing to even be associated with someone who received welfare. People were teased for receiving or using food stamps.
Now they brag about it
I know I was bullied relentlessly by the children of white California's.
@@coldhardtruth2331:10 song ?
@@londonbowcat1bone thugs harmony 1st of the month
@@londonbowcat1Miss Black America by Curtis Mayfield
The EVIL that was done to black families is heartbreaking and it pisses me off 😡! They made sure the black man in the inner city only had employment a few months out of the year. Without education they only had labor work that was very brief throughout the summer. Women were guided into welfare by design. It was better to receive government help than to let the children starve. Welfare covered all expenses back then and if the mother wanted to work and get ahead, she was penalized.
The government forced blacks into the projects by building highways through their communities. Having slumlords that never did repairs made it feel like a dream come true to stay in a place that wasn't collapsing in on you.
They put crack cocaine in the inner cities. Of course black men would sell it, so they can make money. It was a set up to fill these prisons that were built. Talking about a war on drugs.
Then the pimp era started making things even worse. Pimping produced what we call narcissism today.
Woe unto those who have done this evil.
Then why did they make MUILTIPLE babies they couldn't afford to take care of?
@@sheree1994sa already destroyed mentally at that point. Making subconscious decisions. 400 years of slave conditioning has taken is toll but we're waking up now and returning to OUR Heavenly Father and there's no stopping it.
@@sheree1994sabecause I'm a female boss
I think the same happened to the indigenous people...
@@loanicastillo3327 All people born are indigenous to the land/earth but there are selfish people on this earth that suffer from the god complex syndrome that don't want to share the earth or for anyone other than themselves to experience anything beautiful. Injustices of every form affects all ppl in general. It seems that everybody got dealt a bad hand either genetically or economically.
I grew up on welfare on the East Coast in the late 70s/early 80s and remember my mother and aunts going to cash their checks. I grew up with three older siblings and my parents were married before we were all born. We lived in public housing and my parents divorced when I was seven, leaving us to be raised by my mother.
For my whole life, I knew welfare and food stamps. We were so poor and couldn’t afford gas/hot water, resulting in cold baths and kerosene to keep the house warm. I was very embarrassed by how I grew up, as I often got teased by my generic sneakers and smelling like kerosene (winter months).
I was determined to get away from poverty by excelling in math, computers, and science. It was a different time and computers weren’t readily in public schools like they are today. However, I persisted and eventually went on to earn several degrees and becoming an accomplished Electronic Engineer and Scientist. I now own my home, own rental properties, and I run my own business. More importantly, I never forget where I came from, as I know that I can end up where I started.
I pray for anyone struggling with welfare and food stamps, as you can overcome poverty if you want to.
Great job happy for you.
@@theclasmalls4406 🙏🙏🙏 Thanks
Welfare said backwards is farewell. You are saying farewell to your dignity and self esteem
You have a mind of an Africa. When we suffer we strive to do well. We don't sit back and feel sorry for our selves. I wish a lot more people had this mindset.
We'll ill tip my hat to you
Looking into that women’s eyes during the interview I seen a range of emotions in her eyes and expressions, I seen strength, I seen strategy, I seen betrayal, I seen love, but I didn’t see defeat…
Yes. But n/with all those "strengths" that gumption had 2 cum fr sumwhere...
Yet, we wonder y black women b bat-shit crazy r like my own mother...an idiosyncratic quagmire wrapped n an enigma bundled n a conundrum. We r hustling backwards BY DESIGN...then eaten by our males.
Zero sum game. Y r we not burning the villages when we KNOW we r the fuel anyways? Makes u think!
They shouldn’t be though they needed a good husband and father.
She sounds like a woman who left her children’s father back in Arkansas. Ran to California, for a Welfare check. Then decided to throw the kids father under the bus. Same thing my mother did.
@@luciferfire1575 Women don’t choose welfare over a loving fathers who provide for his children. That doesn’t make any sense
@@janayserrano what you say sounds good in theory. However, why so many black women have multiple baby daddies? Keep your legs closed. For a group of women who complain so much, they stay with a penis in them.
The poor are always villianized, but nobody ever villanizes the corporations who get welfare handouts from our hardworking tax dollars even though they're already rich.
@@martinraynkelly4782 Exactly. 66.9 percent of the total wealth in the United States is owned by the top 10 percent of earners. The lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth.
The poor are really rich, they don't really know their true worth yet because without them, the "corporation" would be obsolete.
Welfare did help a lot of families,but some people became complacent and didn't try to find a better way of life.But many used it as a means to something better.
Most who depended on it stay on it. My grand parents never received it because they knew they made more working. However my mom got on it after her separation my my dad and never got off.
Yes, it's meant to be temporary, a hand up not a handout. Those who are wise use the opportunity to get some training and get a better situation in life.
When my daughter was a toddler i went down to the dhs and told them to cut me off. They came to my house and said are you sure. That was the last day i waited for 347 a month. I now have a trade. A college degree. I worked very hard and it took time to get somewhere i suffered. I am lying in my bed and thanking every person that blessed me and encouraged me. I got off and my children were never on. What is required is i help and encourage others.
Grew up on welfare and section 8. 20 years old in nursing school now and refuse to have kids until I’m 5 years into my career and also married lol. I can’t let this be me. It’s not okay, depending on the government for basic necessities. I deserved so much more, my kids will receive so much more. ❤️
That's right Jada. Don't be a statistic. When you know better you do better 😊
Liar
@@JamesSmith-si7ts here he comes to assume and shoot you down 😂 poor lil James
You are damn judgemental get off you’re high horse
Everyone situation is different you dumb bish
Why don't they ( the media ) show the white family's on welfare , because they want everyone to believe only blacks are on welfare but i bet that home was full of Love and most kids didn't realize they were poor growing up shows how strong the Black Woman are....
I grew up on welfare,….. it helps ,….. but the longer you stay on that help turns to a hurt through dependency.
Agreed
As we see, history repeats itself...
Hmmm,the father was in the home and she still got benefits.I love that you post these throwbacks because it actually helps debunk and dispel the lie that bw choice welfare over having a man in the house.
They reformed that law by this time or he wasnt on the lease or the welfare budget. Till this day, a lot of welfare recipients lie about the people living in the household.
Exactly they claim the women chose getting welfare over having the father in the home!🤷🏽♀️
@@rockieleftwing Hell the married woman didn't even know where her husband was, nor did he attempt to make his whereabouts known for the sake of his 6 children. She was a married single mother, which is not a new phenomenon.
Exactly, why should a woman continue to listen to pipe dreams of her man getting a "good paying" job, when she could rely on the state. There was another video he posted similar to this, where the 4 x's baby daddy refused to get a job, because he thinks he woman is going to creep around while he's at work. His woman was on benefits and he refused to contribute, and why should he when he has a free ride. I was totally disgusted.
@@teekolinski491 but wasn’t that only in like 5 states?
Why bring 6 kids into a life of poverty?
True. I feel bad that people are in this situation but also they need some basic sense.
Right
Because these folks are looking to fill the emptiness inside and the desolation outside with the love of a child.
Others are misinformed about birth control and abortion, especially in this time.
That like saying why poor countries exist and their population just should die out.
I couldn't agree with you More.
My mother received welfare when I was kid while her child support payments from my father, who was active duty, were caught up in the court system. She was able to get a job and we had health insurance even as college students thanks to my father. The welfare system shouldn't be used as a crutch , but as a stepping stone if needed to be self reliant.
1:30 singer ?
I automatically like anything that Hezakya post !
Sadly today you need to stay on assistance because housing is so high the average family, even with a father present, can not afford the rent.
18:10 where is the father
@londonbowcat1 today...not 1977.
Welfare had inspection and I remember my dad dressing up like he was visiting, never understood until I was grown,them folks were removing the father for wicked intent, children get out of control with no father.
The no man in the house thing was only a law in about a dozen states and it lasted less than 10 years but a lot of Black men say it was every household. I’m sorry that happened to your family. The truth is, most BM left their families by choice back then. Not saying your dad that though.
whats the difference between clothes that a home owner would wear and clothes that a visitor would wear?
yea it sucks though because even the men that where in the household not like they were actually good parents was legit a child creating and struggling to raise e children
Children suffer worse with live in absent or abusive fathers .
@@gabriellehanks6850 Why did the men leave is the question. BW had a fault into why they were leaving. Sharing and believing the EA ideology about not needing a man and being independent. Then once the women were on their own, they had no vision as the man is supposed to be the visionary and the woman the support system for the entire family. Our women were extremely lost beginning in the 60s and still lost.
People need assistance transitioning. I never agreed benefits should be cut immediately. Give people 6-24 months to transition.
Let’s see you go through what they people go through you entitled bish people have it worse than you get off your high horse
I AGREE!
Qhite ppl were the workers issuing welfare and food stamps.
HER HUSBAND?
SO WELFARE DID NOT KICK THE FATHER OUT OF THE HOME!!!!
EXACTLY… WE’VE BEEN LIED TO
Sometimes they do kick them out but not by force. But if the woman thinks she can get more benefits if the father was to disappear….
That was a good song choice you made, Hez. It just fit. ✌️👍
I spent a short time on food stamps 30 years ago.....back when they actually gave you the book of stamps that looked like Monopoly money. That's a humbling experience. I don't wish it on anyone. It's worse if you're the dad.....because dads don't count as a human in the government wheel. I was treated like a subhuman piece of trash.
Ras Kass Nature of the threat
I grew up with both parents in the home, and my mother still collected welfare. My father was “invisible”. He was never on my school records and the bills weren’t in his name. He worked, my mother had a home daycare, and collected aid and food stamps. When I turned 18, her benefits ended and my parents got married.
smart
This is actually smart af.
So you scammed hard-working people like the primate thief you are.
I'm not mad at you. Wyipipo been doing that for the longest. Just look up $5 Indians.
@@NoahBodze Not me. My parents.
$54 a week pay check is crazy especially with six kids even if her rent is cheap but then I realized this is the 70s. What I realized is that back then they only show the most horrible situations of black folks, people on drugs welfare being careless etc to make us blacks look horrible as a whole. This is a prime example why white people look at us black folks as all of us are welfare recipients no fathers in the homes unwed mothers with different fathers etc. It would be great if you can find a vintage video of black successful people and how they lived etc and post it. All of your videos are an eye opener to the past. I’m loving all these videos. Thanks for posting.
Yes they were successful black people during these times, but they were a minority. This short documentary is showing the conditions that the majority of black people went through during this time. These videos maybe disturbing to view, but this is the reality of the black community then and now. Many BW today still have to rely on welfare to support their kids, since BM are abandoning them and not providing for their children. Many black children today still grow up without a father. Not much has changed in the black community from the 70s.
@@taniquaf4143 statistics shows that white people are the majority that collect public assistance..
@@justred5164 They make up the largest part of the population. That statistic does not help address poverty in the black community.
@@Eveningbreeze721 you’re absolutely right! But the focus is on the black community and trying to project that black folks are lazy and won’t work.
Back in the 70s there were way more white folks on welfare than blacks. And there were very few immigrants on welfare. Now when you go to welfare offices it's filled with immigrants. Most recipients are working but still need assistance.
This video was taken when I would have been one of babies being carried. I was born in 76. But this is a situation that is going on today. I am a single mother and worked very hard and went with out to avoid going on welfare. I remember not having a tv or online presence at home. I relyed on books from the library because it was free entertainment. I had 1 job that paid the bills ( reception for a law firm), 1 job that paid for my daughter's day care ( I was a kmart casheir) and the other I did odd admin work for a church to cover food and papmpers. WIC helped but it only covered certain items until my child hit a certain age and I made $3.20 over the foodstamp requirement. I held on until I found a good job. For all of you mothers out there, hold on sis. a change is coming but get ready. Be ready to work ad sacrifice.
I recommend a movie called "Claudine" with Dianne Carroll and James Earl Jones. Some of what was talked about in that movie was also in this documentary.
Claudine is a horrible movie
Excellent movie
I love that movie. Just watched it on one of nostalgia days.
With Gladys Knight and Curtis Mayfield sound track. People comment about how many blacks were on welfare. I'm a 60s child and when my parents split up my father got custody of me and my 3 siblings. In our community it was seen as shame to be on public assistance. We to my knowledge never knew anyone on "relief". Fast forward when I had my two sons living in public housing and on ADC. It was hard until I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. Went to a job training program, learning how to use computers and got hired on at a local hospital. Didn't look back but also didn't put people down who were still on public assistance. The media controls every facet of media. This is the narrative they protray and sadly people believe what they see.
@@cedricliggins7528 how so?
This is why we need to teach celibacy until we get stable
LowIQ women don't do celibacy or contraception.
@@chuckscott-cy7iq neither do men
@@ChampagneCrimeStories Its a woman's right and responsibility to insist that a man use a condom.
Oh, hi dear soul twin!
@@chuckscott-cy7iqWell, I have seen many rich people with a low IQ too. According to demographics and maths (I am a civil engineer) have two children, no more! And if you love in a city with buildings, not houses, one child!!!!!! John B. Calhoun.
I love old school documentaries, this was enjoyable like your others. ✊🏽
Watch Amos Wilson too
@@londonbowcat1 thank you, I'll look him up.
Last lady said” animals fight for their young, we are human why can’t we for our young”!.
Hard to imagine people made $54/week. Inflation inflation keeps going up.
My mom was receiving food stamps when my little sisters were small children I remember they came in a book...
Where did you get this footage from its pure gold...
I remember the welfare people wouldn’t give my niece benefits because she didn’t want to put her kids dad on child support
Child Support is the offset program for welfare. That’s how the states get their $$$ back. It’s all in their child support handbook. That’s why some women don’t get the child support payment it will go to the state as a payment for whatever social service she’s using.
Basically nothing is free
Welfare is a racket. Too bad so many people didn't realize that
Why should the government help if she wasn’t willing to make the father provide for his children?
Was he paying child support?
I honestly never get tired of ur videos especially ur intro's, I'm 36 and I can see all my people in all ur videos, brings a tear to my eyes..... thank u for that 🤲🏽 #happytears
i find it kind of odd that the mother(cynthia jones sp?) had a life insurance policy on her child
Wonder if the child made it
Same. I was like...hmmmm.....
@@Genuinelybeautiful1985 lol. same.
You know what the funny thing is? I was born in 1977 and my so-called mother was only 19 back and didn't even rise me or my younger brother. 😑😑 The cycle just repeats itself unfortunately. 😒😒
But black ppl blame everything on the system!! Having children are a choice yet many choose to have them with no income. Just plain ignorant
It only repeats itself if you allow it to, I definitely broke the cycle 🤷🏾♀️
I remember when the stamps couldn’t be torn out of the books before you went to the store. They wouldn’t take them if the numbers didn’t match.
Exactly! It was either the cashier took them out themselves or they had to watch you tear them out in front of them.
@@KMBrown-ro7dh . Do you remember the wooden change?
@@drapedingold723 I don’t, but my mom does!
Now peaple sell there benefits to smoke dope
Books of food stamps.
You putting me on to history everyday! Appreciate you brother 💯🙏🏾
I have an MA in the Science of Modern History, so I’m naturally drawn to this type of content.
My right hand man and ex husband would literally discuss the Warren Commission- FOR FUN!
Amongst other topics…it was fun, getting high and discussing everything from the psycho President Jackson to ‘Gone with the Wind’
Seriously.
I’ve always loved Hezayka’s material.
Love & Light from Miami Shores🦚
Stay safe mate🌎🙏🏼
Mr,Hezakya I love this old vintage newz &film footage Im a School Teacher keep this stuff comming,
I feel like should've been born much earlier than I was. It's like lately i'm more interested in what was going on back in the day than today.
Same, always have been. This era is lame AF, everyone is glued to screens. Nothing real ever happens. We don’t know how to ‘people’ any more.
I love the old school music sound track to this film
God Bless All Families... In Jesus Name Amen
As a black community please notice that although this mother was on welfare, she invested in an insurance policy for her daughter. We’ve been teaching generational wealth we have not been applying the knowledge.
This channel is G.O.A.T
Blk women are so beautiful
So True Today like it was in 1970s.. Thank you for Sharing This message.
But back then people were disgusted by poverty because in the not so distant past they made a decent living. Nowadays urban poverty has been around 50 years and nobody cares anymore. Things have worsened immensely since this video. Our cities are full of homeless now.
Ain’t got no business having multiple kids when you are already struggling
So many black families grew up this way and these document everything this is our history.....being treated unfairly smh then they interview us
Exactly!
It's changed a bit since then in many locations. Now whites are grilled over every little thing.
Black people now have many jobs in the state welfare and social services field.
Now employers prefer Hispanics from the Mexico, Centra and South America. Puerto Rican Americans, Black Americans and White Americans are no longer wanted by employers sadly. Often undocumented workers are also given preference for Section 8 and housing projects. Having roots for 400 years in America means nothing.
My mother never went on welfare because she went to work and had too much pride. I'm not saying needy people shouldn't have assistance but if you can bang and get pregnant you really need to find a job to support your growing family and not let it be the state. Public assistance should only be for the very needy under special circumstances. I said, what i said.
Early European immigrants who were "banging" before and after they got to America, were GIVEN free land, housing, grants to open businesses & jobs for many years to come...
@@ntrock22 if you can’t provide then don’t divide
@@jasminekennel5849 YES! say it again. To the people who fled their countries and were "provided" land monies grants for them and their "banging offsprings"😉
@Jonathan Walker You know.
@Jonathan Walker you mean aside from the fact that the man is 50% responsibility 🤔 or you mean aside from the fact that so many black men expect to go 50/50 and still expect a feminine woman when they infact deserve a masculine woman to match their feminine energy? Idk what are your thoughts?
WOW I could not imagine having to PURCHASE my food stamps. I am glad they updated that system.
Thanks for the upload and continued highlighting of the not-so-distant past. Keep doing what you do, it's much appreciated, at least by me.
B1 - ❤🖤💚✊🏿
i was born in 1983 my brothers and a sister born in the 70's and i know we were raised on welfare they gave my mother alot of food stamps i will say about at least about $740 for all 4 of us she was gettig it every month on the 3rd she bought us off brand food and name brand food and my mother always goes to the food bank to get more food and it was gone closed to end of the month electricities was the hardest for us we didnt have any lights for like 1 week in the cold house it was super cold winter in texas where im from i got tired of my mother stressing just bought all that food i had to call my dad he came to help with electricity my mother couldnt work food did not spoil because it was so cold outside it kept it cool we had to use people electricity with extension cords rest in heaven cora denise himes 1957 - 2009
RIP to your mom, she died young, and I am sure the stress did not help
@@yamomma6479 no she died from congestive heart failure so to Drugs
She said to the mail man"Don't you give me no bills!!" Where's my check? 🤣🤣🤣😵💥✌🏽✌🏻🤜🏿🤛🏽🤜🏻🤛🏻🤜🏿🤛🏽
Those kids are good!! Godamn
She sure did. 😂
the fact this also contains raw audio in the clips makes you feel like you're going back in time, wow
9:40 look at her hair
Most folks on welfare worked under the table or did side jobs, noway you can live in welfare without help unless you live r br free.
Ole history like this is epic
The system is set up to fail. Still today, if you are on disability and work they find ways to make you fail. I can give many examples, but if you are a disabled American you've already learned the lesson and hardship.
You can thank Lyndon B Johnson for all of this crap.
True
@@CJColvinstokely carmciheael said this during his 1972 howard University lecture
Without her there would be NONE of us...Mother of civilization...we love you Queen!
I think Adam and God had a little part in that.
@@MGillDesign Allah created her to bare civilization...so I thank her...(and for all the strife she has had to endure..it's her moment)
And it wasn't just black folks on welfare around this time every white person was on welfare at this time as well. It was just that they didn't have the rules and the regulations that they gave us they husbands still stayed in the house and they can still work the husbands and they welfare wouldn't be touched talk about that.
@Jonathan Walker it’s not about accountability her comment is a fact. Welfare was designed for whites originally. With a different set of rules 😊
I once upon a time lived through the embarrassment of living in the projects and depending on welfare, being a single mother of one child, married and separated from my son's father. As I recall standing in line with a number to collect foodstamps at a window at the HRS office, not to mention standing in long food lines to collect welfare cheese, canned pork meat, gold medal brand flour, powdered milk, and those endless bags of cranberries and nuts nobody else wanted and gave all to me. I remember with humiliation those days back in the early to late 1990's
I remember government cheese etc. That ish caused cancer.
Typical. BM not providing for their families and the BW have to step up and play both the woman and man role.
Black Men have always had a difficult time finding work, due to racism. They were forced into illegal activities to make money and sent to prison. This is what destroyed the Black Family.
Exactly
@@drizzey680 Have nothing to do with racism..
@@shanicesm6208 TF you mean, race has nothing to do with it ?
@@drizzey680 What I just said! For some reason both my grandparents on both sides including great grandparents were able to find jobs, house paid off and able to retire w/a pension! They moved where the jobs were...
The clothes lines! I remember those days.19:56
16:45 the rugged trouser philanthropist
Oh wow - I didn't expect Curtis Mayfield to chime in there - wow, that was awesome!
Any songs you would recommend
I wonder where they are now.. the baby is all grown up now
Their sons are in this comment section crying about how the mom picked $150 a month over their dads.
The adults then were born from the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s. They are in their 80’s and 90’s now but many have passed away from female cancers, strokes, heart attacks, broken hearts.
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AROUND MY AGE..I WAS BORN IN 74..im 48
Since the time this was filmed, wages in America have not grown at nearly the same rate as costs have for food, housing and consumer goods. “Bootstrap” types often complain about a lack of effort being the root cause of poverty, but in reality, it’s mostly due to greed. Greed by business owners, executives, upper management, anyone in a position to save their company money (and look good at their job) by spending less on employees. They’ve been getting away with it for decades, and now that more people are taking a stand against it, these greedy fucks are decrying workers as “lazy” again. Chickens coming home to roost.
So to not figure out how to become successful is the company's fault?
It’s funny that Blacks weren’t called lazy until they stopped working for free on those plantations.
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@@hankgoresich68363:55 public assistance?
$66 dollars for rent with 6 kids, I'm single no kids and my rent is 1000 for a 600 sqft apt.
That's back in the 70's. So, almost $500 per month.
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I thank God for sticking by me and I knew from watching our community to stop giving them children point blank. I’m grateful so grateful to God I stop at two .
I wonder what happened to the young family at the beginning especially the children.
Knowing the whole time we were just the face while the truth was hidden for many, many years!
May God Bless You Brother . i basically live in your channel. This is great history & I’m a young cat. Thank you for the great content 💪🏾✊🏾
Don’t have children unless you’re able to support them!!!! Bam! Problem solved !
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I wonder what happened to them after the welfare money pinned them down to do nothing
It's still like this today. If you make even a quarter over the threshold, you're ineligible. They don't seem to understand (or care) that just because a person works (even two people in a household) doesn't mean there isn't struggle.
My mother was on welfare with four kids living in an apartment in a row home. Then I was born in 1970 and she decided to get a job working for the state of Maryland. I don't know what it was like to be on welfare but it must have been miserable from what I've heard my siblings say. I grew up with other kids that had parents that worked. There were a lot of us that were latch key kids. That's how the older kids got into trouble because the house was empty for 2-3 hours and they got into situations. We had fun growing up n Baltimore though. If I hadn't blown my audition, I would have been in the same graduating class as Jada and Tupac.
Looks like that husband was in the house hold in the beginning of the video to me . Huh 🤔 so welfare didn’t break up the family as much as people say . Seems welfare didn’t kick that man out the house either
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I'm an 80's welfare baby unfortunately too... I remember the excitement of the 1st of the month because we'd have more food to eat and not just peanut butter and jelly, grits, or toast and that big ass block of government butter.
I also grew up in a fatherless home due to the rules that a man couldn't be in the house in order for my mom to receive any type of assistance with 3 kids. I had a child early in life and my child's mom needed assistance and got on welfare too and I was forced to try and parent from a distance or part time when I could be there out of fear that a social worker might show up or someone would report me being there. Luckily it was only for a short time but it still impacted my relationships with my child's mom and my ability to actually be a present parent.
They would not give black men food stamps back then
I grew up in stamps I remember walking my mama to the office to go get em too as a child she had us 3 no dad all our dads left 🤷♀️ or got locked up even my bro dad he had a city job 🤦♀️ in sanitation my mom took him to court got cs and took care of us the best she could God bless my moms
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
Some BW in the comment section act like CLAUDIEN never existed. THAT MOVIE AND WOMEN LIKE HER ARE VERY REAL.
I did volunteer work in Botswana as a senior in high school, and I perfectly understand why women have 6-7 kids in those types of places (many die in childhood, they need hands to help around the house starting at the age of 4, etc). But can somebody please explain why these broke welfare black women, then and now, still chose to have kids when they can't provide them with a great life? My woman and I make 150k combined and still feel we can't afford kids. Can you not rationalize this fact with the maternal inscints, and say, even though I want kids, maybe I shouldn't? Maybe its not fair to bring kids into this world in such conditions?
White people also have kids they can't support.
I think is a lessons for those who have a lot of Money and chose to have none. I used to think so. I am Dominican and live in the Dominican Republic. People sometimes make simple things complex. In all case, read on John B. Calhoun and the need for demographic controls in both cities and the countryside. In my country people have too many children, three is too many children by simple maths (I am a civil engineer) and most of the children will end in the United States, Canada, etc. In all case rich parents give so much luxury to kids... That they spoil and ruin them! I hate my rich friends. I was born poor and I feel like a human being. But my colleagues are religionless. So take the good example from those crazy families.
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@@HezakyaNewz FACTS Curtis Mayfield influenced many old school reggae artist and ❤'d by AA community
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15:40 54 $ a week?
I love this History.... Beautiful...
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Birth control would have help so many poor families back then.
Couldn’t concur with you more!
But as I learned in school, the more $ one has, the higher education they have, and it’s less likely one will have children they cannot support.
The less education one has, it’s so much more likely they’ll end up in the system, which is an abhorrent revolving door.
That’s for EVERY race.
Half of my dissertation was on something similar.
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Would have help them do what? Die faster...birth control causes cancer...black people were doomed from the start...it was strategically set that way...so u bypass pregnancy & eventually die from cancer...so u had to pick ur poison? All of it sucks... there's no good behind anything offered for free fron the good ol' govt
yea its really proper health education but that can't be helped if persuasion into sex and low income housing exists its all apart of the set up
@@keep8472 yea honestly I thinks that better than having sex with random ppl that dont care about you and if the norm was to get married after having sex and be with one person you cant really be suprised most women were going with what which was the norm as they literally had no real choice making
@@katherinea.williams3044 shut up Karen
What all these good videos of information I just subscribed
Did you mix in the music or was that a part of the original broadcast?!
You could buy food stamps back then🤔
$1.35 per hour 4pm to Midnight
$170 for 6 kids is heart breaking. Working really helps so much.
She had no business having 6 kids and already struggling
People do quick to say dont have babies and thats fine. Stop thinking you paying for these babies because many of us dont pay enough taxes to even qualify for social security. Please do your research and see where this money comes from. Its usually the very wealthy. Also women of other races is poor rural demographics usually not easy to access received and receive the same benefits.