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  • Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024

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  • @iAmSeriousBaylis
    @iAmSeriousBaylis 7 лет назад +68

    Im from KC born and raised. It was a tough city growing up. I made it and I love my city like no other. Stand up KC, let's take our city back.

    • @veronicawheeler5158
      @veronicawheeler5158 4 года назад +1

      Serious Baylis I’m moving there in a few weeks and excited

    • @gatoarchivaldo9051
      @gatoarchivaldo9051 4 года назад +1

      @@veronicawheeler5158 hows kc? The murder rate just climbing get out now lol

    • @pyramidhead138
      @pyramidhead138 4 года назад +1

      @@veronicawheeler5158 i moved out of that city nearly 20 years ago, and i aint comin' back!

    • @daveoelke857
      @daveoelke857 6 месяцев назад

      I moved here 63 years ago. And I’m staying.

    • @LambChop92
      @LambChop92 4 месяца назад

      🙌🏾❤

  • @UniversalStylez
    @UniversalStylez 7 лет назад +68

    I was born and raised in KC. I understand the landscapes and the citizens very well. Troost has always been the invisible race/poverty line. The white flight movement that left neighborhoods in decline. My experiences east of Troost had valleys as well as milestones. In the mid 80's the crack epidemic filtered the streets and gangs culture followed suit. Classmates and neighborhood friends met an early demise from those very conditions. I graduated from Northeast Sr in the bottoms. I grew up in the 47th and Paseo area. My entire family attended Paseo high(old Paseo). As I got older my family spread throughout the city. My grandfather was a Jazz Musician who played several instruments at built model trains. He played in a club called the Busy Bee on 47th. One my high school classmates was from the projects, worked extremely hard, earned valedictorian and was selected to be asst. principle at Olathe South high school. Kansas City has myriad of triumphs and concession. I have plenty of those to share. Leadership and influence are truly two different irrefutable laws. One cannot work without the other. There has to be balance. I have a affinity for every cracked sidewalk, fountain, barbeque joint, sports, jazz legends, art, sculptures and history of KCMO. I've enjoyed Jacob Loose Park, Willaims Volker park, Thomas H. Swope park, Plaza lighting ceremony and historical 18th and vine district. As a youth I attended William Cullen Bryant elementary and George Caleb Bingham middle school. Mid 80's-90's. I've survived acts of violent overt racism and structural racism. I've survived acts of violence from the inner city. I've also witness unyielding bravery and unbelievable acts of kindness. The city of fountains is a wonderful place to live. Wishes are made at a fountain and I've made many. One of those wishes were to observe my city in prosperity, unity and congruence. I marvel at those possibilities in every space I reside. Unifying to incline can be a challenge but KCMO is absolutely up for it, this I know. Our spirit is incomparable and resilience is beloved all over the world. Again leadership and influence are truly two different irrefutable laws. One can't work without the other. Balance... Unity....Incline...

    • @seangordon1905
      @seangordon1905 3 года назад +1

      What acts of violent overt racism did you endure? What structural racism is prevalent in Kansas city Missouri?

    • @blameks9136
      @blameks9136 3 года назад +5

      @@seangordon1905 that’s all you got from this? You completely missed the whole point. Why question this mans experiences?

    • @landturtle7470
      @landturtle7470 2 года назад +1

      This city has an undeniable and magnetised sense of hospitality and feeling of home, the city seemigly won't give up no matter how "bad" it gets because it's filled with people that have love for it like I do. I'm hopeful for good change in the future, even though hard, most definitely possible.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад +1

      You are 1 in a million!

    • @minadelaluna9277
      @minadelaluna9277 2 года назад +1

      Thank you for this.

  • @louisfiii4080
    @louisfiii4080 5 месяцев назад +6

    Please replay this on KCPT! Share it with the community and schools!

  • @joelbarr4519
    @joelbarr4519 8 лет назад +102

    Even with all of its problems, I still say with pride when asked where I'm from, that I ♥ KCMO.

    • @ladygeena81
      @ladygeena81 7 лет назад +3

      Totally. So do I. It's a DNA connection for me.

    • @iAmSeriousBaylis
      @iAmSeriousBaylis 7 лет назад +4

      You show right!

    • @revivalord9391
      @revivalord9391 5 лет назад +1

      Right on bro

    • @patriciahenry9067
      @patriciahenry9067 4 года назад

      @@iAmSeriousBaylis n&(

    • @BoutTime73
      @BoutTime73 3 года назад +2

      Exactly! I grew up in NE KC one block off independence and nothing but love for my city.

  • @thelovelyvalc
    @thelovelyvalc Год назад +10

    This was SUCH a great documentary and here we are 7 years later dealing with all these dane issues except worse. I keep calling the city any the vacant houses, drug houses, dumping and crime. Ive called councilmen, 311 everything with no help but instead a worsening of conditions.

    • @ericlawhan7486
      @ericlawhan7486 6 месяцев назад

      I used to live right across the river from downtown KCMO in KCK and it wasn't the best neighborhood to say the least. I had to move from that area because the crime rate got steadily worse.

  • @ladyyounique83
    @ladyyounique83 7 лет назад +37

    This documentary touched my heart. Much respect to all those making a positive difference in KC. Be it you wear a uniform, or your skin is black, white, or brown. When I pass by this area it has broken my heart to see the abandoned houses because so many of them are beautiful! The empty schools is such devastation while others schools are jammed back and students get over looked. God bless those living other there fighting for the community with service, awareness, & love!
    Investors come to my community that's near downtown because they see money.Thats all they are concerned with is making money not the culture within. God bless the communities investor in this video.
    Born & raised KCMO !!! Much love! 💙

    • @beverlykelly6270
      @beverlykelly6270 3 года назад +8

      It breaks my heart too when I see ran down, abandoned homes and businesses. They always seem to in minority neighborhoods. This didn't just happen overnight. This condition has been years in the maling.i feel it all started in the 60's with the development of government funded housing projects. I think unless you're disabled, or in dire straits, a person shouldn't be eligible for government assistance. Things easily gained and things one doesn't have to work for, are things undeserved. I know a lady with 4 kids, perfectly able-bodied, who says to me, why should I work what I can get free money every month? I offered to help her study for her GED and she declined the offer. She said she didn't want or need one. Does she think money falls from the sky? This is tax payer dollars she leaching off of.i didn't tell her to procreate, didn't get her pregnant, and I'm not a relative. So why are her problems she created my affairs?

    • @ladyyounique83
      @ladyyounique83 3 года назад +1

      @Ferris W not near there but a lot of people love Sheffield.

  • @jimmykjazz
    @jimmykjazz 8 лет назад +14

    I lived at 3229 Wayne. That is 1/2 block south of linnwood blvd and pretty much in the dead center of the Ivanhoe neighborhood. Of course that was from 1949 to 1959, the first 10 years of my life. I remember a vibrant environment with thriving businesses, theaters (ISIS and Appollo) and schools and churches. It was great until many folks moved out to places like Ruskin Hieghts, north KC, Prarie Villiage, etc. Then also, a bunch of houses and apartment buildings were torn down east of Paseo between 9th and 15th street to make room for KC's first low income housing projects (big failure). Many of the houses in my immediate area (Troost to Woodland, 31st street to 35th street) became rental units which accelerated the decline of the area. I drove through there some 15 years later and it looked a ware zone with all the abandoned and run down properties. Actually, the are is far better now if you can imagine.

  • @buzzcrushtrendkill
    @buzzcrushtrendkill 6 лет назад +7

    Men to stand up to their responsibilities as fathers. That single action would bring the biggest change.

  • @jimrick6632
    @jimrick6632 5 лет назад +8

    I AM 80 NOW, BUT I GREW UP IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI AND THE STORY HAS NOT CHANGED..... ANYTHING EAST OF TROOST WAS AND IS A DANGEROUS AREA OF MOSTLY BLACK PEOPLE...BUT I WAS NEVER TAUGHT NOT TO TREAT EVERYONE AS AN EQUAL..IT IS DIFFERENT TODAY...SAD....THEY HAVE NOT PROGRESSED...

  • @scottvansel358
    @scottvansel358 6 лет назад +14

    This isn't only a East side problem..Has anyone on here been down in the Northeast KC area lately?I live on 9th and Jackson..Northeast is an eyesore fr..Abandoned houses,the highest overall crime rate in the city..Not murder rate but crime rate.This video focuses on Troost Ave. alot..It doesn't hold a candle anymore to Independence Avenue..Prostitution and drug activity is rampant!!

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      I used to live in the Northeast before section 8 moved in. I moved north. I tried to move back and buy a cheap house and it was full of illegals and Asians.

    • @DaWizzKiddcore
      @DaWizzKiddcore 2 года назад

      They mean east of troost

    • @Wonderwhoopin
      @Wonderwhoopin Год назад

      😂

  • @pamelagriffin787
    @pamelagriffin787 6 месяцев назад +3

    I’m from K. C. Eastside born and raised. Yeager elementary school and East High. Love my City , live in Long Beach , Ca❤

  • @mikeh.9954
    @mikeh.9954 5 месяцев назад +4

    I'd like to see a follow-up show now that we are in 2024.

  • @jasonday1199
    @jasonday1199 8 лет назад +19

    This Nutter guy, what a kind and honorable man! Wow, this fella is white as heck but put out over a million dollars to help that community? That is just the right thing to do Mr. Nutter. I respect you highly and thank you for putting out to help others in great need. Your kindness and willingness to help others in need, speaks volumes of who you are. We need more people like this to step up and do what he is doing, then we can start to make our communities better with people who will respect each other. Lets quit this color of skin oppressive views and attitudes and make it a world wide human interest to better everyone and their lives no matter who they are. The people in these communities that need help, need to get it started and keep it going, others will help, you need to seek them out. They are out there, waiting for someone to push them the correct way.

    • @rocksiirose4536
      @rocksiirose4536 6 лет назад +1

      Jason Day
      He is atoning for his sins. He knows he better get it right before he dies.

  • @SteveRHanson
    @SteveRHanson 8 лет назад +39

    And yet the Mayor seems to have enough money for his pet projects like the street car, downtown hotel, new airport, etc...

    • @bunnygray4513
      @bunnygray4513 7 лет назад +5

      Steve Hanson that man REFUSES to accept responsibility for anything as the leader of City Hall.

    • @pyramidhead138
      @pyramidhead138 3 года назад +4

      For the last 20 years Kansas City has had nothing but Democrat mayors who do not care about solving any problems, and add far too much racism in the mix and you also got high crime rates so that City's not going to turn around anytime soon if ever

    • @StevenMichaelCunningham
      @StevenMichaelCunningham 3 года назад

      Due to a lack of sobriety it will all come in trickles.

    • @virtuoussoulhealer3644
      @virtuoussoulhealer3644 3 года назад +2

      He's married to a white women. What do you expect?

    • @LambChop92
      @LambChop92 4 месяца назад

      Thats what im saying, they paint us like savages, when really they just withhold rescources that other's take for granted...resrurces that our people dont even know about because it never been an option...im so sick of this bs...

  • @ffwb1639
    @ffwb1639 7 лет назад +26

    Why would you keep your wife and kids in such a environment , just to make a point ? It would be great if the all things were equal. I applaud your effort to fix your community but not at the risk of a loved one catching a stray Ak 47 round in the head .

    • @sevencostanza1868
      @sevencostanza1868 3 года назад +1

      Got to hide your wife , hide your kids... Also its no joke 😔

    • @lucerogroves
      @lucerogroves 3 года назад +8

      I know this was commented three years ago but I don’t think a lot of people have relocation as an option

    • @StevenMichaelCunningham
      @StevenMichaelCunningham 3 года назад +1

      All one can do is dodge. Press charges. Testify. Enact.

    • @Solutions3000
      @Solutions3000 3 года назад

      @@StevenMichaelCunningham : Hopefully, they live long enough to employ your suggestions.

  • @missipemudbug
    @missipemudbug 3 года назад +3

    Born & raised in KC,MO. worked at the the Jackson Co. jail as a correction officer. From there on I worked as a Security Sgt. on the evening shift at Truman Med Center. This was through the late 70's up to 2002. Looking back, I really loved KC,MO.. But once I was disabled I moved to the MS. Gulf Coast (50 miles N/E of New Orleans.) Went through Katrina and my wife took her life. After looking at this clip it makes me HOME SICK. I only wish I could afford to move back. Much Love KC, MO. I really love you and miss you.

    • @taylorpresley4604
      @taylorpresley4604 4 месяца назад

      I am so sorry about your wife. I hope you made it back to KC, it is a wonderful city.

  • @CJColvin
    @CJColvin 7 лет назад +42

    At least it isn't as bad as St.Louis Missouri.

    • @CmcDemon
      @CmcDemon 5 лет назад +3

      CJ Colvin way worst then stl mo now east stl maybe not

    • @gregg9840
      @gregg9840 5 лет назад +4

      WORDto BIGbird Kc is worse really

    • @kenzobenzo9938
      @kenzobenzo9938 4 года назад +1

      WORDto BIGbird no it’s not do research

    • @jaobyeden4143
      @jaobyeden4143 4 года назад

      East saint louis is like an apacolpyse and otherwise the city is pretty similar to KC

    • @iknowdeweybrudda6564
      @iknowdeweybrudda6564 3 года назад

      It’s much worse

  • @bsmith8943
    @bsmith8943 5 лет назад +7

    The mayor did nothing the entire time he was in office.

  • @yesflipthetables401
    @yesflipthetables401 8 лет назад +22

    SIGN ME UP!!! HOW DO I VOLUNTEER TO clean up the brush, flip the houses or tear them down and build gardens and parks?????

    • @buzzcrushtrendkill
      @buzzcrushtrendkill 6 лет назад +6

      Why wait to until someone else organizes something for you to sign up for. Go there yourself and you will experience a reality that may contradict your preconceived notions.

  • @MrsBraxtonChrist
    @MrsBraxtonChrist 5 лет назад +5

    been living in south san diego for 8 years and no matter where I go,I am proud to rep my city ...growing up in KC made me strong and able to handle set backs and come ups. I love my hometown to the death.

    • @Ginab3001
      @Ginab3001 5 лет назад

      I feel the same way too. I haven't live at home since a teen but thankful for growing up in KC with lots of family and getting home training as we use to say.
      Its all the empty houses and drug dealers that are tearing the city down.

  • @beverlykelly6270
    @beverlykelly6270 3 года назад +7

    This goes way deeper than the mayor and money. It's lack of planning. I don't say lack of opportunity, because I never had " opportunities, or level playing fields, or free scholarships." I had nothing at all except will and determination, and a will to succeed. No one around to help me, so I helped myself. I struggled to attend a university, while working all night, and being mom. It can be done. I'm tired of people making bad choices that mess up their lives lives, and then they say, Oops, I screwed up. Someone come and fix this for me. It doesn't take a well off person to get your act together and succeed. It just takes a determined person. If you plan to have nothing, and waste you life, one can't really complain when they end up with nothing. You get what you plan for and work for. Plan for nothing you get nothing. Plan to be fail, and you will fail. Plan to make and you will. And please stop tearing down our own neighborhoods by not keeping them up.

  • @eastside0434
    @eastside0434 Год назад +4

    I know the feeling of having a drug house across the street,people loitering and selling drugs,eventually they moved their way into my rental property and turned it into a trap house,I caught on and as soon as they fell behind in rent,I gave them an eviction and then I was getting death threats around the neighborhood,not only were people at the local stores making threats I had garbadge truck drivers making threats, no matter where I was around town ,I was seen by someone in their gang.

    • @Tonydavis67891
      @Tonydavis67891 Год назад +1

      You're making this up to instill fear in the community.
      Most of the gang members in Kansas City Mo. are dead or never getting out of prison.
      On the other, the police department has their informant committing frivolous “crimes” we call these scare tactics.
      With all the informants in KCMO, it is in no way possible for a gang to thrive in any community.
      We know for one if it was no crime in KCMO it would be a lot of people out of work.

    • @eastside0434
      @eastside0434 Год назад +2

      @@Tonydavis67891 Did I say it happened in KC,or are you making that up.?

    • @RoseanneSeason7
      @RoseanneSeason7 Месяц назад

      ​@@Tonydavis67891whatever. You know nothing

  • @Ginab3001
    @Ginab3001 5 лет назад +3

    I was born and raised in KC and haven't lived there since a teen and remember how it was in the 50's to 70's.
    I'm praying for my hometown😓

  • @wotabottle
    @wotabottle 8 лет назад +37

    and welfare, forcing father's out of homes.

    • @JASCOBAR
      @JASCOBAR 8 лет назад

      Got that right

    • @JASCOBAR
      @JASCOBAR 8 лет назад +6

      OBTW if a mother works hard and gets a raise THEN she looses a lot of her benefits along with the money for child care and has to pay higher taxes. Work HARD > move forward > fall back

    • @jamesanderson-oc5kg
      @jamesanderson-oc5kg 7 лет назад +7

      Are you serious? get a job. Go look for a job. Go to Colorado there is always work there. Do not be a father before you have a job.

    • @niccage6375
      @niccage6375 3 года назад +1

      @@jamesanderson-oc5kg not everyone has the opportunity to move.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      Welfare fathers go from home to home and making baby after baby.

  • @501764727
    @501764727 4 года назад +3

    MPTV needs to do and air something like this on Milwaukee. This unfortunately is the reoccurring theme for a big majority of American major cities.

  • @MrFmccarty
    @MrFmccarty 7 лет назад +2

    I grew up in Kansas city. My home is is in this video. Anyone with eyes could see when I was a child that there was a problem. The decency of a nation or a city has to be considered COMPLETELY. NEVER WAS DECENT. WHAT HAS CHANGED? Answer: THE PEOPLE AND IT IS FOR THE WORST. PRAYER WILL NOT WORK THAT IS WHAT MY MOTHER DID.

  • @MA-vd3ln
    @MA-vd3ln 5 лет назад +9

    Isn’t nearly as a city as Detroit or Chicago as a white person from Kansas City I been on every single street in and around the north west south and east part of town been on every street not sayin it’s a good thing being in a neighborhood going to waste but it’s not nearly as bad as other cities in poverty and as much murder as there is in Kansas City there’s just as much people in the city that looks out for one another as much as people in the community are tired of the same thing over and over again they haven’t stopped helping people in their community Kansas City isn’t perfect but it’s still a safer place to live than most cities tbh

    • @BounceBackBlaze
      @BounceBackBlaze 2 года назад

      Very true

    • @LambChop92
      @LambChop92 4 месяца назад +1

      Well thank you for ur in put, white person. It isn't that bad? Even though ur not living in this community, but had the honor of paassing through unscathed, we accept your blessing to not strive for better 😂😂

  • @rocksiirose4536
    @rocksiirose4536 6 лет назад +4

    The guys Daughter laughed when he said he could not buy a cup of coffee in his neighborhood She probably was thinking he could just go in the kitchen and make some. She has no clue of the seriousness of this situation. She will understand one day.

  • @miccajackson9729
    @miccajackson9729 9 месяцев назад +3

    Kansas City has alot of history ❤

  • @BB-yv5bp
    @BB-yv5bp 8 лет назад +42

    This *could* have been a good documentary... Let's hear about how this problem started, the true history of enforced segregation in Kansas City, The policymakers and developers behind it (JC Nichols, for example), and the *reality* of race issues in Kansss City today- not just a rosy fluff piece of how white people are "solving" it with real estate. Segregation still exists, and Troost is a physical embodiment of this fact. Cheers to those longtime community members who have had the guts to stick around and fight for your neighborhoods- you deserve much more support and resources from the ENTIRE KC metro area--- JoCo and suburbs included.

    • @JIMEYZ
      @JIMEYZ 8 лет назад +3

      I think everyone already knows about housing covenants, so why don't we tackle the problems that are relevent to the 3rd millennium.

    • @emadsaad3007
      @emadsaad3007 8 лет назад +1

      Thank you

    • @KangLaMont
      @KangLaMont 8 лет назад

      Thank you

    • @JULYXXIV
      @JULYXXIV 8 лет назад

      Chris Tina There are several books on the subject. Kansas City has a very interesting real estate history.

    • @ricojames2110
      @ricojames2110 8 лет назад

      Chris Tina: whoah...this lil white girl said what everybody scared to admit openly

  • @pyramidhead138
    @pyramidhead138 4 года назад +4

    i as an individual have no interest in helping "resurrect" that city when 90% of the ppl there dont take pride in nothin' anyway

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад +1

      Built it back and just tear it up.

  • @sampegsmith4412
    @sampegsmith4412 2 года назад +4

    Only a fool would move their kids into a war zone to “take back the city” 😡

  • @aquarianattitude5881
    @aquarianattitude5881 6 лет назад +2

    This is how you bring a community together.

  • @ProudKansan08
    @ProudKansan08 8 лет назад +9

    All the comments and not one thumbs up? I may or may not not agree with all that is being said, but this is an interesting program and I give it its first thumbs up.
    I have a suggestion for the neighborhoods that have garbage thrown and overgrown grass and weeds? Where are all those people that are supposed to be doing community service? Why don't they send people who are in jail sitting on their butts, come out and mow, weed, and pick up the trash? Then they don't have to pay them anything since they are supposed to be doing community service or are doing some time in the jails or maybe even prisons?

  • @arcticablue
    @arcticablue 6 лет назад +5

    What a great documentary! It is so awesome to see people making a difference in this world!

  • @sevencostanza1868
    @sevencostanza1868 3 года назад +4

    😭 i know - but didnt realize it was this intense - the news barely covers this - even thou this vid was 4yrs ago , i know this is still going on and hope healing is in progress- love to all💕

  • @Scorch1028
    @Scorch1028 3 года назад +7

    The narrator says: “High incarceration rates break up black families.” What he doesn’t mention are the number of “incarcerated black fathers” who had abandoned their children “before” they went to prison. Locking up “dead-beats” doesn’t break up black families.

    • @dragorn3212
      @dragorn3212 Год назад +1

      yes its pretty cringe when people use that to cover their bad behavior. Suddently they're pretending to be all pro-family.

    • @rossauce12
      @rossauce12 9 месяцев назад

      ​@dragorn3212 that's media for you. Have you seen the treyvon hoax.. great documentary

    • @OU812Star69
      @OU812Star69 6 месяцев назад

      It’s scary that they want to bring this to the other side of truth and north of the river

    • @MamaNuveau
      @MamaNuveau 6 месяцев назад

      Yes, it still does because the CHILDREN suffer. DUH!

  • @kevinmcdaniel5448
    @kevinmcdaniel5448 4 года назад +5

    I am from Chicago, and have lived for 20 years in KCMO, before leaving for Omaha, and back to Chicago. I am 66 years old. Both cities are parallel in development. Recently Chicago has been gentrifying at an alarming rate, leaving the undeveloped areas out. More grassroots efforts are probably the way out, funding is needed for those efforts as well. What's going on with the billionaire detractors, why no contributions? Federal Government has created this state of living for hundreds of years now, when do you stop?

  • @sarrcho
    @sarrcho 8 лет назад +8

    So why doesn't City Hall do anything about Their abandoned properties? I am sure they can find the funds to get the yards cleaned up at least! I am very proud of my city but things need to change. City Hall and the people who can actually make a difference need to take that step. KC NOVA project is awesome and that is a great start.

    • @ProudKansan08
      @ProudKansan08 8 лет назад +5

      Because they are too busy paying workers who sleep in their trucks all day, and higher ups who leave their offices on supposed conferences, and they go out for long, long lunches or who knows where and they expect their secretaries and their subordinates to back them up. I used to work at City Hall when I was a teenager during the summers on temporary jobs in the 1970's and it was whispered about. That's where all the money is going. I can't say there were a lot of lazy people, because I did work with many, many people who did their jobs and then some, but, there were the lazy managers, all the way down to the street workers, who were the worse.

    • @zacharymccartin4914
      @zacharymccartin4914 7 лет назад +1

      Laura Bilecki that is just stupid. Spending peoples tax money to pull weeds at abandoned houses? You honestly can't think of anything better that money could be spent on? Come on

    • @mcribb2163
      @mcribb2163 7 лет назад

      Why doesn't City Hall allow volunteers to help take care of these? I'm sure many of us here in KC would gladly do it. No officials from City Hall, PD, etc. there for photo ops, or any red tape, just us Kansas Citians.

    • @CJColvin
      @CJColvin 4 года назад

      @Too Wun Exactly and its a similar thing happening in St.Louis Missouri.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      Lol. They are spending it all on the new airport and on the new grassy covered knoll over the highway cluster in downtown. Just a new place for murders.

  • @Kricket-py2xl
    @Kricket-py2xl 6 лет назад +5

    The city should give the residents a deal on the abandoned property, like free if you tear it down and build parks and gardens

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 года назад +1

      Or free if they renovate it

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      You used to be able to buy a house for $1.00. It didn’t work.

  • @WillBlindYouWithLight
    @WillBlindYouWithLight 8 месяцев назад +1

    Man. Bonnie and Clyde went through there a lot. They were always met with law enforcement. Whether they did anything in the area or not. I don't know how they treat outsiders, but I'm guessing they used to not do that well.

  • @CliffRomer
    @CliffRomer 4 года назад +10

    "We're clearing squatters out of empty homes."
    How about seizing it and filling it with the disadvantaged? Jesus, man.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      They will just get tore up again. Good money after bad.

  • @ExtendFlame
    @ExtendFlame 5 лет назад +6

    I pray my city gets better
    I live on the East side of
    Kansas City MO
    It’s gang violence that gets these poor people killed in the crossfire not everyone out here is “thugs” like everyone wants to claim A lot of us are just working to do better for ourselves so when I’m older I can have something I didn’t have.

  • @robertroark1804
    @robertroark1804 8 лет назад +4

    this is sad to see my City needing help we need to fix our Neighborhoods up

  • @malisac3869
    @malisac3869 Год назад +3

    KC has some beautiful homes.

  • @Jonsolski18
    @Jonsolski18 8 месяцев назад +1

    This needs a follow up! Unfortunately since this video was released, KcMo set a new homicide record in 2020, and broke it again in 2023. Would love to see if/how KCPD & leaders have tried to adjust their strategy

  • @Phillip-py7pc
    @Phillip-py7pc 11 месяцев назад +2

    KCMO is not going to change at all i grew up on Linwood and Gillham ans a child my grandmother stayed in Benton Ave it was bad then it going to continue be.

  • @Backwardsman95
    @Backwardsman95 3 года назад +3

    I basically grew up in the middle of KCK. Always thought it was rundown compared to Johnson county. Not the suburbs but not the ghetto. I've driven for Uber all over the metro, and whenever I end up in the neighborhoods east of Troost, I realize why it's talked about so much.

    • @elijahhernandez221
      @elijahhernandez221 2 года назад

      i mean im in argentine in kck an i got boys who live over by troost an they say they dont come over to ks unless they have to cuz its still just as dangerous an thats anywhere in the city that ain got white folks livin in the houses

  • @louisfiii4080
    @louisfiii4080 4 года назад +8

    KCPT needs to replay this ASAP!

  • @mattymcrips
    @mattymcrips 7 лет назад +8

    i remember i had an internship at WYCO mental health. we had a client who lived in the juniper garden projects. the first time through there i saw a car torched on cinder blocks and barrels all over the street. years later my car got stolen on 7th and quindero and a buddy and i went looking and that same car was still on the street along with the barrels. for years and years they all said what no one believed....the city didnt give a flying rip about the inner city communities....

  • @johnpannebaker5757
    @johnpannebaker5757 5 лет назад +2

    Watching this documentary years after release, the line that sticks out to me is the one about the 1,300 members of the KCPD caring about ending the violence, especially in light of the articles that revealed we have more cops behind desks than on the streets deterring crime. Still an issue we haven't taken care of. Shoot, we don't have enough cops on patrol to prevent people going 50mph down Troost while using the center turn lane to pass people, let alone keep neighborhoods safe.

  • @salazardeltoro4561
    @salazardeltoro4561 6 лет назад +5

    People generally segregate into their own ingroups, so the inevitable outcome is not a melting pot, but several different racial communities. This is an observable fact in every large city. There are things like Little Italy, Chinatown, and Harlem for a reason. This is because human beings have natural ingroup preferences. Trying to force diversity where nobody of any race really wants it is nothing but a source of strife. If a certain neighborhood is having more difficulty than others, it's not anyone's job to try to run in and save them from themselves. It's not advisable, and frankly, it's just racist hand-holding of low expectations. They have to resolve it.

    • @visceralmedley4418
      @visceralmedley4418 6 лет назад +2

      Primo Quartus redlining is the main reason Kansas City is segregated. Lack of opportunities for minorities runs a close second. Minorities are prevalent in KC, and many attended the best high school in the STATE. Yet, minorities are rarely in positions of authority in local companies. Why would that be?

    • @salazardeltoro4561
      @salazardeltoro4561 6 лет назад +4

      Visceral Medley I lived in a mission last year and found work while everyone else was collecting cans and smoking crack in the courtyard. I now run the company I began working for while staying there. They didn't want to put the effort in, period. If you don't believe that, then try living with them there for about a month and see for yourself. I'll take what I've witnessed firsthand over out-of-touch classroom hyperbole spouted by people who won't go within ten miles of the diversity they champion any day of the week. And if it means anything, I work for minorities.

    • @merrytunes8697
      @merrytunes8697 3 года назад

      @@salazardeltoro4561 hyperbole? You just spouted a lot of assumptions.

  • @105cathy
    @105cathy 3 года назад +2

    I grew up on the east side. I watched my neighborhood die block by block. Now it looks like a war zone. Breaks my heart. The folks who could leave....left. Why would you stay?

  • @KingTiny24
    @KingTiny24 8 лет назад +4

    Great Documentary & Awareness! Thank You 4 Posting!

  • @baller4532
    @baller4532 3 года назад +2

    I grew up in Kansas City during the 1960’s. Seems the same complaints in the 60’s are still the same in 2021.

  • @brandonthompson8411
    @brandonthompson8411 5 лет назад +3

    I visited KC a couple years ago and I drove down thru troost several times and it is very obvious that this is the divide, crazy place. I saw it in daylight and after dark and it is legitimate.

  • @rayman1269
    @rayman1269 3 года назад +3

    And still till this day its top 5 murder rate. Be safe family

  • @MattDiamondFlix
    @MattDiamondFlix 8 лет назад +1

    this is great! I'm glad you published this.. Much needed.

  • @denaturner8871
    @denaturner8871 5 лет назад +4

    *people: oh, you're from KC?
    Me: no, I'm from Wyandotte County.
    *people: OK, but what city is your address in?
    Me: Oh... yeah, Kansas City.
    *people: so, then, is KC not Kansas City?
    Me: yes, KC is Kansas City.
    *people: ?????uh...ummm?????? (Tilts head like a puppy)
    Me: AAAAHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

  • @EpicLuigi24
    @EpicLuigi24 8 лет назад +72

    First thing we need to do, though, is to stop categorizing each other by race. :___;

    • @stephenreese3591
      @stephenreese3591 8 лет назад +2

      yes sir! people we'll start figuring that out sooner than later hopefully

    • @stephenreese3591
      @stephenreese3591 8 лет назад

      yes sir! people we'll start figuring that out sooner than later hopefully

    • @JASCOBAR
      @JASCOBAR 8 лет назад

      got that right.

    • @EpicLuigi24
      @EpicLuigi24 8 лет назад

      ***** Lol what

    • @EpicLuigi24
      @EpicLuigi24 8 лет назад +1

      The Truth Care to back up that claim?

  • @zacharylinhares
    @zacharylinhares 4 года назад +1

    We miss you so much Kristin. Love you. Rest in Peace my friend.

  • @clairhall602
    @clairhall602 8 лет назад +6

    I lived in the east side and I loved it, I had a lot of friends around hear and my neighbors were not all black, where did this guy get his information from?

    • @ProudKansan08
      @ProudKansan08 8 лет назад +3

      Probably because there are a lot of blacks living there now. Just like in the Northeast area.

    • @bunnygray4513
      @bunnygray4513 7 лет назад +3

      ProudKansan08 sorry you are wrong. It is a melting pot on the east side. They only showed a small portion of tbe east side.

  • @thelightofthebodyispineal7137
    @thelightofthebodyispineal7137 3 года назад +3

    Police Officers need to stay physically fit...take care of yourselves.

  • @smokeheavystudios
    @smokeheavystudios Год назад +1

    it's crazy to think the murder rate has only increased since this video. pray 4 KC ya'll

  • @yamahale
    @yamahale 4 года назад +1

    no American accented narrators available??

    • @FTYSONJR1
      @FTYSONJR1 2 года назад

      He wasn’t just the narrator, he was the filmmaker with the courage to tell the unvarnished truth!

  • @80s_kid.
    @80s_kid. 7 лет назад +3

    That was one fantastic film, its one that actually made me stare into space and think hard, i hope things get better in the world, who ever and where ever you are..

  • @Ilovemusickc
    @Ilovemusickc 4 года назад +2

    My heart goes out to the members of these communities. Love these folks for trying. But the mayor at that time was a joke. He was living comfortable and that's all he cared about! 😤

  • @2BArchives
    @2BArchives 6 лет назад +3

    The best thing to come out of Kansas City is..
    I-70

  • @ExtendFlame
    @ExtendFlame 5 лет назад +4

    I pray the violence will get better in our city we need it back
    This was released in 2016 and it’s gotten worse since it’s just going up in gang violence .

  • @lauralove8388
    @lauralove8388 4 года назад +2

    FLASH WARNING at 54:42

  • @ambassador724
    @ambassador724 Месяц назад

    How is it in 2024?

  • @tjmaceofficial5271
    @tjmaceofficial5271 4 года назад +2

    Now in 2020 kc broke its own record for homicides

  • @atomicpimp344
    @atomicpimp344 2 года назад +2

    Fk that you can buy a great house for $300k here and low end $80k. Wake up America. Stop buying guns and rims and buy your hood, if you really love it.

  • @RKM514
    @RKM514 Год назад +2

    Legalize & Tax Marijuana

  • @czarrazc9853
    @czarrazc9853 4 года назад +3

    Well I live in the Northland, but everything south of downtown is for the birds

  • @ZacharyScottRobertson
    @ZacharyScottRobertson 6 лет назад +1

    Whenever your hometown needs help, you know you love it, most, when you feel so compelled to help. You simply need the right consortium of people to come together, pull strings and work it out. Building trust and rapport among the neighborhoods is essential, but offering a long term solution to positive employment should be the plan. Investment in revitalizing the neighborhoods, thoughtfully, will be key to restoring plots of land that are too dilapidated to repair, while offering opportunity for small businesses to find mutually beneficial opportunities, as well, I should think, and offering employment opportunities, also.
    Necessary to the success of revitalizing the areas will include careful discussion of the needs of the neighborhood, first, including restaurants, food carts, auto shops, small businesses and the like, in addition to parks, more fountains to see, etc... while not further contributing to gentrification either... with modern apartments, condos, or less desirable business ventures, which would only be counterproductive and counter intuitive, both. Still, careful planning, commercial realestate and zoning changes, maybe even co-op opportunities with gains equating to reinvestments, thus restoring the sense of local responsibility, respect and unity, yes, can be achieved... I should hope. Strong interest and independent contributions could achieve so very much, I believe. Yes, opportunities galore.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      You built or rebuild and it will be trashed. You take care of every need and you will create dependency. Waste of money.

  • @allenwalker9043
    @allenwalker9043 7 лет назад +8

    Wow, that mayor needs to go.

    • @JULYXXIV
      @JULYXXIV 6 лет назад +1

      Allen Walker This didn't start under James. Prior mayors Funkhouser, Barnes, Cleaver, Berkeley, Wheeler, Davis and others are just as responsible.

  • @AmyRose-iw4vm
    @AmyRose-iw4vm 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for this excellent work.

  • @franknorris5422
    @franknorris5422 Год назад +1

    0:55 look like Tyler Perry 😂😂

  • @michaelanderson8514
    @michaelanderson8514 7 лет назад +5

    here's an idea give tax brakes to home owners on the street that agree to pick a house and cut the lawn pickup trash just clean it up a adopt a house program

    • @arcticablue
      @arcticablue 6 лет назад

      An adopt a house program sounds like a great idea!

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      People would not do it.

  • @leebirdwell
    @leebirdwell 7 лет назад +6

    I appreciate the documentary. Nothing I didn't realize before, really. However, when you start talking about things to blame for the problems, let's give credit to LBJ's Great Society programs where if a young black mother needed public assistance, her husband had to leave and abandon the family for the welfare to kick in. That has been a big root of the problems in all communities. Heal the family and you heal society.

  • @RevolutionFromBelow
    @RevolutionFromBelow 7 лет назад +3

    Respect to Joe McHale !
    Way too less reflecting and smart cops like him, who're also open enough to say in public, that the police dept build its own problem kinda...

    • @JULYXXIV
      @JULYXXIV 6 лет назад

      St.I ll dope as usual and he's now retired I hear

  • @cowabungahgeoff
    @cowabungahgeoff 7 лет назад +4

    The Federal Government is largely RESPONSIBLE for this. This is the agency that has control over the money. If the Feds were held liable (had their money taken away) for coming in and getting involved in the State/City, they would be on it so quickly. But who holds them liable?? It's evident, that racism and segregation never left even after Civil War. Just look at 40:43 "It seems to really go SOUTH, if you will.." What's in the south? Defeat and oppression from the North, DUH! It's clear as day that nothing has been TRULY done to rectify the issue of equal rights "for the people" in this "great" nation. The people will rise to the occasion though. This a glimpse of what the future holds.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      Kansas City was Union. Northern Missouri was Southern.

    • @yvonnegrant3736
      @yvonnegrant3736 Год назад

      Who committed crimes, sell drugs, rob you as you go home, burglarize your house, do blaming everything but thugs who terrorize community

    • @yvonnegrant3736
      @yvonnegrant3736 Год назад

      @@sookie4195so? Move on

  • @topherh5093
    @topherh5093 3 месяца назад +1

    After 8 years its only got worse

  • @breezybruh2240
    @breezybruh2240 3 года назад +4

    here in KC it's not that bad.

  • @kaylenmayo4803
    @kaylenmayo4803 3 года назад

    I still love and miss my city!!! Born and raised!!!

  • @e.richardson4374
    @e.richardson4374 Год назад +1

    7 years later, things are worse! So sad.

  • @rasteenjackson7042
    @rasteenjackson7042 5 лет назад +1

    The Mayor is full of it!!!! Its revenue to fund projects, build rebuild, or renovate other projects in the city!! And how can city hall fine people who has home violations but have muliple abandoned condemned properties!!??? How can that injustice be addressed and corrected!!!??? Mr. Mayor please elaborate on that since you speak on what you do and dont have control off!!

  • @chukc2012
    @chukc2012 8 лет назад +3

    Than you for making this!!!!!!!

  • @niss2142
    @niss2142 Год назад

    49:20 Give us???

  • @K.B.Williams
    @K.B.Williams 7 лет назад +3

    If you're black and live downtown there's a great chance you live @ 11:43

  • @kramermcluckie5079
    @kramermcluckie5079 3 года назад

    This is a great doc, thanks for posting.

  • @camman6912
    @camman6912 6 лет назад +2

    Amazing people making an amazing difference
    God Bless them

  • @angelicaalejandrarodartefi2529
    @angelicaalejandrarodartefi2529 5 лет назад +3

    Kansas City 816 👑 home of the 💘

  • @bobbg9041
    @bobbg9041 7 лет назад +1

    Anyone should be able to claim a property in these areas just by taking care of it for a year with proof, if the neighboring house is vacant you can keep it up if city hall owns it but you must live in the house next to it t do that whether you own it or rent it.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      You could buy a house at one time there for $1.00. It didn’t work.

  • @adamfoulk5865
    @adamfoulk5865 3 года назад +4

    The people in kc are very hardworking cool people. Like no other city.

  • @bobbg9041
    @bobbg9041 7 лет назад +5

    I've got a great Idea, the city owns a lot of property that's not on the tax roles now, Hire Younger guys to flip the houses pay them a fair wage and sell the houses to pay for it all, when the projects done homes are repaired those workers will ahve jobs because there is almost always a demand for trades, this puts people to work and fixes a city's problems.
    And cleans up the streets. Houses can not be boarded up vacant and people needs jobs to live and hope for a better life. Lets everyone band together and do this all of the Metropolitan area. If you have this opportunity and don't do it and still commit crime you are destined to go into Jail I pitty that choice you've made. Even in a down economy this can work. This isn't just Kansas City this is everywhere blight is a problem.
    Industry should get on board with this because it will help them also. Its not a hand out its a hand up! People will work to learn and earn. I see nothing wrong with it.

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 2 года назад

      Few people will want to buy a home there. Burglary, robbery, murder, etc.

    • @lc6636
      @lc6636 Год назад

      Who is going to pay?

  • @xWITNESSGR8NESSx
    @xWITNESSGR8NESSx Год назад +1

    I'm a black guy that found a house in Kansas City MO a few blocks away from Chiefs stadium.I was so excited to positively give my family a home.Upon searching for the chemistry of the land I saw teachers holding racist slur cards in articals,trash in a line in the middle of the street as a race segregation of neighborhoods, dead people killed by police in racist investigation.I have an honest question.....When is enough enough? All these lies ,murdering and hate against the world including you guys own people.This is the same uncivilized savage behavior yall are known for around the world.Why do you guys want to destroy and kill EVERYBODY.

    • @Iamthatmanhim
      @Iamthatmanhim Год назад

      Yea and your people are kidnappers who steals people culture, enslave people, rape people, and kill people. This is the outcome of your ancestors

    • @dragorn3212
      @dragorn3212 Год назад

      @@Iamthatmanhim Im assuming you're talking about africa? Since thats the only thing that makes sense.

  • @lisalibeer7824
    @lisalibeer7824 Год назад +1

    Curious who teaches these people that commit these crimes that it’s acceptable to carry on that way? Maybe that’s a naïve curiosity, but a cleaner way of life is available to everyone these days.

  • @TCHAINZzz
    @TCHAINZzz 8 лет назад +21

    Yeah people from Kansas City don't say Kansas City, we say Kan City. Its gotta little cajun accent to it. Kansas City, MO born and raised!

    • @ProudKansan08
      @ProudKansan08 8 лет назад +7

      I've lived in Kansas City the majority of my life, and I call it Kansas City.

    • @JULYXXIV
      @JULYXXIV 8 лет назад +2

      T_Chainz12 Some. Most - such as myself - say "Kansas City".

    • @TCHAINZzz
      @TCHAINZzz 8 лет назад +1

      PhonicGroove it's just the way I was brought up. All my family says it's, it comes out fast a little bit. I'm not saying that at all. I've lived in KCMO my entire life. 20+

    • @tinicoleofficial
      @tinicoleofficial 7 лет назад +3

      Tyler Chaney I say Kansas City... I've never heard of it being called "Kan City"🤔

    • @thestoebz
      @thestoebz 7 лет назад +1

      Born and raised in KC, I call it Kansas City. I don't know very many who call it Kan City.