The Poverty in Palm Beach County, Florida Is Mind Blowing

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • There are places in Florida that you never knew existed. And it's tragic.
    There’s a place you probably haven’t heard about before that’s known for three things - extreme poverty, violence and football players. It’s called the Muck - and it lies on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee - a long forgotten about former agriculture hub in the middle of nowhere Florida. There’s nothing out here except for some housing communities, projects and farmland. There are about 8,000 homes here.
    And only 40 miles away, within the same county, is this. Palm Beach is practically the wealthiest place you can live in America. It’s filled with millionaires and more billionaires per capita than any other place in the country. It has about 8,000 people.
    These two places don’t really know much about one another. But comparing their completely opposite fortunes will put into perspective just how divided our population has grown.
    Palm Beach, Florida. Home to country clubs and yachts. There isn’t a home here worth under a million bucks. It’s an island off of the Atlantic Coast - just a short bridge away from West Palm Beach. The amount of wealth here is staggering. It’s the kind of place where people shop at boutique outlets with their little dogs that wear $35,000 diamond dog collars.
    Just one of the billionaires in Palm Beach could buy up every single home over here on the shores of Lake Okeechobee - home to about 8,000 households.
    There are a handful of communities on the banks of this muddy lake, but we’ll spend our time in two of them - Belle Glade and Pahokee. If you live in Florida, you’ve probably heard of these places before, but you probably don’t know what they look like. And I think you’ll be kinda shocked.
    We’ll begin in Belle Glade. There’s about 20,000 people out here in no man’s land Florida. 4 in 10 of them live on government assistance, where the average entire household brings in about $2,000 a month. One in every four households bring in about 800 dollars a month.
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Комментарии • 2,2 тыс.

  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  2 года назад +33

    Here's my entire Florida playlist! ruclips.net/p/PLq-_cmf3H6yox4qW3D-Zm5Zen1mSmFWTi

    • @Bozemanjustin
      @Bozemanjustin 2 года назад

      ANYWHERE in this country, where there is absolute poverty, is a democrat area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @tonytiger9020
      @tonytiger9020 2 года назад +3

      Nick you should do a video in Kensington Philly 👍👍

    • @Battleneter
      @Battleneter 2 года назад +3

      Just a note about 3D printed housing, they are as much of a con as "container homes", They are simply no cheaper to build than conventional houses per square foot where much the of the labor costs are pluming, electrical, inner walling's and finishing's etc.

    • @juliaackerman8710
      @juliaackerman8710 2 года назад +1

      @@tonytiger9020 àààaa

    • @turtlemcteam
      @turtlemcteam 2 года назад +1

      Holy smokes, that the dude from Mafia 4?!

  • @krystalroxX7
    @krystalroxX7 2 года назад +143

    The pay in Florida is CRAP! Doesn’t match the cost of living whatsoever. Lived in Palm beach county almost all of my life (not belle glade) struggle is real

    • @BrandonHanson
      @BrandonHanson 2 года назад +7

      Sad part is, this is how states with no income tax work. If one has to go where it snows and gets cold for a few months of the year to have a higher income and get a state refund during tax filings. I'd rather be there. I'm talking the Midwest, now New Englad or western states.

    • @krystalroxX7
      @krystalroxX7 2 года назад +5

      @@BrandonHanson once my son graduates HS, I've been thinking of getting tf out of dodge. I don't have to go too north, maybe somewhere in the MW something different than this hot swamp.

    • @JovansLorquet
      @JovansLorquet 2 года назад +15

      Every time someone wants to get out of Florida, you’ll be replaced by 1000 people lol

    • @krystalroxX7
      @krystalroxX7 2 года назад +4

      @@JovansLorquet yup but it will no longer be my problem 😝

    • @willconklin7739
      @willconklin7739 2 года назад +2

      @@BrandonHanson a state income tax would make these people poorer..., that's how taxes work

  • @mchinnii31
    @mchinnii31 2 года назад +278

    This dude is making every excuse in the book. I didn't hear him say that Black people need to do better, then the situation will change. Everything is everyone else's fault, and all the failures of the Black community need to be fixed by someone else. Nah F that! We need to stop killing each other, take school more seriously, get fathers back in the home and hold ourselves accountable for our own actions. No White man has more rights than I do these days, so there's nothing stopping me from achieving any goal I set my mind on. This "it's the White man's fault" BS needs to stop!! I'm sick of it.

    • @marcuslloyd8218
      @marcuslloyd8218 2 года назад +31

      Agreed been a minute now. Things are getting better and we need to do better. Enough with rap, video games etc and basketball how about a book, play piano or a degree.

    • @bobbybooker2123
      @bobbybooker2123 2 года назад +13

      The situation needs to change so that all people can do better. Just do better just is not going to work without the infrastructure. You're killing each other because of the circumstances.
      It can be fixed but you have to insist on it.
      School choice or wishful thinking.
      There is plenty of fault to go around.
      We need great leaders regardless of skin color.
      We're all in this together.

    • @radfan7020
      @radfan7020 2 года назад +7

      yes you are the problem

    • @maxwebolver
      @maxwebolver 2 года назад +1

      Agreed with you

    • @blackdiamond306
      @blackdiamond306 2 года назад +10

      People can do better when you have a level playing Field poverty breeds crime and crime breeds broken families and broken families breed prison industrial institutions not schools or jobs song make it but most don't that's just the way it's structured none of these people have the resources to build the community our own companies that can lay down shopping center and places to find decent jobs 90% of the time no matter what state is in you see blacks in this condition along with seeing them in this condition is that you never see any development because this place is our red zone and business do not invest in when you see black and brown people loaded with opportunity at their feet and sitting on there behind then you can be valid these people have made millions maybe billions for companies out in Belle glades during their heyday of farming now they don't need them or I say us back in the '90s these people had nothing to call a business other than selling crack cocaine and it was easy to infest the whole community with this drug when there was no opportunity in the fields of farming and dried up and AIDS was pandemic high even nurses and doctors did not want to touch this place with a 10-ft pole the system isn't broke this is the way it was intended 😓

  • @teslagirl1
    @teslagirl1 2 года назад +52

    Extreme luxury and extreme poverty are never far apart. Where you have one, you ALWAYS have the other.

    • @anyone150
      @anyone150 Год назад

      They are on opposite sides of the same county, too! Both Belle Glade and Palm Beach are in Palm Beach County, Florida.

    • @chiarac3833
      @chiarac3833 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@anyone150Florida areas can vary greatly as you cross a boulevard, never mind a city or county line. There are plenty of awful places that are far closer to Palm Beach than Belle Glade.

  • @Sandbar-Flamingo
    @Sandbar-Flamingo 2 года назад +95

    I live in PBC and went to school with a bunch of people from BG. What a lot of people don’t understand is that when you don’t know what resources are out there to help you or that you can have the ability to make change then you don’t do it. A lot of people are just getting through the day. People are trying to feed their kids and pay their rent, not focusing on bigger goals because they are exhausted and just trying to get by.
    When u have a beater car that might not make it, or your on empty and can’t afford to get gas, or can’t pay for the registration…. It’s the little things that build up and get you beat down and stuck.

    • @sorbabaric1
      @sorbabaric1 2 года назад +4

      Our public schools used to help with that, now they’ve lowered standards to the level of teaching learned helplessness. But then our government used to not pride itself in shipping jobs and manufacturing overseas.

    • @jimbojones9118
      @jimbojones9118 2 года назад

      I get it but then again most of these people don't work and get paid by the govt to not work...if you don't have a job you have all the time in the world to learn new skills to better yourself, but most these people would rather do/sell drugs, steal, and rob to get by.

    • @walkerb1734
      @walkerb1734 2 года назад +8

      I get your point(s) and they are valid. My only advice is that people in this poverty condition should NOT have children. Any chance of upward mobility is severely hampered when you have the albatross of additional mouths to feed, etc,

    • @koleyw932
      @koleyw932 2 года назад

      Don't I know it.

    • @Sandbar-Flamingo
      @Sandbar-Flamingo 2 года назад +7

      @@walkerb1734 that’s why places like Planned Parenthood are important. Lots of people focus on the abortion issues but if you can get free condoms or affordable Birth control and women’s health care and screenings it takes the pressure off for having kids under the poverty level. You don’t need an abortion if you don’t get pregnant.

  • @godspeedmax6038
    @godspeedmax6038 2 года назад +9

    The reason why blacks are in the situation they’re in is because of culture. I never see Chinese, Japanese, Indian Americans in squad cars. But blacks, all the time

    • @xwrtk
      @xwrtk 2 года назад +1

      I’ve seen a bunch and mainly for the East Asian side. The biggest one was an Asian teen trashing an air bnb with her party that had majority Asian people there. I’ve seen other Snapchat or Instagrams of Asians going to squad cars for wild parties that got out of control. I’m Asian myself and I know for fact Asians aren’t perfect angels as the media projects them to be.

  • @maninthehills7134
    @maninthehills7134 2 года назад +634

    Broken homes with single moms are by far the biggest indicator of poverty today, no matter the race. Talking about poverty while ignoring single parenthood is like talking about carbon emissions and ignoring how China emits more than the rest of the world combined

    • @Aaron_R
      @Aaron_R 2 года назад

      Women keep men in line (socially, emotionally) - Men keep women in line (financially, physically, socially). US is fat and broke - eliminating father impact can be seen all across nation.

    • @radfan7020
      @radfan7020 2 года назад +42

      false, race is the biggest indicator.

    • @cheryljemmott463
      @cheryljemmott463 2 года назад

      Exactly 💯... I'm a Social worker...statistics states that the true face of poverty in America 🇺🇸 is white men. White women, and white children to be exact 💯 🙄. So what does race have to do with Poverty. Every race face the same obstacles in life... just survive!!!

    • @elizabethsteele5291
      @elizabethsteele5291 2 года назад +5

      PREACH!

    • @mr.benjamincounta
      @mr.benjamincounta 2 года назад +1

      What’s new bro thanks for waking up

  • @HitthedamnLikebutton
    @HitthedamnLikebutton 2 года назад +161

    I grew up here, and I left in 1986. I knew it was bad, but I just didn’t realize how bad it was. Football isn’t the only way out. You have to want more for yourself than people want for you!

    • @babyimastunna
      @babyimastunna 2 года назад +9

      it definitely isn't the only way out. I grew up there as well and I left in 2008. Growing up, we never realized how bad it was due to us being kids and carefree. If I had to give any advice to anyone still there, it would be to take a leap of faith and leave. There is no help in sight for the Muck.

    • @daphneepaul3737
      @daphneepaul3737 2 года назад +1

      @@babyimastunna I left there in 2010. Two years after you left

    • @babyimastunna
      @babyimastunna 2 года назад +2

      @@daphneepaul3737 You were very smart. The future just doesn't seem very bright out there.

    • @SC-bc3eh
      @SC-bc3eh Год назад +3

      I too grew up here and there’s a WHOLE LOT MORE Behind what the eyes can see … It’s the love… the unity and family… that’s the true beauty!!!

    • @babyimastunna
      @babyimastunna Год назад +3

      @@SC-bc3eh That's true.....

  • @coupleofbeers31
    @coupleofbeers31 2 года назад +258

    Born in South Florida here in 1978 and raised there. This doesn't shock me. I don't know why most people think that South Florida is full of rich people, mansions, beautiful women, and $200,000 cars. For those of us who grew up there this ideology is laughable. South Florida has some of the poorest and most crime-ridden communities in the country. When people visit they only go to the touristy areas that are prosperous and nice. Then back to the airport. They don't see the real South Florida. I'm from Miami. Most people think everyone there is rich. LOL. Yeah go to Northwest Miami and let me know what you think.

    • @305VegasStrong
      @305VegasStrong 2 года назад +2

      Fax...78 miami baby as well

    • @jahblessin3996
      @jahblessin3996 2 года назад +2

      84 here born n raised

    • @pedrosolitario6532
      @pedrosolitario6532 2 года назад +2

      85, born and raised in the county of Dade

    • @kylemcweeny878
      @kylemcweeny878 2 года назад +7

      1990 est.
      Yo Hialeah is thugged out lemme tell ya. Ap ain't no joke. Wynwood poor af..
      I spent my house arrest in opa locka (by the back blues apartments) that sht was a nightmare
      But the hoods down south are bout it too like Perrine Goulds s Miami heights naranja.
      Im from cutler ridge (newly known as cutler bay), and homestead (dad house, moms house)
      Believe it or not kendall had alot of gangsta shit going down but not poverty just young people doing thug sht.
      But down south more you got florida city. That place ain't no joke.
      Just listen to any trick daddy song. he'll tell you where they got them yoppas on deck.

    • @tonyortiz1890
      @tonyortiz1890 2 года назад +6

      But wait this is a Republicans led state, we are a state of the free, and led by the great Governor desantis, you know the man who’s been trying to redistrict A.A. Communities, where are our elected leaders that we vote for not doing a darn thing for these communities.

  • @CP-dd8hk
    @CP-dd8hk 2 года назад +89

    The story of how the Haitians wound up in Belle Glade is pretty sad. Essentially, the sugar companies had imported these Haitians to do the harvest. Eventually, the feds realized the sugar companies were paying them less than minimum wage and fined them, so the sugar companies fired everyone and mechanized the harvest. All these Haitians essentially got dumped in Belle Glade with no money and no English language skills.

    • @dandevito5521
      @dandevito5521 2 года назад +4

      Can't we help them find a way back to Haiti? Or, any home town if that is where they want to go? Maybe GoFundMe?

    • @celineo9445
      @celineo9445 2 года назад

      @@dandevito5521 After using them like that, you just want them back to HAITI? Well, as an African, I can’t stop seeing these vids portraying America as a real shithole. See kensington st in Philadelphia, it’s full of Europeans high on some shit HAHAHA

    • @raygunsforronnie847
      @raygunsforronnie847 2 года назад +31

      @@dandevito5521 Uh... you might want to check out the current social and political situation in Haiti, and consider that this is the 3rd generation of those Haitian laborers. They have no connection to Haiti other than distant relatives.

    • @jeremyburleson6329
      @jeremyburleson6329 2 года назад +2

      @@dandevito5521 😂

    • @jonathanallen8384
      @jonathanallen8384 2 года назад

      Not true

  • @Mexicobeanpole
    @Mexicobeanpole 2 года назад +137

    The cycle of generational poverty is very hard to break out of, no matter your color.
    I’m white, but my great great grandma was a sharecropper in NC.
    My grandma was a widow and raised a child alone in the 1940’s.
    None of this set the next generation up for success.
    Each generation has done better than the last. But our family still hasn’t experienced wealth, but have reached middle class (if that even exists anymore).
    Maybe the generations coming up will.

    • @WiseOwl_1408
      @WiseOwl_1408 2 года назад +13

      Single parent situation is a great way to keep you poor too.

    • @astrolady641
      @astrolady641 2 года назад +7

      @@WiseOwl_1408 Not at all its all excuses. Its all about willpower and being a go getter.

    • @minavamp2811
      @minavamp2811 2 года назад +6

      education is a way to get you out of poverty. in this country if you have a 4 year college degree, and if you are willing to work, companies have to pay you a certain amount and not pay you minimum wage. so education does not guarantee you success but it will give you opportunities to be successful.

    • @astrolady641
      @astrolady641 2 года назад

      @@minavamp2811 Actually you are somehow wrong. Many people get a college education 4 year college and get something that's called debt and many after graduating dont find employment in the field they choose and they are left with the debt and end up working in low paying jobs for the rest of their lives just to pay that debt and they are poor all their lives. So college education for many people ruined their lives and keep them poor.

    • @minavamp2811
      @minavamp2811 2 года назад +6

      @@astrolady641 you are wrong. beach town stitchie was discussing about breaking the cycle of generational poverty. if you are born into poverty that means your parents don't make enough money, that means their children can go to college for free, with pell grant (federal free money) state grant (state free money), work study program (working part time while in college), etc. i came from a poor family i went to college for free because my parent don't make enough money, i got federal grant, state grant, work study. all of those 3 sources were enough to allow me to get a 4 year degree for free. when i graduated with a bachelor degree i was debt free. that is for going to a public university. if you decide to go to private university, then it costs more, and you might have to borrow loan.

  • @switchpathbyamypreston5428
    @switchpathbyamypreston5428 2 года назад +107

    I would love to see a mini documentary on Milton, Florida. That's where I live and work. I'm homeless and overcame it by becoming a volunteer and living a camper. I get my ss retirement but still have to work. I have been here a year and know there are lots of homeless people here. Thanks for the videos.

    • @switchpathbyamypreston5428
      @switchpathbyamypreston5428 2 года назад +3

      @Craig Dendy you are correct. The method they use to calculate a person's payout is so bogus!

    • @sherryhall3466
      @sherryhall3466 2 года назад +1

      I used to live in Milton and my best friend still does. I really like Milton. It’s close Pensacola which I lived there in the 80s. It was one of the best times for me. I’m glad you found a place to live. I used to live in a camper too. It was big though. Camper living isn’t the worst that’s for sure. I hope there is a pool there.

    • @brandons2842
      @brandons2842 2 года назад

      Oh please, give me a break. Milton is full of meth heads.

    • @correctpolitically4784
      @correctpolitically4784 2 года назад +1

      Ahhh tweakers in the pan handle.

    • @TheTopTurnchuckle
      @TheTopTurnchuckle Год назад

      @Craig Dendy people who are homeless may also be working too, dck

  • @pctrashtalk2069
    @pctrashtalk2069 2 года назад +87

    I was over on the SE Coast once in Palm Beach County. I was surprised that there were more Yacht dealers on State Road A1A than there were Car dealers.

    • @bertvosburg558
      @bertvosburg558 2 года назад +7

      more ocean than roads!

    • @ceciliavillalobos9837
      @ceciliavillalobos9837 2 года назад +6

      I lived down there started at pal. Beach gardens the moved a bit more south about 4 time ending in Lake Worth. I lived in the hood I think it's all hooded out then you cross the little bridge to the Island.

  • @mikedemet
    @mikedemet 2 года назад +95

    I can’t think of a worse strategy for success than waiting around for the Government to improve your life. It will never happen.

    • @kat64470
      @kat64470 2 года назад +6

      Everything has something to do with the government in this system. Don't play that!

    • @Bornjamerican24
      @Bornjamerican24 2 года назад +2

      @@kat64470 what do you suggest?

    • @WiseOwl_1408
      @WiseOwl_1408 2 года назад +7

      @@kat64470 You will stay poor with that mindset.

    • @cindyterry7014
      @cindyterry7014 2 года назад +1

      I get what your saying, but this place lacks opportunities. like training school's, to get most of them opportunities to get out. Transportation is poor and most can't afford to even afford a car. So you need to bring educational training to them.

    • @thepreacher2502
      @thepreacher2502 2 года назад +1

      So what

  • @NatNat4Tally
    @NatNat4Tally 2 года назад +48

    I honestly think people need to stop having kids, especially if they can't even afford to take care of themselves. It will continually create the same cycle over and over again.

    • @Innsidelyfe
      @Innsidelyfe 2 года назад

      You not the god of the land.

    • @ningi5102
      @ningi5102 2 года назад +10

      @@Innsidelyfe Natalia isn't wrong and it's advice people should heed.

    • @danteanderson9052
      @danteanderson9052 2 года назад

      I guess u support abortions right

    • @ningi5102
      @ningi5102 2 года назад

      @@Innsidelyfe Could be god of the sea

    • @NatNat4Tally
      @NatNat4Tally 2 года назад +1

      @@ningi5102 😉

  • @lisatoronto7265
    @lisatoronto7265 2 года назад +67

    There is still a strong tendency to regard poverty as a character flaw, you're poor because of something you did or didn't do. No one talks about the shame of being poor or the chaos that comes from living in a materialistic society and having nothing. In our culture you only exist if you consume, shop and invest. Even home ownership has been perverted, a home is no longer a place to live but an asset - where does that leave renters?

    • @jimbojones9118
      @jimbojones9118 2 года назад +7

      No shame in being poor, but there is a shame in not working at all and being poor. No one likes moochers

    • @taylor7326
      @taylor7326 2 года назад +13

      @@jimbojones9118 Do you have the same opinion of people born rich who don't work?

    • @jimbojones9118
      @jimbojones9118 2 года назад +5

      @@taylor7326 not necessarily, if they are "born" rich then they likely aren't mooching off the tax payers and abusing the system. It's OK to be on welfare during hard times, but not a welfare-lifer

    • @taylor7326
      @taylor7326 2 года назад +7

      @@jimbojones9118 So you don't have a problem with people being lazy, just people living off of tax money?

    • @jimbojones9118
      @jimbojones9118 2 года назад +2

      @@taylor7326 yep. It's really none of my business if people I don't rely on for something are lazy, unless it effects me - in this instance my pocket. Got a problem with that?

  • @mandarue5104
    @mandarue5104 2 года назад +164

    Raising the minimum wage won't solve the poverty issue. You can keep raising the minimum wage but there is nothing keeping landlords from raising the rent or companies from raising their prices for goods.

    • @RussellD11
      @RussellD11 2 года назад +24

      Investing in children WILL... Lack of parenting is creating this

    • @brianhassett1994
      @brianhassett1994 2 года назад

      People are never going to rise out of poverty without taking personal responsibility for their own actions and lifestyles and concentrating on education.
      You can not depend on the government for health benefits and a monthly stipend and expect to rise up. That is modern day slavery.

    • @Zeltron_1804
      @Zeltron_1804 2 года назад +12

      Thank you!!! Exactly what I said I don’t know why more people can’t comprehend that

    • @imkindofabigdeal4308
      @imkindofabigdeal4308 2 года назад +5

      @@RussellD11 We can change incentives and address issues at the margins but there is no way to "fix" parenting. Once you break the family structure good luck putting it back together through government action (and since government had a lot to do with breaking it in the first place I wouldn't hold my breath they'd even try). However, we have some amazing educators and education administrators working outside the union establishment. They are succeeding. Disadvantaged kids are thriving in those environments.

    • @kylemcweeny878
      @kylemcweeny878 2 года назад

      That's exactly whats happening right now!

  • @ajusa2024
    @ajusa2024 2 года назад +163

    Why don't all these rich NFL players go back and help fix communities???? The governments sure as hell won't!

    • @cetriyasArtnComicsChannel
      @cetriyasArtnComicsChannel 2 года назад +1

      they end up broke. They hire them from these communites to take advantage as these youth arent taught value and what to do with their money

    • @ajusa2024
      @ajusa2024 2 года назад +3

      @@datingandlifeadvicechannel7534 unless something makes money, money is never invested (not without motive anyway!). Let alone on poor or marginalized people of color. Life 101.

    • @filipbackable
      @filipbackable 2 года назад +1

      @@FATmenDRIVEtrucks REUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

    • @xxmiss-unixx
      @xxmiss-unixx 2 года назад

      Major League sports are bullshit lol. Those puppets have no intention on helping anyone. Including the celebrities. Learn Gematria and you will understand that.

    • @radfan7020
      @radfan7020 2 года назад

      the government tranfers White people's money to them. all of their welfare and schools and everything

  • @alejandrostewartsr2053
    @alejandrostewartsr2053 2 года назад +8

    He doesn’t answer questions.

    • @alejandrostewartsr2053
      @alejandrostewartsr2053 2 года назад +1

      He keep rambling. I’m black and Mexican. Your guest makes us look bad.

    • @AnnBarrington
      @AnnBarrington 2 года назад +4

      @@alejandrostewartsr2053 He kept steering off on a historical victomhood speech instead of giving current relevant answers and solutions. How many times did he mention reparations? I heard it at least twice. That's part of the problem. Giving people something for nothing. The home life situation for ALL races and areas needs to be examined and shifted to make true large societal changes. Mental health of parents and children needs to be learned, understood and taught. Children need to be taught academics, and the teaching of academics should be mainly from the school system. But parents cannot slack on home teaching of basic common knowledge of self, appropriate behavior, coping and common sense at home and then expect teachers to be able to teach academics when they're just constantly babysitting screamers with no coping skills. It needs to be a full circle approach to raise a community and its individuals within.

  • @ExxotikGaming
    @ExxotikGaming 2 года назад +56

    Man I’m so happy you made a video about Belle Glade, Nick!! I saw a video from CharlieBo313 a couple years ago and was always so fascinated by the town. I drove through there on the way back from Miami to Orlando in May and it is exactly as your video shows. Nothing changes in that town. I remember in Charlie’s video (which is several years old at this point) there were a couple old guys sitting out in front of an apartment complex at a card table…and when I drove past that exact same complex years later, the same guys were sitting in the exact same spot at the same card table!! I drove up and down most of the streets and it’s so sad to see a city in Florida this neglected. Thanks for having such a thorough series on different places in Florida :)

    • @stevepope6095
      @stevepope6095 2 года назад +1

      I see so good low price property . That writer said 15.00 minimum wage , the inflation makes that 4.00 and hour.

    • @traderjts
      @traderjts 2 года назад +1

      "When I drove past that exact same complex years later, the same guys were sitting in the exact same spot at the same card table"
      That is why they are poor and will always be-------------------------------!

    • @clisediagonzalez5010
      @clisediagonzalez5010 2 года назад

      Yes, drove thru Belle Glade, and was reminded of a ghost town. Perhaps as coastal communities are flooded these areas will come alive. Be reminded there is almost total isolation.

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад +1

      @@clisediagonzalez5010 it's NOT a ghost town... He just kept riding in circles. Not many out cause it was HOT, OR THEY WERE AT WORK! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад

      Those men were most likely retired or at their favorite same hangout after work. Funds are being misappropriated, and yes, lots of things don't change. Ppl hold on to what little they have, or just go to school, move away/come back, and help build up their communities.

  • @jeffambrose5244
    @jeffambrose5244 2 года назад +7

    This looks like paradise compared to skid row in Los Angeles Ca

  • @NewHaven203
    @NewHaven203 2 года назад +123

    I thought this series would be over after day 14 and there’s still videos! Thank you Nick for covering damn near the whole state of Florida! 👏

    • @bostongorge3507
      @bostongorge3507 2 года назад +2

      Is this where the island boys are from

    • @natashaharris3271
      @natashaharris3271 2 года назад +2

      I'm learning Nick 😊

    • @natashaharris3271
      @natashaharris3271 2 года назад +1

      @@bostongorge3507 no they from Miami the melting pot .Dade County got 💰

    • @lathankyles687
      @lathankyles687 2 года назад

      @@bostongorge3507 no no and no!! Don’t play with my city like that

  • @frankgonz31
    @frankgonz31 2 года назад +64

    Can't believe all those football players that came out of there don't even look back to their community and give some of their blessings.

    • @kstar1956
      @kstar1956 2 года назад +2

      I said the same thing. 60 Players that made the league and these communities still look like this. That’s a shame.

    • @lukebradley7879
      @lukebradley7879 2 года назад

      They all date and impregnate white women and forget where they come from

    • @jaradw1994
      @jaradw1994 2 года назад +15

      Because those people never cared about them. You think they wanna go back?

    • @lblack1961
      @lblack1961 2 года назад +6

      It is about HOW one goes back. On the one hand, it would be unsafe to go back because folks will just want what you have, "the easy way". "Going back" needs to be in a manner that helps and shows the community how to build wealth, wealth that perpetuates itself and continuously puts back into itself. It comes through providing and valuing good local education, building pride in the community by its members, and wisdom and ability in wrestleng with "the powers that be".

    • @mrtony80
      @mrtony80 2 года назад +9

      It takes a lot more money than you think. They said they built only 60 homes for $30 million. The area may have produced 60 NFL players, but how many of those players made 8 figures a year consistently over the course of their career? Let's say all 60 of the players donated $1 million...that's still only $60 million, not enough to make big enough dent in the problem.

  • @CaptainJackSparrow110
    @CaptainJackSparrow110 2 года назад +33

    None of what that slightly black fellow said was accurate or a good idea. ALL his ideas have been tried and they had zero improvement for blacks and mostly negative effects for anyone who was on the receiving end.

    • @janjohnson97
      @janjohnson97 2 года назад

      your races are so mixed up that no one knows who is black, brown or white. No one is white as a sheet of paper.he is right there. There was a time when people bred with their own race.

    • @GooseXIV
      @GooseXIV 2 года назад

      They need more gibs from whitey, when they fail…. Turn around… and blame whitey.
      Rinse and repeat.

    • @Mszahnclass95
      @Mszahnclass95 2 года назад +5

      I agree 💯 it was political liberal .climate change we are struggling with inflation.he act like we never got out of the old days .wr had a black president for 8 years an college I see tons of black people at our university college plus white an black people live here mixed

    • @ConcernedONETOO
      @ConcernedONETOO 2 года назад

      Yep, he's a fraud and liar. And actually a danger to anyone with a low IQ

    • @CaptainJackSparrow110
      @CaptainJackSparrow110 2 года назад

      @Sunrise The statistics prove otherwise.

  • @roncriswell2685
    @roncriswell2685 2 года назад +34

    That doctor is a prime example of why the people will never move forward because people like him are stuck in the past but that's fine by him because he's getting paid no matter what 😂💯

    • @rainerrain9689
      @rainerrain9689 Год назад +1

      Meanwhile Hispanics and Asians immigrants are flourishing ,working hard and finishing school.

    • @tanyaarmendariz4047
      @tanyaarmendariz4047 Год назад

      He worked to get paid.

  • @maryheadd4701
    @maryheadd4701 2 года назад +4

    The democrats brought this about them selves

  • @randallyoung6680
    @randallyoung6680 2 года назад +5

    Not a fan of your guest...

  • @diannh2894
    @diannh2894 2 года назад +86

    I wish you would have interviewed me about condominium and apartment laws that just passed as a Floridian. The gentrification and the rich have destroyed our opportunity to buy a home. And they've been using slave labor on the farms for decades.

    • @samwisegamgee289
      @samwisegamgee289 2 года назад +7

      slave labor ? i thught slavery was banned a long time ago guess i was wrong

    • @billloomis7572
      @billloomis7572 2 года назад +15

      yea thanks desantis

    • @anthonyt4127
      @anthonyt4127 2 года назад

      @@billloomis7572 Yet you will probably vote for Crist, even tho he made it worse than what you blame Desantis for... Using race simply to justify your agenda is wrong.

    • @josephinemiller4780
      @josephinemiller4780 2 года назад +3

      What condo and apartment laws? I lived in Central Florida for 30 years before I moved out of state. I would love to know what these laws are.

    • @RaceboyYT
      @RaceboyYT 2 года назад +7

      There is no slave labor on the farms lmao

  • @Clemburke1111
    @Clemburke1111 2 года назад +13

    My advice is stop the baby daddy scenario . 74% of black kids are fatherless. Stop the bull shit on paying more .

    • @francismarion6400
      @francismarion6400 2 года назад +1

      That whole bottom coast of Florida is Democrat run. It will never change.

    • @jbloun911
      @jbloun911 2 года назад +7

      It will exceed 90% soon

  • @TruthTroller
    @TruthTroller 2 года назад +4

    Would've been better if the producer didn't just drive around in circles filming different angles of the same couple blocks lol

  • @floweuphoria69420
    @floweuphoria69420 2 года назад +16

    It’s also important to remember that this is an agriculture area so there’s a lot of migrant workers and they can’t just called the housing department if they live in horrible conditions. I saw a dude walking his daughter to the bus to go to school and the trailer that they walked out of is some thing that most of us wouldn’t even keep our dogs in

  • @kenhofer8063
    @kenhofer8063 2 года назад +4

    Voting 5 to 1 democrat guess they get what they deserve

  • @choppergirl
    @choppergirl 2 года назад +11

    There are many low paying jobs that will cost you way more in eventual medical bills because of them than you ever earned at the job. So they are losing bargains to take. Pesticides, herbicides, back breaking work, occupational hazards, back pain, etc. If you refuse a job painting radioactive glow in the dark watch dials that will kill you, does that make you lazy? I think not.

    • @thenation2093
      @thenation2093 2 года назад

      What other choice do they have? Why not do that work and make a little bit of money and save it up to maybe get an education move up to a higher paying career? Just sitting around lazilynot doing anything is not gonna help any of these people.

  • @dimi3391
    @dimi3391 2 года назад +58

    My dad (Puerto Rican) was born (1965) and raised in Belle Glade. He joined the military when he was 18. He said that was his only way out of Belle Glade. If he stayed, he feared that he would end up dead or in jail. Many years after he retired from the military, I asked him if that was the best decision he made in his life and he said yes without a doubt.
    Side note: he married my mom (black woman) and most of my dad’s friends were black too. He also told me that kids would go chase rabbits in the sugar cane fields and that’s how they became really good at footwork for football. There’s also the Muck Bowl (Belle Glade and Pahokee were rivals) and many football players came from one of those schools.
    That honestly surprised me as a child given the poverty rates and such.

    • @judithmcbride4507
      @judithmcbride4507 2 года назад +1

      Dimi M. I know you! Your dad , ( my brother) joined the Air Force Right out of High School and yes the Best Decision he Ever made.👏

    • @dimi3391
      @dimi3391 2 года назад +1

      @@judithmcbride4507 Judy?!?!?!

    • @judithmcbride4507
      @judithmcbride4507 2 года назад

      @@dimi3391 yesssss

    • @dimi3391
      @dimi3391 2 года назад +3

      @@judithmcbride4507 no wayyyy!!!! I hope all is well with you!

    • @caligrafetv
      @caligrafetv Год назад

      Wow! How inspiring!

  • @jackalwaysfaded1374
    @jackalwaysfaded1374 2 года назад +13

    As a south Floridan im glad you brought this to a national level. That area is so sad

  • @Mr_Brown876
    @Mr_Brown876 2 года назад +7

    Im from Jamaica and i couldnt believe you guys have a place like this. Damn its a crime to have that much poverty.

    • @colleeporter2657
      @colleeporter2657 Год назад +1

      America has lots of these places in every State

  • @noelleonard2498
    @noelleonard2498 2 года назад +9

    15 dollar minimum wage and universal health care? Lol

    • @sharkzgaming983
      @sharkzgaming983 2 года назад

      Canadian here, we have both $15 dollar min wage and universal healthcare, and we don't have neighbourhoods this poor rampant all over the country where people are struggling this hard. Just sayin'.

    • @elonmust7470
      @elonmust7470 Год назад

      @@sharkzgaming983 yes you do. Also it's too cold....

  • @OscarGarcia-sk8px
    @OscarGarcia-sk8px 2 года назад +14

    Florida's economy is based on low paying unskilled labor. That contributes to poverty. Things have improved in the decades since I left but not enough.

  • @SpoofedTVadmin
    @SpoofedTVadmin 2 года назад +4

    First thing black people need to do is not listen to this guy. Go to school, learn how to do something that people are willing to pay you to do, don't have kids early, don't get a criminal record, learn personal finance, etc. This man said nothing that will help your personal situation.

  • @photodumper
    @photodumper 2 года назад +10

    Mr. Laroche, I'm white and most of my ancestors came to America with nothing. There were no food stamps or affordable housing and no excuses! One came from Ireland fleeing the Irish famine in the 1850s and worked as a servant and laborer on a farm. Within a few years he bought his own land and started his family. Hard work is how you escape poverty. Period.

    • @1211home
      @1211home 2 года назад +3

      When your ancestors came here Africans were enslaved for 200 years (1619) up until the 1960’s in some states we still had difficulty in obtaining property. You must realize that America was attractive to European immigrants because there was hundreds of years of free labor creating an agricultural superpower.
      It would be impossible to have the America you know without slavery. Millions of people worked hard for free for generations. Part of the problem is that we will not discuss this rationally.

    • @photodumper
      @photodumper 2 года назад

      @@1211home You're thinking of those who settled in the south. Those were for opportunity. Mine came in the 1600s to the northeast, as pilgrims fleeing religious persecution. They had no slaves and they fought for the Union during the Civil War to put an end to it anyway. Stereotyping is dangerous!

    • @1211home
      @1211home 2 года назад +1

      @@photodumper Did you know that there was slavery in the north too? Almost no one who fought in the civil war (north and south!) owned slaves. Yes Pilgrims and Quakers were abolitionists. Did you know that the Aetna insurance company was underwriting slave ships until the 1860’s. There is a very tenuous web to American history. You should check it out.

    • @photodumper
      @photodumper 2 года назад

      @@1211home I'm an avid genealogist and well aware of who my ancestors were and they were in the north and out of over 400 of my ancestors, none had slaves. There was one in the south who freed the slaves he had inherited and then he had to move west because the demonrats in that area didn't approve of him freeing them. Fact check that Mr Know It All. Most white people couldn't even afford slaves. It was the ELITE who were the problem, just as they are today.

    • @photodumper
      @photodumper 2 года назад

      @@1211home Why don't you read about how democrats in the south used severe intimidation methods to keep blacks from voting Republican. If they found out they were leaning Republican, they burned their houses down, beat them and their wives, and even killed some of them. There are plenty of articles about it in old historic newspapers. They had no shame about it.

  • @lakeshajohnson6476
    @lakeshajohnson6476 2 года назад +9

    I was born & raised in Belle Glade. Back in the 80/90's. It wasn't that bad back then. It's really heartbreaking to see the conditions now. Almost unrecognizable.

  • @ContrarianExpatriate
    @ContrarianExpatriate 2 года назад +27

    The guest was touting the talking points of the left. In other words, blame history and not the peoples' habits themselves. I get so tired of that excuse-making.

  • @maryewer7322
    @maryewer7322 2 года назад +8

    A lot of people ,fish and go to Belle Glade, don't let yourself get caught up in what you call poverty,some of the nicest people live in that small place,and if you are lucky enough to find a lil shop that has baked goods you are in for a treat. What is wealth?? Maybe it's kindness,you can't buy that with all the money in palm beach. family fished Red Man for years,so please speak gentler of resident's,government assistance in these days is not uncommon,have a great day!! And stop and spend a little money there, we always did

  • @MasterMalrubius
    @MasterMalrubius 2 года назад +38

    30 million for 60 homes? That's 1/2 million per home. It seems that if you have a large contract to build homes you should be getting a discount. Especially if these homes are the small ones that were mentioned. You cannot make the poor wealthy by making the wealthy poor. You can only try to improve the education and job skills of those who want to work and achieve better.

    • @francismarion6400
      @francismarion6400 2 года назад +11

      Its run by Democrats. This is their design. Chicago by the Sea. Do you like it?

    • @LazyDaisyDay88
      @LazyDaisyDay88 2 года назад +5

      Its an evil truth that 'low income housing' is incredibly expensive - and incompetence and corruption are at play too. There's a good piece on this in Nick's video on Berkeley California.

    • @gumshew2007
      @gumshew2007 2 года назад

      That's because the state is run by Republicans and one of the most corrupt Governors Florida has ever had.

    • @bobbybooker2123
      @bobbybooker2123 2 года назад

      School Choice for the Win. Capitalism. Don't try just do it.

    • @janjohnson97
      @janjohnson97 2 года назад

      We are where we come from:-

  • @praveenb9048
    @praveenb9048 2 года назад +9

    Viewer from India here. One thing that strikes me is the number of big cars, SUVs and pickups. And not some beat-up old vehicles, but pretty new looking ones. This is a bit puzzling.

    • @jimbojones9118
      @jimbojones9118 2 года назад

      Most of these people with nice cars are running scams, like selling food stamps. Or they will literally save all their money to look like they have money by buying a nice car, yet they have no savings, investments, etc.

    • @caridadrevilla2439
      @caridadrevilla2439 Год назад

      I thought the same thing.

    • @lachlanbrown409
      @lachlanbrown409 Год назад

      They can get financing for long periods so the repayments are lower.

  • @neilpuckett359
    @neilpuckett359 2 года назад +4

    The Mexicans showed up and took over the trades lock stock and barrel. Construction, concrete,framing, sheetrock,roofing, painting and when they show up they go to work i can't remember seeing a black crew on the job site.

  • @sharonw4325
    @sharonw4325 2 года назад +4

    Don't blame the country for the way they live. Get a job.

    • @sharonw4325
      @sharonw4325 2 года назад

      @WhatsAp☩⓵⓶⓼⓵⓺⓵⓺⓻⓶⓹⓺ ok

  • @austinmaham4556
    @austinmaham4556 2 года назад +9

    Dude these places are Nice.....its definitely a "black" neighborhood. But this isnt a bad looking place. Want to see a shit hole come out to East St.Louis, IL. Or checkout Roxana IL, then go to O'Fallon IL, and feel free to compare the difference. These places are literally 10mins away from each other. If you want to see a drastic difference and want to go 44 miles away from one neighborhood to another. Feel free to go to Chesterfield MO, these places are all in the greater area of St.Louis. Chesterfield is all Monsanto money. There are Lamborghini and Bentley dealerships there and distance wise East St.Louis to Chesterfield is only about a 30min drive

    • @Hurricane0721
      @Hurricane0721 2 года назад

      In all sincerity, I think you’re judging a book by its cover! Just because those neighborhoods in Palm Beach County don’t look like the derelict projects of St. Louis, the South Side of Chicago, or the Bronx doesn’t mean that things aren’t just as bad in those places.

    • @bobbybooker2123
      @bobbybooker2123 2 года назад

      Check out "Chemical Farming and the Loss of Human health." If you sell your soul to the Devil you should get paid well.

    • @coreenaburke5378
      @coreenaburke5378 2 года назад

      Go to my hometown Louisiana mo. It's less than two hours north of St. Louis, Hannibal is 45 minutes north of Louisiana on Hwy 79. Louisiana used to be a nice thriving little town almost idyllic when I was a child. It has become a real representation of what is wrong in America. Very sad.

  • @alchemyalligator4431
    @alchemyalligator4431 2 года назад +10

    if this doctor made it. then anybody can do it , it comes down to personal choice!

  • @lukkymee2000
    @lukkymee2000 2 года назад +4

    So we’re not gonna talk about the elephant in the room? There’s always a common denominator in these run down ghettos ….

  • @brandon779
    @brandon779 2 года назад +3

    I respectfully disagree with some of this gentleman’s suggestions on how to improve the community. His liberal philosophy has gotten them in the situation they are currently in IMO

    • @mattr3688
      @mattr3688 Год назад

      Also a majority of his history lesson was false.

  • @danityvanityinsanity
    @danityvanityinsanity 2 года назад +27

    The only way I see the Poor Black communities bettering themselves and their life situation is by divesting themselves from the system and creating their own self sufficient local alternative economies, demand the creation of Public Banks to fund affordable housing and other community projects, and use goldbacks as currency. Like the successful Black Wall Street that they created on their own a hundred years ago. Given the right opportunities and resources, they always make the most of what they have. The family unit needs to be strengthened once more too. Where the mother and father both raise the children together. I really wish this for the Black community and every other disenfranchised minority group.

    • @fizzle586
      @fizzle586 2 года назад

      The same community that caucasions pillaged and bombed in fear that these communities would pop up all over america

    • @awakeneddaughter3001
      @awakeneddaughter3001 2 года назад

      Yahuah has an answer for this in Gen. 15:13-14. Trust has to be placed in TMH and returning to the laws, statutes and commandments of TMH, in order to partake in this blessing. Deut. 28:68 asserts that TMH placed us in bondage (spiritual Mizraim/Egypt) and He is the only one who can deliver us from it. We were sold for nothing and will be redeemed at no cost. APTTMH!

    • @jamesmichael20910
      @jamesmichael20910 2 года назад +1

      @@awakeneddaughter3001 What??

    • @ubuntuiqinisoofuna7852
      @ubuntuiqinisoofuna7852 2 года назад +1

      @Sunrise You’re unequivocally wrong. After 500 years of trauma at the hands of the WM, this is done on purpose. In a Neoliberal Colonial system, someone has to be on the bottom for others to be on top…

    • @ubuntuiqinisoofuna7852
      @ubuntuiqinisoofuna7852 2 года назад +1

      @G Rose It’s not an individual problem, as nothing is impossible on an individual level. Why? Because we’re not all the same. Though, it is an issue on a macro/group level…

  • @wizzardofpaws2420
    @wizzardofpaws2420 2 года назад +16

    The activists fail to understand that it takes MONEY from the people who live there. If almost no one is working and paying taxes, then help will not come.

    • @Mszahnclass95
      @Mszahnclass95 2 года назад

      I 💯 can't have a strong economy

    • @avilandafear6502
      @avilandafear6502 2 года назад +2

      I think you accidentally said money instead of "effort". Effort is what these communities are missing. I fully understand the problems of the past and even what still exists. But let's not sugarcoat shit. There is a lack of effort by all black communities to pull themselves out of the situation. Opportunities are out there if people are willing to work for it. People standing around, means that they're not working for it. Or a lack of effort.

  • @chargermopar
    @chargermopar 2 года назад +18

    A good friend of mine lives in Clewiston so I am quite familiar with the area. The whiter the residents it seems the better the living conditions. Herein Florida we can identify dangerous or low quality areas by the amount of tree cover. Look at google earth and where you see lots of green trees the crime is not as bad.

    • @neverenough7767
      @neverenough7767 2 года назад

      And that’s means what ? That it’s white peoples fault they take care of there houses . I grew up in a poor area doesn’t mean we lived like animals and had yards full of Fuckin trash . So instead of having cars piled up in your yard plant a fuckin tree . But no because that’s that there priority .

    • @barbaroacosta5335
      @barbaroacosta5335 2 года назад +3

      Same could be said about the greater los angeles area. Beautiful trees in San Marino, Pasadena, Beverly hills, Westwood, west Hollywood. Go to the south side, and you get Compton, Vernon, the ghetto areas, no trees.

  • @mleskoyeah1464
    @mleskoyeah1464 2 года назад +7

    I live on Palm Beach Island not too far away from Belle Glade and I do volunteer work and charity work out there every so often. I’m reminded of a trip I took to the Amazon on a medical mission trip and the poor neighborhoods on the outskirts of Manauas make Belle Glade look like Beverly Hills. I just feel so awful whenever I come back to America and see entitled people compared to the humbleness that I saw in Brazil and a lot of people just really don’t know how good they have it.

  • @nataliemoldofsky4028
    @nataliemoldofsky4028 2 года назад +10

    The interviewee seemed to leave out the fact that after government assistance was introduced, the entire family dynamic began to change, leading to an insane drop in two parent households (mostly single mothers), especially in the black community. This level of poverty and crime in the black community did not even exist 60-70 years ago. And unfortunately communities like Belle Glade continue to vote in (locally) the same people that keep making sure nothing changes.

    • @23727bgk
      @23727bgk 2 года назад +2

      Single mothers on welfare seem to be the standard household for poor blacks. Dad likely either deserted family, in prison or dead. It's a cultural issue that won't go away. Being responsible means having children when you can afford them in a stable family environment. Alot of people in the US need to be taught this very basic fact. Don't offer assistance to irresponsible people.

    • @ThaRealOC423
      @ThaRealOC423 2 года назад +1

      You people should lay off opioids 🤣

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад

      He prolly just didn't have enough time to break that down, or forgot to mention it. Maybe.

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад

      @@23727bgk Ayeee....I wonder who designed this SYSTEM?!?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @lachlanbrown409
      @lachlanbrown409 Год назад

      @@ThaRealOC423 it's a fact. Single mums create poverty and crime.

  • @beckyhofheinz6245
    @beckyhofheinz6245 2 года назад +9

    Always wonder why these homes in poor areas always have nice cars parked in front

  • @MCthespeaker
    @MCthespeaker 2 года назад +10

    All the jobs left Belle Glade the prison was closed down and the hospital. US Sugar is the only good jobs.The only good jobs are competitive there at US Sugar.Most people have to drive to Palm Beach County to get a good job.

  • @mattchannel7075
    @mattchannel7075 2 года назад +35

    This may be a cultural problem (I am from Europe), but I am honestly amazed by this interview and the comments here. Am I the only one who thinks that this black guy was a total clown? I thought it was all good until he pulled up this stick with an Egyptian symbol (Ankh, some kind of life symbol) and then started talking about weird nonsense, mixing up Christianity with Egyptian history? I thought this was some kind of joke or something. But the host kept a straight face, and even here in the comments everyone seems to be fine with this. Huh?
    I googled a bit, here is a quote from Wikipedia for the entry "Hotep": "Hoteps are a subculture of African Americans who use Ancient Egypt as a source of black pride.[1] The community is Afrocentrist and has been described by experts as promoting false history."
    Guys, you can´t be serious, it should be obvious for everyone even with a basic education that this is nonsense. This can´t be a good example of an "educated black man", that thinks he should write books and share his "wisdom" with the world. That´s a clown show. Or is this now some political correct thing, that nobody is allowed to say this and needs to pretend that this is some kind of deep black wisdom or something like that?

    • @charlottedrolet9000
      @charlottedrolet9000 2 года назад +5

      The whole video and channel is propaganda. Don't think or listen too hard.

    • @mattchannel7075
      @mattchannel7075 2 года назад +11

      @@charlottedrolet9000 Thanks for the comment, I also got a couple upvotes, so at least I know I am not alone. I mean I get it, the channel wants to raise awareness to the problem of wealth inequality in the US, which is a growing problem, nothing wrong with this mission. But in the end people need to contribute something useful to a modern society if they want to get paid good salaries. Promoting a guy who seems to live in a made up fantasy world does exactly nothing to help this mission, quite the opposite I think.

    • @jamesmichael20910
      @jamesmichael20910 2 года назад +7

      That guy is a quack.

    • @dennisclay9103
      @dennisclay9103 2 года назад +5

      I agree with you

    • @SongbirdBarrett
      @SongbirdBarrett 2 года назад +1

      I think the reason that no white person in the USA questions the philosophies of educated black men is because our ancestors caused their community so much trouble/pain/abuse through slavery and discrimination that we feel in some way responsible for what they’ve had to overcome. Also, when someone presents random information that you’re not familiar with/never heard of before, and they’re very verse in and convicted of, you flip into learning mode and you’re not prepared for a debate.

  • @joesalvator5878
    @joesalvator5878 2 года назад +9

    Wow, this guy does not think his community is responsible for any of their strife on any level. Wow... And that is the difference.

  • @janine9115
    @janine9115 2 года назад +23

    One thing I've noticed in your videos of poorer communities in the US is that most houses seem to have one or more newish looking cars out the front. In Australia poor communities tend to have much older, rundown cars on the streets. Not sure if cars are cheaper in America, it's just an observation.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  2 года назад +22

      Priorities

    • @RoodJood
      @RoodJood 2 года назад +5

      @@NickJohnson excess supply of autos being built every year resulting in huge secondary market of discounted vehicles

    • @SirHumano97
      @SirHumano97 2 года назад +16

      Definitely a lot of misplaced priorities, cars are expensive and a depreciating asset. In a lot of these communities people consider the car more important than the place they live because they can drive it and show it off and pretend to be something they're not. I work in some poor parts of town and is not uncommon to see high end cars parked outside the crappiest apartments, they also own the latest phones, gaming consoles, and all kinds of gadgets. The apartments are often dirty, not well furnished, mattresses on the floor, no sheets and little food in the fridge.

    • @TomBTerrific
      @TomBTerrific 2 года назад +5

      That’s something that’s quite common in the US. One would think poor people would be skinny but not in the US. We actually don’t have poor people in the US compared to say the Philippines. Our poor people have automobiles, air conditioners and ever refrigerators. Not so much in other poor countries.

    • @Mario-vg5ci
      @Mario-vg5ci 2 года назад +6

      No you nailed it. It’s a choice. Being poor does not excuse humans from being sloppy.

  • @janethill4365
    @janethill4365 2 года назад +14

    IMO there is tons of corruption in this area.

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад +1

      He ain't gonna talk about that!!! 💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @FALCO797
    @FALCO797 2 года назад +20

    Victim mind set. No wonder people can’t get out of poverty.

    • @bobbybooker2123
      @bobbybooker2123 2 года назад +5

      A lot of work went into forming that mindset. Most of them are still voting for the party that held them in captivity while calling the party that freed them the racists.

    • @adamkwiatkowski4107
      @adamkwiatkowski4107 2 года назад +3

      Life is easier this way. No responsibilities, no bills, government check, sun is shinning, no snow to freeze to.
      why would you want to change?

    • @GooseXIV
      @GooseXIV 2 года назад

      @@bobbybooker2123 you’re “special” . Democrats nor republicans owned the slave ships. Plantations/ships were manned and owned by Jews. Why is the first plantation and synagogue one in the same up in Rhode Island? Duarte Lopez ran the industry in the Caribbean. I wonder what ethnicity he was?

    • @charleshoang566
      @charleshoang566 2 года назад +3

      But there are not many good business here to smash and grab.😄😁🤣.

    • @chachar7458
      @chachar7458 2 года назад +1

      @@bobbybooker2123 No party held them in captivity you drama queen div.

  • @esteban1487
    @esteban1487 2 года назад +15

    Detroit by the Sea

  • @extremeforce07
    @extremeforce07 2 года назад +5

    Nice thank you I really enjoyed your video. I have been the fed ex delivery driver for those community's mentioned for over 15 years. My wife is from Cuba but has lived in belle glade since 1971 she graduated from glades central back in 78 and still works the same job she got after graduating from Florida state. We don't live in belle glade anymore we moved to loxahatchee. The people of those 4 communities belle glade, south bay, pahokee, canal point, are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. Now there are some people out there that are very dangerous and ot is for the most part do to poverty and desperation. Palm Beach county is growing very fast and it won't be long before these developers start looking into belle glade as a viable option to the needs for undeveloped lands. Hopefully the means jobs and a major clean up for some of the part of those communities could really use right about now..

  • @dat868
    @dat868 2 года назад +27

    Elimination of standardized testing is a terrible solution. This guy says that you can merely "pass" your tests in medical school and become a top doctor or surgeon. That's not how things work although I'm sure there are exceptions. Around my area all the top surgeons were also the top students at their medical school.

    • @brokenrecord3095
      @brokenrecord3095 2 года назад +2

      @@piehamcake1 Well if you want the surgeon to learn by doing, by all means let him figure things out operating on you. I'd rather have a surgeon who is well trained operate on me.

    • @queenriri9393
      @queenriri9393 2 года назад

      Alot of these men want everything handed to them. Yes, I am black and I'm saying it because I know first hand. Many are hard workers but the ones that talk like him are not.

  • @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017
    @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 2 года назад +11

    Oh no, another reparations grifter.

    • @ipenguin3918
      @ipenguin3918 2 года назад +1

      Nice very restrained comment. It shows respect for the channel.

  • @ipenguin3918
    @ipenguin3918 2 года назад +16

    Over the last decade many parts of the US never recovered from the last crash. There are stretches of each state, that rival 3rd World Nations.
    Wait to see what happens when we hit Depression 2.0!

    • @mattr3688
      @mattr3688 Год назад

      I grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley and it hasn't fully recovered

    • @ipenguin3918
      @ipenguin3918 Год назад +1

      @@mattr3688 I'm in Tucson, AZ. I'm not from here, and when I arrived here - well before the Flu Thing - I knew the area had not recovered from the Great Financial Crisis.
      America has been deteriorating for decades.

  • @michaelgnit8476
    @michaelgnit8476 2 года назад +22

    Fortunately Mother Nature will eventually reclaim this land and put it to far better use. I hope I'm around to hear the rich people crying.

    • @norafox4789
      @norafox4789 2 года назад +1

      Amen!!

    • @osopolar2022
      @osopolar2022 2 года назад

      Get in goose-step comrade! Communist!

    • @midcenturymodern9330
      @midcenturymodern9330 2 года назад +2

      Rich people use their brains, and they are well insured. Just look how quickly they rebuild after every major FL hurricane.

    • @midcenturymodern9330
      @midcenturymodern9330 2 года назад +1

      @@norafox4789 Spoken like a true religious person....

    • @michaelgnit8476
      @michaelgnit8476 2 года назад

      @@midcenturymodern9330 They control societies resources and their allocation. It's human nature sadly to hoard power and abuse their standing in American society. Every society that's on top devolves at some point into abuse and corruption without exception.

  • @Harold_Blackwell2
    @Harold_Blackwell2 2 года назад +6

    Interesting to learn about this part of Florida and also how Americans view symptoms as opposed to the full picture (especially the narrator/videographer) - the root cause. When you only look at results as opposed to the root cause you make assumptions then come to incorrect conclusions.

  • @menobles
    @menobles 2 года назад +8

    I have a friend from Pehokee and I'm always surprised by his stories of growing up. I remember telling my sister a story and she asked "did he grow up in the US."

  • @cheryljemmott463
    @cheryljemmott463 2 года назад +25

    I live here in Belle Glade, FL.
    There is pride in our home city.
    This area is the richest most wealthiest of Palm Beach County, FL

    • @MCthespeaker
      @MCthespeaker 2 года назад +5

      Sure is the land there is worth millions. Can grow anything in Belle Glade?

    • @floridaroadways
      @floridaroadways 2 года назад +1

      I love Belle glade. Richest Black American town in Florida

    • @norafox4789
      @norafox4789 2 года назад +3

      Rich in FAITH

    • @floridaroadways
      @floridaroadways 2 года назад +2

      In Belle glade I see 2021-2022 chargers,challengers,Escalades

    • @ericvulgate
      @ericvulgate 2 года назад +1

      How much 'faith' does food cost?

  • @jamesunderwood9100
    @jamesunderwood9100 2 года назад +29

    Laroche is wrong, more funding is sent into the glades for education, poverty improvement,an entire health care district with a brand new hospital has been setup exclusively for the glades, along with countless other programs!!! It all boils down to personal responsibility!!!! No one ever became a nfl star in the glades without personally taking responsibility and putting in the time and hard work!!!

    • @ConcernedONETOO
      @ConcernedONETOO 2 года назад +7

      Yep, I just said the same thing. This guy pushes victimhood, which is all about handouts. Nothing will change with the gimme mentality.

    • @MiroBG359
      @MiroBG359 2 года назад

      @@ossoduro7794 +1 American blacks are so insecure and love their faux history

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад

      Yay. A new hospital. 😐 Ain't that normal? What about everything else?

  • @lorimchair2190
    @lorimchair2190 2 года назад +9

    Great video👏ty! And too bad the monies from the east are not distributed to the communities in the west. And as we all know by now- “We have the best politicians money can buy”😡 The politicians support the politicians the Senate supports the Senate.

    • @ericvulgate
      @ericvulgate 2 года назад +1

      Some things have to be fixed from within.

    • @lorimchair2190
      @lorimchair2190 2 года назад

      @@ericvulgate your right on that!

    • @taylor7326
      @taylor7326 2 года назад

      @@ericvulgate Yeah, the politicians "within" these towns should be hung high for stealing from the poor.

  • @crodrig411
    @crodrig411 2 года назад +2

    Poverty ain’t the issues,it’s how to keep your area clean,Keep crime Down,Educated our Children to do the right things,go to schools don’t relied on Welfare,Democratic Congress love to see us on their mercy just for votes,raise up my people we can do better 🇵🇷🇵🇷✊🏽✊🏽✊🏿✊🏿

  • @CORETTA07
    @CORETTA07 2 года назад +2

    Belle Glade is my home, can't ever forget where I came from‼️💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @Bloods2006
    @Bloods2006 2 года назад +12

    I once drove down to Fort Lauderdale only to have to go to Naples on the opposite coast. I have driven through Belle Glade. It’s really weird that you said ‘a lot of people standing around’. That is very accurate from my memory too. I remember there was a ‘car show’ in what looked like an abandoned Kmart parking lot. Also I had no idea about the muck. When I was driving through it I thought maybe they were growing sugar cane and it made the soil look like mud. Interesting video!

  • @lukkymee2000
    @lukkymee2000 2 года назад +3

    Barack Obama Rd 😂😂
    And they all vote democratic. How’s that working for ya out there? But keep on doing what you’re doing and you’ll keep on getting what you’re getting.

  • @dixiegordon9162
    @dixiegordon9162 Год назад +4

    I lived in Belle Glade (Prewitt Village) until... around 1990. I love my hometown, and I miss it. I try to go home as often as I can. So yeah, it hurts me seeing the city that I love deteriorate as it has. Still, regardless of what you see, or how Belle Glade is shown on the internet, in real life, Belle Glade is a wonderful little city, whose residents are proud and hard working. Plus there are so many beautiful places in Belle Glade, that are never shown...but trust me, it's there.
    I remember, as a child, there was no place like Belle Glade; the clubs, the football games, the people, the hanging out hot spots, the bass cars, the culture, and definitely, the big booty girls. I had so much fun growing up there, and I will never abandon those memories.
    I even remember, some schools and some parents, from other cities, not wanting there students, or children coming to Belle Glade for football/basketball games, because they were afraid that their students, or children would contract Aids.
    I went to Glade Central, till the principal suspended me in the 9th grade, so I said, forget it, and I went to School of Choice in Pahokee for the rest of the time. (Rest in peace, Mr. Russell) So I've seen both cities deteriorate to where they are today...and it saddens me, but in my mind, Belle Glade, will always be my hometown ...and Pahokee will always be my second home. But, you know what......I suppose, with all the struggles of these two wonderful cities,this is the reason why, most of residents there, are such wonderful, loving, caring, and hard working people.
    The truth is, not everyone in the world, who goes there, will make it in Belle Glade. But the facts are, anyone from Belle Glade, can go anywhere in the world, and make it.... we're build that way.
    Love you, Belle Glade...Muck City forever.

    • @cheryljemmott463
      @cheryljemmott463 Год назад +1

      MUCK CITY FOREVER BABY!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @cheryljemmott463
      @cheryljemmott463 Год назад

      Some of the most hard working ppl in the world! So what you see is by DESIGN!
      WHY OUR COMMUNITIES DONT HAVE THE AMENITIES OF OTHER SURROUNDING AREAS?
      OUR DOLLARS SUPPORTS OTHER COMMUNITIES WITH SHOPS..AND GROCERY STORES!

  • @wlee6685
    @wlee6685 2 года назад +9

    Lived in South Florida for a while so I have definitely heard of the extreme poverty in places like Belle Glades 'especially at the height of the AIDS epidemic". Places like Liberty City however are right in the heart of luxury yachts and million dollar cars Miami is just as bad and you can just catch a bus across town from one place to the other. The solution IMO is not just to raise the wage to around $15 hour but also include some sort of commission to harder working employees that really want to make it so they can do so. If a company was to go in and start paying higher wages then all of those slum landlords would just start charging higher rent prices but still do nothing to improve living conditions. That's kinda of what's going on in all of South Florida right now as landlords are running up rent prices so that people with halfway decent jobs are still struggling to make ends meet and thus either moving out of the area or to lower priced "and possibly lower standards" apartments.

    • @joangarciaguerra8780
      @joangarciaguerra8780 2 года назад

      i think you have the wrong idea regarding wage in florida, and overall the US. though i get your point, it's important to know that the minimum wage in all the US has not changed significantly while other factors such as inflation keep driving prices up in almost every way. Right now, you can find jobs such as mcdonalds, not willing to pay their workers any more than 12 dollars an hour even though inflation and other factors keep driving prices up (such as the exploding market prices and people airbnb-ing). if you're worried about pay driving rent prices up then perhaps the easiest solution is to simply introduce rent control as one is paying for a roof over their head, yet obtaining no sort of ownership from it while simultaneously driving prices considerably higher.

  • @blaqOne
    @blaqOne 2 года назад +5

    So Belle Glade has Star Football Athletes but non of them give back to the Community that really makes no Sense what so Ever. This is a Damn Shame

  • @crazycolombian305
    @crazycolombian305 2 года назад +9

    It's poor but that doesn't mean it's dangerous. I'd rather kick it with people over there then in some snobby restaurant in Palm Beach. ✌🏼

  • @cheryljemmott463
    @cheryljemmott463 2 года назад +30

    You wouldn't know it by the way the city looks, poverty, dilapidated buildings and structures. At this point this is by design.
    The Glades and the Glades area as we are referred as... is mostly agriculture... "THE WINTER VEGETABLES CAPITAL OF THE WORLD ".

    • @Angryoldman50
      @Angryoldman50 2 года назад +4

      I suggest they put that on a billboard somewhere or paint it on the side of buildings and use that as a source of something to be proud of . There should be farmers markets and retail shops. People should come together over those ideas and that way of life and be proud of their accomplishments as a whole in feeding themselves and others in humanity.

    • @danielcarter5579
      @danielcarter5579 2 года назад +3

      @@Angryoldman50 no one wants to work for a better world because everyone thinks someone else should fix their issues, so itll stay the same while those same people stay complaining that the area won't change

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад

      @@Angryoldman50 The city knocks down ideas and doesn't approve of a lot...and their pockets get bigger.

    • @sharkzgaming983
      @sharkzgaming983 2 года назад +1

      the narrator said they USED to be known as the winter vegetable capital of the world. But mechanization changed the agriculture industry and threw many farm laborers out of work.

    • @sharkzgaming983
      @sharkzgaming983 2 года назад +1

      @@danielcarter5579 You have a pretty limited understanding of structural oppression and intergenerational poverty.

  • @stevepope6095
    @stevepope6095 2 года назад +8

    The author of the book said , "Black men are being hunted down by police " .The writer also is showing why there are so many poor people in that area , he failed to address the real issue , voting Democrat leads to your own demise and he is stuck in 1953 . When a person blames everything on race , he / she , can not get anywhere at all , so you can see nothing will change in this area until the area votes other than Democrat. The writer is obsessed with color and false eye issues and healthcare , he is stuck on race , wow.

    • @photodumper
      @photodumper 2 года назад +1

      Exactly! A democrat vote is a vote for corruption and destruction. How low do people have to let it go before they see?

    • @stevepope6095
      @stevepope6095 2 года назад +1

      @@photodumper very very low and they still vote Democrat. It amazes me how the ancestors of the people enslaved by Democrats , vote Democrat , and how the rules never changed in the Democrat playbook.

  • @cowboyofscience7611
    @cowboyofscience7611 2 года назад +6

    This looks like the rough section of town in every city in Florida! Even in Palm beach there are some run down sections if you look hard enough. Don't even get me started about Miami (as opposed to Miami Beach!)

    • @rattatouilletherat
      @rattatouilletherat 2 года назад +3

      Riviera Beach, Northwest WPB, Mangonia Park, and an entire stretch of neighborhoods along the I-95 from West Palm Beach to Delray are all the really nasty parts of the county. When you move out west into the newer suburbs, you’ll find pockets of trouble in apartment complexes, trailer parks, and some more dilapidated single family communities, though they are few and far between. Mostly drugs, petty theft, fights, and relatively minor crimes in the western suburbs. Slowly though, as money begins flowing into the intercoastal towns and things are improving.

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 2 года назад

      👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I'm glad u noticed. He focuses on mainly the most run down areas

  • @sonistowe1448
    @sonistowe1448 Год назад +3

    i dont know what white famlies hes talking about but where im from..they dont make 100.000 a year hre...lol

  • @Private_Investigator
    @Private_Investigator 2 года назад +8

    I will happily judge his book by its cover.
    He's never seen a paper white, white person but seconds later describes himself as pretty light skinned black.

  • @lorelailaval7676
    @lorelailaval7676 2 года назад +7

    This reflects the state of the country as a whole. We have the haves and have nots. Happy Friday Johnson;)

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  2 года назад +1

      We're blessed if we're a have.

    • @lorelailaval7676
      @lorelailaval7676 2 года назад

      @@NickJohnson So why are you spending so much time in DeSantisland? Tell your fans!

  • @jamesp2408
    @jamesp2408 2 года назад +4

    Lol go to riviera beach, worse than there

  • @jenniferdonth8759
    @jenniferdonth8759 2 года назад +2

    Lake Okeechobee is about two hours away from palm beach. It’s two different cities I don’t understand why it’s being compared against each other. Palm beach is an area, and then theirs west palm beach that is the city next to palm beach. And like any where else Wpb (west palm beach) has nice areas similar to houses like palm beach and then regular houses like your single family homes and their are small areas like everywhere that are like the houses your showing in your video. I have lived in west palm beach my whole life and the areas u are comparing are hours away whole different county. So I’m not sure why this video sounds Like your putting all of Florida in this small bubble all in your video oh except for palm beach. Now Florida houses are in Florida so we don’t have basements and a lot of the older houses that Were built are still standing. We get a lot of older ppl that live here part time or retire so we have older houses still. I feel this video is talking about one area, yet showing another area. In every state u have different area some poor, middle and then the rich. Florida is no different. Then there are swamp land like you are mentioning where the gators live. And yes we have whites and blacks that live here and maybe one day it won’t need to be mentioned “a persons color. “ if we all learn to stop addressing ppl by a color, maybe ppl can learn to stop seeing a person as a color. Then we can stop having conversations about “ this happened to this person because of color or that person did what and because they are this color.
    And then we can stop making things like how to succeed being black, how about success for the young male. As long as ppl keep talking about the white man or the black man it just keeps separating the two.

    • @caridadrevilla2439
      @caridadrevilla2439 Год назад

      WPB resident here. I agree on comparing PB Island to Pahokee & Belle Glade. Not sure why he didn't compare middle class or working class communities.

  • @joesalvator5878
    @joesalvator5878 2 года назад +4

    Well they are democrats...

  • @austinevans8131
    @austinevans8131 2 года назад +4

    It starts with ur parents how u are brought up get rid of the guns and drugs then u solve most of ur problems. U have to work and manage ur income right respect everyone and keep ur community clean and respectful every parent has to do this Drugs are destroying everything along with guns.

    • @joedelo5876
      @joedelo5876 2 года назад

      Right it starts with your parents and grandparents parents but what if they where slaves 🤔

  • @desmomotodesmomoto2033
    @desmomotodesmomoto2033 2 года назад +6

    People start with eating sugar, then become pleasurer chasers, then drugs and alcohol, now, porn too.
    Lots of poverty has to do with diet. Bad diet does not help you think. People should eat meat and some fruits, then they won't be so easily manipulated..... I know you think I am crazy.

  • @BigBossMan2000
    @BigBossMan2000 2 года назад +5

    Visit LA, Chicago or New York.
    You will never go back.

    • @ipenguin3918
      @ipenguin3918 2 года назад +3

      Or, Philly. My cousin lives downtown. I'll never visit again.

    • @ericvulgate
      @ericvulgate 2 года назад

      I lived on Chicagos west side for ten years.
      Moved to rural Arizona two miles from the nearest neighbor.

    • @BigBossMan2000
      @BigBossMan2000 2 года назад

      @@ericvulgate
      It must be a relief now.

  • @timtillich8635
    @timtillich8635 2 года назад +3

    He says get rid of the labels black or white yet look at the label on his own book

  • @MrDiwani100
    @MrDiwani100 2 года назад +3

    Indeed mind-blowing poverty. These are the things Gov. Desantis should focus on. Punishing companies for criticizing his policies or marking cars outside Florida do not add any value to Americans, and neither Floridians.

  • @benyeter1875
    @benyeter1875 2 года назад +7

    I asked for an unboxing Florida video years ago and you replied back NO. This tour of Florida is more then enough appreciate you my man ✊

  • @cheryljemmott463
    @cheryljemmott463 2 года назад +6

    This area produces most of the world's winter crops than any other place in the world 🌎 during winter months.

    • @francismarion6400
      @francismarion6400 2 года назад +2

      Not for long the Democrats are making it too expensive to farm anymore. Farmers in Homestead are already letting their fields go.

    • @George-hd7tl
      @George-hd7tl 2 года назад +1

      Your not serious

    • @cheryljemmott463
      @cheryljemmott463 2 года назад

      Home 🏡 sweet 😋 💕 home 🏡.
      Currently developing my home i'm retirement to. And building 4 rentals at I type.

  • @robertcampbell9992
    @robertcampbell9992 2 года назад +3

    Broken homes, major issue in black community.

  • @Lansdowne11
    @Lansdowne11 2 года назад +10

    The mark of success in an area like this is escaping. It would be interesting to see how many people are born in these towns and manage to get out. It's unlikely a successful person would hang around.

    • @floweuphoria69420
      @floweuphoria69420 2 года назад +1

      I’ve never in my life been to a place where as soon as I entered the borders I knew there was undue suffering that had been going on since they broke the land for the farms. I thought something was off when I started seeing these random houses in the woods and as I got closer to little pockets of communities that had gas stations a dollar general ET see the vibe was more malevolent than anywhere I’ve been before and I’ve been in some trenches. Imagine living there in a housing project or in a trailer that is so fucked up most people wouldn’t keep their dogs there and then trying to conform to what we view as normal society in regards to hygiene behavior language. Also don’t forget the Okeechobee has 25x times more violent crime than the national average

    • @bettygreen1995
      @bettygreen1995 2 года назад +1

      I was born and raised in Belle Glade and my husband is from Jamaica, we choose to get out of Belle Glade and moved to Royal Palm to give our kids a better life. It takes hard work and putting priorities and sacrificing in order.

    • @austinharris2916
      @austinharris2916 Год назад

      @@floweuphoria69420 wow I can tell and glad you were raised in the suburbs because dam it wasn’t that bad 😂😂😂

    • @floweuphoria69420
      @floweuphoria69420 Год назад

      @@austinharris2916 lol dumbfuck you’ve never been to belle glade or any of the surrounding areas. Call Muck city There was a time when they were more aids in the parameters of Lake Okeechobee than anywhere else in the nation also they estimate 50% of males between the ages of 18 and 24 are convicted felons