We live in Chicago and my granny told me stories of white people jumping off buildings because they were poor. She was like we just kept on living 🤷🏾♀️
The "white people jumping out of buildings" were stockbrokers, financiers, the very wealthy, whose lives & values were all about their riches, not family, not religion, nothing else.
Not much has changed, my grandparents told us stories about the Great Depression. But they had a small homestead/farm and picked up seasonal jobs when available. They never trusted banks and kept their few dollars hidden somewhere in the barn. The family worked together and that’s the only reason they made it without losing their land. I was blessed to be raised by them, they taught me a lot.
and who runs federal banks? it isnt whitey from the north, and whitey from the south was just as poor as anyone else black or white. so who runs the banks? who owned the ships? It wasnt whitey...hes just the useful idiot.
We still live three generations to a household. That’s how you get your weight up. Children don’t leave until they marry or are able to. No forcing. We all take care of one another.
That's how my parents and gramdmothers raised me i:m doing the same with my son & daughter they are in their early 30's and i'm not forcing them to move they move when ready
Black Folks have been catching extreme hard times through out history all over the world. But we always prevail through the many major struggles in our way. The Ancestors was a strong💪🏾 group of people.💯
During the depression, Blacks in Chicago, begin the "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign." This movement RAPIDLY SPREADED throughout the country. Blacks stopped shopping at stores that did not hire them and it was successful. The people that began this were former Garveyites. There is not a lot of information on this subject, just like there is not a lot of information on the "Deacons for Self Defense."
Very few of US have actually heard of or even worse, have any working knowledge of the "Deacons Of Defense." To get a small symbolic sense of the scenario, a film was actually made about these Brothers. Forest Whitaker is one of the main characters. I strongly suggest that if you haven't watched this, too check it out. "Deacons Of Defense" is the actual title of the film. 🧐💪🏾🙏🏽
My father was 15 when the Great Depression hit. In the 1980s I asked him about it. "We barely noticed it. We hunted and grew food so we were fine." This was in the rural midwest. My mother grew uo in DC and her parents worked for white folks so there was always work. I think the impact of the GD hit blacks less harshly than a lot of whites b/c when you're already at the economic bottom, you already have some survival skills. This was the point of view of my late parents who had me late in life. I think this video grossly over inflated the immediate political impact and help to average black folks during the Great Depression, but of course one's geography at the time. For the most part, people then were on their own to survive, like we will be when the upcoming Great Depression II hits us much harder in this decade. Few of us can hunt, fish, grow veggies or have chickens, or know how to can our food or have a wood burning stove.
I have always believed that black americans can and have survived things like the great depression. Blacks were always behind the eight ball, because of this, blacks were forced to adapt, be creative or die and it worked.
I was fortunate to have my great-grandmother until I was 11. She told me about surviving the GD in MS when we covered the subject in 4th grade history. My family hunted, canned the food they grew on their lil plot of land, and had some livestock. Their relatives also lived in the same area, so they had the ability to trade goods within their family. They also bartered. She said nothing much was different besides seeing the white people having to get used to being poor. Her father took advantage of the situation and he and his brothers bought the plantation their parents were enslaved on and the older 3 were born on as slaves. So the family all moved there and began having the white people sharecropping for them. It's still in the family near Winona, MS. One of my great-great-uncle's son's bought all the other families out and its passed down in his family. We have reunions there every 5-6 yrs so everyone remembers what that land means to us throughout the generations.
@@omgbuffy2276 I think we are. We have always been the house everyone came to hang out. My grandma was the start of it. My mom took over when I was growing up and now my house is the spot! I'm always hosting people. It's just more fun and makes it feel like home. I cook enough for 10 people every meal but I only have 4 people including myself who live here. But there's always extra feet under my table (my grandma's words 😊😊😊) and if I can't do anything else I can feed you!
Yes I Clicked On This As Soon As I Seen The Title I've Never Heard How We Survived Depression & I Always Wondered That Racism Was Horrible For My Ancestors It's Always AMAZING How We Find Ways To Rebuild 💪💪💪
He is the only one..I never gotten a historical narrative of how black Americans dealt with the Great Depression..other historical narratives focused on white people, particularly immigrants!! I wondered how Black Wall Street would've maintained during the Great Depression if it wasn't destroyed 8 years prior to the start of the GD.
I had a 93 year old neighbor lady who I always went to visit and we talked for hours she once told me that her family survived the depression because they grew their food sharecropping and farm animals such as chickens, pigs , etc,
My grandparents had an apple orchard. They were already self sufficient during the depression so it was nothing new to them. Natural homesteading. They didn't take on debt. They served many meals to those hungry. My mother ate apple everything growing up; apple pies, apples raw, apple bread, apple sauce. We had a barrel of apples to eat as a snack during the winter. She made the best apple pies, but she didn't really eat apples as an adult. Unless, she made a pie. She said she had her share as a kid. My grandmother made the best cider and grape juice. Plant fruit trees, share/barter with your neighbors. Don't get loans, be in debt to no one. Pay off your debt to have freedom. How people survived the depression.
You always saw pics of long soup line of Caucasian people only as though no one else mattered or disappeared quietly. I always wondered how Blacks survived the Great Depression.
Tonji Rucker: it was very bad for those who lost their servial skills (farming to feed the family ) thereby found themselves wanting and waiting for help from the devil. 1960 my Sunday school teacher said " during the Great Depression my daddy smoke-house was always full and we had 2 milk cows". This means this family farmed and was blessed by GOD too feed themselves, thereby never missed a meal, while others made history by standing in the devil's soup line. The devil paid white farmers not to grow food, never-the-less my grandmother ( though divorced 2 times ) built her house plus one for my father's and his brother. She could not read or write, but mastered the servial skill of cooking, baking, farming in her back yard, while doing domestic work for others. She managed them pennies very good. The same devil that caused the 1st GREAT DEPRESSION is about to cause the 2nd GREAT DEPRESSION, and MOST have no or lost their servial skills, thereby wanting and waiting for the devil to bail them out. 🙏🙏🙏🙏. John 3: 16 is our only HOPE.
This needs to be shown on Netflix and played in high school for young blacks. Each one teach one. The struggle was real back then. Hell, what African American or person of color believe that if it (depression) occurs again in this USA that they would be exempt from racism and job discrimination. You’ll get that N wake up call 4-sure. Make no mistake about it, they will take care of their own first in each state. If you want to know future study the past.
Black history IS American history & should be emphasized year round, not just 1 month. Likewise the battle for civil rights didn't begin in 1950s, it revived there. That fight began before there even was a USA. How ironic that civil rights laws were passed in 1960s to finally enforce laws that had been in place on the books since the reconstruction era! Many blacks disgruntled with Republican "establishment" patronizing & indifference, ACTUALLY voted for Woodrow Wilson, a known segregationist & southern white supremacist! An alleged "progressive" democrat who vowed the concerns & interests of America's negroes would be a "top drawer" priority in his administration (he lied!) Also, progressive Republican & former prez Teddy Roosevelt ran as a 3rd party candidate against incumbent Howard Taft, splitting the republican vote. Once in office Wilson & his cronies did all they could to "roll back" what civil rights gains had been achieved since reconstruction.
it has been a nightmare for most Black peoples. I am not fooled by these new rich blacks that have made it in sports and entertainment. Look what they had to go through before we could play sports.
No this don’t speak of Today it teaches you about how we over came a term but we as us, have evolved into the same people that once did this to us, look at us we all in the big corporations checking each other also causing friction among workers yes us I see it to much, Today that is our stumbling block acting like we can fire the person, better than the Boss, and send these people postal see this is what’s happening not some Jim Crow video this is played a lot on other channels and if anyone is going to talk about history have the time and dates together because those that claim they understand really don’t the Title is not correct and yes we made it through some harsh moments but it so many blacks putting us back in this position for a few crumbs … kudos to you new bloggers and vloggers but please keep it together when sharing sensitive information and there Is A Man On The Scene Teaching He’s Known As Thee Minister In Chicago… y’all can stop that ain’t nobody here for Me, it ain’t nobody else talking like this Man at all you can say who and I’ll tell you if they can Match this Man word for Word …
I just left the USA at 79 for Mexico. I always have 6 months preps, and I help non beggars. I moved to Queretaro in 2021 at 79, for it is safer, less expensive, and clean. The weather is cool. I was born in Chicago in 1942, and have been visiting Mexico, since age 20. The dollar has fell here, but my expenses are less, than the USA and I am safer.
👏👏👏Thank you for this information. I never would have known that this part of Mexico exists. The only information that is made known about Mexico is the information that involves severe poverty, the drug cartel, and the need for the people to go elsewhere for their mere survival - which is by design.
@@donnameansyoucancallmelala1800 Its real. When I was stationed in Texas, our first sergeant warned us NOT to go to Mexico, and if we did, they wasn't coming to get us. That said, Mexico is well developed and has a highly skilled work force, but their organized crime is organized.
When you say the dollar has fell, does it mean that most establishments or people aren’t accepting dollars? And see that’s what I’m wondering, I’m wondering is it better off to live in the Caribbean or Central America while the dollar no longer holds power
The Great depression didn't effect the black man that much because black people were going through a depression when they started the reconstruction.. Not only did the federal government gave back land the Freedmens aquired from the Union, The federal government, after President Lincoln allowed European Americans to do anything they please with the Freedmens. As a matter of fact this is part of the major reason why the southern ex slaves migrated to the North. In the northern states, it was no better. For the Europeans in the northern states didn't wanted the black people in the south living anywhere among them.. Instead of the national government issuing land to the free black people who were liberated from bondage, they were overlooked and land was giving to the immigrants. But black people had to endure the a position of having no economic background,no shelter over their heads and watch their social status with the Europeans. I was reading the book of Malcolm X were he said that him and his family had to eat dangilions in order to stay alive. So imagine other African Americans situations all around the United States. What this man is talking about is probably what those who were more fortunate then the majority of black people living on this land. But I gaurentee that the majority of our people suffered tremendously regarding the so called great depression. Because they had from the beginning were oppressed, depraved and deprived of everything that mankind could have. Especially their human rights. The African Americans in those days treated worse then a cockroach being spotted in the home of an owner who happens to live in the house and being stepped on just because the owner sees it. This is the ordeal black people had suffered before and after the depression. As a matter of fact these atrocities are still happening till this day.
They're lying to you. Happy and prosperous people have fun. Apparently that's the brown skinned natives. The European colonizers were struggling and miserable. Misery loves company and they sure came to visit.
Despite being from Lowcountry South Carolina St George South Carolina Texas community according to him by Jim Croce despite the Great Depression and all of that they really didn't have much issue my great-grandfather was respected and feared even whites knew not to mess with him or his kids . He said he never grew up feeling inferior to whites, nor did he fear them . Even though he is quite Darkskinned ( and very handsome ) He never had any issues outside of his siblings calling him Ug ( short for ugly because he was the darkest of the boys). Anyway, he said segregation jimcrow, all that didn't really affect them like many others. He said and I quote " MY daddy told us AINT NO WHITE PERSON BETTER THEN YOU NOR ARE YOU BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE . YOU RESPECT YOURSELF THEY WILL AND HAVE TO RESPECT YOU" Two things they can't take away your mind and your self respect. With that being said 3 uncles went to ww2 ( all came back) and when my Grandfather was old enough to enlist during the Korean War he did but got dishonorable discharge for knocking out a white officer who called him a Nigger lol ( WE ARE SO PROUD OF THAT STORY) .
America is the mystery Babylon of Revelation chapter 17 and 18. Seek God to show you. Also, Jeremiah 50 and 51. Seek the Lord personally for guidance on how to survive. Ultimately, spiritual preparation is above all.
O sheesh and God busy with creating all those ppl for nothing? God must been weirding out creating all those ppl who arent his ppl 😂 faaa yuuu and what u stand for.
This is a wonderful channel! I subscribed! My grandfather was born in the early 1900 and my great grandfather in the late 1800s. I met BOTH of them. My grandfather told me there were things "he couldn't tell me about!" They were so horrific.😮💨 However, by the Lord's will and incredible hard work he and my grandmother made it. I'm glad we're STILL here. We have a alot of work to do! ✊🏿👋🏽👨🏽⚕️
I shared this Excellent Documentary on my Facebook page as REAL HISTORY. Watching your well put together documentation of our people struggles had me thanking my ancestors for their sacrifices which has afforded me a life. With lynchings being an American Caucasian sport, a lot of generations were cut off during those dark years.
I remember asking my dad before he died in his 80's. How did you feel when you saw signs that said white's only? He said it didn't bother him because he never wanted to be bothered with them anyway. By the 70's when I was born, they had a new plan in mind.
If things weren't hard enough!!!,never ceases too anger and frustrate me ,how one strain of the human race can further punish,push down and further impoverish another.😡😞 Thank you for you're indepth presentation ,stay safe🙏
Oh I understand, this is one of the reason why I wanted to do this video, because I felt like African Americans had been poorly represent during the Great Depression. Thank you so much for your support!!
As the last of the baby boomers... I listen to this in it's entirety... Great job! Now after listening, I can now attempt to do some serious shadow work in order to view, understand, recognize, generational perspectives used either in order to strengthen our families during such challenging times and/or to survive those times... I can also better survey where and how our choices then, while not perfect has shaped some families to strive depending on the action (politically, hopelessness, determined, hustlers, and so on) molded the minds of the family during that challenging age of depression... At the end of the day... We were indoctrinated into a capitalist society without realizing it. We are a community people, but strived so hard to be something we are not... Which is to be included into a system which goes against who and what we are as a being... We were on the right track when we began bartering, pulling together, and working collectively.... We do not fit in that capitalist system (disguised as a Democracy), and until we truly remember this, we will continue to have issues... We are like appointed leaders of the world with a bad case amnesia as the world seems to be spiraling out of control (we are trained to operate and be at the controls of), we forgot we have all the answers within to get crap back right... They took over feeling that they could do better, and the Source Creator allowed it, because well... To get things right again will be one heck of a learning experience for us as a Soul people... The biggest hang nail I see repeatedly, us continuing to want into their broken system... Words like jobs, equal, money, government, and others is the total opposite of community self sufficiency, selfworth, Family business.... I can now use this to do family shadow work, to make adjustments by changing or releasing old perspectives, for those with a better fit... Release the old way of living in lack (like money is not evil, or being compassionate to others doesn't mean I have to be or live as a marter... But lead by example when crap gets difficult... We, we simply turn within to that inner self which houses all the answers... We turn to that inner self when we only choose to fit into their system, but hardly ever to get back that what we require to remember all that we never forgotten... Music for money, but not for centering or enlightenment... Sex for momentary gratification, instead of fostering our innate ability to love.... Anyway... Thank you... This will help me in so many ways to do some generational house cleaning and to identity and remove this inherited crown of mental enslavement passed down to me and mine...
My great grandmother and her family and neighbors didn't see a difference during the depression because they lived where they had their own animals and were able to eat their own grown food. Also, people need to be weary of the same things in politics now. The democratic and the republican parties are still the same. Neither one have done much to help Black/melanated people. People say leave the Democrat Plantation just to go to another (republican) plantation because they think "massa e-a betta o'er dare." We need to leave both parties alone and do something better.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 And in 60+ years how many of those years were Republican Presidents in office? How many of those years have the congress been Republican led? It doesn't matter the party, none of them are going to do anything in our favor. We can't trust the government. We must do it for ourselves and stop depending on massa.
YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD READING VOICE. THANK YOU FOR THIS INFORMATION. I HAD BEEN WONDERING WHY THE GREAT DEPRESSION ONLY SHOWED PHOTOS OF CAUCASIAN MALES.
Excellent research and commentary about this period in American history! Please produce more relevant content regarding the Black experience in America!
@@countryboi all the way from Paris FRANCE your channel gives me so much insight about the black american experience. I love it. Keep up the good black work !!!!
I’m glad he shared this info. If we pay attention we CANNOT fall victim again! It’s coming up on 100 years since this incident and all I can say is when this system collapses we gotta get together it’s a hard one to say that but the ones who are like minded are the chosen we shall save the world. The monetary system must fall one day it’s unfair and biased for Men. And no a chip won’t help man has to get back to the old ways and get it out the mud for their families meaning cropping and growing the original farming, making our own clothes without selling them to people hell make them for free!! The money system is a joke and sorry for ranting but just saying man it’s time to wake up all this was set against us
I'm so thankful that I know how to can food including meat and potatoes. My grandparents had a meat locker, my grandmother fried chicken all today on Sunday, we picked what was rip and ready to eat out of the garden, we made our own clothes and soap. We had a tv but never cable.
My Dad said there was no job applications . They looked at you to see if you was healthy. Also he said the highest grade level was the 8th grade. My dad said he had to find signs that read for Colors only.
Our folk didn’t even know there was a Great Depression…we lived deep in the country and grew our own food..we hadn’t a clue what YT folk were going thru
In some sectors of black RUclips...there are those saying that this time in our history things were great and blacks were doing better than ever before. Of course, those who knew history better knew that was crazy but there are those who believe this. Excellent job in elucidating this history and breaking it down the way it needed to be.
We were better off because we had each other's back and blakkk peepl were on code and proud!!! Everybody was married and taking care of the family and the community nobody was following cardi B no1 was following Megan the stallion and all this LGBT homosexual foolishness in the blakkk community wasn't a issue because we knew better and now common sense and logical thinking and love is a foreign concept u must not understand our plight 💯
When I was in the 4th grade in the 80’s, we had to do a project on the Depression. We were to ask our grandparents about their lives during the Depression. My (Wf) teacher was disappointed by my grandfather’s response: He did very well, so well-in fact-that he bought his first Ford. He made parts for AMF all his life, since leaving the Navy. His family was part of the Blk upper middle class until he became ill and had to work less.
Thank you for making this video. Black history is usually only briefly mentioned, if at all. Your voice tone and enthusiasm also makes it a really interesting video.
There exists alternate stories that show great resourcefulness and resiliency during the depression. My ancestors ate well and did not suffer any losses during this time. Because they were agricultural land owners who did not live in the city complexes that were newly emerging. There are millions of stories of southern negros who didnt even know a thing about the sufferings of economic loss because money was such a small part of their survival. Just check the tax records throughout the southern states.
They've been lying to us since the beginning about most everything and that won't change. They even have the nerve to put in text books that slavery didn't even exist. SMH
I’m from chicago and my grandad always told this story of when he and his uncle (which they were similar in age) came here from Mississippi during the Great Depression at the age of 14, and got a job cleaning bird poop off the top of buildings in the downtown area. They lived in the outhouse of this white family and they had a daughter around the age of 25 “a businesswomen” and when the Depression hit she started prostituting herself to black guys, because in some cases Black Men were they only people still working odd jobs and making money..
👍👍👍👍 AMEN. The same devil that implemented the 1st GREAT DEPRESSION is implementing the 2nd in 2023, and it is global, and he is not going to discriminate.
My grandparents said Black people stuck together and shared with their neighbors. They seemed to feel Blacks fared better than whites at least in the North. Statistics actually support that.
All of this great information that's not shared on national/international broadcasting, nor cared about especially, for Black History Month. Shame on the 🇺🇸
There’s a very good book titled “ The Forgotten Man” it’s a book made of hundreds of letters sent to President FDR from people asking for help, one chapter is letters from ADOS members. It’s a great book, B1 ✊🏾
Ralph Bunche is pronounced Bunch. The e is silent. Keep up the excellent work. Roosevelt didn't give a damn about minorities. It was Eleanor that pushed him to assist in those areas.
I Agree. A lot of black people, including myself, don't identify as African American because we aren't immigrants. My American lineage goes back to the 1800s.
My grandparents were depression era kids. Grandpa grew up in NJ, he said it was tough and had hungry days, but he said those who lost everything had a tougher time than those who didn't have anything to lose, they were used to the struggle already... granny grew up on farm in Virginia she said was too young to know the difference between good/bad times. But she said definitely remembers many people coming to the farm and working for a few days in exchange for food, or wood supplies...
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My grandfather would’ve been 16 at that start of it. I pulled up his census entry after returning from WWII and saw that he paid $8 a month in rent so I can imagine what type of hell he observed during the Great Depression. Especially being that his mother died at the age of 20 in Red Summer.
I never heard my Grandparents or any other Black ppl who were alive during the Great Depression ever even talk about it. Nothing changed for Black ppl during the Great Depression, because Black ppl were only one step out of slavery. Black ppl were poor before the Great Depression and they were poor afterwards.
If this should happen in the 21 cent what would it look like when the level of dependency on state purse is much larger? Can you please provide information on how we could survive a crisis of that magnitude. History is a reference point to make decisions for the future otherwise a weapon of distraction destruction.
Great question. Since ppl can’t even handle a slight inconvenience (speaking for myself too in some instances) I think there will be a lot more suicides, theft and murder. Or with the tech and info we have, it won’t be as bad. The thing they had that we don’t really any more is community and think that will be what makes it even worst for ppl
Thank you for shedding light on African American history during the Great Depression. This is very important especially in these times when there are a lot of attempts to deny people from acquiring knowledge about the African American history in the US, which to me is a concerning sign of authoritarianism - something that is characteristic of policies of populist right wing parties globally. The word "socialism" has had bad reputation for a long time in the US but not so much here in Europe; leftist parties are very inflluential in many European countries. As one can learn from the video, the political left has always emphasized equality and worked against racism and any form of discrimination. The goal of the political left is about maintaining social cohesion in the society and seeing capital as a means to keep things stable rather than as an end goal in itself.
The key difference between extreme right wing & extreme left wing political ideology is much narrower than you may think. They both want to "enslave" you socially & economically out of political motives! Malcolm X understood that.
Exactly and it's a damn shame because we were just as important and an integral part of this country's history. Even some white people that I've talked to over the years have admitted this fact and some held their heads low and even apologized for the harsh treatment of their ancestors towards our people. I wanted to say if they truly felt that way then share what they have with us that they inherited from their ancestors but I held my tongue. The reason I chose to devote my life to Christ is so that I will inherit what God has for those who worship Him and we'll never see poverty or sickness or abuse ever again.
It doesn't have to be like that, if any of you can do so in ANY way, start building self sufficiency now. Grow gardens, learn to can and put up food, get chickens if you have the space, learn to sew by hand, fix what you have, cook off grid, homeschool...do something other than resign yourselves to suffering, because there will be another depression. I'm 37, and I'm only telling you what I do myself. I've homeschooled for nearly 10 years, grow all I can in my backyard, I can and put up food, cook & bake from scratch, stock up all the supplies I can, and sew by hand rather than with a machine because I'm training for the day my family needs these skills and items. I want to be like the ancestors who didn't even notice there was a depression, rather than the ones who were hit hard and suffered because they relied on a system that has never been for our benefit.
@@silvernblack21 you’re very smart. I am trying to grow but it is harder than it seems, I would like to learn a skill that will help if/when this happens again
My Grandma is Originally Indigenous to the Eunice Louisiana Area & Bonnie & Clyde used to Travel up interstate 10 Robbing Everything & Everybody 😂 Bonnie & Clyde are from Texas
I like the video. It's shows there's nothing new under the sun. That peoples behaviors towards us never changed just hidden. And if you don't learn your history you'll repeat it
It was just another day in the life. My family had migrated from Arkansas to Chicago. My family was very close knit. Those days may return when we need each other again.
It’s very important for US to share stories to our generations coming after us. I have a great uncle who is 97 years old! I’m visiting him this summer and I’m pick his brain till I can’t no more. 😂❤
We live in Chicago and my granny told me stories of white people jumping off buildings because they were poor. She was like we just kept on living 🤷🏾♀️
Wow..some were offing themselves after the housing bust of 2008-09!
exactly.
Fax!!
The "white people jumping out of buildings" were stockbrokers, financiers, the very wealthy, whose lives & values were all about their riches, not family, not religion, nothing else.
Very interesting
Not much has changed, my grandparents told us stories about the Great Depression. But they had a small homestead/farm and picked up seasonal jobs when available. They never trusted banks and kept their few dollars hidden somewhere in the barn. The family worked together and that’s the only reason they made it without losing their land. I was blessed to be raised by them, they taught me a lot.
Exactly we had our money under the mattress
You’re correct, it’s like the depression is cycling back around on a different level. Politics still the same 😔
Black people don’t work together like our ancestors did.
That last sentence is everything!
and who runs federal banks? it isnt whitey from the north, and whitey from the south was just as poor as anyone else black or white. so who runs the banks? who owned the ships? It wasnt whitey...hes just the useful idiot.
Grow fruit trees, grow gardens, don't take on debt. Barter/share with neighbors.
Pear, cherry, figs, apples, blueberry, blackberries, raspberries, rhubarb easy.
Certain flowers and plants keeps bugs away. Mint, glads, geraniums.
We still live three generations to a household. That’s how you get your weight up. Children don’t leave until they marry or are able to. No forcing. We all take care of one another.
That's what I'm talkin' about! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Agreed
That's how my parents and gramdmothers raised me i:m doing the same with my son & daughter they are in their early 30's and i'm not forcing them to move they move when ready
That’s great!
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Black Folks have been catching extreme hard times through out history all over the world. But we always prevail through the many major struggles in our way. The Ancestors was a strong💪🏾 group of people.💯
Most would have folded off of what My people went through. ..
It Makes
Me Proud, sad, and angry all at once. ..
Blk people history is repeating itself as we live.😏
Wake up young people and study your blk history.
Deutoronomy 28.
Except when we were rulers, many years before we were enslaved.
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During the depression, Blacks in Chicago, begin the "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Campaign." This movement RAPIDLY SPREADED throughout the country. Blacks stopped shopping at stores that did not hire them and it was successful. The people that began this were former Garveyites. There is not a lot of information on this subject, just like there is not a lot of information on the "Deacons for Self Defense."
You are right.
Woww. Yea. I've heard about the deacons of defense here and there. But you are right. They never talk about them in history
I grew up in Chicago and never heard of this campaign or group. Thanks for posting
Very few of US have actually heard of or even worse, have any working knowledge of the "Deacons Of Defense." To get a small symbolic sense of the scenario, a film was actually made about these Brothers. Forest Whitaker is one of the main characters. I strongly suggest that if you haven't watched this, too check it out. "Deacons Of Defense" is the actual title of the film. 🧐💪🏾🙏🏽
Gravey wasn't cool, the movement was
My father was 15 when the Great Depression hit. In the 1980s I asked him about it. "We barely noticed it. We hunted and grew food so we were fine." This was in the rural midwest. My mother grew uo in DC and her parents worked for white folks so there was always work.
I think the impact of the GD hit blacks less harshly than a lot of whites b/c when you're already at the economic bottom, you already have some survival skills. This was the point of view of my late parents who had me late in life.
I think this video grossly over inflated the immediate political impact and help to average black folks during the Great Depression, but of course one's geography at the time.
For the most part, people then were on their own to survive, like we will be when the upcoming Great Depression II hits us much harder in this decade. Few of us can hunt, fish, grow veggies or have chickens, or know how to can our food or have a wood burning stove.
Exactly we didn’t know there was a depression
I have always believed that black americans can and have survived things like the great depression. Blacks were always behind the eight ball, because of this, blacks were forced to adapt, be creative or die and it worked.
We were protected then and in these last days, you are still protected.
I agree with you
We are strong today because of the strength our ancestors instilled in us paving the way as we go for the next generations to come🙏💝😇💎🦋💫💯
I was fortunate to have my great-grandmother until I was 11. She told me about surviving the GD in MS when we covered the subject in 4th grade history. My family hunted, canned the food they grew on their lil plot of land, and had some livestock. Their relatives also lived in the same area, so they had the ability to trade goods within their family. They also bartered. She said nothing much was different besides seeing the white people having to get used to being poor. Her father took advantage of the situation and he and his brothers bought the plantation their parents were enslaved on and the older 3 were born on as slaves. So the family all moved there and began having the white people sharecropping for them. It's still in the family near Winona, MS. One of my great-great-uncle's son's bought all the other families out and its passed down in his family. We have reunions there every 5-6 yrs so everyone remembers what that land means to us throughout the generations.
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Please adopt me 🥺🥰
@@omgbuffy2276 aww! You're so sweet. Come on over and hang out! My family and I would love to have you!❤️❤️❤️
@@Nille0212 thank you! Your family sounds amazing.
@@omgbuffy2276 I think we are. We have always been the house everyone came to hang out. My grandma was the start of it. My mom took over when I was growing up and now my house is the spot! I'm always hosting people. It's just more fun and makes it feel like home. I cook enough for 10 people every meal but I only have 4 people including myself who live here. But there's always extra feet under my table (my grandma's words 😊😊😊) and if I can't do anything else I can feed you!
Your the only channel who talks about what the African Americans people went through in the Great Depression. Thank you, I learned so much.
I was just asking this question two days ago. Thank you so much for this.
*indigenous Americans
Yes I Clicked On This As Soon As I Seen The Title I've Never Heard How We Survived Depression & I Always Wondered That Racism Was Horrible For My Ancestors It's Always AMAZING How We Find Ways To Rebuild 💪💪💪
American Indians who were mis classified being called African Americans and they used Messy Jackson to push the African American Agenda
He is the only one..I never gotten a historical narrative of how black Americans dealt with the Great Depression..other historical narratives focused on white people, particularly immigrants!! I wondered how Black Wall Street would've maintained during the Great Depression if it wasn't destroyed 8 years prior to the start of the GD.
To bad the NAACP doesn't actually help people anymore.
I had a 93 year old neighbor lady who I always went to visit and we talked for hours she once told me that her family survived the depression because they grew their food sharecropping and farm animals such as chickens, pigs , etc,
Absolutely
My grandparents had an apple orchard. They were already self sufficient during the depression so it was nothing new to them. Natural homesteading. They didn't take on debt. They served many meals to those hungry. My mother ate apple everything growing up; apple pies, apples raw, apple bread, apple sauce. We had a barrel of apples to eat as a snack during the winter. She made the best apple pies, but she didn't really eat apples as an adult. Unless, she made a pie. She said she had her share as a kid. My grandmother made the best cider and grape juice.
Plant fruit trees, share/barter with your neighbors. Don't get loans, be in debt to no one. Pay off your debt to have freedom. How people survived the depression.
Facts
That's what I'm talking bout
You better learn how… we’re heading there soon and I believe people will starve this winter.
You always saw pics of long soup line of Caucasian people only as though no one else mattered or disappeared quietly. I always wondered how Blacks survived the Great Depression.
We were actually doing great. That is why they came in and bombed our towns. We were thriving and they didn't like it.
I was thinking it was something to it!!
Tonji Rucker: it was very bad for those who lost their servial skills (farming to feed the family ) thereby found themselves wanting and waiting for help from the devil. 1960 my Sunday school teacher said " during the Great Depression my daddy smoke-house was always full and we had 2 milk cows". This means this family farmed and was blessed by GOD too feed themselves, thereby never missed a meal, while others made history by standing in the devil's soup line. The devil paid white farmers not to grow food, never-the-less my grandmother ( though divorced 2 times ) built her house plus one for my father's and his brother. She could not read or write, but mastered the servial skill of cooking, baking, farming in her back yard, while doing domestic work for others. She managed them pennies very good. The same devil that caused the 1st GREAT DEPRESSION is about to cause the 2nd GREAT DEPRESSION, and MOST have no or lost their servial skills, thereby wanting and waiting for the devil to bail them out. 🙏🙏🙏🙏. John 3: 16 is our only HOPE.
This needs to be shown on Netflix and played in high school for young blacks. Each one teach one. The struggle was real back then. Hell, what African American or person of color believe that if it (depression) occurs again in this USA that they would be exempt from racism and job discrimination. You’ll get that N wake up call 4-sure. Make no mistake about it, they will take care of their own first in each state. If you want to know future study the past.
black history is always left out of this nation's experience, but many were here generations before whites/immigrants. good video.
Thank you so much, I’m trying to tell our story one video at a time.
Only if we leave ourselves out. We don't have to get got this time.
@@countryboi appreciate you so much for the help
Wayyyyyy b4 pink folks
Black history IS American history & should be emphasized year round, not just 1 month. Likewise the battle for civil rights didn't begin in 1950s, it revived there. That fight began before there even was a USA. How ironic that civil rights laws were passed in 1960s to finally enforce laws that had been in place on the books since the reconstruction era! Many blacks disgruntled with Republican "establishment" patronizing & indifference, ACTUALLY voted for Woodrow Wilson, a known segregationist & southern white supremacist! An alleged "progressive" democrat who vowed the concerns & interests of America's negroes would be a "top drawer" priority in his administration (he lied!) Also, progressive Republican & former prez Teddy Roosevelt ran as a 3rd party candidate against incumbent Howard Taft, splitting the republican vote. Once in office Wilson & his cronies did all they could to "roll back" what civil rights gains had been achieved since reconstruction.
it has been a nightmare for most Black peoples. I am not fooled by these new rich blacks that have made it in sports and entertainment. Look what they had to go through before we could play sports.
Let this be a wake up for those who are to dumb to see what's happening in 2022.
Absolutely 2023!
No this don’t speak of Today it teaches you about how we over came a term but we as us, have evolved into the same people that once did this to us, look at us we all in the big corporations checking each other also causing friction among workers yes us I see it to much, Today that is our stumbling block acting like we can fire the person, better than the Boss, and send these people postal see this is what’s happening not some Jim Crow video this is played a lot on other channels and if anyone is going to talk about history have the time and dates together because those that claim they understand really don’t the Title is not correct and yes we made it through some harsh moments but it so many blacks putting us back in this position for a few crumbs … kudos to you new bloggers and vloggers but please keep it together when sharing sensitive information and there Is A Man On The Scene Teaching He’s Known As Thee Minister In Chicago… y’all can stop that ain’t nobody here for Me, it ain’t nobody else talking like this Man at all you can say who and I’ll tell you if they can Match this Man word for Word …
If you really think about it,surviving slavery prepared US as a people to overcome ANYTHING.🧐💪🏾🙏🏽
Because we are YAHS CHOSEN BLOODLINE....DEUTERONOMY 28
Yes!!!!
@@nTrubl3Israelites! Not necessarily in the modern day sense but We will rise and overcome!
no one tells the stories of AAs during this time. Thank you.
Thank you for listening to my content, the goal for my channel is to tell those stories that no one else is telling.
I hope ppl watching are paying attention, especially to the ending leading to war, is exactly what’s happening now.
We are really hated for no reason, even by ourselves.
That is the goal to completely hate one another because unity is quite important and powerful.
I just left the USA at 79 for Mexico. I always have 6 months preps, and I help non beggars.
I moved to Queretaro in 2021 at 79, for it is safer, less expensive, and clean. The weather is cool. I was born in Chicago in 1942, and have been visiting Mexico, since age 20. The dollar has fell here, but my expenses are less, than the USA and I am safer.
👏👏👏Thank you for this information. I never would have known that this part of Mexico exists. The only information that is made known about Mexico is the information that involves severe poverty, the drug cartel, and the need for the people to go elsewhere for their mere survival - which is by design.
😮 Until the cartel kicks Americans out or rounds them up to kill ,torture, etc. Once they join bricks, it's a wrap, anyway. But enjoyy!!!😂🎉
@@donnameansyoucancallmelala1800 Its real. When I was stationed in Texas, our first sergeant warned us NOT to go to Mexico, and if we did, they wasn't coming to get us. That said, Mexico is well developed and has a highly skilled work force, but their organized crime is organized.
Me too
When you say the dollar has fell, does it mean that most establishments or people aren’t accepting dollars? And see that’s what I’m wondering, I’m wondering is it better off to live in the Caribbean or Central America while the dollar no longer holds power
The Great depression didn't effect the black man that much because black people were going through a depression when they started the reconstruction.. Not only did the federal government gave back land the Freedmens aquired from the Union, The federal government, after President Lincoln allowed European Americans to do anything they please with the Freedmens. As a matter of fact this is part of the major reason why the southern ex slaves migrated to the North. In the northern states, it was no better. For the Europeans in the northern states didn't wanted the black people in the south living anywhere among them.. Instead of the national government issuing land to the free black people who were liberated from bondage, they were overlooked and land was giving to the immigrants. But black people had to endure the a position of having no economic background,no shelter over their heads and watch their social status with the Europeans. I was reading the book of Malcolm X were he said that him and his family had to eat dangilions in order to stay alive. So imagine other African Americans situations all around the United States. What this man is talking about is probably what those who were more fortunate then the majority of black people living on this land. But I gaurentee that the majority of our people suffered tremendously regarding the so called great depression. Because they had from the beginning were oppressed, depraved and deprived of everything that mankind could have. Especially their human rights. The African Americans in those days treated worse then a cockroach being spotted in the home of an owner who happens to live in the house and being stepped on just because the owner sees it. This is the ordeal black people had suffered before and after the depression. As a matter of fact these atrocities are still happening till this day.
They're lying to you. Happy and prosperous people have fun. Apparently that's the brown skinned natives. The European colonizers were struggling and miserable. Misery loves company and they sure came to visit.
Hoover days is what my Grandma used to call it...she and my Grandfather had 8 kids during hoover days. They were sharecroppers in NC.
We couldn't even stand in the soup kitchen lines, thank you for telling our history ❤️
Despite being from Lowcountry South Carolina St George South Carolina Texas community according to him by Jim Croce despite the Great Depression and all of that they really didn't have much issue my great-grandfather was respected and feared even whites knew not to mess with him or his kids . He said he never grew up feeling inferior to whites, nor did he fear them . Even though he is quite Darkskinned ( and very handsome ) He never had any issues outside of his siblings calling him Ug ( short for ugly because he was the darkest of the boys). Anyway, he said segregation jimcrow, all that didn't really affect them like many others. He said and I quote " MY daddy told us AINT NO WHITE PERSON BETTER THEN YOU NOR ARE YOU BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE . YOU RESPECT YOURSELF THEY WILL AND HAVE TO RESPECT YOU" Two things they can't take away your mind and your self respect. With that being said 3 uncles went to ww2 ( all came back) and when my Grandfather was old enough to enlist during the Korean War he did but got dishonorable discharge for knocking out a white officer who called him a Nigger lol ( WE ARE SO PROUD OF THAT STORY) .
It all starts with self respect, respect for others, & knowing who you are as a man or woman. He must've been 1 helluva man!
Mad respect to him !!!
Sounds like an honorable discharge to me 🤣🤣
Crazy how not much has changed.
FACT.......and our people are STILL asleep.
The more things change the more they stay the same. 🧐🙏🏽
Not crazy, but by design.
Exactly programed that they!
America is the mystery Babylon of Revelation chapter 17 and 18. Seek God to show you. Also, Jeremiah 50 and 51.
Seek the Lord personally for guidance on how to survive. Ultimately, spiritual preparation is above all.
We are a resilient people. We are God's people!
Facts!!
All praises to OUR Most High Father God!
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Hebrew israelites
O sheesh and God busy with creating all those ppl for nothing? God must been weirding out creating all those ppl who arent his ppl 😂 faaa yuuu and what u stand for.
This is a wonderful channel! I subscribed! My grandfather was born in the early 1900 and my great grandfather in the late 1800s. I met BOTH of them. My grandfather told me there were things "he couldn't tell me about!" They were so horrific.😮💨 However, by the Lord's will and incredible hard work he and my grandmother made it. I'm glad we're STILL here. We have a alot of work to do! ✊🏿👋🏽👨🏽⚕️
I wish he would’ve told u. Those things must not be forgotten. Much love to you and yours!
@@korionterivers9995 There were some things that were just TOO painful for him to discuss.
I shared this Excellent Documentary on my Facebook page as REAL HISTORY. Watching your well put together documentation of our people struggles had me thanking my ancestors for their sacrifices which has afforded me a life. With lynchings being an American Caucasian sport, a lot of generations were cut off during those dark years.
I remember asking my dad before he died in his 80's. How did you feel when you saw signs that said white's only? He said it didn't bother him because he never wanted to be bothered with them anyway. By the 70's when I was born, they had a new plan in mind.
Sounds like what going on now.
If things weren't hard enough!!!,never ceases too anger and frustrate me ,how one strain of the human race can further punish,push down and further impoverish another.😡😞
Thank you for you're indepth presentation ,stay safe🙏
Read, Book Of TRXTH: God Gives You Free Will. The Devil Gives You Bad Choices.
It’s only because we continue to let them!
"It takes a nation of millions to hold US back."💪🏾🧐✊🏽🙏🏽
I was glad to see some one point out what blk people went through during this time
Oh I understand, this is one of the reason why I wanted to do this video, because I felt like African Americans had been poorly represent during the Great Depression. Thank you so much for your support!!
As the last of the baby boomers... I listen to this in it's entirety...
Great job!
Now after listening, I can now attempt to do some serious shadow work in order to view, understand, recognize, generational perspectives used either in order to strengthen our families during such challenging times and/or to survive those times...
I can also better survey where and how our choices then, while not perfect has shaped some families to strive depending on the action (politically, hopelessness, determined, hustlers, and so on) molded the minds of the family during that challenging age of depression...
At the end of the day... We were indoctrinated into a capitalist society without realizing it.
We are a community people, but strived so hard to be something we are not...
Which is to be included into a system which goes against who and what we are as a being...
We were on the right track when we began bartering, pulling together, and working collectively....
We do not fit in that capitalist system (disguised as a Democracy), and until we truly remember this, we will continue to have issues...
We are like appointed leaders of the world with a bad case amnesia as the world seems to be spiraling out of control (we are trained to operate and be at the controls of), we forgot we have all the answers within to get crap back right...
They took over feeling that they could do better, and the Source Creator allowed it, because well...
To get things right again will be one heck of a learning experience for us as a Soul people...
The biggest hang nail I see repeatedly, us continuing to want into their broken system...
Words like jobs, equal, money, government, and others is the total opposite of community self sufficiency, selfworth,
Family business....
I can now use this to do family shadow work, to make adjustments by changing or releasing old perspectives, for those with a better fit...
Release the old way of living in lack (like money is not evil, or being compassionate to others doesn't mean I have to be or live as a marter...
But lead by example when crap gets difficult...
We, we simply turn within to that inner self which houses all the answers...
We turn to that inner self when we only choose to fit into their system, but hardly ever to get back that what we require to remember all that we never forgotten...
Music for money, but not for centering or enlightenment...
Sex for momentary gratification, instead of fostering our innate ability to love....
Anyway... Thank you... This will help me in so many ways to do some generational house cleaning and to identity and remove this inherited crown of mental enslavement passed down to me and mine...
This is profound and a word! Blessings to you and our collective!
Very DEEP
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My great grandmother and her family and neighbors didn't see a difference during the depression because they lived where they had their own animals and were able to eat their own grown food.
Also, people need to be weary of the same things in politics now. The democratic and the republican parties are still the same. Neither one have done much to help Black/melanated people. People say leave the Democrat Plantation just to go to another (republican) plantation because they think "massa e-a betta o'er dare." We need to leave both parties alone and do something better.
Let them at least Mayne try voting red for 2 to 4 years? Over 60+ years voting democrat and look where y'all at.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 And in 60+ years how many of those years were Republican Presidents in office? How many of those years have the congress been Republican led? It doesn't matter the party, none of them are going to do anything in our favor. We can't trust the government. We must do it for ourselves and stop depending on massa.
Finally someone who can teach me more about the Great Depression full black
YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD READING VOICE. THANK YOU FOR THIS INFORMATION. I HAD BEEN WONDERING WHY THE GREAT DEPRESSION ONLY SHOWED PHOTOS OF CAUCASIAN MALES.
Excellent research and commentary about this period in American history! Please produce more relevant content regarding the Black experience in America!
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed and I’m working to produce more content on the black experience
This is very relevant to today! Black Americans could learn from this to avoid suffering during this current recession.
All of us can share. My great grandparents raised and educated me. And I am 80 now.
@@countryboi all the way from Paris FRANCE your channel gives me so much insight about the black american experience. I love it. Keep up the good black work !!!!
I’m glad he shared this info. If we pay attention we CANNOT fall victim again! It’s coming up on 100 years since this incident and all I can say is when this system collapses we gotta get together it’s a hard one to say that but the ones who are like minded are the chosen we shall save the world. The monetary system must fall one day it’s unfair and biased for Men. And no a chip won’t help man has to get back to the old ways and get it out the mud for their families meaning cropping and growing the original farming, making our own clothes without selling them to people hell make them for free!! The money system is a joke and sorry for ranting but just saying man it’s time to wake up all this was set against us
What year was there great depression? And then look up what year did they destroy all black Wallstreets. Around America.
Sad I never learned this in school
I'm so thankful that I know how to can food including meat and potatoes. My grandparents had a meat locker, my grandmother fried chicken all today on Sunday, we picked what was rip and ready to eat out of the garden, we made our own clothes and soap. We had a tv but never cable.
My Dad said there was no job applications . They looked at you to see if you was healthy. Also he said the highest grade level was the 8th grade. My dad said he had to find signs that read for Colors only.
Shhhhhhheeeeeiittt we been in depression. Now everybody gets a taste
Our folk didn’t even know there was a Great Depression…we lived deep in the country and grew our own food..we hadn’t a clue what YT folk were going thru
I believe we faired just fine we been through hard times all our lives
In some sectors of black RUclips...there are those saying that this time in our history things were great and blacks were doing better than ever before. Of course, those who knew history better knew that was crazy but there are those who believe this. Excellent job in elucidating this history and breaking it down the way it needed to be.
Exactly this guy is using Marxist ideology
We were better off because we had each other's back and blakkk peepl were on code and proud!!! Everybody was married and taking care of the family and the community nobody was following cardi B no1 was following Megan the stallion and all this LGBT homosexual foolishness in the blakkk community wasn't a issue because we knew better and now common sense and logical thinking and love is a foreign concept u must not understand our plight 💯
When I was in the 4th grade in the 80’s, we had to do a project on the Depression. We were to ask our grandparents about their lives during the Depression. My (Wf) teacher was disappointed by my grandfather’s response: He did very well, so well-in fact-that he bought his first Ford. He made parts for AMF all his life, since leaving the Navy. His family was part of the Blk upper middle class until he became ill and had to work less.
@@KamalasNotLikeUs Many people suffered during the Great Depression..hence why it was called the Great Depression..
I head black peoples say , black peoples were already in a Great Depression
There is a good book on the Great Depression that is out of print titled : The Invisible Scare ..... I think the author name is Caroline Bird.
Thank you for making this video. Black history is usually only briefly mentioned, if at all. Your voice tone and enthusiasm also makes it a really interesting video.
There exists alternate stories that show great resourcefulness and resiliency during the depression. My ancestors ate well and did not suffer any losses during this time. Because they were agricultural land owners who did not live in the city complexes that were newly emerging. There are millions of stories of southern negros who didnt even know a thing about the sufferings of economic loss because money was such a small part of their survival. Just check the tax records throughout the southern states.
YET THEY F0RCE US TO PAY THE SAME TAXES!!!
No not the same. The tax codes are racist and designed to give whites an advantage as well. Blacks pay more taxes.
Thank you great content they should teach this in schools not the bs lies we were taught❤
Thank you so much for you kind words 🔥🔥🔥
@@countryboi You're welcome I just found your channel & am binge watching!😁
They've been lying to us since the beginning about most everything and that won't change. They even have the nerve to put in text books that slavery didn't even exist. SMH
Quilt has a tendency to tonque tie some humans.😒
I’m from chicago and my grandad always told this story of when he and his uncle (which they were similar in age) came here from Mississippi during the Great Depression at the age of 14, and got a job cleaning bird poop off the top of buildings in the downtown area. They lived in the outhouse of this white family and they had a daughter around the age of 25 “a businesswomen” and when the Depression hit she started prostituting herself to black guys, because in some cases Black Men were they only people still working odd jobs and making money..
Only shit that was a wild story
I'm white and my grandma said the great depression was awful. She had dresses made out of flour sacks. Nobody had money. Her family was poor as well.
👍👍👍👍 AMEN. The same devil that implemented the 1st GREAT DEPRESSION is implementing the 2nd in 2023, and it is global, and he is not going to discriminate.
Thank you sooo much for your content 🙏🏽 it’s amazing and sincerely appreciated!
Thank you for the kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
They are headed there again so what we gon' do black folks staying here again for a second time in modern times..or leave!
Personally I got out of Dodge in 2019.
@@obbiebeal3060 my 🥷
My grandparents said Black people stuck together and shared with their neighbors. They seemed to feel Blacks fared better than whites at least in the North. Statistics actually support that.
Scholarly work. Kudos to you sir.
Reparation owed
Cut that check and pay that debt FBA's Been Ready to Collect. ..
With Interest
It is too late for checks because we are going digital/ CBDC.
So it's 2023 and it seems to be happening again 😢
America will pay for they sins all the stuff The afflicted on my people they are going to reap what they sow you ain't seen nothing yet
First time listening really enjoyed this brother!
thank you so much for your support!
All of this great information that's not shared on national/international broadcasting, nor cared about especially, for Black History Month. Shame on the 🇺🇸
There’s a very good book titled “ The Forgotten Man” it’s a book made of hundreds of letters sent to President FDR from people asking for help, one chapter is letters from ADOS members. It’s a great book, B1 ✊🏾
Ralph Bunche is pronounced Bunch. The e is silent. Keep up the excellent work. Roosevelt didn't give a damn about minorities. It was Eleanor that pushed him to assist in those areas.
FDR was the politician and he needed the votes of the Southern Democrats. Like JFK.
WE were not referred to AA during those times. Please use the language of the eras
Negro? Colored?
Never
No AA was not used then n****r was (.proud AA here (do native Americans except your (they had black slaves )
I Agree. A lot of black people, including myself, don't identify as African American because we aren't immigrants. My American lineage goes back to the 1800s.
@@riaa8689Facts mine go back to 1700s I’m a Black American from Arkansas never been to no Africa 😂
My grandparents were depression era kids. Grandpa grew up in NJ, he said it was tough and had hungry days, but he said those who lost everything had a tougher time than those who didn't have anything to lose, they were used to the struggle already... granny grew up on farm in Virginia she said was too young to know the difference between good/bad times. But she said definitely remembers many people coming to the farm and working for a few days in exchange for food, or wood supplies...
The most important thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different sources of income that doesn't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the word. This is still a good time to invest in various stocks, Gold, silver and digital currencies
The key to big returns is not big moving stocks. It's managing risk in relationship to reward. Having the correct size on and turning your edge as many times as necessary to reach your goal. That holds true from long term investing to day trading
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There were no African Americans.
It's was more unity, unlike now
With all due respect I'm NOT an AA. PC be damned! I wasn't born in Africa, nor did I immigrate to USA & become a US citizen. I WAS BORN HERE.
We should’ve listened to W.E.B. Dubois
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We're NOT AAs. We NEVER were. We've always been here....
My great grandmother and her generation said that life remained the same for them
I am not black. But I am not white. I am sadden to what white American has done to your history
My grandfather would’ve been 16 at that start of it. I pulled up his census entry after returning from WWII and saw that he paid $8 a month in rent so I can imagine what type of hell he observed during the Great Depression. Especially being that his mother died at the age of 20 in Red Summer.
Thank you very much for this rich content! I will certainly share it and not just for the so called Black History Month!
I never heard my Grandparents or any other Black ppl who were alive during the Great Depression ever even talk about it. Nothing changed for Black ppl during the Great Depression, because Black ppl were only one step out of slavery. Black ppl were poor before the Great Depression and they were poor afterwards.
That's not true. Not at all.
I love this let black people tell our story not white
wow. my daughter never knew what we went through :(
this is why this platform is so important, so we can teach each other.
Why didn't she know?
@@jacklynnmjackson2383 Maybe because she went to the SAME school as you want to,,lol,,,.
@@tneita3166 You could be addressing the mother, not me
@@jacklynnmjackson2383 Jacklyn,i take it that YOU was "thought"that at your school,,,.lol,,,.
Growing up I heard nothing changed for our people
Shared! This is an excellent analysis for clear strategic planning for the future. Sankofa, go back get right knowledge & strategize forward.
Black people was used to it.
My uncle grew up in these times and he said he was a bootlegger and that’s how he survived
Da CD man 😂
If this should happen in the 21 cent what would it look like when the level of dependency on state purse is much larger? Can you please provide information on how we could survive a crisis of that magnitude. History is a reference point to make decisions for the future otherwise a weapon of distraction destruction.
Great question. Since ppl can’t even handle a slight inconvenience (speaking for myself too in some instances) I think there will be a lot more suicides, theft and murder. Or with the tech and info we have, it won’t be as bad. The thing they had that we don’t really any more is community and think that will be what makes it even worst for ppl
Will be severe riots, gun murders, looting etc
Democrats and Republicans are wings on the same cockroach.
I don’t know why it took me so long to look this subject up.
We Are not African Americans. We are Natives to America
Thank you for shedding light on African American history during the Great Depression. This is very important especially in these times when there are a lot of attempts to deny people from acquiring knowledge about the African American history in the US, which to me is a concerning sign of authoritarianism - something that is characteristic of policies of populist right wing parties globally.
The word "socialism" has had bad reputation for a long time in the US but not so much here in Europe; leftist parties are very inflluential in many European countries. As one can learn from the video, the political left has always emphasized equality and worked against racism and any form of discrimination. The goal of the political left is about maintaining social cohesion in the society and seeing capital as a means to keep things stable rather than as an end goal in itself.
The key difference between extreme right wing & extreme left wing political ideology is much narrower than you may think. They both want to "enslave" you socially & economically out of political motives! Malcolm X understood that.
I listen to the white version they didn't hear anything about blk people
Uh ok, I’m glad you watched my content 🔥
Exactly and it's a damn shame because we were just as important and an integral part of this country's history. Even some white people that I've talked to over the years have admitted this fact and some held their heads low and even apologized for the harsh treatment of their ancestors towards our people. I wanted to say if they truly felt that way then share what they have with us that they inherited from their ancestors but I held my tongue. The reason I chose to devote my life to Christ is so that I will inherit what God has for those who worship Him and we'll never see poverty or sickness or abuse ever again.
That's Roy Wilkins (not Charles Houston) with Walter White and Thurgood Marshall at 32:56 if it matters.
Sounds like the legacy of my family! My grandparents, parents, myself, and now my children and grandchildren still suffering.
It doesn't have to be like that, if any of you can do so in ANY way, start building self sufficiency now. Grow gardens, learn to can and put up food, get chickens if you have the space, learn to sew by hand, fix what you have, cook off grid, homeschool...do something other than resign yourselves to suffering, because there will be another depression.
I'm 37, and I'm only telling you what I do myself. I've homeschooled for nearly 10 years, grow all I can in my backyard, I can and put up food, cook & bake from scratch, stock up all the supplies I can, and sew by hand rather than with a machine because I'm training for the day my family needs these skills and items. I want to be like the ancestors who didn't even notice there was a depression, rather than the ones who were hit hard and suffered because they relied on a system that has never been for our benefit.
@@silvernblack21 you’re very smart. I am trying to grow but it is harder than it seems, I would like to learn a skill that will help if/when this happens again
I have often wondered about that.
Thanks for the information!
What depression? Black folks had it hard before and after the "Great Depression". Even in so-called good times, we were scuffling.
Still no reparations
My Grandma is Originally Indigenous to the Eunice Louisiana Area & Bonnie & Clyde used to Travel up interstate 10 Robbing Everything & Everybody 😂 Bonnie & Clyde are from Texas
Respect for the natives
Thanks!
I like the video. It's shows there's nothing new under the sun. That peoples behaviors towards us never changed just hidden. And if you don't learn your history you'll repeat it
i have been searching for this topic to learn from for a long time. this is just now popping up in my suggestions. thanks so much !
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It was just another day in the life. My family had migrated from Arkansas to Chicago. My family was very close knit. Those days may return when we need each other again.
My parents lived through it and never discussed it. Thank you for your video.
It’s very important for US to share stories to our generations coming after us. I have a great uncle who is 97 years old! I’m visiting him this summer and I’m pick his brain till I can’t no more. 😂❤