1971 SPECIAL REPORT: “COMPTON, BLACK CITY”
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During the 1950s and 1960s, after the Supreme Court declared all racially exclusive housing covenants (title deeds) unconstitutional in the case Shelley v. Kraemer, the first black families moved to Compton. The area's growing black population was still largely ignored and neglected by the city's elected officials. Centennial High School was finally built to accommodate a burgeoning student population. At one time, the City Council even discussed dismantling the Compton Police Department in favor of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in an attempt to exclude blacks from law enforcement jobs. A black man first ran for City Council in 1958, and the first black councilman was elected in 1961.
In 1969, Douglas Dollarhide became the mayor, the first black man elected mayor of any metropolitan city in California. Two blacks and one Mexican-American were also elected to the local school board. Four years later, in 1973, Doris A. Davis defeated Dollarhide's bid for re-election to become the first female black mayor of a metropolitan American city. By the early 1970s, the city had one of the largest concentrations of blacks in the country with over ninety percent. In 2013, Aja Brown, age 31, became the city's youngest mayor to date.
For many years, Compton was a much sought-after suburb for the black middle class of Los Angeles. This past affluence is reflected in the area's appearance-Compton's streets are lined with relatively spacious and attractive single family houses. However, several factors have contributed to Compton's gradual decline. One of the most significant factors was a steady erosion of its tax base, something that was already sparse due to limited commercial properties. In later years, there were middle-class whites who fled to the newly incorporated cities of Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Paramount and Norwalk in the late 1950s. These nearby communities remained largely white early on despite integration. This white middle class flight accelerated following the 1965 Watts Riots and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
By the late 1960s, middle-class and upper-middle-class blacks found other areas more attractive to them. Some were unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County such as Ladera Heights, View Park and Windsor Hills, and others were cities such as Inglewood and, particularly, Carson. Carson was significant because it had successfully thwarted attempts at annexation by neighboring Compton. The city opted instead for incorporation in 1968, which is notable because its black population was actually more affluent than its white population. As a newer city, it also offered more favorable tax rates and lower crime. 
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Bro I don’t know how you got this footage but bravo excellent 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 this is classic
I LOVE how they were so DAMN REAL back then, REAL TALK, No BS or sugar coating nothing.
That old white lady also hasn't seen Compton in the 80s crack era & so on 😂........shed be like "I think I wanna change me opinion" lol
Charles Miller speaking truth 29:50
Yeah..... Today we are not allowed to tell the truth. Satan handy work
@logicalempiricist2
Blacks are still racist, and now the most racist!.
I agree with you, Gilbert.
Damn this was 1971. 12 years later Compton was basically in a drug war.
Just came here to post this same thing. Compton before crack. These poor people have no clue what's about to hit them.
Did you see that on TV? Is that based on "fantasy facts"or personal experience?
@@juanlongino1092 huh? In the 80s and 90s Compton was ground zero for American drug and gang warfare. That’s a fact,.. a real fact,... like a common knowledge fact.
Garth are you from Compton? Born after 01; thank you for curiosity. Don't believe all you hear Omie
@@juanlongino1092 lived in Redondo beach in the mid 90s. It’s not South Central but within 10 miles. The streets got sketchy pretty quickly when driving eastbound.
The Head of the Chamber of Commerce gave such a poignant message. He was very progressive for his time. The interviewer frequently tried to goad him into degrading African Americans. However, that man called out both races for their part in the degradation of the city.
He said I get along with them just fine
I can't get past his part. This interviewer is obviously bias, and trying to steer questions to fit a narrative. That narrative being black people can't run a self sufficient city. It's such b.s. happy the chamber of commerce guy was so intelligent and impartial, he spoke only in terms of facts.
@@Moneyg73 I thought the Chamber Of Commerce was very honest and fair. I am a white man and i see and have seen, for the past 50 years, the hypocrisy, the attempts at dividing us, and the Upper echelons who control the whole thing. Compton was and still is a great example. At the time in 71, Compton was 75% black. It is now much lower in black population and higher in latino and asian. Whites remained and there are still whites, although very low, that have lived in Compton to this day. The problems had to do with the neglect that California laid upon suburban cities like Compton. Even though there was white flight in the 60s, and it is entirely the white flight to blame for a few years of problems, and the unwillingness of whites to accept the blacks moving in the late 50s. Compton was a regular working class neighborhood into the 70s. It became what it became, not just because of gangs, drugs, and this accusation of Blacks not being able to govern a city, despite the Black power situation with the city. Blacks bought houses, faced rising taxes, lived in houses with absentee landlords that neglected their property. A little bit of adversity cause so trouble. People are going to move away or do what they are going to do. Whether they are White, Black, Latino, etc. When crime begins, it scares people, thus the flight. The businesses suffer. The integrity of a neighborhood and the pride and care for a great neighborhood goes down the drain. It is so stupid. We could all live together and be great. The government, i really believe designs this for division. And it is ESPECIALY THE DEMOCRATS. Acept it or not. And Compton became a sad example of what i am saying. It hurts me. Because Compton reminds me of neighborhoods i have resided in New York City.
So true!
That was ol bill curtis
Im Black but the old white lady at 38:00 is an Original Compton G! Im sure she has been dead for many years but respect to u Ma'am! 💯💪
eightiesjunkie100 - “I’m black”. Yeah, right.
Damn I wish there were more people like her in this world
I guarantee three months after this interview she was living in Palm Springs.
Robbed 4 times...
eightiesjunkie100 oh please we know you’re White.
Remember that time when a reporter could interview a person on the street and they would give intelligent insightful responses?
You mean before censorship, including online? Most people continue to be intelligent but censorship and ''guidelines'' won't allow us to see them nor hear them.
I think you're right. We thought lowering standards across the board showed compassion, but we ended up with folks who can't string together a whole intelligible English sentence.
@@Leandro-X.2024 john paulos
@@londonbowcat1 ??
I was raised in Compton from late 60's to the mid 80's. My experience served to strengthen my resolve and honesty I'm able to handle most situations I've faced during my life.
How Was The 70's
@@beankobe8205 What Era Did You Grow Up In ?
do you know dr dre?
@@dejanrakic77 Yump
Born and raised in Compton 1965 riot baby I love my city and the people in it I was raised with now we are the older generation we had our up's and downs still most of us have survived the hub and the dub❤
It's amazing how the conversation about crime was had back then. Everyone is talking about what to do with criminals, not a single person asks WHY people become criminals in the first place.
Lock them up and someone else will replace them.
Becoming a criminal is largely a choice. We've spent the last 50 years looking at our navel, endlessly pondering the "roots" of crime. The only root we refuse to ponder is individual character. And character is the only root that ultimately matters.
it's starts in the home & the dirty politicians are crapping on the people who vote them into office .. look at this gang land now ..it was sunny & prosperous ...Democrats fixed that .. sad
@@hankgoresich6836 Wrong. Criminal behavior among blacks (mainly black men) has to do with them having no father in the home. Crime rates rose among blacks after the 60’s when Lyndon B Johnson introduced the welfare state and pushed fathers out of the home. This was intentional, as he was a flaming racist.
@@user-mw5yp2fv8s Can't argue with that --- 70% of young black males don't have positive, morally correct fathers in the home to show them the way. Terrible consequences for character development
@@hankgoresich6836 The tall tale that single mothers can't raise decent CHILDREN is BULL$HIT and I for one am SICK of hearing it. There are plenty of single women,mothers who raise good children who grow up to be law abiding decent adults. Decent adults who become doctors,lawyers and such.
The big issue I believe is laziness and not wanting to be responsible for your actions. To lazy to work for what they want. Dealing drugs quick money,robbing people quick money.
I watched and commented on this video (and other videos) years ago. The videos on Chicago in the 80s, the Harlem riots, and others were instructional tools I utilized to further my autodidactic quest to acquire knowledge on the history of Black people in America. They stay shutting this great channel down. Glad to see the videos back up. Support this brother's channel!! Peace!!
Crazy we been singing the same ol song for the longest. Blaming the violence and crime on the youth not having anything to participate in. I guess no "programs". we have to stop with the excuses and start creating programs in our own community.
Lets start
I know you won’t listen, cause hey, “don’t listen to the white man,” but your problem is always wanting hand outs and government programs.
Y’all destroy any community y’all move into, want the government to fix your problems.
Stop having so many kids, and start being more like whites and Asians.
@@finejustgivemeaname start being like the jackasses that put us in this situation goodluck handouts I don't think so buddy me my partner's run several non profits and not one have we gotten government handouts from call us bad community builder's is a joke dont forget after reconstruction we did okay until civilized whites didn't like are communities and the government ran us off the land for southern whites dont forget how they burned down hundreds of towns and killed thousands of us 1920s 30s i could go on but you beast ppl would probably come burn my town down stay away Democrats
FOXYGIRL75675 you need a nonprofit that teaches how to use punctuation. You might have made a point, somewhere in that incoherent rant; but, I just stopped reading. Hard to take you as a serious commentator when you can’t even type an argument online.
Yea same song that’s not it tho these are the fallen warriors that died when these white prolly got off the banana boat from Europe and got our heads fucked up thinking we came from Africa and then got us fighting each other over blocks they DONT OWN 🤔 instead of fighting for our ancestors land that is ours to rule over and govern and bang on the oppressor also did u kno there was a Indian tribes thru out the north and South America u think they killed majority off put rest on lil piece of land and ship 🚢 a million niggas here with no ships on decc for us to see our minds are everywhere but our eye 👁 on the prize our god gave us these all we pay for it why instead the knowledge and means to make it get our own ?
Dr. Dre is always glorifying and rapping about Compton in his music 🎶 and it's safe to say that he rarely visits.
word flow Mike drop who’s gonna go back to a prison 😂😂
Nigga he was born there. He lived that shit. His own brother died there and a lot of his homies. He ain’t glorify nothing he just told his experiences uncensored real like that, if there’s crime there’s crime he just didn’t sugar code it. It was the lifestyle he grew up on. He’s a billionaire now. He’s done what he has for his community, him and the N.W.A put Compton on the map. Tell me what billionaire walks into Compton, what you think will happen?
To whom much is given much is required!! Between Dre and Cube they would be able to help their former community in a major way without ever stepping foot in the streets
Sean Grey I got beans, greens, tomatoes, potatoes, lamb, ham, toe jam
ryanboyd100 They have you just don’t live here. But the truth is no matter how much money you pump into the city nothing will change until the mindset of the people change
Damn that old white lady has a lot of fight and loyalty in her
That couple got robbed one too.many times and they did in fact end up moving away
@@bobbyg433 now I understand why they moved when the black community settled in! It’s sad how many black folks get stereotyped because many of them put a bad image that reflects on them
A lot of communities were going great until the explosion of street drugs. It happened in all countries globally. This issue is not unique to Compton or black people.
There are large white communities in Australia, England, Denmark etc etc, that went the same way.
absolutely right... however we ingest more drugs than any other country on the planet. Making the drug trade in America the single most lucrative business venture for anybody outside of the W-2 job world.
Damn didn't know that
@G Riv and chinese and indians are broke so that means US ingest all the drugs
Yeah ice (Methamphetamine) became a huge problem amongst white aussies. In the 90s heroin in cabramatta was everywhere apperantly
The colonist done the exact thing, only it was alcohol utilized on the natives of US. Couldn’t be possibly without the assistance from the corrupted government/aristocrats placed over just US’
I grow up in the Compton in the 70’ and 80’s I first went to jail at the age of 8 years old in 1976 which is insane when I got older and had children. I remember looking at my son at 8years remembering what the h*** was I doing in jail at that age for breaking and entering its blows my mind. I’m a different man now living the dream doing well for myself and if it wasn’t for me leaving the city at 17 years old no telling where I would be or ended up! I remember when it was called HUB CITY and back in 1977 tru 1979 we had the best high school football teams in the country. We all remembered Rick Turner football quarterback who went on the Washington State
Just curious why were you breaking and entering at the age of 8? What drove you to that? No judgment here I’m truly trying to get an understanding.
@@joyherring81 my older half brother bully me on my to school and treated me to come with him and I was scared. I didn’t know what he was up to and confused because we was walking around the neighborhood and then he he told me to walk with him to this house he knocked on the door nobody answer then he lead me to the side of the house got the window open and made me go in and open the door. I remember me being scared and confused but i didn’t have no choice at that age of my life. Walked through the kitchen and I noticed a plate of French fries and a ketchup bottle with a top off laying on the counter and I thought to myself this strange but I headed for the front door and just when I was starting to turn the knob and open the door the owner come from behind holding a knife to my neck and whisper to my ear open the door. I remember that I was so scared I peed on myself right at that moment. I still remember that moment to this day. But anyway the moment the door open he went after my low life bully brother and they start fighting with knives and I was so scared I took off running to my moms house run in the door in a panic told her my brother was in danger and she trying to figure out what was goin on. It’s funny now because my mom but on her black fur coat and grabbed some kitchen knives and we ran out the door heading to the house. On the way she started asking questions why I was not in school and what was going on and at that point I realize was we did so I started walking her in the wrong direction from where the house was because I was scared. She started yanking on my arm to tell where the house was and at that moment we saw a police officer seating in his patrol car and my mom told he what was happening and right then he got a message over the black radio that was seating on the floor. He told us to get in and he drove us around the corner and that’s when we saw my brother blooded handcuffed seating by the garage on the ground in front of the house. when we got out of the car the owner pointed at me and the officer grabbed me by the arm and my mom grabbed me by the other arm telling the police you not taking my son to jail and he told her to let go are she is going to jail with me. it was a funny moment now that I think about because it was like a rope tug by the police officers and my mom. My mom was a bad ass back then. Lolz..😂 but anyway after the smoke clear we started heading to jail and I remember my mom telling the officers not to handcuff me and he didn’t do that and the officer was real nice to me telling me it’s going to be ok and that they just wanted to ask me some questions. At the time they didn’t have the barrier behind the officers and the suspect and I also remember me having my arms over the seat riding next to him. They booked me and released me to my mom. now back to my brother the black sheep of the family. I don’t have to tell how his life ended up because he got killed in the 80’s and it was drugs and street related let’s live it right there. So hopefully this answers your question.
The drugs crack came in the 1980s and flip the city till this day the older blacks man and females homeless hooked on crack and the Mexicans got they homes nowadays 🤷♀️🤷🏽
I don’t care what you did, an 8 year old should never be in jail.
@@dforreallogup5683 Wow. Thanks for sharing your story!
Damn it hurts the heart to see people so hopeful for the future of Compton when you're watching from...well, the future.
Like how Charles at 29:50 had me warmed up and feeling things with his answers until each time I remembered what I was watching. And when the interview before it had a part about gangs and the interviewer said he agreed they should move on because it wasn't important! Oh I wanted to scream through the screen and into the past.
I agree was thinking the same thing I'm from Compton too
Melanted people can govern themselves. It’s the ni**as we need to do away with to make it a success.
Fair but Compton today isn’t is bad as it was in a lot of parts.
God I can't stop loving this channel
Hezakya, thank you for posting this video I wish I found this when I was teaching a city planning course last semester. I often talk about social and economic issues and the roots of the problems. This video has so many themes that we continue to talk about today.
The theme is, AA's will destroy any city and it was like that before crack just as this video shows. Low IQ cannot be overcome. Love the excuses lol its the landlords fault 😂
As a black man,I understand this as black denial and nothing more.
@Buddy Brickhouse wow nice racist ass banner picture on your page. Fucking douche!
Liar! You're not black!
@Van Helsing anti white propaganda ? Get the fuck out of here! You can keep going through life thinking you got the short end of the stick . All I'll do is sit back in laugh at your "white genocide" lol. Seriously, go fuck yourself . I even say that with a kiss 😘
@Van Helsing How old are you? Have you not known about the violent mess this place has been in for decades?
It's a war zone.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has a new book.
Priceless Interviews !!! This video is the definition of the WORD “Archive” !!📽🎞📺
I love these old clips, learning about black history from a different perspective
facts my blk brother 💯🤝🏿
43:20 She nailed it straight thru! why would the black leadership should govern the city if they themselves don't live in Compton?? I know this clip is old but damn, these folks are speaking facts!!
I came to Compton in 1971 from East a Los Angeles housing project. I'm a resident of 50 years; Compton had been pledged with POLITICAL CORRUPTION. It's used as a political stepping stone for politicians. We've been exploited by black politicians as well as white politicians. Compton Is rich in taxes from our industrial areas. I remember the lady in this video interviewed in her store. I've met older white Compton residents through life; who have very fond memories of life in COMPTON CALIFORNIA. My street was about 50/50 and the most wonderful place in the world. My white neighbors baked goods for us and welcomed us with opened arms. We loved our white neighbors; they got old. MY WHITE NEIGHBORS GOT OLD AND; stupid shit started happening. Stupid things; like my elder white neighbors were getting robbed and burglarized. Their white kids that had moved on; came and got mom and dad. The smart white people didn't sell; I have one who's moved back that, probably grew up in the house. My white neighbors are coming back to Compton and they; LOVE IT LIKE ME. I'll Die a Compton resident.
When I was a kid I always heard Compton wasn’t safe. Then I went when I was like 9 in 1989 and was nicer than my neighborhood. All bs from media just like this interviewer Bill Curtis. Racist.
I love your post my friend.
Oh wow your still a Compton resident ? That’s awesome and you remember this white couple interviewing ? Did they eventually leave Compton ? I heard a lot of whites are moving back into Compton these days ? I live here in Long Beach and sometimes I drive into Compton to just go to the gateway to shop. It’s not that bad as it seems but the streets on Central need some fixing
Street repair is a constant Compton short fall. City politics are better and the sherif DESPERATELY NEED BODY-CAMERAS.
Compton had a chance to be like Atlanta, like the new mayor said at the end of the video, it takes a new mindset. Great video
Are modern day democrats watching this? You have African American citizens complaining about excessively high taxes (which the mayor even admits are high). That same African American mayor (a democrat) openly blamed his city's crime problem on repeat offenders being returned to the community by a "white liberal judge" (the mayor's exact words). The same African American citizens also blamed the criminal justice system for the high crime and wanted MORE money for the police department.
When the blacks began moving into Compton in the late 1950s, they had a middle class utopia. When LBJ later launched his War on Poverty and infused welfare money, HUD regulations and other entitlements into Compton, property owners stopped caring about the condition of their lots since they were now getting guaranteed government subsidies for their tenants; neighborhoods began to deteriorate and the very WORKING African American residents of 10 years prior began moving away along with the whites. Blue collar worker: Out. Government dependents: In.
Also, take note of how well spoken the African Americans are in this video; from the man on the street to the politicians. These people were educated in a time where the basics were actually taught in school and long before the politically correct Marxists mucked up curricula with their leftist agenda. Compton is a perfect case study for what happens when big government runs amok. The democrat party has shit all over blacks for 200 years and this video goes a long way in proving that.
At this point, globalisation was taking place and this began to create the poverty in inner-city towns.
Very well said. Agree 100%. A black person of that era, with only a high school education had 10 times more common sense and decency and knew how to have an informed opinion way better than most young millennials do today. It’s also pretty eye-opening that even back in 1971, the blacks who were good law-abiding citizens knew their community needed MORE police to combat high crime, not less! If someone had told them that 50 years later that politicians would be considering to defund local police departments, they would have rightly looked at you like you were insane!!!
Bravo! You nailed it!
My family migrated from Mexico and landed in Compton and they have stayed there don’t judge a community let’s make it better
Too late for that shit kid
Naw we good.
It’s still ghetto over there my we grew up poor too but as soon as my mom saw I was taking an interest in the streets she did the right thing and got me out... we moved to the hills and bought me a horse... and we were poor God can do anything....
Eli Acosta new comer 🙄
@@scottmedina7365 you wasn't poor if u can afford to move and buy a horse lol
This black man handle every question with dignity and is still right and true till this day everywhere every rual area
I'm glad once the oppressive people left they could flourish.
This black man? He has a name
Thank you for this upload.
This footage is classic! My family been in the city since early 70’s ! 120th Central!
South Side Crips
Back in 1979 my Aunt lived in Compton and we heard gun shots and screams all night lol I never went back there again!!!! My Aunt finally left a year later and moved to NJ
Now Northern NJ is a war zone.
Ricochet exactly
Out of the frying pan and in to the fryer. I used to live in Newark and Elizabeth
Kyle Davis I grew up in Elizabeth and had a lot of family in Newark, they was bad too but no where near as bad as Compton and South Central LA
jason9022 well she had a much better life in NJ dummy.
I wish we could have these open and honest questions and answers nowadays without being labeled racist. I mean on both sides of the issues. All of these people were very well spoken and honest and only by that can we maybe come together. It's sad what's happened to race relations in this country. I really thought in the late 90s we almost had it licked but we've went backwards.
"Very well spoken" 🙄
ck no cap. Its bs and sad.
@ck seriously
The Blacks, the guy around 50 minutes says, came from the South and had 300 years of lesser education when the need was for high skilled workers. So which genius decides to take them from the South with the apparently ill equipped education to a place where high skilled workers were needed? What a way to bomb the potentially out of what should be a paradise.
Logic tells me that high skilled workers would be lured into places like Compton because California is the perfect environment, but no once again the crooks in government, and their paymasters, need to put that kosher seal of destruction on it.
@@nationalsocialist8382 "Kosher seal of approval?" Should change your screen name to National Nazi
They cut that brilliant black man of at 36:35, he was foreshadowing Compton's achievements and looked at a problem reacted to and found a solution not handed one but found one.
We lived in Compton from 64 to 68 on Culver between poplar and School st. Now days every home looks like a fortress and the streets seem smaller than I remember.
The Og white lady who called them cowards is a 💯💯💯 The white treasurer of cpt a 💯💯💯
Robbed 4 times. ....you have nothing to be afraid of. Lol. What a liberal turd
The whites that moved out are "cowards " but the blacks that moved out "oh I dont understand "
Typical white liberal response
40:25
@@bobbyg433, yeah it seems that she's also calling you a coward.
Don't be afraid sir. Human is as human is.
Everyone has the capacity, nay desire, for love.
@@bobbyg433, if you go to 54:44 you hear a real issue with "liberalism", but it's not the decent shop owner trying to live right in her community.
SUB PRIME LOAN SCHEME IN 1971 THESE POOR SOULS NEVER STOOD A CHANCE AGAINST THE SYSTEM
Not to mention the CIA supported crack epidemic in the 80s
You do a great job you're really good at this keep it going and thank you.
In today's climate that treasurer would be fired before the interview was even over. You get the sense that what the interviewer would really like to say is 'see, we let 'you people' have somewhere nice to live and look what happens'. It's amazing to watch these social documentaries fifty years on.
I was raised in Paramount (1966-1983), which is right next to Compton. My family did most of our grocery shopping in Compton. I had all kinds of friends that lived there as well, and for the most part, I never had any problems in Compton the when I was there. It was like part of our area in Paramount, they both looked the same. Our population was mostly white, & Hispanic, and Compton' s population was mostly black, but we all worked, shopped, and played together with no real problems, least not when I lived there. I do like seeing this old footage when it shows the streets, and old town center, brings back memories. By the way, me, and my family are white. Very interesting old news report here, thanks for showing it. Bob. G
66-83 that was still a period where Compton had its issues but was still relatively high and low with the crime. By the late 80s it had changed completely from how you knew it
Crime was still relatively low those years it exploded in the mid 80’s all the 90’s until the 2000’s due to drugs and gangs obviously. Compton is still not the best area but it has improved drastically from especially the 90’s. And for those who don’t know real estate in Compton is super expensive for what the inventory consists off in todays market just like the rest of LA including the ghettos.
@@stonervilleinc5964do you think real estate in SoCal will ever go back down to reasonable prices? Or does it seem like it’s doomed forever…
@@Balal8281 As far as “reasonable” in So Cal or Most of California in general never. I believe real estate in certain areas only of so cal will take a dip maybe 10% to 25% max in the next year or two because as much as I hate to say it a lot of folks will lose houses, cars, jobs, etc. it’s going to get kind of ugly in the next year or two. Will not be a real estate bubble and bust like it was in the early 2000’s though.
By the way my friends dad has over 10 houses paid for in Compton he used to buy them in cash in the late 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s used to get them cheap around $30,000-$100,000 from owning and operating a muffler shop in Compton aswell. Back when Real Estate was affordable in California especially LA area.
I love this Ill old school content man keep it coming, I don’t know how you get it you probably don’t wanna give that info up but I just got nostalgia in my bones for times that wadnt mines.. anyway keep it coming
Thank you for sharing your footage
It all starts with the parents, not programs.
Bum uh the issue is systemic racism. Redlining, predatory loans, lack of employment. It’s a vicious circle
@@vivahernando1 yes those issues are there but what about the foreigners who come to this country and do better than many black American born men and women.
@@FaithandNova their families weren't robbed of generations of wealth due to policies put in place to disadvantage black americans since slavery. please use your access to RUclips to educate yourself on the history of your countrymen and women. Search Jim Crow Laws for starters.
Faith Kings the reason foreigners come here and do better is because they get help. It’s so easy for them to get business loans. $50,000 they give foreigners to start their new life.
@ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure
In 1960, 4 out of 5 african americans were born to two parent households. Now it's 1 in 5. What happened?
I had to do some extra work back in 2008 at a cemetary in Compton .. I could tell that Compton used to be a white city at one time by the names on the graves stones...
You re not saying they were all killed?
watching your videos take me back to my childhood to my age of 28. Miss all the good black folk i used to know so well.
I grew up in the 60s & 70s & I think the Afro”s were so beautiful & those sideburns, we called em chops, man I sure wish they’d come back ! We definitely looked different & I loved it !
In the ghetto and his mama cried
74% black. Nothing else needs to be said
I would love to see how some of these people are today or how the locations changed
It Was An Honor To Visit your Side Of Town... (Compton). Cali Love ❤️
JIM JONES ✌🏿✌🏿
When the brother alluded to white on black violence the interviewer move right on to a different conversation! He didn't want to touch that one! The more I watch these videos the more I realized they really do study us!
I peeked that😮
Was this the reason for the decline?
Good historical film, but it ignores a very important thing - the dysfunction inside the homes. The gangs and other criminals don't materialize out of thin air. They come from dysfunctional homes. RUclipsr, Tommy Sotomayor relentlessly addresses this issue.
thats not why gangs started
@@jacanewkirk6511 I'm not talking about the history of why they started in the past. I'm talking about why they continue to this day. Most of these gangs wouldn't exist if the gang members grew up in stable households.
@@jacanewkirk6511 well games existed before such as the mobsters and cowboys however they weren't everywhere and the government wasn't incentivizing people by putting them on welfare which made the mother have to work because there was no one else in the home to work so her kids got into mischief and joined gangs things that would not happen or would be extremely unlikely to happen if they had grown up in a two parent home, which by the way before 1965 most black people grew up in a good two parent home with two loving parents if there was dysfunction it wasn't as bad as it is now and of course there are exceptions and there was alcohol abuse and other abuse but it was affect that most people even during segregation and Jim Crow had a father in the home and had a more stable family life where crime and gang violence were rare even in minority communities.
It stems from the black man having no problem being absent where his kids are concerned. As in turn his father was largely absent (and he seemed to cope)
To many kids ! Kid after kid to single moms and the poverty just grows. The folks in this film from 1971 would be shocked to see that the problem has spread wider and is 100 times worse
They had birth it since 1971
Anyone else notice how bill curtis says “black”
Hell yeah. With an extra emphasis that implies disgust.
i dint scroll down before i replied... that shit there. and what folk doesn't understand, is that by saying the word like that, he (media) deliberately contributes to the thought that "Ba-lacks" r vile, prone to violence and ignorance and LACKING in any ability to "fix" "their problems."
The term "African American" did not fucking exist back then. Black folks were considered American.
Thanks for the history lesson that no one asked you for. Btw, saying "Bah-lack" like Curtis does, as if it were two syllables has nothing to do with your unwanted and underwhelming insight.
I just said that in my comment.lol...he said the "BblaaCK"dream.lol
In minutes 40:05 the lady said they moved to Compton 50 years ago Amazing, thar was in the 1920's. Which by now it has been 100 years. From the time of this documentary, 1972, to now, it has been 50 years.
I noticed that to
@@brian2498 i didn't get what she said about an Indian with arrow behind retreat . Tell me
@@karmaandgod390 what she meant is it’s not as dangerous as you think.
They still live there today.
Shes 123 y.o and hes 135.
@@karmaandgod390 Also, Americans once considered Indians (Native Americans) a threat, believe it or not.
Continually impressed with Hezakya news. Too bad we don't get great stuff like Hezakya on regular TV. The man knows whats good period end of story!!! EVERYONE KNOWS THIS WAS ALL ON TV AT SOME POINT
Regular TV is in decline. Less and less influence. There is so much great as well as shyte content online it is mind blowing.
I just found this channel this morning.
Agreed!!
@@woodforthetrees3496 are you stupid or something? Did you just find out it was all on TV?
The gang members that watch this should be ashamed. Look at the foolish questions that these professional black men and women had to answer.
“Can black government themselves”...is just as mean spirited as asking can whites not be racist?” Still those black and the whites answered with intelligence and wisdom.
These gangsters were and still are losers to the highest degree. I never realized until watching this video how much damage we did to ourselves. I knew this, but to see the quality of blacks back then, these the children that destroyed this dream community is horrifying.
But the truth is, we will not learn this lesson. We will glorify gangs. Sure they are interesting to watch in movies or listen to on rap, but living in a community like that is a nightmare for the families who are trying to make it.
God bless Compton! And I pray for a Compton renaissance.
You said it right, we are our own enemy.
the gangsters can’t even put a full sentence together without sounding dumb, it’s ridiculous who we take as our stars and role models
As a brown skinned person of Middle eastern decent I would love to know why blacks always want to follow whites into neighborhoods? I mean if they don't want to live with you why would you want to live with them? Create your own beautiful neighborhoods, My neighborhood in suburban Detroit is almost exclusively Arab as all the whites moved out and property value has sky rocketed sinced they left, I dont care if they dont wanna stay..Bye bye we will take care of own. I will continue to pay my property taxes and be a good and productive member of my community. And No we did not bring money from the old country. We are from the poor Arab nations of Lebanon, Yemen and Palestine-NO OIL MONEY or Tax Free businesses like the myth goes.
Oogah Boogah Go back to the Middle East.
Same like California... The property just took off...
@@josecarranza7555 Another loser who thinks Americans will accept him if rocks a Cowboys T-shirt
Oogah Boogah I don’t care about anyone’s acceptance. Weird comment from you.
Jose Carranza you know exactly what I am talking about. Be proud bro, no matter how much you brown nose them they will never accept you. This lesson has been completed Now go away “Hozay Karranza” sound so Anglo to me lol
This was interesting to watch. Everything I knew about Compton up until now was learned from listening to NWA, and watching John Singleton movies.
Wow! This was 49 years ago, I was born in 1971.
Me too!!!
my mom was born 1971 lol
Yup you old asf
I was in high school in the SF Valley!
@@vickiladu6755 What was it like?
I love the head of the chamber! He wasn't going to fall for the okie doke. Bless his soul.
I GREW UP IN COMPTON AND I GRADUATED FROM COMPTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN 1971 AND THERE'S ALWAYS 2 SLIDES OF THE STORY!...THIS IS THE MEDIA SIDE OF THE STORY AND THERE'S ALSO THE COMMUNITY RESIDENTS SIDE OF THE STORY!...MY FAMILY MOVED TO COMPTON, CALIFORNIA FROM LONGBEACH, CALIFORNIA AT AROUND 1957 OR 1958 AND I MOVED OUT OF COMPTON AFTER I GOT MARRIED IN 2005 AND MOVED TO ADELANTO, CALIFORNIA!
TODAY IN 2021, I THINK COMPTON HAS COME ALONG WAY TO THE POINT THAT MY OLD HIGH SCHOOL (COMPTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL) IS BEING REBUILT INTO A STATE OF THE ART BRAND NEW CAMPUS AND I HOPE THAT THE CLASS OF 71 COULD HAVE OUR CLASS REUNION THERE!...SO IF YOU ARE READING MY COMMENT AND GRADUATED IN 71 FROM COMPTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, REPLY TO ME AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OUR 2021 50 YEAR CLASS REUNION AT THE NEW CSHS CAMPUS!...GOD BLESS! 😇
BTW!...My understanding is that Aja Brown the New Mayor of Compton, Ca. has made a lot of Improvements to the City of Compton, Ca....May God be with her Always! 😇
I hope you had a great hs reunion!
@@caliconservative20WE HAVEN'T HAD OUR REAL CLASS OF 71 CLASS REUNION YET!...BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC WE HAD TO SCALE DOWN TO A OUTSIDE PICNIC IN LONGBEACH, CA.
WE (CLASS OF 71 FROM COMPTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TARBABES) PLAN TO HAVE A REAL CLASS REUNION ON OCTOBER 15, 2022 (TENTATIVELY)!...IF YOU KNOW ANY TARBABES OF THE CLASS OF 71 HELP PASS THE WORD!...THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS! 😇
I love the channel thank you for providing valuable information, insight, and perspectives of life back then. Paints a more clear picture.
Great post.
People dont know that there were middle class blacks in Compton even in the 1930s. it was about half black and half white back in those days. some black families were often wealthier than the white families back then. Whites didn't move because blacks moved in as most people believe they just moved because of the crime that moved in. and as stated so did blacks. I know this because I would have conversations of this with my father on the phone just months before he passed away. he was born and lived in Compton till he was almost 8 and then moved to Hawaii were my grand-dad was stationed as a civilian contractor for the navy base on Oahu, in early 1941 at age 8 with his older brother and father after their mom died fairly young. My grandfather brought them back to LA after Pearl Harbor was attacked. When they came back things were still the same but by 1950s gangs started becoming a problem in LA. they moved to West covina after that. it was nothing new in the 1970s. it just got worse, faster. but then the Freeway Rick Ross days of the 1980s and CIA pushing drugs into LA and the US like Oakland, Camden, etc etc. the 1980s made 1971 Compton look like a much happier place to be. Sh8T got real, real quick.
i guess you didnt hear the part where the man said that hwites were beating on blk people ehh
In the 1930s it was less than 1% black. Just before 1945, Compton was about 5% black and 95% white. These statistics are easy to look up.
Thank you for that history lesson!
Loss of industrial jobs was a big issue for strife in black neighborhoods
Exactly
That older white couple stayed until they could not. Those other people are cowards” yup even if they left later, at least they tried.
@B luv Sims lol, that is not what I was saying. You need to not be online getting all mad at comments. Even if that was what I meant. Anyway, what I was saying like aww! That older white couple, and that those that attacked were cowards. That’s why I said that even though they left, they tried.
I get what you are saying and what she was trying to say. Her message is positive.
I am one of the few people that have lived in hillbilliy and get toe areas. Both are the same. So really, what divides people for me is not race, not even money. Its behavior. Its attitude. Its personal responsibility.
Like she said "they wanted the town, and they gave it to them and left". This is a control study of blacks and crime. Can't blame whites if they were not even there or in charge of the govt.
Why was Charles miller cut off just as he was speaking the most profound words I heard in this piece?
U know exactly why he was cut off! He wasn’t going with the narrative that the reporter was trying to push
the interview wasn't over the creator of this channel faded from it. I'm sure you can find the full interview in archives or RUclips. Leave the conspiracy theories alone.
Suge was lurking around on his bike back then
George Bush (Head of CIA, US President) used to live in Compton before it turned into an AA community. Make the connection to Iran Contra, crack, NWA-gangsta rap...George Bush was the kingpin using Compton as a means to achieve an ends in the 1980s-90s.
You're focusing on an irrelevant fact, namely Bush living in Compton when it was still white, in the late '40s/early '50s. Like, he lived lots of places where the CIA's product -never caught on- was not distributed to, and didn't live in many places where it was. He lived in a then-white place in SoCal. The end.
@@fun_ghoul LA/Compton gangs were used to spread Iran Contra crack all across America and movies like Colors, Boyz N The Hood made them ghetto superstars. Hollywood-Music Industry, a CIA tool, are both a part of the US Military Complex. George Bush invited NWA's Compton resident Eazy E to the White House when he was President...another fact. Obviously you have no clue what you are posting about but that's not unexpected given your RUclips name. All the best I'm done.
@@fun_ghoul Actually Compton was a black suburb then. Lincoln Perry (Steppin Fetchit), Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Dorothy Dandridge, Hattie McDaniel, all them black celebs from that era lived in Compton. They couldn't live in Beverly Hills next to Jack Benny, segregation was just as prominent in the North as the South.
@@GarwinWayne Being home to some -rich- solidly middle class Black movie stars who were shut out of Beverly Hills homes by white supremacy /= Compton being predominantly or primarily Black. It wasn't, and wouldn't be for years. Broccoli Man was gone by '51, before that transformation and before his CIA debut.
As long as white supremacy and capitalism dominate, there will always be:
-enclaves for whites-only (with exceptions only made for extreme wealth and/or treason against one's own people)
-select areas where petit bourgeois of all colours can co-mingle*...but with the same kkkops as elsewhere
(*By "co-mingle", I just mean "live in the same neighbourhood" and perhaps "live on the same street"; I know segregation was still in full swing in every other way, including schools, businesses and the "redlining" that kept many otherwise-qualified Black people - especially servicemen and their families - from owning homes)
-low-income areas, with varying levels of apartheid from the usual amount in the two above examples, right up to Klansmen burning crosses on the lawns of lone Black trailer park residents
(Post-Spanish colonial) Compton started out as the first, then became the second with Japanese settlement in the 1920s. I hesitate to say it ever became #3, because I'm not sure it's ever been _cheap_ to live in Compton in terms of housing costs (happy to hear examples on this either way from Californians)...but it's suffered a lot of the same bullshit as full-fledged public housing projects and low-rent shithole apartment buildings for the reasons and in the timeline that "Ice Man" outlined above.
I'm simply saying that "Bush lived there, and then all of a sudden, thirty years later...BOOM! Crack epidemic." is fucking lazy scholarship, with nothing I could find which comes close to backing it up.
We all have our pet theories, like me and my theory about who installed Trump in office (it was the Clintons, of course, at the behest of their capitalist paymasters). That's fine, but don't present them as fact (but without any _facts_ ) and then get mad when people pick that shit apart.
IceManLikeGervin John Singleton and the Hughes bros are CIA propaganda masters? Didn’t Singleton make snowfall (a dramatization of Webb’s dark alliance series)? It seems strange that the CIA sponsor the dramatization of an event they vehemently deny. That’s some heavy and confusing false flag shit right there.
Is that Bill Kurtis doing the interview? The voice sounds so familiar and I have been sitting here trying to place it. That IS Bill Kurtis.
Excellent documentary.
It's amazing how much more articulate everyone was back then.
Now you can hardly understand anyone
This is so telling!! Anyone who has not seen The Battle For Compton should check it out it really confirms what that movie was saying
This makes me nostalgic. The culture back then was full of "Elephant's in the room" abstract speach, very liminal, full of wonder and optimism, full of what In hinesight appears as unfounded hope, but also full of division and hatred, bigotry, denialism.. A truly different world yet leading towards the present one.
Perfectly captured how they spoke back then . Like, exactly that. It’s so interesting to hear this and comparing it to eras
@@kristianmanning6482 agreed 💯!
@40:00 What a lovely couple I hope they had a wonderful life.
My father worked as a TV repairman for Mr. Nygard’s TV shop. Mr. and Mrs. Nygard both were the nicest people I’ve ever met. Around 1980, after the third armed holdup (the last one where the perpetrator put Mr. Nygard in a headlock and held a gun to his temple) they sold the shop and moved out of Compton fearing for their lives.
@@adamjhuber, sheesh that's so unfortunate if true.
If anything, it's unfortunate because it shows such a disconnect between the perpetrators of such an act and reality.
There is another old vid from the 80's I think, with an old Korean lady who met the guy who robbed her at gunpoint and he said that when he committed it, it was just fun for him and he really no other thoughts beyond just having "fun".
I imagine their robbers were more just thinking about money but either way the fact that people can be so removed from the actual harm they inflict on folk is hard to comprehend.
@@adamjhuber
😂😂, the libtard wife said the “White’s”that moved out previously were “Cowards.” The goofy woman finally became “woke.” 😂😂
@@lukewarme9121 she’s right they should’ve stand their ground
That old lady at 38.00 was honest, tough and forthright, but also had a kind heart. I hope she was in some sort of leadership role. Whether it be a teacher or a Senator or anything else.
Are you the ripper from leeds?
By product of America's manufacturing base closing in America and going overseas. GM southgate plant gone, Ford Long beach plant gone, Firestone and Goodyear plants gone, etc.
Fascinating video. My (white) family is from the LA basin (Wilmington, Bell, Bellflower) and mostly stayed through the white flight, but there was so much pressure to move because real estate agents would literally go from house to house saying "sell now before you can't." And as the older couple said, once a black family moved in to a neighborhood, white families just wouldn't buy there anymore. I guess the fear of the unknown fed into the deep-seated racism of some people. The irony of course is that the black people moving into Compton weren't gang members but usually educated professionals just looking for a safe and clean place to raise their families.
if we being real about it, it was That generation of Kids who went ape shit.... there werent no 40 year olds out doin all that wild shit that was 15 year olds to 25, MAINLY. Yes you had others but Mainly those younger ages... tearing shit tf up. But to be fair, they were Brainwashed AND positive groups infiltrated so some powerful people WANTED all that crap to happen... just like Now, theyre trying to get all the kids cool with Long hair/Gays etc...its so obvious
Or maybe the people that were looking for a house recognized a pattern of behavior? Why would you buy a house in an area that had an increasing crime rate? That doesn’t make a person racist to want his family to be safe. It makes him a smart consumer. Maybe you’re racist because you feel the need to brag about staying in a black neighborhood, as if that makes you a good person.
Compton in the 1950s (prior to white flight) was an ideal place to live and raise a family. Crime was pretty much non existent. Believe it or not,..
Terran Wilder and those minority’s accepted the drugs and fucked up their community. You have no to blame but yourself for being stupid.
The older white couple were cool and Fran was the real og of Compton she was speaking facts and Crazy to think 2 former presidents lived in Compton and a legendary actor
Don't forget Dre
The days TooKie and Raymond ran the streets
I'm sure some of the people shown in this archive video crossed paths with raymond and tookie
They was still baby bangers in 71
@@LinwoodPowell maybe tookie was but not Raymond. Crippin was only 2 years old.
Great doc
The audio from this was used at the beginning of Dre's Compton album.
Hip hop is for child MOLESTERS!, fuck beyonce !.
Look at Compton now. It's a total nightmare.
compared to what it used to be it aint that bad anymore
Well it’s 60-70 percent Hispanic now 😂
It is still @@jessedeniz1595
The video spoke on the fact black people do not support black businesses...Damn...
Tbh the crips really destroyed the community the bloods formed initially in response to defend themselves against the crips they terrorizing the community
Yep.
Not saying Blood sets were "the good guys". But the Crips changed banging completely.
The war the started spread from South LA to Compton.... to NYC in 20 or so years....
It was the crack epidemic that really changed the game. Not the crips or bloods
The most fascinating part of this is the largely well-meaning white people speak so matter of factly about race.
Now political correctness reigns.
I lived in Compton and remember white ppo next door and on our street and then none. when our house got broken into twice I thought it was the neighbors next door. I remember going in their house and it was in terrible condition and very unsanitary there was a single mother of two boys that she clearly had no control of. They would constantly come in our yard and vandalize with no consequences. There was another white family, mind you I was born in 1971 so they were probably the last ones to leave. We moved to Lynnwood and then back to Compton in the late 80s. I had a lot of bad experiences in Compton concerning bullying and gang violence but when we moved to the high desert (Adelanto Hesperia Victorville ares) that's when it was bad low to no income drug infested apartment riddled neighborhoods and I wished to be back in Compton. The Mexican family took over every home that blacks moved from in Compton trying to copy the white exodus of the early 60's & 70's trying to move away from and ironically ended up in the same thing but worse. I think each community should be aware and vigilant in their own community and work on and expect the best from what they put in and instead of leaving make it what you want it too be. Suga free said it best, "You can't run from yourself because everywhere you go there you are." In essence ppo should take accountability for their own actions and control their situation and standards of life and living.
I also knew Eric Easy E. Wright and Andre Dr. Dre Young. They were a lot older and as soon as they got big moved out and continued the degradation of the city with their lyrics but the Compton police department wasn't in my opinion therto protect and serve the community. I think the whole thing was set up to make a whole of a race of ppo look bad and keep them separated and segregated from everyone else.
'Do you think we have an Indian with an arrow behind every tree?" WOW!!! Man, that is priceless...especially in the context of this video.
EPIC
Fascinating historical piece
The reporter definitely thinks "the black" isn't capable of achievement based solely on their own merits. He seems to discredit any statements that don't support his prejudice. He isn't very open minded.
How right LBJ was and he destroyed a people by turning bastard breeding into a noble well compensated occupation.....it’s very sad and I would be upset too if my father was forced out of the house and illegitimacy was encouraged and rewarded instead of skills and hard work....
Should kids of parents who were unemployed for various reasons have starved?
What starts with a ‘N’ and is the worst thing you can call a black
Man??
Neighbor
Dumb
Ummmmm🤦🏾♀️
This would be good for people to see right about now.
That interviewer sure asked a lot of leading questions. But I think the people interviewed did a really good job not taking the bait, and gave really thoughtful answers.
This is priceless historical context seems like nothing has changed 🤷🏻♂️
A lot has change.
love Is real name 5 changes
Maybe if we vote Democrat it will get better
@@nobodymovebutme why
@@stacchk64dta37 i was being sarcastic.
The way he emphasized "black tho".lol. He said the "BblaaCK" dream.
🤣 thought I was the only one that notice look damn blaaack
😂😂😂
2 Parent Homes, Community involvement- Take care of your own- No liquor stores- Honest churches, Consistency, All Books a priority- Parents do not allowing your children to bang
James Brown (7:00) is like What violence we don’t have .... wait, oh it do happens at night when the outsider come in😂🤣😜🤪😛
sowhatbitch103 no these dudes seem like they were the original pirus and they talking about crips
Compton is 66% Hispanic in 2019.
Crime is also the lowest since this time
Depends Compton has alot of unincorporated areas. For instance West Compton is 50% Black and the area that borders Watts is 60%.
soo..
You can thank thug culture, illegal immigration with decades of anchor babies for this 😐. statistically blacks have been moving out since 1990
@@NAT-turners-Revenge Mexicans have always been in Compton. They have been a majority since the late 90s. Are there still alot of black folks in Compton yes. The ones that left did it on their own. Most moved to other parts of LA or Moreno Valley.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Going from manufacturing to a service economy made it worst.