What It's Like Growing Up Black in Atlanta 💯 Growing Up Black On VH1
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2021
- Growing Up Black: Atlanta is the third chapter in a series dedicated to interviewing people from cities across the country to explore their personal experiences around systemic racism, what it’s like growing up black in America, the importance of voting in local elections, and their feelings/experiences around the Black Lives Matter movement today.
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“Don’t confuse GA with Atlanta” facts 😩
Ong
Exactly. There's a huge huge difference.
Just like "New Orleans" and "Louisiana"🤣🤣
Atlanta just so happen to be the capital of Georgia. If you want to be 100 the county of Atlanta is Fulton County
What's the different New Birth?
I visited Atlanta many years ago when I was around 10 or 11. Its definitely BLACK black, a whole different vibe.... its not uncommon to see black celebrities in the same stores/malls as you on a daily basis.
You went to downtown then.
At the Lennox Mall u can!
Yea a ghetto vibe lol
I’m black but Atlanta was too much for me babyyyy
@@twentysecondcenturywoman b bobby
@@B-Ray.lyfestyle you ain’t been to Houston then because I’m from Atlanta and stay in Houston and i can’t walk on every side of Houston and be safe vs when I was in Atlanta
So many cities need to be part of this. Birmingham, Memphis, Jackson, New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, L.A., New York, D.C., DFW, Houston, Miami, San Fran Bay Area, Philly, Boston, Hampton Roads, Baltimore, Charlotte, and others.
Cleveland
Noooo just Atlanta..
Agreed! Even midsized to small cities should be shown.
Like Cleveland
Ayee! Birmingham in the house! 🙋🏽♀️
They need to do a growing up black in DC/DMV segment. I think people often forget the DC area’s rich black heritage
Chocolate City!
I agree
I put Growing Up Black to see if it would pop up ....if they do it ( since they’ve done New Orleans and NY ) ...they need to not just spotlight KD
i agree with this
Pro tip : you can watch series on flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching all kinds of movies lately.
"What city you know ran by a lady name keisha" I FW IT 👏🏿🔥
Keisha an Italian name tho
@@lovelydae7455 ok and?
Yasss
Being black in America is crazy. I love how Atl is full of black excellence.
You dont know every black person america to say that lol.
@Ro Mo yes exactly tf.
Agreed and agreed. Lots of notable success from that city which is EXCELLENT to see.
Really though alot of successful black folks it’s amazing to see hope to see some of yall in the future
@@albertwilson8842 the news i see it all the time it’s tiring
Wow Atlanta’s Mayor is gorgeous ❤️
She is! 💖😍
“How many cities you know run by a woman named Keisha?”
Yes inside, and out! A beautiful person...❤
Yeah I felt bad for her because she became mayor at a bad time and got a bad rap from covid to police shooting and the baby that was Shot, it was alot plus they people she choose to have her back turned on her. It was sad to hear about.
If they do this for every major city, this show is gonna be successful
@N M you're a snowflake ❄️
Growing up in Washington, D.C. 👏🏾 #NortheastDC
@@Tocinos and you’re a dirt flake, you should be ashamed of yourself to have a pic of Mac Miller as your profile, he wouldn’t think highly of your opinion
@@MO-ch6ni you literally don't even have a profile pic. I've seen indonesian bots with more effort
@@Tocinos I’m glad you don’t disagree with my initial comment. Hahaha keep thinking I don’t have a profile pic because I haven’t put in the effort to apply one XD it’s called giving people no idea who you are or your interests. You should learn from the Indonesian bots
Atlanta is the perfect mix of everything, you get all that southern culture and charm, but also African American culture and art, plus whatever else got thrown in there
@dooks onu just say u racist
@dooks onu you dont even know who's African American or not so yes it's racist. Black people in America today are comprised of many more segments that you never mentioned when you pinned your complaint all onto one with no basis. U also said at first, "all African-Americans have done..." and then you said 90% and excluded it to your own community. That's only racism.
You're the only person who has said anything about white people, you're also the only person talking about anybody potentially thinking they're better than anyone and the only one relating "a culture of drugs," etc. to a race. Again, yes, that's racist.
@dooks onu but no I said you excluded it TO your community, not that you exluded your community. As in, your first statement implies you were referring to all of Atlanta but then you spoke specifically of how it is where you are. It is unclear if you do think the same of all other areas and if so, it is unclear if your reasoning is because of a sweeping generalization unnecessarily based off the people you know, which indeed would be racist.
Crack …at least I hear Atlanta has a crack problem
I loved growing up in metro Atlanta. Nothing like being surrounded by your people with many of the same experiences you've gone through.
“what would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail” damn i really needed to hear that
Factss, me too💯
Lawd this is what I needed to hear!!!!
I swear!!! Definitely inspiring 🙌
Meaning your not scared to fail?
If you stay within 30 miles of Atlanta, you stay in "Atlanta" That's an automatic unwritten rule. When you ask the follow up question, "What part?" That's when you find out the area they really live.
It's just easier to say Atlanta bc everyone knows Atlanta. You mess around and say Marietta off top to someone who don't live here and they have no clue.
I can respect your logic.but remember if you got your own mayor ,police,etc then your not from atl
Another great episode loving this content. Great variety of interviews, i love how this lets ppl not only tell their story about the city they are from but also talk about themselves in a way that you really don’t see anywhere else. Keep it up!
As an Atlanta native whose lived and grown up in the "A" since 2004, simply put-the cultural, political, and economic opportunities that Atlanta allots Blacks, e.g. Generational/Legacy Wealth, A history of Black mayors, and viable Entrepreneurship/Business opportunities is unlike any other major U.S. city. Best place to live hands down. So glad my parent chose this City vs. somewhere where I’d have to fight for these things.
As a Harlem native the black culture and love in NYC definitely exists however compared to Atlanta I feel like what us black New Yorkers are missing is that southern hospitality. We’re so individual whereas Atlanta seems like you can go up to any black person and treat them like you’ve known them your whole life. The volunteer work and giving back to the community is greatly larger in ATL but don’t get me wrong I love my city our culture is 🔥🔥 and it always will be.
It’s because most of y’all are immigrants. Southern hospitality is a black American thing
The fact that 2 mayors are on this black excellence program 🙌🏿🇺🇸🖤, keisha bottoms & newly elected Andre Dickens
This needs to be on TV... not Growing Up or Love and Hip Hop
As a Ethiopian-American girl in atlanta, I love it here
This is a dope series idea. It wasn’t boring either. I didn’t check my phone not once 🤣. You can tell a lot of thought went into this. Great job.
Born and raised in College Park (SWATS stand up) Growing up the 80’s and 90’s you could only claim Atlanta if you were inside the perimeter. This Marietta is Atlanta thing is new to me... and no ma’am! Lolol
We still don’t claim them that is NORTH WEST GA 😅😂🥴 they can try it tho
Old Nat all day Southside Groovin!👌🏾
Stewart ave!! Grady baby!! I agree with you. Marietta is 15 hrs away stop the madness.
College park. Born and raised Crawford long born
Every time I talk to a person from Atlanta they say if you not from Fulton county then you not from Atlanta, don’t know how true that is but hey ain’t from there so iono lol
since yall can say who is from and not from Atlanta, I can say who is from and not from LA cause A LOT of people try to claim they’re from LA and they’re not.
@Kingletics We really do tho. Stop false claiming
@Kingletics yea seriously
@Xxxtentacion Edits yup east and west coast are overrated except for up North East which is underrated and south which is very underrated,south is where it’s at!
@Xxxtentacion Edits Nah, I’m from Georgia and it is slow compared to LA. LA is a vibe. I disagree
Explain the qualifications of this
Wow I’m from Gwinnett and I stay saying I’m from Atlanta we all do😭
If you're talking to someone not from ga and you're
Facts
i mean technically it’s considered metro atlanta
Yeah if you not from Atlanta lol. I’m from Decatur Ga Idgaf where I’m at. My grandma lived in Atlanta on campbelton rd but I’m not claiming Atlanta and neither should you.
@@airmane.9487 I’m from Decatur where you be? 😕
This was dope! Hopefully we get a “Growing up Houston, Or Growing up Miami” as well.
I don't know about houston, but miami most def.
Definitely growing up Houston. Miami everything is from the islands. So that’s different.
If they do a growing up Miami, and it don’t include Overtown, LibertyCity and Coconut Grove then it’s a no go. Jim Crow South beach isn’t Miami!
@@najaescott2926 Jacksonville has more black American culture than miami and the largest city in fl. North Fl is still Georgia South FL is carribean and afro hispanics. Florida is a strange state
Born & Raised in South Louisiana been in Atlanta for 11yrs its my home it Made Me 👑 become more accomplished & proud to be BlacK & GaY here !
Hell yeah
I always find it entertaining when people beef about who is and who isn’t from a city 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Omar Q me too...😂😂😂
Right! 🥴🤦🏾♀️
@@nelshaalvena give them a map and let them have at it 😂😂😂😂
@@Eaglesinthe732 🤣🤣🤣🤣😩
I live 45 mins from Atlanta, it is a great city especially for us. There are so many opportunities for us. I would never want to live there just because I hate the traffic and it only going to get worse because of population growth but yes it's a great city!
Yes! I hate the traffic my lil brother keep trying to get us to move up there! Lol ima stay right here in the country!🤣
You must stay in macon
I work in Decatur and cannot stand the traffic, and the cost of living is crazy.
🤫🤫🤫...
@@ronwatson6637 Nah. If they were from Mac Town they would have said it. Lol
ATL is my second home. I feel so “at home” when I’m in ATL. It feels like family when I’m there. Always great vibes. Love it 💖
this was so informative also atlanta anyone from their black should be proud beautiful programming need more programming like this good job vh1
This makes me feel so proud to be black 🥰😩
Atlanta and DC the only places I've been that I can say has an abundance of successful black entrepreneurs that make the city move. I've been blessed to go to most of the major cities and make money there. But Atlanta and DC are different when it comes to Black Excellence
True. DC is more classical, and old school.
Atlanta is more modern.
thank you Atlanta and the city of East point for showing me, a transplant white girl from Alabama, what love REALLY is. im proud to live here, im proud of my friends, im proud of Atlanta, God bless ♥️
When I went to Atlanta in 2016 I was literally amazed to see men and women dressed up at the mall. To see soooo many black ppl everywhere 👀 I was like wow
Its nice but there was a lot of bullies in my american highschool because black teens bullied other black teens and white teens bullied other white teens
I'm from South Carolina, so I always have to travel to Atlanta for events. I hate the hustle and bustle of traffic, but I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
Factssss he said people go there and don’t wanna go back home I swear when I visited my cousins I didn’t wanna go back to Chicago like damn😔
Of course who wants to go to Chicago?
@@Usrnamntfund dont do us
@@Usrnamntfund lol damn it’s like that huh🤧
im from NY,i been to ATL and i never wanted to stay,came back to NYC
@@innovativesyd it sucks
This was so lit, Cleveland needs one for sure
Definitely
why? genuinely curious
@@a.alphonso6193 why not?
@@a.alphonso6193 What kind of statement are you trying to make?!
People don't know how much actually has come out of Cleveland
I’m from Charlotte, NC and I think VH1 needs to do a growing up black episode here in Charlotte, NC as well. I used to live in Atlanta for one year from 2017 to 2018, and I think the Atlanta area and the Charlotte area have many similarities. The vibes are similar in my opinion.
Yesss I moved here too…it’s very similar just smaller. I love some charlotte 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾.
They need to come to Henderson
I heard charlotte and memphis are like smaller versions of atlanta. ive been to memphis but never charlotte
Charlotte is growing, it's going be big like the A, just go up 85 Charlotte is a beautiful city with this vibe I can't explain, I'm a otr driver so I seen it grow over the years.
like how? Charlotte to me is more family oriented
This short amazing documentary was amazing. What I have learned from this film is that we other cities can do way better along with ATL still striving Black Excellence. Right ATL is rising and never giving up on black folks business.
Politicians from around the world said texas will do great in the future except California because California is too diverse
As a black brit, i find this series so interesting! Please keep these up VH1, it would be great to see some other cities featured too :)
@HULKGRIN I’ve been there several times and have done my research. Run along now, thank you!
I moved to Atlanta in 2004 and met my now husband the following year. He was the 3rd person I had met that was actually born and raised in The A. Most ppl in Atlanta are not from here.
My husband graduated from Mayes as he would say although he and his sister went to college in Alabama he returned to Atlanta afterwards. When I came here from my small country town in Louisiana I knew this is where I was going to make a life for myself in meeting my husband we have done so. One of the best decisions in my life.
I’m SOOOO happy this was recommended 💛💛🙌🏿
80's-00s Atlanta was amazing you could literally work with an Atlanta salary and could actually own stuff. Now omg the place is expensive. I work a 6 figure job. Too me Charlotte and Raleigh is where Atlanta was 20 and 30 yrs ago thank goodness
The cost of living is gonna go up drastically in Atlanta cuz everybody & they mama want to move there now
Your prediction has come true 😅
@@Trexset0323😂😂
This was dope! I really enjoyed it 🔥🔥🔥
This was really good. I gotta go watch the NYC one.
I need to watch that one also. I’m from NYC but live 25 minutes outside of Atlanta
@@selfrespect4090 it was really goooodddd 💕
Great documentary! I love living here. And a lot of what they expressed is why.
ATLANTA DOES SOUND LIKE AN AMAZING PLACE!!! Sounds like a lot of RICH BLACK HISTORY
That was a nice overview of Atlanta. Makes me want to go visit again..There is so much more to see..That I didn't get chance to see my last visit..go ATL
Had soo much fun growing up in Atlanta I never knew how white America was 😅💀
There will be more black Americans by 2025 and china will be powerful than USA in 2027 😢
@@estelaangeles2346 who cheated on you?
Born in Atlanta, Grady Hospital.
I don't live there but I've been downtown many times and I love it! Especially the night life ❤️🖤
The first 5 seconds of the video is soooooo real!!!!! On GOD!!! 10/10
Apparently they’re not teaching world geography in Atlanta 😁cause none of them could answer the question
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wait are you serious? 😳
This is so Motivational, thank you for this video.
❤🖤💚 Overall this was pretty dope
Thanks for educating me on the difference between Old Atlanta and New Atlanta... I'm from TEXAS
Lol
Atlanta is basically the land of historical significance. With buildings like CNN Center, Georgia Aquarium, MLK Center and Centennial Olympic Park, defines who we are as blacks . I’ve lived in Atlanta for 3 years. #BlackExcellence
Buildings dont define us as black.... especially with all the gentrification that moves out the locals (usually black neighborhoods) and then raises taxes, builds expensive stores and restaurants, then the whites move in. It's called, "white flight" ..... been in atl for 31 years.
Maybe one day it'll just be excellence
@Ro Mo ikr
@Ro Mo And you sound like a troll. So lame.
Every single one of those you named probably has a white ceo behind it just saying 😂
This was so informative frfr. I plan on moving to ATL the end of the year.
I grew up in SWATS of Atlanta, Ben Hill ! I went to Mays High school I really enjoyed this.
Zone 4 baby!!!!
@@tonyblaze2897 ayyeeee 💯
Do Memphis and please put everybody on there
right!! that would be lit
Chileeeeee
Memphis?
Heck No
@@GetPrettyWithPuff No it wouldn’t
I'm not from GA but I lived in the North, South, East, and Westside of GA for 5yrs. I appreciated that move because the hospitality and support showed what my city was lacking. I love my hometown dont get me wrong but I love my second hometown as well.
I’m sorry I saw this as an ad and had to say growing up black in Atlanta is like growing up white in Texas like LMAO
Born at Grady Hospital, raised on Buford Hwy, moved to Gwinnett, and party in the city on the weekends 😎.....oh and quick reminder “STOP MOVING TO ATLANTA WE FULLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!”
btw i screamed when i seen miss lawrence that’s my friend in my head lol
My 1st flight was to ATL, back in 2018, and I must say that I absolutely fell in love with the city when I went 😍... cannot wait to get back there.
Just be happy and proud of who you are! I was born in Atlanta at home birth on Christmas Eve!
I went to Atlanta last weekend for the first and LOVED it.... it felt so good to see my ppl everywhere I went . To be hone being there was almost a culture shock because I’ve seen so many black in one place. It definitely a place I’m thinking about raising my children so they can see black excellence all around them . 💪🏾🤎👊🏾
That’s not just Atlanta u can see that anywhere in south mostly
@@oj4499 yup
@D M but if we speak that way were called racists. They want segregation. They want to cherry pick everything that comes with our culture of course all of these major us cities were once majority white. And the white cultures many of which were diverse have disappeared from these cities and been forgotten yet they dont care. The simple answer is they can't find black excellence everywhere because their communities amd culture are so far entrenched in ignorance and hypocrisy that they have allowed themselves to become the very thing they blame for their failures. Just a bunch of racists who change the definition of words in order to match their manipulative arguments.
@@jacobjones4766 What's white culture? I'm genuinely curious... Please educate me
@@jacobjones4766 you are forgetting about asian Americans
It's crazy because visiting and residing becomes different..my mom thought since she liked Los Angeles when she visited but when she moved it was completely different and she moved when she was able..
Your to far ahead of them...There gonna over look this one and learn the hard way
What difference
Where my Decatur GA gang at
👇🏾 zone 6
Zone 6 representin'.
Candler rd 😋
@@Sabrina11113 Liffey lane
@@mikeharris468 Ong
I’m Hispanic and white but half my family black including my kids and when I stayed in Atlanta for a few months I got nothing but love everywhere I went. I’ve never felt anything like it anywhere else I’ve been and I’ve been all over the country.
Born at grady and let me say Atlanta has changed over time .But man it is still crazy.Watch yourself. Glenwood 107 east Atlanta
I don't live in Atlanta,I did for a short time,but I worked at Clark for a short period.I got to see a few famous people coming in there.I liked it.I think I lived on Buena Vista street,over 15 year's ago.My husband was walkingfrom the bus station late night,had to pass the project's coming home.Three men tried to Rob him, he's from Newyork,he wasn't going down without a fight.They shot him three times,in the back of the Neck,it came through his mouth split his tounge.They told me at Grady memorial they didn't think he would make it but he did.
Omgggg I’m so sorry for your loss 🥺
All of a sudden I want to go to Atlanta 😩
I'm from Atlanta! Born and raised! Grady Baby!
This is awesome and empowering ✊🏼👐🏼
I’m from south cobb, so I just say I’m from the A to make it easier for everyone else outside of GA.
Yes I say the same when telling someone. People sometimes don’t understand. When trying to explain the out skirts. Since a lot of people just know Atlanta. Lol
I’m from Boston, soon moving to Atlanta and I love everything about this. I went to visit Atlanta for the first time and felt such a deep connection to the people, the place and the overall vibe of the city. It felt more like home than my own home town
Do you have a job in atl?
@@BJ-xm6bi not at the moment
Boston - Atlanta sounds like a successful move sis . God bless you on your journey . Im leaving the north shore too !!!!
Welcome can't wait to have u
Ditto 🤎
"What's it like growing up back in Atlanta"
I think the real question is what is it like growing up anything else in Atlanta
Yup... they said it themselves lol
Naw for real 😂😂😂😂😂
What are you trying to say? Are we being a little racist here?
@deltjon has to be a troll hahahaha
@@bigpeeks4764 I'm reporting your account. Your profile picture is very offensive. A white mask.. seriously?! You're trying to make a white power statement. That has no place here.
I wish there were more major black cities like Atlanta ..to grow up as a black person in a city like that will make any black kid feel like anything is possible fr 💯
Anything is possible regardless where you grow up. It's about the will and drive of the individual.
U not from the south
I love all of this influencers on this panel except “Light Skin Keisha”, which sounds ignorant in itself. Thank you too everyone else on this video, you have really made a difference in your city
This needs to be on TV too
Hahahaha this racist propaganda?
@@MO-ch6ni you guys call anything racist 😬 search up the meaning of the word
@@abiquil06 hahaha you guys.
I love my home I am a native and approve this video and message
Atlanta be lit everytime I visit
From Atlanta, Fulton county. 🤟
Absolutely WONDERFUL informative video ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
wow I loved this, well done 👍🏾
This is great , intriguing content.
Should do one in the DMV
I Absolutely agree . The DMV is the best in my opinion.
DC & PG county
The department of motor vehicles in Atlanta?
@@MO-ch6ni No, DC Maryland and Virginia
@@MO-ch6ni no silly 😹😹😹😹💀💀💀
I remember the 90s Atlanta. It was different. I remember when Riverdale, Clayton County, and Marietta still had white folks.
They still don't now. Lol.
I'm originally from SC but used to be in Stone Mountain and Atlanta in the summer time during the 90's...I live outside of Atlanta and I can say it has definitely changed, it seemed more genuine, hospitality back then compared to now
@@MST2312 it's most definitely different.
@@starquality5774 I agree...reality TV is one reason why lol
As a Atlanta native, we love our fellow black people. But don’t move here🤣... plz we crowded.
For real, traffic already bad enough
I was born in Atlanta and still live there
I had fun growing up in atlanta
I’m from Jacksonville FL, and I got cousins in Atlanta, it’s lit up there!
Light Skin Keisha gotta change that name, it holds her back.
Right like you gotta be more creative than that
yes she need to
Yes she is not light
@@reneeelecta9526 more"brown" me
It’s a play on words and a character named “dark skinned Kiesh who she is lighter than.
Me being from LA, i have so much love for ATL folks!!
LA doesn't got many many black folks
@@scorpioguy94 i'm from the south side of LA there is tons of blacks. but atl is 3x bigger thee amount of blacks for sure.
@@jeffybooo6829 SOUTH CENTRAL
I love Atlanta so much, nowhere else I’d live ❤️
Born and raised I LOVE MY CITY EAST ATLANTA BABYYYYYYYY ….90 baby period . Growing up as a 90s baby in a Atlanta was everything
I need that OLD ATLANTA hoodie NOW
Forever I Love Atlanta ❤️
Ayee ATL 🤟🔥
Atlanta being black friendly - it’s about time. This nerdy white boy has a lovely black wife by his side. I’m blessed & all but she really wants to visit Atlanta in the near future. ❤️
This what got folks thinking Atlanta is Wakanda
@Zone 4 Smoke atl not only place where lot of blacks u must not be from south
@@oj4499 and yet none of those cities is like Atlanta
It is🤷🏾♂️