1976 SPECIAL REPORT: "GEORGIA POVERTY"
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Documents the daily life of a poverty-stricken family with 13 children, living in rural Georgia. Depicts the family's great pride and love for one another, and their overriding concern for keeping the clan together.
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We grew up dirt poor in small town agricultural California. Worked the fields since 10 years old. My parents brought us here from south of the border. Dad had a barber shop and cut hair from 8am to 8pm. Mom wanted something better.
We did well in our adopted country.
Served in the military.
Went to college.
Never went to prison.
Never hurt anybody.
I’m glad I was raised poor.
Everything I have , I worked for.
Just like my schoolmates that their parents or grandparents immigrated from Ireland,England,France,Italy,Greece,Spain,Portugal,Germany,etc etc etc..
I was able to appreciate the opportunities here in the states.
Poverty has no pick on color/race ,Mexican,black,white everybody been going through the struggle in this country since the old days
oh no, haven't you heard of white privilege.
I grew up dirt poor in Florida. Anyone notice no matter how poor they always have cigarettes.
Tobacco companies made that a reality BASTARDS. ( Jackson , KY.)
Sometimes when you have nothing it’s the little things that get you through life
Cigarettes were pretty inexpensive in 1976.
@@tylerdalton4406❤❤❤🙏🏿Amen
Nothing has changed with the online grifters e-begging
Charlotte Jewel Burns just passed away recently, May 2024. RIP and prayers to her family.
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RIP ❤️❤️
If I owned five acres of land I'd consider myself extremely well off! All those able bodied young adults,yet no-one has dug a vegetable patch or planted an orchard of fruit trees 🤷 A few nights of drinking invested in some grow your own would make a huge difference to the health of that family. School is free,no excuse for such illiteracy. We're supposed to admire how close this family is, but the casual violence, even with the little toddlers is quite shocking. So many of their problems are not to do with poverty, it's about being organised, learning from experience and thinking ahead. The only one in the family who seemed to manage that was the oldest daughter. Felt very sorry for her.
Poverty doesn't discriminate. It hits everyone. But people that are low income are the most generous people, because they know what it's like to struggle if you need something.
Mary has passed away and Charlotte recently passed ruby & Gloria and Peggy are still alive. Peggy is married to someone else now. Mary’s husband also passed recently and Junior’s wife. The oldest brother is still alive. James and Tommy have passed and so have a couple of the grandkids. Judging from obituaries and Facebook they are all as close now as they were then ❤❤ they look like they have all risen above poverty now.
This is in North Georgia. I live in South Georgia. I’ve been to Dalton many times. Good people there. Always have been. Fantastic food also!
Yes I used travel thru the area and spent the night over the years there and is a very nice town. The carpet industry was the biggest in the U.S. in the 80's and now almost gone. South Americans have changed the area and I am not being disrespectful in any way. The local flea market is like being in a Mexican town, even has the elderly Mexican cowboy pushing an old fashion ice cream card around with bells on it. Had great times there!
The Maysle brothers filmed this! They also did Grey Gardens, my all time favorite documentary. They are exceptional at how they capture life by just letting the cameral roll without interfering.
I love Grey Gardens! Didn't know it was the same people. Thanks for that bit of info! :)
Oh wow! Good info 👌🏼
Kicking the bunny made me sick to my stomach.
Me too.
Me too. I think there is something wrong with her.
They might not have had money.. but they had each other and where a happy bunch
Most of my family was only a knotch or two above this...most of them in Southeast Texas. As a kid...in this same time period, I remember loading my grandmas old Pontiac with brown paper bags of groceries at the church. We would deliver them to families just like this. I remember being in houses just like this.
I also remember, a time or two, going to eat dinner with these families, when their luck turned around and they wanted to show their appreciation to my grandparents. There is one catfish dinner that I remember...a huge family, living a huge shack, that had been added onto time and again. I am 53 years old today...I was probably 6 or 7 at the time. It still ranks as one of the best meals Ive ever had.
Hard to believe this was nearly 50 years ago.
Hard to believe it was only 50 years ago.
The 80s changed people,but I remember these days.
I kinda liked it.
I came from Ohio and the way of life in the south just amazed me.
Like they were way behind times.
@@howlinwulfmy parents lived in Ohio and Ohio is behind the NYC area I live in..... half of Ohio is Appalachia good people though I kind of like redneck living
If there were decent paying jobs, people wouldn’t have to live like this. This is for every poverty stricken place: for every hood, dying coal town in WV, all the places that lost their factories, mills or industries.
Salt of the Earth...God Bless the Deep South...
Amen to that, Brother.
I did not grow up poor or rich. I was middle class relative to the standards in the U.S. but rich compared to many around the world. I think we all are categorized relative to those in our countries. These folks were poor though in any measurable way except for love of family. The ladies in this film seemed so strong and seemed to hold their families together. Thank you for sharing this documentary.
You always have the most amazing content! You're an amazing researcher! ❤
The matriarch seems to be the glue holding everything together. She sounds like a wise, tough old woman I’d have liked to have talked to, RIP ❤
The youngest girl is mean kicking the rabbit to get back in the cage😮😮😮
i KNOW!! I was like, " She kicked the rabbit!"
They boiled that rabbit . How you feel now
Male rabbits can be very aggressive when you go in there cage . They think your gonna take there girlfriend 😏.
That wrastlin had pops on the edge of his seat😂
The love and compassion this family shows each other despite their hardships is remarkable. Beautiful and HONEST family. I would love to see a "where are they now?" I am from the Appalachian region and I can tell you firsthand in all my travels I am more at home with good country folk than rich people any day.
Ol girl packing that box of wood, is tougher than 90 percent of men today!! Haha 😄 🤣 😂
Truth!!!!
That momma saying "If youve got a family and children, they need a mother AND a father too..". You stick it out through tough times. You dont hear too many people speak those words anymore. These days your kids move away, more people get divorced than stay married, kids grow up without dads (many dont even know who their dad is)... I will take this womans logic, over todays logic, any day.
Ik that struck me rite away so true
Except for if cheating and/or abuse occurs, I agree!
Love these kind of people....I grew up in a Holler in the hills of Virginia.....Was a great life.....We had God and family even had a great America....then
They may have been dirt poor but look how close they all are…
Where’s the white privilege at? I was born in 1966, and we were poor. Dad died when I was seven, and my mother never dated or married again. 1. Older sister and 3. older brothers. Good times used to lay in front of the ice box in the winter to feel the heat coming out from under it. Mother had a swamp cooler, and we had black mold behind the curtains in the house. Momma would bleach the walls to clean them. My father put minnows in the swamp cooler to keep them alive and forgot about them and stunk the house up mother was mad. Lol. Mother got her driver's license after dad died. She was 51 years old, and if it rained while she was driving, she pulled over and waited till it quit raining. Sometimes, we sit there for a long while.
You weren't black! That was your privilege.
@@nottodaylilbaldhead😂😂😂
Poverty...?
More like
Paradise...😎
Hillbilly heaven
Owning 5 acres and having jobs and cars is not poverty. These people were smart to pool their resources and live cheaply. My only criticism was the booze, and how it clearly caused many problems for the family. It seems like mom was the strong one, and dad was the weak link. She held them all together.
They seem like good people. The women are strong ❤
Growing up poor makes you hard in some ways and soft in others 😞
I grew up in Alabama and it's easy to see and hear where some of our black southern culture came from. Po Ytes.
Fro. Who? Certainly not yet flks
Yup, even the way black preachers preach came from them.
@@LonnellRichyep
Of course they did.
We all the same no matter who doesn't like it. And the sooner everyone figures it out the better life will be
South Louisiana mine came from france and Africa ya can keep that po white stuff. That’s why I call mainstream black America culture black hillbillies
The father is worthless and burning tires inside the house especially with all those babies is the dumbest thing I've ever seen anybody do.
Right??
I know right I was thinking what in the hell is skinny country a doing,!!!!
Ik omg
Like there wasn't trees to be cut down
Tires mainly smoke Lmao
I'm checking my family tree. That older guy couldn't eat his food for all the noises. Probably why he used to drink. The women in the family rule the roost.
Because they had to
People who find those people actions offensive have no idea of what is to be hungry they have no idea how a new pair of pants or shoes are like a gift from God ,today most people have it easy they have never been starving and never have to walk 5 miles to go to school in the rain.
I WITH GRANDPA I DON'T BELIEVE HIS SON JUST LAID ON A RAILROAD TRACK N EAITED FOR A TRAIN TO HIT N KILL HIM. I BELIEVE LIKE PA SAID HE WAS SHOT N LAID ON THE TRACKS TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE THAT'S WHT HAPPENED. BACK THEM AUTOPSY WASN'T DONE AS OFTEN AS THEY ARE NOW. ESPECIALLY WHN THE PERSON WAS POOR.
Ok, this hit close to home. My ancestors are from West Ga and im from SouthernWv and now live in Ga. To be honest these folks live better than other impoverished that I've encountered in Wv. That dinner scene was difficult to watch. For some reason older men from than era insist on having gravy with every meal. Dalton and surrounding areas used to be the textile capital of the South.
When I went to the South they didn't seem to believe in vegetables at restaurants they said they have potato or corn as a vegetable
I'm from sw ga I was nine in 1976 and I wish I could return to those days now that was a wonderful time to to be a kid
@@LeahDyson-kq4bdstupidity
@@LeahDyson-kq4bd Bulletin: Potatoes and corn ARE vegetables.
@@sarahw.3548 Fair enough lol
I haven't seen a can opener like the one on the wall since I was a child back in the early 70s.
I love the way she relished over her brothers memory ii can tell he truly was a hellcat from that smile she gave...lord ii miss mi oldest brother he was 45 died 2yrs ago he took care of all 3 of us while mi parents broke their rears to give us everything they didn't have plus more ..smh mi onli regret about mi childhood was that ii didn't pay attention wen mi grandmother was tending her garden and everything else she died wen ii was 11 but she was born in 1912 she was mi great grandmother her parents were slaves the shack she was born in is still on our property in the country mi moms mom ddied wen she was 2 mi GG raised her and 6 siblings plus her2 w NO HANDOUTS FOOD STAMPS/WELFARE/SSI ..only commodity 😂 she grew her own food in her garden and id help get the eggs 🥚 from her chickens coops 🐔 and call them wen it was time for them to eat she'd yell "FEED FEEEEED FEED FEED FEED" ii Remember ii called them once and they all came but ii had no feed 😂😂😂 bout one of the few times she scolded me good and ii mean FEW!! GOODTIMES GOD BLESS THIS DIRTY FILTHY SOUTH
I grew up and still live 15-20 miles from there.
The old man said we ain't the kind of people to add on or take off we don't try to be someone you can't 💯
Glory Amen 🙏🏿
Since its been almost 50 years since this video was made, I’d like to see some film makers go back and see if any of this family, the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren have been able to bring themselves out of poverty. It would be interesting to know. Hopefully they have been able to do so. I’m not knocking their way of life as they are survivors and make do with what they have. My mother grew up in poverty, but her dad (my grandfather) knew how to live off the land, as he was a hunter and had a garden each year.
Watching this reminds me of my youth visiting relatives in AR in the early-mid '70's.
The sweet doggo sleeping in the box
That wee baby is almost 50 haha
Cool to hear Black Sabbath being represented.
Its funny how there is a Burke County in Georgia & these are a Burk family. Somewhere, the wealth was lost with this family.
However, I did a little research on the family, most of them lived in Dalton, GA. They were a big, close-knit, hard working family that never depended on welfare & no one ever went hungry. Families like this used to make up the foundation of this country. They might lack education but they have values & work ethic. It paid off because most of the grandchildren turned out well. The footage of one of the girl's funeral was online (Charlotte) & her daughter made this heartwarming speech. She said her mother had a gritty upbringing but that always made her cherish the important things like family & kindness. She was serious about her kids getting an education & passed on her work ethic to all of her kids. They went on to graduate college. That made me tear up. ❤
I grew up well-off & never wanted for anything but I envy how happy they were with the little they had.
Very true and very well said, tee kolinski
Burke is Irish very common Irish name
@@teekolinski491 We don't know if the county's namesake was wealthy, or if this family is even descended from him, even if they did, there is probably hundreds of other descendants as Burke county was formed in 1777.
It's called reconstruction the USA 🇺🇸 believed it was better to relieve people of their land and wealth and teach the following generations how to be good Yankees . So they would never question the government on paying taxes anymore, because after all there was more wealth down south before the Civil War and it was the 4th best economy in the world
I bet the CAT HEAD BISCUITS WERE IN POINT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN seems extremely wholesome to me !!!
I was born in 76. My momma always called me a bicentennial baby. Thanks for sharing!❤
Mercy, look at that lard used to make gravy. 😮
You know, it really upset me. And it happens in every country. It's all over the world where government grows. And it gets people to depend on government. Then government leaves you hanging when really? In the beginning, people knew how to live off the land and now that's totally illegal. Especially now it's worse than it's ever been here. In America, we're so dependent on the Treasury government. You can't even collect rain water here and Florida. They get arrested for that. You can't go camping in the woods anymore and live in the woods. If that was your only last resort, it's horrible, so just remember people. Government is you're friend. Of course, when people starving, it's their last resort, and there's just this cycle that keeps happening all over again, the vicious cycle there's always starts with government getting into people's livelihood, destroying their way of life. That's why we had so many civil wars throughout the world. Any time you hear one world government, you're better revoked that because that is not the way.
😢exactly
They keep the majority of people on checks or food stamps. They barely scrape by and medicate themselves to get through the hopelessness of that life. More and more people will live like this because technology will take more jobs away.
I have a friend in Florida who still catches rainwater...he has a discreet little system for it. He gardens and keeps two chickens 🐔, but nobody knows any of its there.
You are completely full of shit. The poor were around before the government ever got involved. They just had to depend on charity if no jobs were around or starve to death. Guess you would be happier having kids starving or old people dying in the streets again.
You can still do these things in certain parts of the country where time has forgotten about them LOL. On one hand they are really poor on the other they live they way they want. I found it crazy that some states have laws to where you can't live off grid in a rural area. I can understand if you live in the middle of the suburbs and you pile garbage up around your yard and things like that but in the middle of a rural area you should be able to pretty much do whatever you want with the land that you bought and pay taxes on. I guess I should also add as long as you're not killing or infringing on someone else.
Education is so important for success .
Nice Sabbath tune.👍🏾
I believe "workin for today" is the tune.
Wow, that’s a lot of people living in that little house… I thought my house was small for 4 people… I can’t imagine having that many kids…
My grandparents didn't have much, but at least they kept up their property-
My goodness living in poverty and having a child that has to have multiple heart surgeries throughout it's life is saddening. Choosing to have a other one after that ordeal is maddening to me.
Biscuits, spaghetti, fried potatoes, mixed vegetables, and gravy. All that starch and no one was fat in that home
*Not the dad leaving his food on the table and walking outside cause a baby was crying. He could've helped, looks like the mom had her hands full smh
I understand what you are saying, but, that is/was the culture. I doubt that she was offered reliable birth control options, much less free ones in 1976.
He got mad bc they smacked the babies hand…
Rural Oconee county 1980's wasn't much different than this. My best friend and family live just like this wonderful family. My mom used to rest on her dad's cotton sack in the 50's Corenth Mississippi. White privilege I guess.
God Bless this family ❤❤
DID YALL SEE HOW THE LIL GIRL LEFT THE ROOM WHN THEY STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOW HER DADDY GOT KILLED.
Great use of Black Sabbath as the intro music.
It appears Ruby never did get married
Someone in true crime did a deep dive video talking about their son and other 2 who passed on that train track. They were definitely murd3red
My older brother was born in 1976 in Bainbridge ga my mom was only 18
Only 18 that's on the older side for the South lol
30:40-31:02 should be made into a short video💪🏽💪🏽 I felt what my brother from another mother was saying
These folks had it way better than the doomers living in some lonely blue hell hole in 2024.
Tbey had it just like my sweet childhood and up until 2019. My best friend, my mom passed away and that's when "the world changed " for me.
DADDY PUTTING ON FOR THE CAMERA MAKING IT LOOK LIKE HE BE HUGGING UP ON HIS WIFE, IT TOOK HIS FISTY DAUGHTER TO CALL IT OUT. SHE SAID I NEVER SEEN DADDY HUG UP MOMMA. MOMMA WASN'T GOING THO. SHE TURNED N SAID HE JUST GOT HIS ARM UP ON THIS THING RIGHT BEHIND ME. 😂
Musta been some hugging going on to have 13 babies .
They were definitely doing more than huggin up with all them kids 😂
Woah! Glad both my parents had advanced college degrees and we lived in SoCal.
Nobody asked
Ruby's like... Damnit, wait till I get an ol man, I'm gonna have more kids than ever damn one y'all! 😅
She didn’t marry it turns out
I’d like to thank my lord and savior that I did not live in abject poverty like this. 😢
Cigarettes and booze are always first. Its not right.
Boo hoo. You wouldn’t care if they were rich
Wow, 76. The year we moved to College Park, GA, from Louisiana. I was 7 years old at the time. College Park was a beautiful place to live in the 70s.
Bet today tha land is worth a ton yeah poor but leave and loose that land
Dirt poor so lets have 13 kids smh
They weren't on welfare though. All those boys/men had a job.
@@teekolinski491 Sure they weren't
Family is wealth. The more hands on deck, the greater chances of survival.
That was back when condoms were frowned upon.
And these people didn't let dodge chargers and football get in the way of living.
You had to be there in those days.
@@teekolinski491you must be on dope 😂
I know their breath was crazy wild g
😢😢😢
Yep! No dental/health care, trouble food, cigarettes and liquor and coffee makes for horrible breath and poor dental hygiene
In 1976 I was fourteen. I lived in a big house in Ontario, California. We had a pool in the backyard. My dad drove a Baracuda. We were probably at Disneyland when this was filmed.
You old as hell
I came out in 1979 so I was a tiny sperm in my daddy's ballsack 😅
In 1976 we lived in a new,modern, beautiful home in an upper middle class neighborhood. I was preparing for college. It was an amazing time. This lack of ambition makes me sad.
@@cute4real846 Not many jobs, good jobs, in Georgia. Still are not a lot of high paying jobs as in California for example.
In 1976 I was 9 years old, living in Bicester, England, when we were stationed at Upper Heyford US Air Force Base. We were probably camping or at a flee market on a gray rainy day when this was filmed.
The mom look like she may have some Indian on her by her facial bone structure
That means black
@@leonardv2 Wrong that's Indian.
24:43 So the bunny wanted some food and she shooed it back and thought she was done so it turned back for food and she kicked the shit out of it? WTF I bet they ate Bugs?
Ah….the good ol dayz! Bring em back!
You can see that see this in rural south carolina and mississippi alabama georgia ,west Virginia
Food in the fridge clothes on your back and not having to depend on NO MAN only the LORD JESUS CHRIST THATS THE BLESSING!!!!!
Exactly, I saw no poverty. Not a single welfare check, most worked and had jobs, cars and families.
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Salaam my brotha ✊🏾
We have ancestors that are Burks with an "S" on the end. Our Burks are from Tenn, Virginia, and Kentucky originally from Ireland way back. Wonder if Burks with an "S" are connected with these Burk with no S on end at one point way back?
I can take you to houses that look just like this in 2024.
Same
Those babies are older than me, I was just born in 1976. I wonder if any of the kids are still living now
Ruby and Peggy are and some of the brothers
Strange choice to abruptly cut to a rock and roll montage immediately following the grief stricken discussion of childhood death.
This is not poverty. It's just simple folks living. They didn't even know they were poor until someone told them
I hope they have good plumbing and diapers and good
The women look like the girl in alaskan Bush people ,what's her name rain ??
anyone coffee ☕❓❔😜
When america was great or what 😂😂
Yeah, b.o rotting teeth, illiterate and breeding
Sad people 😢
It's really scary that people were living like this in my lifetime. It's pretty similar to what you see in the movie Harlan County USA. These people were living in absolute squalor, rotten teeth, barely able to read, married as teens. This kinda life sets them up for more of the same. The smartest one seemed like the 14 y/o daughter who didn't want to get married or have any kids.
At least they still had pride & didn't use welfare. I can respect that. All those kids & spouses had a job.
Her purpose is to get married and have babies, though. We weren't created to be alone and not be fruitful and multiply.
The devil went down to Georgia he was looking for a soul to steal
@@KtotheGSaying that a woman’s purpose is to have children is sexist, and this is a 14 year old you’re talking about. This isn’t the Stone Age, women can do much more than be forced to have kids.
@@AudaciousBourgeois If this isn't the Stone Age, then why don't women like paying for men or sacrificing their lives to save men? You can't change biology or the bible, so get over it. Women were created for procreation and as help meets to men so that we can fulfill our purposes to God. The truth has no feelings, my G.
At what point does a couple evaluate their life situation and say "You know, maybe we don't need to be breeding like rabbits. We were dirt poor when kid #1 came along, and things have just gotten worse since kids #10-13 arrived."?
It's one thing to be down on your luck due to a job loss or tragedy, but it's just plain ignorant and selfish to keep popping out kids when you can't even feed yourselves.
The bad old days leave them in the past.
Pls watcch that man in his chair watching wrestling hes moving around like a squirrel on ice
Is this what MAGA is referring to?
Yes. Hard working people not relying on government benefits. The family was close-knit and no one was starving.
@@teekolinski491 You're idealizing them. Wonder if they thought America was great and if they felt the American dream was working good for them. I'd say not.
@@Atitlan1222the american dream worked for their grandchildren. It would've worked for them if their dad didn't drink so heavy & worked more. Instead, he let the alcohol ruin his health so eventually he couldnt work and it was all on Grace (Mom). The younger generation did much better though. I'm happy for them.
@@teekolinski491 You're correct in this case. But, the American Dream was not attainable for much of our population especially in The South, Indian Reservations, Mexicans and inner cities.
I'm black and hopefully believe so, Obama didn't do much,as I'm sure black people now realize
I was just born in September 1976
I can never decide if the poverty causes the dullness, or if the dullness causes the poverty. You very rarely find someone who is financially poor without also being emotionally impoverished. It can happen, of course. I have met people who were poor but also bright and articulate, but not very often. Sharecropper eyes, all of them.
What the heck are sharecropper eyes.
@@karenfitzsimons5895 downcast. That's what it means.
What Part Of GA. Is The First Family In
Dalton, GA i think. I found a lot of their funeral information online.
I knew a Rebecca brown Arnold from Dalton area
The camera changes behavior so much. The slaps fights look like performances.
The food looked DISGUSTING 🤢
I grew up in the hood under similar living conditions. A cold water flat heated by wood stoves and kerosene heaters. And I remember my mom adding so much random crap to the food to stretch it to the point it was almost unpalatable.