This is good documentary. It is really sad that we still have racial problems still to this day. I wish they interviewed the Myers though. I would have liked hearing their side.

@randymillhouse791

10 ай бұрын

There are statements from the family that Googleable. I have read some from the children of the Myers and the Mosby families. Understand this: 22% of any culture are batshit, crazy, right-wing pieces of garbage. That was the percentage that threatened the Myers. The Trump losers of today. They live in fear. And, they SUCK!

Interesting documentary. But I sure wish they would've included an interview with the Myers family

@gen-x_dude

6 жыл бұрын

a proper documentsry back then requires the subjects to not take sidesm, or be arguaentative, they receive a very general introduction as to why they were being interviewed, kind of in a way where all interviewees will have the exact same question, and if they were to interview the Myers, then it would have destroyed the project, putting neighbor against neighbor... all of them

@ThyGeekGoddessMuze

3 жыл бұрын

They would have been offended by the message about how much we wanted to be like them. What was truly offensive was the attitude we hated our melanin and that we weren't cultured or civilized before we moved in. They wouldn't run transit out to the burbs where our parents had to work. Dad picked one up off the bulletin board at work. He had his MA in Poly Sci by the mid 50s. Those IBMs didn't program themselves! See Hidden Figures. The movie started in 1963. Another great one is "Mr. Holland's Opus" which started in 1965.

@jasondaveries9716

Жыл бұрын

me too

This is why thet don't want to teach CRT today. The man was a war veteran and could not live where he wanted to live. Still around today.

Nothing has changed but styles, clothes, cars and technology! RACIST HAVE PASSED THE TORCH!

It was a science project town to begin with, it is what it is. I love Levittown but it's so trashed today it makes me sick, but no one expected it to even be here 65 years later . It was originally built to last 25-35 years, a disposable town. Some strange way it's still there. 🤔

@ThyGeekGoddessMuze

3 жыл бұрын

yup and NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY

@CartiSimmons

Жыл бұрын

Originally used to house the returning vets from WWII

@DennisDey-cb6pf

3 ай бұрын

I agree, my family left our house on post lane in 1970 . I returned in 1979 when stationed in Philadelphia. Levittown was nasty. A junked car in every yard.

What section in Levittown PA did this family live in?

I was there as a child when all that went down. It was quite disturbing, as I recall.

How did the integration work out in Levittown and other places?

Man that third lady is lovely, really smart, educated and fair, I wonder what's her name and what career she had?

15:35 discreet flatulence.

17:58 the lady in the middle references her son “Jimmy”……he’s the police chief at his job now😳😳

How did it turn out ?

@easternpa2

6 жыл бұрын

It is still a deeply racist community. I'm not aware of any violence towards minorities, but a deep seeded hatred of them.

@randywehrs

6 жыл бұрын

I strongly disagree with easternpa2, it is far from a deeply racist community. It turned out just fine.

@jimweddell5447

6 жыл бұрын

It's hatred when you use violence to keep others out. Simply put, in the United States the law does not allow you to keep others in "their own places."

@MrFlyersfan1999

6 жыл бұрын

From books I read it smoothed out after the first year but I heard they moved out by 1961. That's all I know. These residents were promised an all white community when they moved in so they do have their rights to say what they want but of course it was wrong, but also this was going on all over America at the time, not only in Levittown. Today it's still 88% white but it's very trashed . A sad scene compared to it's heyday from 1952 into the late 80s. It's the dumps now, honest hurts . 😐

@ThyGeekGoddessMuze

6 жыл бұрын

That fascist South African Social Experiment failed miserably. Bowie, Maryland's was built on our own tobacco lands. They owe us a mint for hiding our ancestry records.

Why would you move somewhere when you're not welcome?

nothing has changed since 1957 and earlier. ML

@ThyGeekGoddessMuze

3 жыл бұрын

We actually made our Levittown take off the "Estates" bit at the Levittown in Belair Estates. I think it was the last one they built in Bowie, MD. There was a Levittown in Puerto Rico as well. We hated being guinea pigs for the Space Race

Who is here because of quarantine

This is 2021 and yesterday I'm hearing a news broadcast where the guest being interviewed spoke affectionately and proudly of his Asian community , also in the media always hearing about the Black community and Hispanic community ... well guess what , these White people in this retro documentary film had it right back then when they spoke protectively , affectionately and proudly of their "White community" !!! ...

@noahsmith3357

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm I see what you’re trying to say but it comes off a bit racist. I believe you’re trying to say “if these groups of people can be all proud of their heritage and make communities based around that, why can’t we?” On face value that is an accurate statement, we all have a right to our heritage and forming communities that are based on that. The issue is when you start to exclude other groups. I live near LA and in LA there are “towns” based on certain cultures (i.e. China town). But if I so desired I, a Latin American, or a Black American, and so on can move in without a problem at all. If the people in that community try to reject me by spreading false rumors and making inaccurate claims about me, then there is an issue. Also the reason why we don’t really hear about white people and their rights is because, well frankly, we’ve never had an issue with it. If you’re white and live in the US, you can virtually go anywhere and have your rights. If a minority tried that same thing, they would run into problems with discrimination. Not saying all of the US is like, in fact it’s probably a small portion, but that small portion is something the average white American will never be a victim of. I mean look at how covid is spreading. Majority of Asians are vaccinated and actively try not to spread it by wearing mask and maintaining social distancing. The vast amount of people in the US who aren’t vaccinated and don’t practice social distancing or wearing a mask are white. But yet we still blame Asians and discriminate, sometimes in violent ways.

@jasondaveries9716

Жыл бұрын

not the same

@CartiSimmons

Жыл бұрын

@@noahsmith3357he’s racist he won’t read this truth🤣

Something I'll never understand is why would anyone want to leave around people that don't want them there. I would never want to be anywhere I'm not welcomed.

@jeviosoorishas181

6 жыл бұрын

They want the value of their homes to go up. They want better loans from banks. The list goes on...

@ThyGeekGoddessMuze

3 жыл бұрын

The next one built was my hometown in Maryland and this flick was shown in school. I kinda stared out the window. It really wasn't our neighbors who protested, it was people who couldn't qualify who got jealous. They weren't a move up for us since Dad grew up in a Craftsman home in Victorian KCMO. The space race was just a money grubbing scam and the social experiment failed on its face. Bill O'Reilly's home in Levittown, NY was only about $69/mo so his old man had NOTHING to gripe about. Just jealous and ignorant

@jasondaveries9716

Жыл бұрын

i can't imagine how hard it was for them living there. The poor kids :( I think it goes to show how much economic opportunity there was in the post-war suburbs. The Myers were so desperate to get a piece of that wealth they were willing to face angry mobs

This is definitely some sort of propaganda push

@twoplustwo07

4 жыл бұрын

Bart Krauss How is it propaganda push? It’s American History.

@CartiSimmons

Жыл бұрын

3 years later Bart are u still as stupid?

@APAL880

Жыл бұрын

​@@twoplustwo07 The documentary presenter is very open with his agenda.

@papotaino

7 ай бұрын

The human mind how sometimes it evolves and sometimes no matter how many decades go by NOT