The sad fact is that African American neighborhoods have higher crime, drugs, violence and blight. Too many African Americans do not maintain their property I am sorry to say.

i have to say... calling it "apartheid baltimore" without immediately explaining why one chooses such strong words makes it sound very hyperbolic.

Great segment. Thanks to Antero, Paul, and everyone at TRNN!

Love your work. But PLEASE link all the videos in a video series in the description of each video if the different parts are about, say, a dozen or so videos apart. Or make playlists, whichever is easier.

Baltimore is a true American city!

@clarkewi It cost money to maintain property. 80% of Blacks live below the poverty line. What good is a pretty house if there's no electricity in it?

this is an incredible piece- wow!

@nds87 "There's also this vicious thought process that simply because people are poor they are somehow subhuman, I can go get a job why can't they?" The economy is a game of musical chairs. In a very bad economy, you must either *displace* a worker to get a job, create your own job (if you have money or good credit), or have good experience in a special area of the economy that is still expanding. The vicious thought process is caused by the environment more than it shapes it back.

@peymaania It was midnight and they had the firetrucks and stuff all ready and a couple of them dressed all in black torched a car in the parking area across from me. I screamed STOP THAT and my spouse dragged me back in and shut me up. Firemen can be very dangerous. One tried to rape me in NYC and is a serial rapist -- the DA refused to prosecute him, even though he confessed! He was more "valuable" than I. I did look on Google Earth at Noble Road, my old street. House still there.

I grew up in East Cleveland, Ohio and then South Euclid, Ohio USA. In the 1970s there were over 3,000 students in my high school and only TWO were black. De facto segregation. I am glad to see this clip. I have been asking people about their cities for decades now. I am in Saint-Denis, France, now, and wow are we mixed. I assure you, it is not paradise but I prefer that.

@clarkewi Some African-Americans, but not all. In my parents' neighbourhood it is mandatory that you keep up with yard maintainability and landscaping. You can be fined heavily if you don't.

@blackacidlizzard My face bears a scar from school bully beatings. Privileged! That's a good one. I published a story years ago about how we kids got along in the mixed elementary school in East Cleveland. I am sorry if something bad happened to you. I never did get over that bullying. It was really scary, and in the "white" near-suburb! My pal Angelo told me he daily got mugged by "the Puerto Rican kids" at school in Manhattan. He said it was a drag.

@peymaania I took my husband to Cleveland in '94 for a week. We were horrified & my parents were so nasty, he begged to leave early. The riots were very widespread & it was just bored copycats out on an Indian Summer evening, for starters. Riots here always signal an economic boom time, as do demonstrations & strikes, believe it or not. Everything is topsy turvey here. I don't think anyone got killed. A couple of years later I saw firefighters burning a car here! To get New Year's pay!

@blackacidlizzard It was totally weird being in such a huge Jr. High and High School in Cleveland! We were not out in the posh far suburbs. South Euclid is sort of adjacent to East Cleveland, which is kind of actually Cleveland. I remember thinking this was totally not normal in the mid-70s! I hear South Euclid is very mixed now. I left and never went back. My bullies were all white. We were little kids in the East Cleveland school, it was elementary, and everything was okay.

I live on Long Island and my friend lives in Freeport on the South Shore and in his neighborhood there are many large Victorian homes and the area is mostly black middle clas with a mix of illegal aliens, amd when a white family moved in they were driven out by acts of vandalizism. My friend is white and lived there for a long time and had no headaches. Birds of a feather flock together and if black people want to live with each other and the same for anybody else why can't they

"tween" i'd imagine Paul. Has a thriceishness to it.

@zoticus1 Agreed.

Great stuff.

@blackacidlizzard Actually I see that kind of vicious bigotry A LOT from conservatives.

@BlacksAreBeautiful lol they'll get to it