You know wat. I know how he feel. I tried to make it out but I swear to god people who lived there pulled me back down got 15 years in prison got out got a degree and a good job. Before I went to prison I joined the army reserve but that didn’t help cause I had to go back to that environment. The crazy thing is is that when I was in training u had so much people calling you to come back home cause they miss you so much. Making you feel wanted but when I got locked up I didn’t receive a visit or nor did anyone show up at my sentencing hearing. Nowadays I work for a big company making $31 dollars an hour and I ride through sometimes they look at me like they wanna kill me believe me if they had the chance to they would. But I’m not gullible anymore. I just roll through and throw up the dueces. No love lost I’m just doing me. All the decisions I made was on my own.And I was held accountable for it. But I’m not sympathizing with anyone. I got out went to school or four hrs a day worked 8 hours a day. I didn’t look for any handouts not one time never complained. I just knew I couldn’t go back to prison. And for those who say well everyone doesn’t get the blessings I got. That’s on them. Cause believe me if u have a roof over ur head and u getting some type of assistance u were doing better than I did. And for those who say school ain’t for everyone then all I can say is keep living in the conditions that you are in and blaming other people. For that reason I’m out dawg

@peterscholte300

3 жыл бұрын

I'm very impressed you didn't play the victim. You took all that negativity and turned it positive good job buddy.

@NoahAWeinbaum

3 жыл бұрын

Salute

@laurawilliams8462

3 жыл бұрын

Why live there move on

@kingstongreen1658

3 жыл бұрын

Much Respect ✊🏾

@Mr_T_67

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know you but after reading what you wrote I can say I'm proud of you. Keep up the good work and keep trying to be a better you everyday. Just remember you do matter no matter what someone says. There is still people like me that will listen and remind you that your worth something . It doesn't matter that you took the wrong path yesterday because yesterday is gone . Make today and every day after that a better you. I wish you all the best. Good luck my fellow American.

This is exactly why America should be helping their own! :'(

@charlesburke2379

Жыл бұрын

International goodwill means everything to the United States. And there's no number of us it wouldn't be happy to sacrifice to get it either. Like giving US green cards to the 9/11 hijackers for example. Or settling thousands of world HIV cases among unsuspecting Americans. Spreading Aids!

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

4 күн бұрын

right..... the government giving you everything...right?? bs

I lived there in those exact housing projects when I was a kid back in 1966,67. Went to Emerson elementary. It was very clean and very well kept. When I watched this I felt like I was kicked in the gut.

@cliffhankins5886

6 жыл бұрын

Omg, I've been watching other episodes of Abandoned Cairo, IL. Wtf? The entire town has decayed. Just 20 years ago they had everything. KFC, Sonic, Yamaha dealership, Elias department store, Major grocery stores...The only thing I can say is that the city officials are corrupt. Cairo is in it's death thro's. It's the last breath of a dieing giant.

@seankeenan9087

5 жыл бұрын

Janet Lawrence why is that you think?

People act like they don’t know the real reasons for towns that end up like this

@bromleysimon7414

Жыл бұрын

They can't help it. Africa is way behind, despite abundant natural resources. The genetics and culture of a people bring the best of intentions to ruin. Everything is dragged down. Nothing productive or permanent can endure.

My mother was born in Cairo and left after she graduated high school. This is so heartbreaking that this has happened to the people of this community. It’s just not fair for them or their children to live like this. 😢🙏🏽

I can understand if you’ve got children, how hard that would be. But if you are young and you don’t have any children and you’re choosing to stay there, then you’re not a victim you’re a volunteer.

@leelew.1462

Жыл бұрын

Even with children, why keep having kids when you're already struggling? Instead of working, they're busy popping out kids, living off the system. Now the system is starving them. That's all they got. No work ethic, no good background, and if they did work, who's paying childcare? Help yourself. Stop having children.

@Shan-ShanH

Жыл бұрын

@@leelew.1462 then they are reaping what they have sown.

@leelew.1462

Жыл бұрын

@@Shan-ShanH not every case.

@Shan-ShanH

Жыл бұрын

@@leelew.1462 well nothing is true every time, or in every case, but that is definitely true for most people who are whining because of the lives they think they’re stuck in.

Prayers for Cairo! Even on a personal level I wish there was more that could be done to help save this one booming town. Something to help these poor folks. From nearby Paducah Ky.

And how do women manage to get pregnant several times in an abandoned town?

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 my thoughts exactly!! It's child abuse to bring children into the world and submitting them willingly to such an abandoned place like that.

@chloeew4627

8 ай бұрын

Oh 😮 same way she got pregnant da first time , da just a meal ticket .

My family has been in the area since the 1800's. The old slave house in Harrisburg is still standing as far as I know. It is very disturbing but in the late 1950's if you were black you had better be back to Cairo before sundown. Very shameful.

@danielhanns3579

11 ай бұрын

I grew up in metropolis il. Heres a huge backstory on the lynching that happened in 1909. William James who went by froggie was accused of killing a "white woman" Anna Pelly. There was no evidence and hardly a investigation before was formally "charged" with the crime. They relied on the testimony of a bloodhound as evidence. After he was charged, a mob including the townspeople of cairo and surrounding towns that caught wind, especially Anna, IL, lynched him and another black man that was simply awaiting trial. This caused huge uproar in the area which led to anti lynching laws, and a lot more sundown towns. Its best to note that the civil war was extremely recent leading into 1900s being foot from the mason dixon line these kinds of thing was not unheard of at the time and was tragically a common occurrence. Anna, IL was renamed after Anna Pelly and until this day stands for "Aint no n****** Allowed" and was one of the last sundown towns in illinois. I moved back to Chicago when i was 15, im now 24 and will never return to southern illinois, racial tension is still so thick there you could cut it with a knife. R.I.P to the affected.

I grew up here and the conditions wasnt like how they are now...my mom moved me and my brother away in 2001 to Kentucky for a better life....i will always love cairo and the ppl but if the state isnt going to rebuild then there isnt nothing no one can do...unless its a miracle

@drozone3658

4 жыл бұрын

Need a few dozen wealthy people an athletes to build some big things so small businesses follow

@hellno6386

4 жыл бұрын

@@drozone3658 who gonna wanna?? even small businesses like cafes, and petrol stations dont last long in loser communities. you gonna open a NBA franchise or a wal mart in a town that ain't got no munny? you clearly have no clue how businesses operate

@spiritualspeaks

4 жыл бұрын

Xactly, young one~a miracle📣WHAT📣YAWASSSSSSS!!!ITS ON THA WAY💫🌌💫💞&✨✨✨

@spiritualspeaks

4 жыл бұрын

@@drozone3658 Stay Encouraged, young one💫positive atmospheric energies are at work~there is indeed a season for everything, so anticipate the bestest in all endeavors💞&✨✨✨

@organic4050

Жыл бұрын

You moved to Kentucky for a better life? Ummmm it's not much better out there. Try Florida.

First step in making a town prosperous is to get rid of the people who don't work and ain't shit. As soon as they leave the place will boom.

No lie sometimes you just gotta go ain't nothing there what's holding you?

Everything has a birth, a life and a death. This includes towns. If you live in Cairo, I pray that you find a way to get your family out as soon as you can, and any way you can. Loyalty to a town is not rational. The town cannot and will not love you back. It’s dying. Don’t be the last one left. It won’t be pleasant.

@gregsmith6756

3 жыл бұрын

Cairo can be a nice bedroom community, especially if there is a larger community within driving distance where residents can work and shop.

@genekelly8467

2 жыл бұрын

Totally right..Cairo is like any of those old towns in North Dakota that grew up along the railroad lines..when the trains stopped, the towns died. Cairo seems to have no use today-whereas 150 years ago it was flourishing. You could move state agencies there-but why? Because so much manufacturing is gone, who needs a place like Cairo? I'd help the people leave and demolish the place.

I drove through town yesterday and was thinking if only manufacturing would come and offer opportunity (jobs) to the people of Cairo it would slowly lessen the bleeding. A Ford dealership still stands proud... so nice to see. Springfield needs to stop with all the taxation... it kills opportunity, when businesses can move where they can survive, so goes opportunity. Can the elements of crime lessen to grow Hope into opportunity? Sure wish I could help.

@longwhiteline3308

5 жыл бұрын

That's Illinois for you. Tax everything to shit

@dp7047

5 жыл бұрын

@Chris C You sound foolish. Every town in America that has lost industry jobs is like this . People want to work. There are no jobs available. You need money to move

@drozone3658

4 жыл бұрын

Dealership is still there. Just drove through

Yes people still live there. It just needs to be rebuilt.

@kmallory26

5 жыл бұрын

Heather Fulmore thank you so much.

@lana_6336

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that takes money the city doesn’t have or doesn’t care to spend on poor residents as they get no “return” Shameful

This is what happens when people stop doing for themselves and let the government take over..

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

2 жыл бұрын

EXAAAAAAACTLY!!!!! it's total bs that they just can't move away.

@leelew.1462

Жыл бұрын

They keep having kids they can't afford. Having kids doesn't help situations when you're broke, poor, and already on welfare. They could have helped themselves.

@UseByDate-Expired

Жыл бұрын

@@leelew.1462 but having more kids gets that check bumped up

Nearly all those business/store buildings on Commercial are gone now

I've never been there but I'd heard about how this was a thriving town once...and it indeed is a very sad state of affairs in this once-great city. I wish something could be done regarding the people still within its city limits.

Also sad to see the old foundations of what used to be beautiful businesses from back in the day with their mosaic tile floors and wrought iron storefronts with great big glass viewing windows.... so sad to see what years gone by have done to this town

@KSmall109CAB

4 жыл бұрын

Cairo and other towns or small cities. What's left is Wal-Mart or Target.

When I moved to paducah ky everyone told me to stay away from cairo period

@Hammy-Hamm

4 жыл бұрын

I dont like coming thru this town any part of the day, or night. This town is the real struggle, this is the life of Cairo, only the people of Cairo can CHANGE Cairo.

reminds me of an alabama or mississippi town in illinois, illinois seems to have a lot of these towns though

I drove through for the first time in 8/29/22. It is definitely nowhere I would be happy at. I heard the most income made is $19,000yr. How bad the crime is. No grocery stores and shopping centers. If you are a thug, hoodlum, thief, arm robber, and know you'll always be that, Stay there in Cairo. Don't leave and bring that toxicity no work ethic, no ambition, crime to other cities anywhere else.

Where is their state representative's or their congressman. Dam.

watching this video 6 years later, these homes were demolished in 2019, and it took $2 million to demolish them, but nobody would pay that kind of money to actually help them, where was the money when people needed it

@lana_6336

Жыл бұрын

It would’ve took an estimated 9 million to fix it up. Just a sad situation all around, decay for decades can’t be fixed with a measly $2 million unfortunately.

Some things don't need to be rebuilt.

@KSmall109CAB

4 жыл бұрын

Cairo's public housing situation seems like a mini version of the Pruitt Igoe Houses across the river in St. Louis. Eventually Pruitt Igoe was literally blown up.

@OhSoCarmen

4 жыл бұрын

@Helen Hinesyes. Fear can paralyze you, if you let it. Sometimes things are brought to an end to take you to somewhere or something better.

@lana_6336

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

THIS IS SOOO SAD...NEVER HEARD OF CAIRO, ILL....IT APPEARS TO BE THE FORGOTTEN TOWN IN AMERICA/USA! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

The kids in the end were FANTASTIC!

MUCH LOVE PEACE AND PROSPERITY TO DOC MAY AND HIS!!

Why would you stay in a town that has nothing to offer and you have to struggle in? Every road there leads out, so hop on it and drive on into something better.

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

2 жыл бұрын

But they won't.....they just give excuses

Something isn’t adding up for me, is it an early environmental problem or just bad management, if it’s the latter I don’t see why you can’t reorganize management, it seems sketchy to me as an outsider looking in. I like he said (Ben Carson) it is has economic potential with the waterway and railway possibilities something tell me that they’re trying to replace what is there with something not particularly of that shade/hue......it’s something more to this than just bad management and dilapidated housing

@jamesahern9864

5 жыл бұрын

The human capital is shit. These people don't even consider going into business for themselves or accepting any personal responsibility for their environment. The residents are expecting the government to maintain everything for them, including their own personal needs.

@AshaA2

5 жыл бұрын

James Ahern it’s hard to take you seriously when you repeat talking points and haven’t actually studied the history of Cairo and how it became this way. If you actually read and research places, you would actually be smarter /more enlightened instead of taking the a**hole approach. Ignorance is one thing but your flirting with stupidity.

@Hammy-Hamm

4 жыл бұрын

From what my grandpa told me was, Cairo was Booming and flourishing as a whole. Then the blacks came in amd tried to make it their own, and the residents of the time wasnt gonna have it. Then the crime scene started and everyone packed up and left and well now you see it. I Hate to put it like this but i see it

@dr.lazarus912

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hammy-Hamm Same thing happened in parts of Dallas, you can't go into those areas if you're white anymore. The civil rights movement was a good thing, but forcing blacks into white areas the way they did was short sighted and plain stupid. When government gets involved everything goes to hell.

@Hammy-Hamm

4 жыл бұрын

@@dr.lazarus912 when all that shyt was going down in DFW with roits and everything i hated travelin down there with my ex, like our company liget said get down and before ypu drop/unload we will ensure you have a pick-up and the lot is secured. Sure enough thats what they did.

I don't understand how there can even be gangs and drug dealing in such a tiny, broke town. Do people come from other places to buy drugs there?

This make me so freaking sad they need fix the town up.

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

Жыл бұрын

you can stay sad all you want. That town is dead and people need to move away from there.

I recently drove through Cairo IL and saw mostly abandoned buildings. I didn't see too many people. The city didn't look rundown and it was pretty clean. Hopefully one of these days it will be a town with citizens again.

@IronMikeDyson1979

Жыл бұрын

You drove past it, not through it

@lana_6336

Жыл бұрын

This is a very contradicting statement which makes no sense.

My dad had a drycleaning business in Cairo. I remember shopping in the downtown for clothes, going to movies at the Gem, and Shemwell's BBQ. Thankfully, Shemwell's is still there and I try to eat there whenever I pass through Cairo.

Before I live like that I'll be at the greyhound bus station one way to Atlanta...

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

Жыл бұрын

Atlanta??!!! 😂😂😂 hell no!!!

Without jobs how are you going to save to leave. No stores, no gas stations the government needs to fix this problem.

I just read about this town. Apparently the area is nothing but sink holes and saw it's worst flooding yet in 2011. It's almost a ghost town so it's time to get out. The rivers are sinking the place.

First of all all those who say they are lazy and should move. Where should they go? How can they move ?? You can’t just up and move with babies with no plan. What if they have no transportation. Please remember just because these people are poor does not make them bad people. And anyone of us can catch ourselves back at the bottom at anytime. I hope they get some help to a better place to stay. Especially the elderly and ones with babies.

@Not_on_u_tub

4 жыл бұрын

These are all individual problems, to be solved by the individuals. Getting people to think they can't change their own situation is the worst possible action. People can stop the situation from getting worse when they are young. First, do not become a baby making machine. Focus on education. Suck all of it up. Go into the active military. If someone is on any form of public assistance, move. Call family ... anywhere. Take a bus and get on assistance elsewhere and then work to get off of that. It is a shame that families have left their elderly in that place, to die. Shame on those people.

@aundrayperkins9796

4 жыл бұрын

No exuses. They are only 160 miles from Memphis. Tons of jobs here and affordable housing.

@gregmedunyciaw2564

3 жыл бұрын

Stop expecting so little of these people. They aren't abandoned infants. My grandparents left eastern Europe after WW2 when Stalin was starving half the population. I assure you Stalin didn't have any welfare checks for the starving population. These people went across an ocean to a land and language they didn't know. You're telling me it's too much for people to go across a river to the next town that is functioning and get a job? You need to realize at some point that the government can't and won't take care of these low expectation having people. It hasn't for decades. Your mentality sounds sympathetic but is a loser proposition for those people. They wouldn't stay if the town burned down so they don't have to stay now.

@UseByDate-Expired

Жыл бұрын

you are so right, they should stay right where they are, and cry, or blame someone else, or hope someone will save them. have more babies, but the one thing they should never do is leave, even if they have to walk, help is coming, and if it doesn't come, it is someone else fault

Once the grocery store closes up and moves out, they'll all leave.

If you have nothing, you are free to go ANYWHERE! LEAVE! Go anywhere else. Do not have children there.

@lukegavin124

2 жыл бұрын

Having nothing means having no opportunity. You need money to do anything

I met a young woman from central Wisconsin who went to Cairo to do missionary work. Her and her coworkers were harassed by local youth while in Cairo. Do the people there really want help? Or is the bitterness seemingly engendered by Cairo's "Jim crow" era to great. If so it would seem that the best thing to do in the long term is to let the rivers reclaim it. And, yes I wonder too where is Rev. Chas. Koen today?

@pm0501again

6 жыл бұрын

I've made at least 20 trips to Cairo between 2007 & 2012. Never experienced any ill will. The people I reached out to were very receptive to my observations. I got a real education talking with local residents and they were very hospitable. I will never look down to the people of Cairo, Illinois! Someday, a re-birth IS going to happen!

@BenNSyder_

Жыл бұрын

Were the local youth blacks? That might explain why this town has gotten to where it is now. Where you have a lot of blacks at will turn a town or city into a ghetto because they litter and majority of them do not teach their kids to do the right things.

This happens to every neighborhood, town or city they move to Eventually all the good people leave and the ones left behind can enjoy the hell they have created,

This is a dam shame

The affect of your so called great society

Peroxide is cheap and kills mold, you cant complain when the housing is free. If you cant afford to take care of yourself, then dont have children, that simple.

Hopefully with the recent stimulus checks these people and others like them are abke to move to MUCH nicer,safer homes with their children and families. J thank God for stepping in and sending my brother in Christ to love and help as he can by God's unlimited , unstoppable love and grace

@gregmedunyciaw2564

3 жыл бұрын

A guy I knew that worked as a liquor distributor said the liquor stores in the area wanted to be stocked up by the 1st and 15th of the month when those welfare checks came in. Just another poor decision by the people that choose to live there. Many of our ancestors left worse conditions on other continents for areas in America witt jobs. These Cairo residents can't move to the next town?? Who would want to set up a business with that pool of people to train? They can't clean up the area they live in?? I don't want to be mean but people need to take some part in how their lives turn out. At what point do they realize that the govt nipple isn't going to take care of them?

@annahgibbus8

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregmedunyciaw2564 well said!

This really breaks my heart it wasn’t like that 45 years ago

Praying for honest, God loving, leadership to assume control of Cairo! Get that Port they've been talking about - bring Cairo back!

I work 40 hours a week and live on rice and beans . Don't get shit for free .

@UseByDate-Expired

Жыл бұрын

yeah, but they live on rice and beans and don't have to work

Reminds me of my hometown "Ford heights il" aka east Chicago hieghts this is definitely our twin city...lol

@marilynhudson5805

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct I live in country club hills and it's going down not like it was 38yrs. How about Chicago it's Murders 24-7 and many other terrible things going on.

I'm from St Louis. Used drive wen I was laid w family going to ztenn wed cross river at Cairo. On a ferry...here in cleve since age 22 I met a man. Named. Lacey. Streeter (Buster), who is father of my grand nieces & nephew. He recently passed. Met his brothers at funeral. I remember Cauro well. Wen I went there it was I. Late 30s 40s..Busters mom was a teacher there. I pray all his well and better times come to u

Never been to Cairo, Illinois in fact never been to Illinois, but seeing this video, others and looking around using Google Earth you can see what this town must have been like. It has good bones, but has been neglected. Turning a community around takes a whole new fundamental way of thinking, you need everyone on board and everyone contributing to the greater good of the community. Big business may not be the best answer, as big businesses come and go, often leaving a big hole in a community. It's important to list the basic needs of a community and start there.

@robertdouglas8895

3 жыл бұрын

Blacks moved in. They asked whites to provide them jobs. Whites moved their businesses out. Forgiveness is always the key. Forgive others for what you think they did to you or might do to you in the future because we are each fully responsible for every event in our own lives.

@correybailey7138

10 ай бұрын

Don't come to Illinois

@paulayala4816

10 ай бұрын

@@correybailey7138 Don't worry I have no plans to.

@paulayala4816

10 ай бұрын

@@correybailey7138 Have to ask, what's wrong with Illinois?

I don't see any fathers being interviewed.

The only thing good about Cairo is the weather

I think it would make a great gambling town. A good place to make Cairo Whiskey. Establish the old Southern hospitality. Every ethnic group is involved.❤

@mock0024

4 ай бұрын

💯. love it

It's a shame, but Ben is correct you can't throw money at something that has no future. Most of the residents look able to work if the opportunity was there. Residents should be happy to get out and try to make a future for themselves someplace else.

I'm a trucker and just passed through this town and it's really sad to see what's happened here. I've always heard tale through old trucking songs about how great Cairo was. Truly abhorrent conditions these people live in. I would say what if the community was to chip in at minimum $25 a month to serve themselves what the Govt isn't. Seems at least worthwhile if they had a community fund to raise themselves our of poverty.

@lakb45

5 жыл бұрын

LongWhite Line Where would they get the $25???

@longwhiteline3308

5 жыл бұрын

@@lakb45 from whatever assistance or odd jobs they get. Slowly bring back the community and start opening small businesses with the community fund. Until people are able to provide them with jobs then stop the community fund. But there's that or when one guy gets out maybe and becomes a trucker for instance say he opens his own small truck company. Starts with 2 trucks gets a couple people trained up and so forth. Eventually until he has a pretty decent sized trucking company to start employing a bunch if the people in town then re invest some of that company money into the town. Alot of ways it could be done I suppose

@KSmall109CAB

4 жыл бұрын

@@longwhiteline3308 Good idea!

@UseByDate-Expired

Жыл бұрын

@@longwhiteline3308 there are 1000 people in that town.. over 300 of them live on assistance and certainly haven't got 25 bucks to spare. That leaves less than 700 people. Of those 700 people, 350 don't earn enough to even pay taxes. Now exclude the children that of course don't pay taxes or work.. there might be 100 people in that town that have an extra 25 bucks.. Now consider, no grocery store, no gas station. no places to eat. Your idea doesn't hold up to reality. Towns die, this town died long ago..

I'm from sikeston mo...we use to go to Cairo in the 90s...use to be popping!!! They called Cairo lil chic ago back then

It is imperative that we change the environment in order to change the product

This place look worse than East Saint Louis

@jamescook4289

5 жыл бұрын

I thought so too but this town is a serious shithole

@KSmall109CAB

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe Cairo and East St. Louis can be part of a shithole tourist package. It sounds cynical, but there are people who want to see blight and devastation up front. There are tourists who come to the Bronx expecting this sort of blight but are disappointed because the images that Paul Newman, Pam Grier, and Ed Asner projected in "Ft. Apache, the Bronx" are memories of a bygone time. Unfortunately they're still very real in Cairo and East St. Louis.

@Guy_de_Loimbard

4 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not ESL is worse. Maybe not in terms of abandonment and population loss (though ESL has plenty of those too) but certainly in terms of violence and overall quality of life. At least the folks of Cairo can claim there is simply nothing else going on around them -- no economic development or vitality, no significant government resources, etc. In other words it's not just Cairo that's fading away but the entire region. ESL on the other hand is literally across the river from one of the largest economic epicenters in the Midwest so you have to wonder what their excuse is.

@vasinvinnesha9034

4 жыл бұрын

@@KSmall109CAB I've heard of those "blight" tours down in New Orleans as well. Seems very exploitative, though.

I love Cairo, praying for this town to revive

@laurawilliams8462

3 жыл бұрын

Why just move

@asafaust8869

2 жыл бұрын

As do I. My home town is actually Mounds, located a few miles north of Cairo. Mounds was so tiny that Cairo was, to us, the big city. I miss Klondike, Pulaski, Villa Ridge, Ullin, Dongola and many more cities. There is no place like home. I would like to return to Mounds someday.

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

Жыл бұрын

it's a dead 💀 town

The guy walking in the beginning needs his own show. His voice and over all persona is perfect for tv of the future. It’s that intelligent hood swang he carries. Big ups fam.

Where did they shop for food ? Where did the kids go to school ?

You guys need to do another video see how they’re r doing now.

@leelew.1462

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It's no better. It's 2022. I rode through 8/29/22. Ghost town, historic buildings and homes, I definitely wasn't riding through the hood in my new vehicle. I was told crime is terrible because there's no grocery stores and you will get robbed. I wasn't stopping for gas.

They gonna tear it down and it will be redeveloped. #suburbs

Nothings ever changed but we standing strong we aren't going anywhere 🌅🌅🌅

To you BM, protect, provide, build the community.

And a scary thing and sad thing about these projects as well the government or local people in the towns don't care about those people the people think they care they don't that's why the HUD houses and stuff they're not trying to fix them up they leave them where they are you got to beg them to come fix your house what a way to live in the richest country in the world and people still live like this very embarrassing American should be embarrassed... Imagine the richest country in the world and you choose to let people live like this but we find weapons money for weapons to go to war with other countries but you can't take care of your own people so so sad don't get me wrong you have this crap going on in other countries also which countries like America..

@Not_on_u_tub

4 жыл бұрын

This are individual problems the individual themselves must overcome. For the area, this is easily fixed. Stop trying to save the area. Do nothing. No flood programs. No evacuations. Just have the locals do as they so please, stay or leave. Take down the 2 bridges. Build a single bridge connecting Wickliffe, KY with Missouri Rte 62. No more problems.

@leelew.1462

Жыл бұрын

If they had jobs, fix it yourself. Why wait on someone else to if you don't want to live like that.

I guess the easiest way to escape that environment is to join the military. Then when you are in, study something that will ensure a job when you get out. I knew a Black woman who grew up in the projects of Chicago and went to school to study medical technology. Now she is a med tech at a large hospital, will easily have a job for the rest of her life. She is also happily married. She defeated her ghetto upbringing. She is a model for those seeking success in life.

The basic fundementals of community is based on love and what i am seeing is the lack of any moral foundation once thats is gone people dont trust each other and it is everyman for themselves thats the difference between the old generation and the new we all need faith and thats why there is no hope.We all need a vision the guy saying i dont know if i will have food tomorrow hes got a river on his doorstep if hes got time he could fish provide food for himself and others or get a group of them and fish its doesnt take much or plant community gardens get some of the locals showing young ones had to survive .We didnt have money growing up but always had lots to do why not help the community especially those who are unemployed work crews tidying up the community give the youth something to do that helps the community..The town does look like it has been looked after lawns have been mowed and rubbish collected.

My hometown

At the same time these people choose to stay there as well I believe that they really really have strong motivation they can get out of that place go to different neighborhoods and try something else but most of them want to stay there cuz it's cheaper to live and I get it to that poor but I believe they can do more put themselves but you must be motivated and determined to do so....

@dp7047

5 жыл бұрын

You need money to move

@skapunkoialternativeliving6522

5 жыл бұрын

@@dp7047 I agree with you my friend is easy of course it's not easy but there is there is ways like me I bought the van I fixed it up and I live out of my van and I got a small Attic in another place that's all I got out of that and now much better to ask to pay less rent because of it... so something can be done my friend it's up to you to want to do it and we have to cut back from spending money because we want to be like the Joneses

@Not_on_u_tub

4 жыл бұрын

@@dp7047 No. They have the move to stay. Then they have the money to move.

💔. God Bless Cairo.

Why the residents dont come together to stop the rodent problem

@aundrayperkins9796

4 жыл бұрын

@The gardener amen

@barbarawilson9183

3 жыл бұрын

That's going to cost millions

A couple of questions I have - 1) What is the general status of the family unit in this town? Are the mothers in these interviews married to the fathers? Most likely I assume no. That plays a lot into poverty. 2) There are complaints of lack of food, but most of the people in the video looked obese. Just an observation.

@girlbotTV

Жыл бұрын

About half of single mothers were married at one point, single mothers are holding down too much, we need strong men too. We need something so that men step up, mentorship, emphasis on family growing up in schools, idk but the picture of single motherhood isn't always simple.

@ShawnCman

Жыл бұрын

Even if there were a family unit, that family with a father in the house, would be struggling as well. There are no job opportunities in this town. Some would say do to the racist history and systemic racism. This is a fact that cannot be neglected.

I heard the weather is perfect year round.

@lana_6336

Жыл бұрын

Is that a sick joke lol

Get off food stamps and welfare, and become an asset not a liability! Everyone living in public housing is a burden on society!

@IronMikeDyson1979

Жыл бұрын

You do not know what the hell you are talking about

The question is what is stopping them from leaving?

@DesNReg

3 жыл бұрын

Finances, education, resources, work experience, etc. For most poor people in this country, especially if you have children it is not easy to just pick up and leave.

@sharah3414

3 жыл бұрын

@@DesNReg your response was refreshing. Some people truly do not have a clue or the common knowledge to understand situations like this

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

2 жыл бұрын

NOTHING!!! not if unless you're a senior citizen or very sick.

@leelew.1462

Жыл бұрын

They make things worse on themselves by not working, having children they can't afford and just living off welfare. They'll just go to another city and state and sign up for welfare and not jobs. Keep that crime there.

@UseByDate-Expired

Жыл бұрын

@@sharah3414 I came from a sharecropper family. We put on our best rags and walked down that dirt road and left that place. Every time someone that refuses to leave a situation like that, EVERY TIME, the next sentence blames people that didn't help. Help what ? The town is dead, been dead and is never coming back..

lt's so sad to see many small towns in the USA are dying.

@fredicagoillanoise1309

Жыл бұрын

Cairo, Illinois really declined when thru traffic was re-routed from US Hwy 51 which runs through Cairo to Interstate 57 which bypasses it altogether. All of the traffic that would stop in town to shop at the businesses and spend money would just pull off of 57 to get gas, food etc and go on about their way and not even come up in the town itself. No tax money coming into the city and no business for the in town shops and the city just went down.

Wow from California. Calvary. Amen.

Well y'all gotta chance it get a house there but move out of the trap plz..

We have to start someplace❤

Pretty sure my grandfather was born there, that would have been in the hayday though. 20s.

Hard to change an 4 generation culture . Starts with mum and dad and education.

Is that guy at the end from Men of power the one that owned the strip club and caught with 10 pounds of meth?

I rather leave it in my van before I live in a dirty place like that never will I live in a neighborhood like that never ever I guarantee you that not me no bloody way...

Pelosi goes on a $90 million vacation to Taiwan with her son, they put illegal aliens in $300 a night hotel rooms, illegal alien kids get to stay in a former college campus, but they won't help Americans in towns like this? This administration cares more about foreigners than they do Americans. It was inspiring to see Ben Carson there trying to change things; he seems like a real compassionate person.

@offthefront7537

Жыл бұрын

So what exactly did Ben Carson do, other than leave?

@mjazzguitar

Жыл бұрын

@@offthefront7537 Ask the citizens of Cairo.

@offthefront7537

Жыл бұрын

@@mjazzguitar I tried to but they all left

@mjazzguitar

Жыл бұрын

@@offthefront7537 Yeah you can't blame them. It's too bad.

@UseByDate-Expired

Жыл бұрын

how has that being jealous of what somebody else has worked out ?

I saw a video here on KZread that said Cairo is a sundown town extremely racist.

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck outta here!! Racist???!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 stop with the racist b.s. You don't even know what a sundown town is 😂

Mold? That’s a law suit?

@norcalx1474

5 жыл бұрын

The same ppl who live in places like this is bc they can't afford to live outside of the projects! But they have no problem having more babies they can't afford! No one forces you to live there with mold! This BW will take the apt, have 3 more kids & complain after ..

At what point is there nothing left to save ?

I’m not the judgmental type , but there is no way in hell that I would reproduce in a place like that. The children don’t deserve that, especially when it puts their health at risk. Moreover, just move. I would rather live in my car or a shelter than to “wait” for things to get better.

@eastbayant7606

3 жыл бұрын

It sounds like they living on wishes and waiting for a hand out sometimes you just gotta go in found a better life for the lil one's

Its, once again, an issue of a once thriving community torn down and left for dead because once the poor move in, the people who built the town and the money move out. Thats the reality. But thankfully gentrification exists and sometime in the future the money will move back in and scoot the "leftovers" out and this city will thrive again.

The same way Black People migrated from the conditions of the south, and accidently got off in Cairo, thinking it was Chicago. You got to pull your nickels together and migrate to make a better life for your children. Don't listen to those naysayers, cause there were naysayers when Blacks left. Leave for your children.

I see tons of babies in that apt with no father at home! Typical with our Black women.. Sad. They continue to breed babies out of wedlock that they can't afford & bring them into this mess. I'd hate my mother if she brung me into a shit world like this! Close your legs ladies & try to move and better yourselves instead of having kids in dangerous neighborhoods! It's called common sense!

@KSmall109CAB

4 жыл бұрын

I find it interesting that folks are making moral judgments about the Black women in this documentary. I saw White women in the documentary as well. Are they also breeders who can't keep their legs closed?

@norcalx1474

4 жыл бұрын

@@KSmall109CAB do you see any white women in this video? Also, I don't care about white women bc I'm not white!

@veessietucker9673

3 жыл бұрын

That was so cruel to speak on women of color!!!!! Perhaps you should not say anything at all.

This is so sad. Get out if you can, please

So why don’t they jus leave? How do they make money? How duz money even make it in to the community and how duz it leave . ? Seem like a lot of people stayed there jus to run riot and have fun doing badness:

@drozone3658

4 жыл бұрын

99% of people are on welfare and social security. I drove through the other day and seen plenty of fancy cars on big fancy rims

@aundrayperkins9796

4 жыл бұрын

@@drozone3658 yes I did to

I came through Ciaro in 1965 it was exactly the same then.

Ben Carson calls Cairo "Thebes" &c.

this sound like Chicago Hoods

@barbarawilson9183

3 жыл бұрын

Hell nah it ain't that bad

@kevintyler386

3 жыл бұрын

@@barbarawilson9183 ion kno but i ive on 71st

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevintyler386 ion what!!!???? What is ion!!??? Speak english

@kevintyler386

2 жыл бұрын

@@IAMBENNYBLANCO. ion is a short expression for i dont kno..

@ICONICPARIS

Жыл бұрын

@@IAMBENNYBLANCO. why are u here?

The hood is NO more. Gone.