In the first photo... they could start by cleaning up around the house...I grew up poor, but every Saturday my mom would make us sweep the yard... there was no trash around the house... let's start where we can.

This is heartbreaking, and the blues player and singer is making it sink in. Great Blues, thank you!

You notice how life is portrayed on American television. Everyone is affluent, beautiful homes and cars and people. This is the America the rich and powerful would rather you not see. So the illusion is created.

@mpaxton8991

7 жыл бұрын

Cindy Weir what ahateful thing to say. you selfish little bitch!

@Lanja1991

5 жыл бұрын

This is huge shock for me. I thought all Americans are rich

@catnk9

5 жыл бұрын

TV isn't real life.

@honzasebera2688

4 жыл бұрын

I mean did you expect a film to have the houses that were shown on a video ?

didn't know parts of America is this bad. it's sad

@blacksultan85

6 жыл бұрын

of course yeah!

USA's *defense budget* of just 1 year is more than enough to fix ALL of this ......but then !!

@royhsieh4307

3 жыл бұрын

no, the us defense budget for 1 week can fix all this

Thank you for this information. I hope more people see this. I happen to be older and white..but have been living under the poverty level for a few years.. It is not because we are not smart..we are just poor and once someone reaches a certain level of poor, they become like a leper. No one wants to do anything with you..I find that a moral crime.

We need farming communes for people. Not everybody can get an office job. I myself wouldn't mind going somewhere and trying to raise chicken and goats or something. America is all about getting people to be consumers but if you can't get a job, you can't live. We need to go back to subsistence farming.

@525Lines

8 жыл бұрын

+patricke Nobody wants to survive in a system with no future. That's what you're getting with a welfare check, if you can even get that. A farming commune is building a strong foundation for a future. I think, given the choice, most people would be willing to try it. Communes of 2-10 people raising goats and chickens or crops could barter with each other for food and then organize to get their surplus to restaurants or grocery stores.

@AfricanAmericanNat

8 жыл бұрын

+525Lines this is the goal and what we are working on now - kzread.info/dash/bejne/iHdoy8ijoKjTYc4.html this system will change the world and end privilege ( the main reason why we are in this situation now )

I have a friend who comes from a place like this. She got pregnant and dropped out in the 10th grade to escape an abusive home situation. She married her baby's father, who joined the military, and she got to live in all sorts of neat places. She had to divorce him because he was violent. She married a second time, but he divorced her in secret. She became a caregiver, and though she was uneducated, had the foresight and wisdom to buy 4 houses in her hometown costing $3,500 each. She wound up retiring in her mid 50s, moving into one of those houses and renting out the others. So you can succeed in a place like this; you just need to keep your mind open to opportunities.

I'm a german and my heart is broken.Black African -American are the Salt of America!Without this people it give no Industrie, Military ................! I love this people! How can I help ?

400 years of free work with no pay, trickled down thru generations.

@maxios

8 жыл бұрын

Head Knuckle African Americans earned our keep in this country.

@AfricanAmericanNat

8 жыл бұрын

+Head Knuckle ignorant statements (AGAIN) its only been 150 years since (chattle) slavery and they had jim crow in place for about 100 years after that. you just want to keep living the LIE, but hey thats your decision.

@AfricanAmericanNat

8 жыл бұрын

+maxios ross We built this country! their privilege has ran out, time for redemption.

@AfricanAmericanNat

8 жыл бұрын

+Head Knuckle Join a sick mentally ill society that that was built off of institutionalized racism (you are not even making ANY sense) wait are you white? if so this is not meant for people like you. this is so people can learn about who did this so they can make a economic change, not for people who keep the LIE going. good bye (felicia)

@virtualyaya1

8 жыл бұрын

+Head Knuckle You do know they were given reparations and helped by other nations to rebuild? African Americans were systematically held down intentionally. This was done by the Government through Jim Crow laws that only ended in the 50s then followed by segregation that only ended in the 60s. Then it was followed by drug warfare where the government dropped hard drugs into communities then followed that by the war on drugs. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nixon-drug-war-racist_us_56f16a0ae4b03a640a6bbda1. Then joined with and followed by the Clinton administration Crime bill that locked up as many blacks as possible some on trumped up charges and falsely accused. Resulting in the depopulation of blacks in this nation. We went from being the largest minority in this nation to being almost aligned with the Asians in this nation, Even though we were here longer than most white families in this nation. So your statements prove that you were miss educated or just plain ignorant. Educate yourself please.

Woww for all my Jamaican bro and sis let us try to live in love and peace because we are so bless

Why don't people take some time to do a little research before they post /comments on things they have no knowledge about? oh ... we do not read or get our news form an trustworthy news station anymore. We can not change ,adapt or adjust to new thing. We lie , blame the next person for all mistake so much ,we can't tell the truth any more. People in this country need to take responsibility for their own mess. We all in this together

This is heart braking one of the richest countries in the world and people live like this

@abimaellopezmaylord27lopez7

2 жыл бұрын

But it’s in the middle of nowhere

we are not trying to compare poverty conditions, we are trying to enlighten the masses so we can ALL pull our selves out of these bad situations. use your brain, if you can

The rich people are diving in money while us poor folks are trying to make ends meet

@corrinehopkins3693

4 жыл бұрын

Can't blame white people and the government for being nasty.

It does not matter if you are black, white or purple. Poverty does not discriminate. The struggle is real! Run down housing, hunger, lack of medical care, unemployment, etc. Poverty happens to everyone! 😥

its hard to do the best with what you have when you dont have much to begin with.

Thanks for uploading.. this must be seen so all the help sent to other nations should be sent here!!

Some whites don't have it too cool either. . .

@ecm8948

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly; and I raised my kids as a single white mother in some very black neighborhoods; turns out they cared more for you than your own many times, because they help each other regardless (I had white people turn on me for associating with different colors - not just Black, but Latino & American Indian also)... All my children have gotten out of the poverty stage & done well for themselves and I'm a very proud momma for that

@yogijones8527

4 жыл бұрын

They need to not vote for Trump then

@BeverleyMiller_

3 жыл бұрын

@@ecm8948 you must have been in the south Elyse...bless you for raising successful children. I was once confronted for sitting on my front porch with a friend of mine who was of color. He was a true friend unlike those faulting me! I was raised in CA, so my opinion of the south is that most are stuck in an antiquated mind set. We are all ppl with the same basic necessities & dreams♡

@ecm8948

3 жыл бұрын

@@BeverleyMiller_; I get it... CA born lol. I actually I lived within an hour of Washington DC when it started to get a little to real - I finally left MD in early 2001 after the KKK burned a cross on my front lawn (I lived in Frederick, MD). Discovered the house I had rented before moving South, was a rural Clan area & I had no idea. I made a statement moving out though... had all my Baltimore & DC friends help pack me & the kids up to "get outta dodge".

How can you go to war to fight in Syria when these conditions exist at home. Sorry for the Syrians but more sorry for these people at home.

so this is the best country in the world?

@chrislewis615

5 жыл бұрын

No it is Norway. #1 on the human development index. USA #13 and falling, with a declining life expectancy

@thankmelater295

3 жыл бұрын

You are free to leave anytime just don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

I am saddened by how these people are stuck living, although to a degree poverty means comparative poverty, and if your neighbours are in the same boat you don't feel quite so bad about it - .... But what I would love to know is, why are there no vege patches around any of these houses? It would appear to me to be a straightforward first move but I can't see any vege patches around any of these places. is this a skill that has been lost or was it never had? Is there a way to reinject it into the neighbourhood? You can cut costs and improve nutrition no end with your own vege garden, and these places seem to have a lot of spare lawn.

@chrismorring3352

7 жыл бұрын

Education plays a role in their condition as well...I'm sure the schools in that area are crappy.

That is so sad. I live in Finland and nobody lives like in that kind of conditions in here. There are also homeless people in big cities and most of them live in Helsinki because in Helsinki the rents are very high, much higer than at smaller cities so people who do low paid jobs like cleaners can hardly pay the rent.

@whitepigish

9 жыл бұрын

Seija sundancer so this is the best country in the world?

@jakecrackerbarrel8348

2 жыл бұрын

That is not true.

Some of you are so quick to point out what they have. Yes, they have a car an AC, and a satellite. Do some of you ever think that maybe those things were given to them. Just because they have those things doesn't mean they aren't suffering. The car: There is no public transportation in those small rural towns. People need a way to get around. AC: That region of the country get's real hot, need I say more?! The satellite: Poor people need to be entertained, too.

People who live in shacks without plumbing or heat are truly the people that need HUD Housing and for whom I believe HUD was originally designed for. For them, the small cramped rooms of the projects and elderly apartments are far better than living in substandard housing. Having electric stoves, toilets in the apartment instead of an outhouse, sink disposals, carpeted rooms, heat and hot water are a really big deal for folks who never had them, even if the apt. is very tiny. Instead, many middle class and even wealthy people "hide" their money so that they can take HUD apartments. I cannot understand this AT ALLl. It seems that the wealthy are the ones who "game" the system, not the poor! People who can afford to own their own (larger) homes or apts. are the ones who are keeping the poor out of HUD and maintaining the continuing poverty rate amonst the truly poor. And HUD condones this and even has booklets telling pople how they can qualify for subsidized housing even if they're well off; the same with Medicaid (spend-down accounts). Does this make any sense when resources for the impoverished are limited today? America wants to keep the REALLY POOR down. It's the true crime of our century!

@bamafan1141

6 жыл бұрын

Rajnoma they need to go there ass to work. Lazy vermin just lazy.

i heard from a old tymer who was a farmer he said in his days when anyone whos family was in need or a fire burnt there home down the community would gather and help that family in need and all would gather together to rebuild that familys home as a whole i think poverty is a state of mind

Look at what America the devolved and the richest country is doing to its people

@whitepigish

9 жыл бұрын

TruthReloaded so this is the best country in the world?

No human being should ever have to live in these inhumane conditions.

Yes, i agree. It is going to take a totally different approach to solving this issue, the powers that be enjoy having people in poverty.

They inherit this Kind oft lifestyle.not easy to brake away Form what you are used to!

@Sweetssweet2

4 жыл бұрын

I would be running from this!!!

I am a kenyan and hell no i cant 'believe that is America.i mean you guys paint africa as poverty stricken continent but after what i have seen,believe me you are no better.lots of poor africans live closely to that.so don't look down on us.peace.

@jeffreyalanwong

6 жыл бұрын

True. America should focus on lifting up her people first before sending aid to wealthy and affluent African Countries.

@melissaneuman4367

5 жыл бұрын

I personally have never looked down on someone because they are poor. Don't assume everyone looks down on someone.

@ministerchee_

5 жыл бұрын

I am as shocked as you are my sister! We should start telling our own stories. These people have done us more harm than good. I'm a Nigeria btw

@marycurry837

4 жыл бұрын

@@vusumuzimathumo-githendu6949 There Are Some Whites Who Live Just Like That So Don't Blame The Blacks You Idiot.

@bellavoci

4 жыл бұрын

I think Kenya is the greatest country in the world. I'm married to a Kenyan and can't wait to move there. I wouldn't come here to such a racist country as America. Africans are coming here and I'm trying to get out!!! I'm comfortable and make comfortable money but peace without racism to me means more!!!!

How poor can they be? That one house had a satellite dish on the roof.

@raccoonfrickingwizard

9 жыл бұрын

that's because the satellite dish companies will give anyone a contract. I guarantee you that dish isn't working!!!

@annganolin6467

4 жыл бұрын

and air conditioning

God loves the poor. He taught us to show love to the poor and to to tell them if they hold on to their faith in God a great rewad will await them in heaven. He came to preach the good news to the poor and to bring them hope.

Brazil has taken more than 20 million people from the poverty line in the last 10 years. But the middle class paid this count and now they are trying to keep not to fall.

Poverty does not equal filth and littering!

I’ve never understood the wide eyed awe some people have for theUS . Money is king . God bless the low riders of the world.

Even a hamster has a comfortable cage than this people have a comfortable home,Wow we Care more about our pets than our own kind

and ofcourse Alot of poor people also in philippines

@carryclass What about me? I had to quit high school to take care of my dying grandmother. Yes she did die. At the time my friends were graduating I was making funeral arrangements. What should I have done, left her on her own to die alone? I loved school, have since gotten my GED & gone to college. I've been looking for work. Guess what? Employers leave no space to address why one might have quit school. Clean background...no drugs. Please think before you judge.

Some rappers have a million dollar party when your own people are hurting like that. Dictators like Nigeria's Abacha stole 5Billion and was found in Brittish banks when our people are suffering like that. Sad sad sad . Where the basketball players at. Where are the black celebrities at. Love your own. Help them.

Oh here in philippines the $135 is A nice house already fully furnished and tiles floor

The land of the Free and the home of the Working Poor. America is turning into a joke. A minimum wage of $7.35 is a poverty wage. The Minimum wage in Australia is $16.26. Keep in mind that a Big Mac in the US is only $0.40 cheaper than what it is in Australia.

@GhilleInTheMist13

9 жыл бұрын

BanLiveExport So you're saying raising the minimum wage will solve this problem?

@whitepigish

9 жыл бұрын

BanLiveExport so this is the best country in the world?

@austinamarshall8860

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly! And McDonald's isn't a cheap place to eat anymore. They keep raising their food prices (with tax $3-72 or 3.79 for a processed fish sandwich and the dbl. cheese is $2 now0 and they don't raise the wages of those that work there. This country is becoming an embarrassment. Richest country in the world? Look around....

Is this the area they find the soldiers for the army in ?

Oops!! USA lolz, anyway ...poverty is everywhere in the world :( :( ...not only african origin (black) even lots of white people suffered with poverty in USA.

@AfricanAmericanNat

9 жыл бұрын

i understand their are a lot of poor whites but blacks (to this day) still own less than 1/2 of 1% of America's wealth. just a fact...

@manish9990

9 жыл бұрын

yup....

they are just trying to say that the same kind of poverty you see in the news in Haiti is also in the united states, thats all.

Poor people should clean up their lawns and fix there homes. This is the first place to start not being poor. SELF RESPECT and Pride will set you free. Save welfare for those who really need it...

Ive seen this devestating squalor while living in S. Caroline.

this is a small percentage of the USA, we are the third largest country, population wise, of course there will be poverty, but we are the greatest country on earth, never forget that, equal oppurtunity, not equal results

it is not the responsiblity of any celebrity to help any of us. We can help ourselves. Stand up, get a job, any job, feed your family, stop drinking,stop smoking, stop drugs, then you might be able to afford a better life. Lifestyle is what's killing us,laziness, waiting for someone to help,when you don't need help. Do it yourself, have some pride and get it done.

Thanks, this is vid is meant show people the whole picture but most people in this society have been so severely brainwashed that they just cannot see the duality of this nation.

I could not agree more, we will build our own schools, raise our own food etc. that is the key

@leostgeorge2080

3 жыл бұрын

First you need a JOB! Oh wait you want working America to pay for it?

4:52 that could literally be my first house I rented. I lived in a dilapidated shack, no amenities for 350.

And don't forget the prisons. In my state (Ohio) we build even more prisons than schools. It's pretty scary that the US locks up more of it's people than any other industrialized nation in the world. We use to condemn the Soviets for their high prison population, but we have surpassed the Iron Curtain.

God bless you

Yes, it is unfortunate that people are so quick to judge and they don't take time to look at themselves first.

2 satellite dishes at 0:30 got that big screen tv thou.

I hope America can go back slowly to its previous economic status in the 80s and 90s............with lots of middle class

I am a black guy from the south, luckily I was fortunate to move to Washington to make something of myself from poverty. Being fortunate was my ticket out, others who I know back home did not have that luxury. For all those to ignorant to figure out the message of this video nothing can be said to sway you, but you are a victim of the agents that conformed you to society, you have no compassion so there for you are incapable of understanding anything in life.

Obesity is a clue. If you can't control your diet, you probably can't control your finances.

No one should have to live in such poverty.

In response to this comment I say..Where was all this help when New Orleans flooded? Why didn`t America rush there with its money and help for its own American citizens? If I was American I`d demand to know WHY our Government sends Billions of $`s to other Countries when we in America have our own poor. I`d demand to know why if we are such a rich Country that we have people homeless.

you are 100% correct!

I would never go that low.

there are many factors that make people poor. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS IS THE MINDSET. IF A PERSON HAS A BURNING DESIRE/ FIND A WAY TO EDUCATE THEIR MINDS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITION/BECOME CREATIVE THEY CAN CONQUER POVERTY

we can solve all the worlds problems in a garden. (food forestry)

these are your perceptions not mine and these are your deep seeded thoughts about how you feel about yourself your judgement your perceptions i dont know you at all i certainly dont think like you

There's poor people in every ethnicity in America today! However, the real issue is since America is allegedly the richest nation in human history, is that nobody should be living in poverty! But many do because the income inequality is spreading further and further apart. Jobs are going overseas. We're more concerned about bailing out the banks and insurance companies and brokerage houses instead of bailing out the poor. We're spending billions of dollars a day for wars we can't afford.

your state of mind is your reality

I HOPE PEOPLE ARE NOT LIVING LIKE THIS NOW !

i understand if somebody moved to a house that sat dish was there from previous owners . nobody would buy one and mount it in his roof just to make his house looking nicer . sorry if sound insensitive but id like to see people making some efforts

Does not really matter if the glass is half empty or full. What matters is the content on the glass.

Don’t let water stand in containers like that. It breeds mosquitoes.

At last I will pray & send hope, no it's better let us world-wide pray together for justice, peace,love, harmony, understanding, humanity... Here in EU the politicians has start too selling the poor, till the middle class - we all must make a strong peaceful stand to get back and keep all our human-rights and safe our Planet Earth for not let them destroy and contaminate all-its a sad time we and our children life in

350 rent for entire house man will rebuild the dam place for that amount of money.

Land adverse possession can avoid land rental.

The houses were bad and really, need to be turn down, but no one looked as if he or she was starving....I've seen worse in L.A. with the tent dwelling homeless.

still looks better than what people live in, in the southern african countries like nigeria, Haiti the island is worser than this atleast these people have a home. They are still blessed

RON PAUL 2012..WE NEED TO RESTORE AMERICA

True, Native americans are doing very bad. Our heart goes out to them...

Poverty does NOT have to mean that you can't or won't clean up where you are. Give me a break, please. These people can keep where they live CLEAN...the house, the outside. etc.

debbieb221, To be quite truthful it is more prevalent in the cities, in the deep South I was overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of black and white alike, much the same as in any country, the people of the Rhineland are different than the people of Berlin, as are all other countries, in my own country I would rather be in the Yorkshire Dales than London, sorry if I generalised, I should have specified.

just because someone has an 88 in it doesn't mean their racist or a nazi, that's the year i was born, 1988.

@AfricanAmericanNat I love people who post numbers with no backing for propaganda.

we know that white black hispanic asiain arabic indian people all have some poverty, this is just a video depicting certain events, thats all

Yes, calling u stupid would b a insult to stupid people... U got me..... dang, lol

It's called maintaining til they can do better...

Lord please hear our plea

YES!! Finally someone on this video with a brain.

I have been watching a lot of videos about homelessness lately. The bumper stickers I see usually say Hillary or Obama. No small wonder we have so much poverty in the US.

@lydiaanderson3312

3 жыл бұрын

@Hello BaconNBeer, How are you doing?

no politician can improve one's status in life not even obama or ron paul. Poverty is a personal policy....if you don't want to live in poverty you will do whatever you can to get out of it.

this is so sad had in tears i wish i had magic there wouldn't be proverty no were and no crime no rapeing just peace between every race and love. im half white Indian mother gave me up because my grama dint want me im looking for my birth mother in Alabama

@lynnchristian7397

7 жыл бұрын

Beverly Bausley I wish you to prosper and God grant you the success you deserve for being so considerate of people living in such conditions. & for wishing peace between all races

It's sad seriously that this is happening in our country not a lot of people want to see what is going on this is a wake up call for everyone.

It's not just African Americans. I've seen some people, even locally, living in slums. There are not near enough jobs, and there are times when people are discriminated against for reasons more than just race. We do what we can, donate to charities that feed the poor, give people helping hands, recycle appliances, giving them to poor families, but even that at times is not enough. It's very sad to see.

Who sings the song...and name of it...

Vacant land on adverse possession and certificate of occupancy can turn into land ownership.

We need to help them

What does filthyness have to to do with poverty? I don't come from riches but we had to KEEP our poverty stricken asses clean.

Every success has been accomplished by persistent concentration upon the object in view. The only difference between poor people and rich is how they think. Teach the poor people how to think and you will never again have to hand them something for nothing. That is what the rich want to keep to themselves. They know how to think and create so they think they are better than others. We are all humans and all deserve to understand how and what we think creates who and what we are no matter color.

Blacks on welfare? How do you overlook all the whites on welfare? We need to stop being self righteous and love and help one another, period. Jesus didn't say to look down on them or pass judgement; he said to feed and clothe them.

How can the Democrats fork out a 10 billion "investment" handout to Mexico and Central America when we have poverty like this in our own country? @

@dervaretyndigtland4760

3 жыл бұрын

Because they really don't care.