Those elevators and stairs are super scary and look like a death trap

@legendkillingsworth4286

3 жыл бұрын

They was!!

@mrfixit8312

3 жыл бұрын

when they worked...I grew up in Rockwell Gardens (westside)

@luzcaicedo9879

3 жыл бұрын

I live in a death trap

@ABCEasyas--

3 жыл бұрын

I knew elevator enthusiasts would label those elevators as death traps,

@joelx3612

2 жыл бұрын

The whole building was terrifying, they were so tall

That's right pops! You worked three jobs, raised 12 kids, been married 47 years!! You tell ' em!!!!

@drinkingpoolwater

2 жыл бұрын

but still living in the projects smh.

@MonaJ888

2 жыл бұрын

@@drinkingpoolwater how?? The projects been torn down. He’s not living their no more & anyway the projects was put there in the old days for families & affordable rent. The projects didn’t start out bad.

@lorenzoflex7074

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is he kept having kids knowing he was living in this extremely dangerous place. Them projects was not for children!

@danteking5050

2 жыл бұрын

Your comments reinforce antiblackness and a slave mentality; as though what this man did should be looked upon as a prototype for success or survival.

@dbrown9495

2 жыл бұрын

Let's be proud of the old brother! Everybody wasn't on the welfare even if they worked low minimum wage jobs.

Even candyman got his a** whooped out there. What a nightmare!

@trishezk7172

2 жыл бұрын

Smh 😂😂😂

@D-Major_Beats

2 жыл бұрын

LoL 😆

@TheHardTruth315

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@djstorm40

Жыл бұрын

Stop playing!🤣😂

@BrooklynBaby-1

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

To people asking yes. A lot of these people are still alive. My family grew up in the Prairie Courts and Robert Taylor’s. Despite what the people may say as a kid I didn’t even realize how impoverished it really was. I just had me some fun and ran the halls from floor to floor daily going to friends and family houses.

@donaldcook3801

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly but I did understand I stayed in the worst of the worst buildings

@drizztdourden5291

Жыл бұрын

Right I didn't realize how poor we were as kids. I didn't even know , I had a fun and great childhood playing in the streets staying outside even after dark But we were poor reall poor. But wouldn't trade a day for anything.

@davidgage7876

Жыл бұрын

MS De' jenae latrice if you don't mind me asking how old are you?

@phatgringo2.0

Жыл бұрын

What schools did you go to? God bless you and your future!

@davidchipps

Жыл бұрын

This is great to read. To hear others perspectives. I am trying to get my American Gigolo dream-which is essentially a fancy HIGH RISE and I'm being pushed out by HOA fees. I hate YARDS. So the media's focus on the violence might actually be perpetuating it. I don't think World War 2 vets that built those high rises imagined they would be a generational thing. Upward mobility is an issue and the computer has made it worse. I just found out my UNCLE got his education PAID FOR. 100,000 debt here. Who complains more? Hiim. Not to mention the quality is no longer there in clothing or appliances with outsourcing. MARTIN LUTHER KING and his supporters had THREADS you have to go to ARMANI for these days.

Crazy part is the fenced in balconies; mess looked like jail. It was built for safety reasons because folks would get thrown off the top floors.

@isaiahwinbrone

3 жыл бұрын

Tales from the south side

@kingroyaltytrucking9353

3 жыл бұрын

A baby and a woman got thrown from the top of the building I was 8 when that happened…now it was a lot of shooting but back then it was a code and it was a lot of love I actually miss them

@levibondjr4650

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingroyaltytrucking9353 This was the 80s or 90s? Why did they toss the woman and the baby off the roof?

@2ndcitysaint52

2 жыл бұрын

@@levibondjr4650 what do you mean why? no one knows why shit happened the way it did back then, I grew up in the ida b wells homes. It was choas all the time in these areas, ppl think the violence in chicago is bad now boy if we had actual accurate information back then lord only knows how many murders were happening. Cabrini green got alot of the media hype but robert taylor and ida b wells homes were legit warzones in the 80s luckily i got my ged and joined the military and was able to escape but sadly 99% of the ppl there never had a shot.

@tia84ification

2 жыл бұрын

The upper fence was enforced because of deaths some from committed murders other from children being dare devils.

I'm obsessed with watching this its shows a lot about how this are today, deep thinking .. The problem we have today started a long time ago

@lana_6336

2 жыл бұрын

absolute facts

@tribulation138

2 жыл бұрын

A very long time right after world war 2. Alot of factorys, mills, and businesses closed shop when no longer needed. Alot of people lost jobs and moved. Back then there was alot more Italian and European immigrants. They also left and what was left behind were alot of African Americans. Living in the streets and tents. So the city started building high rise apartments everywhere that were poorly made and nobody to really maintain the buildings but also segregated from more upscale parts of the city.. By the time late 1960s came around the current President LBJ created the "welfare act" and other policies thinking that would help out poor inner city families. The question is did it make it worse or better?

@rasyay

Жыл бұрын

@@tribulation138 they put poor Italians there on purpose on racist shit first then put poor blacks there on purpose and just left them there and didn't even allow married couples only single mothers you could lose your housing if a man lived there and helped out they wanted men out of the kids picture then the government imported in guns and drugs.. They did all the shit on purpose on racist shit same way they killed off martin Luther king Malcolm x all the black panthers put Rosa parks in jails for sitting on front of the bus just look at the times years and think about the way the world was blacks couldn't hardly legally drink from same water fountains or go to same schools or even attend college or get jobs in the 70s and early 80s and the 60s and before was really fucked its 2022 and the police still getting away with shooting little black and Mexican kids in the back and poor whites have it bad 2

@68baby90

Жыл бұрын

@@tribulation138 Civics 101….More Caucasians are on welfare than us.

@apples874

Жыл бұрын

Reverse some of the past the policies and many of these problems will decrease or go away completely

shout out to all that are still here past Chicago public housing!! you the truth!

One thing they didn't mention was. When the projects were all being torn down developers all over the city made huge money by using a few units for CHA use. It wasn't just thet Northtown Village. It was all over the city. Started I'll say in 1998 1999 2000. Any new city development secretly or not had a few units. They got a kick back in taxes and CHA payed top dollar.

@chosenone2472

2 жыл бұрын

Sad asl

@Realfrenchie

Жыл бұрын

One word... CORRUPTION!!!

Hats off to he 69 year old man that raised 12 children..and with no government assistance.

@mobdevice

Жыл бұрын

He’s living in public housing provided by the government

@BullGooseTV

Жыл бұрын

Do you know what a housing project is?

@BrooklynBaby-1

Жыл бұрын

@@BullGooseTV 😂😂😂 right!? …

@Drod13

Жыл бұрын

LMFAO

@simonesmith3864

Жыл бұрын

@@BullGooseTV Hats off to you for not raising a serial killer, a school shooter ,A mass family murdering demon, or a fuckin pedophile With out your weird Daddy's assistants! You Fuccin jack off..

I grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes 70's baby! Grandmother from Mississippi! I had both of my parents in my life back than

@rickeeprice8501

27 күн бұрын

Then*

The true story of Candyman that inspired the horror classic film came from a resident of the ABLA Homes in this video (made up of the Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts and Grace Abbott Homes) located on Chicago’s South Side, where Ruthie May McCoy and 17,000 others lived. The tragic murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy, a lonely, mentally ill resident of the ABLA homes on Chicago’s South Side. On the night of April 22, 1987, a terrified Ruthie called 911 to request help from the police. She told the dispatcher that someone in the apartment next door was trying to come through her bathroom mirror. “They throwed the cabinet down,” she said, confusing the dispatcher, who thought she must be crazy. What the dispatcher didn’t know is that McCoy was right. Narrow passages between apartments allowed maintenance workers easy access, but they also became a popular way for burglars to break in by pushing the bathroom cabinet out of the wall. Although a neighbor reported gunshots coming from McCoy’s apartment, police chose not to break down the door due to the risk of being sued by residents had they done so. When a building superintendent finally drilled the lock two days later, he discovered McCoy’s body face-down on the floor, shot four times.

@mikewebbjr.9914

Жыл бұрын

ABLA homes were on the West Side bruh.... My mother is from the jects documented in this video and my cousin is from ABLA. They're nowhere near each other....

@ShaneM420

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information

Hezakya Thank you so much for these Throwbacks. I enjoy them so much! Please know that you are appreciated! 😘✌️

Breaks my heart to know my mom actually had to live in this type of crap

@vibesNstuff

4 жыл бұрын

uaightdoee

@nevalyin7802

3 жыл бұрын

@Michael Robins crumb.

@ivoryking509

3 жыл бұрын

Why do they have 4 children if the man isn't gonna stick around

@diashow465

2 жыл бұрын

Mine as well 🖤

@Ayotzi94

2 жыл бұрын

No human should ever have to live like this.

They protest about police violence but say and do nothing about the fact that they're terrorizing their own neighborhoods.

@Briyonti

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@goddessb582

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Worried about the wrong thing just like they do now in 2023

@petej7002

Жыл бұрын

Its always an anonymous profile talking about “them”. As if you arent part of the problem.

@IK_4

Жыл бұрын

@@petej7002 How am I a part of the problem? And who can see you in that small distant photo?

@BrianWarren-tb9bg

Жыл бұрын

@@IK_4 yeah I'm with you on that, as a black man I understand that before you can address outside issues you must start with the ones your creating for your self. Like. BLK on BLK violence.

The story of girl X. It hurts. I remember being in 5th grade at the time. The teachers were crying. They pulled us out of class for grief counseling and how to make sure we were safe.

@xXKillaBGXx

4 ай бұрын

Ewwww

@lox3csimiami22

4 ай бұрын

@@xXKillaBGXx ewww for what?

@xXKillaBGXx

4 ай бұрын

@@lox3csimiami22 Ewww for you.

Nothing ever changed, thank God they tore them down

@johnscanlon2598

2 ай бұрын

All that did was spread all their bullshit around , it was the worst decision ever , they had the fuckers contained then

A security guard job in the projects back then, lol yea I ain’t showin up for work , even if I lived there and needed the money

@tawandamckinney1646

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣...

@chosenone2472

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂💯💯💯

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 s/o to the man who was able to move on, have custody of his son, and is moving forward! S/O to the mom who was also able to make the move

@looneydank8013

3 жыл бұрын

💯💯

@tripleq7888

3 жыл бұрын

What does s/o mean?

@simone2125

3 жыл бұрын

@@tripleq7888 short for “shout out”

@Swervo773

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah s/o the wife who lost her husband and the kids who lost their father cause the government said so. If you from Chicago you know that plan didn’t work it’s the single parent home kids that’s carjacking and killing

@ChitownRon

Жыл бұрын

The man moved on because the Democrats made it more profitable for single mothers. President Johnson basically brought down the black family before Johnson sign those papers the black families were more prosperous than the white families

Those housing projects and others across America were full of lead paint and the residents are still suffering the health side effects of the lead paint from that to this very day. Government has gentrified the housing projects all across America in 2019 and replaced them with condos and the like...from Boston to Seattle and everywhere inbetween...

@IceManLikeGervin

4 жыл бұрын

@sara Allison aka Miss true Freeman Gentrification...they were societal experiments that ran their course and served their purpose ie projects.

@P_RoC45

4 жыл бұрын

IceManLikeGervin Yeah unfortunately that doesn’t just apply to project residents that applies to anyone and everyone who lived 25+ years ago. It doesn’t matter about skin color or public housing lead paint was everywhere.

@keithparkhill8546

4 жыл бұрын

Pre 1978 all houses used lead paint.

@IceManLikeGervin

4 жыл бұрын

@@P_RoC45 And? Many white people lived in public housing complexes too Sherlock...

@IceManLikeGervin

4 жыл бұрын

@@keithparkhill8546 I'm fully aware of that fact.

Terrible no one should live like this

Generational poverty isn't an accident. It's encouraged intentionally. At this point it's not even divided racially necessarily. There are incredibly poor parts of the country that break black or Latino but there are also the same places for Asians, whites, islanders, etc. We've got a full on class war happening but no one sees it because the rhetoric is racial instead of economic. This serves those at the top who make the rules: division is good for their business.

@kalesmonroe2556

Жыл бұрын

Yes encouraged because it is not encouraged to work hard, study and take accountability. It is encouraged just to complain, take from the working folks, and blame everyone else for your problems.

@williammurray8060

Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what the democratic party wants. Give people a free place to live and free food, you'll get their votes

@kurybingai

Жыл бұрын

finally someone sees it.

@buffcosby1038

Жыл бұрын

It will and ALWAYS has been a class war. And we sit and fight each other while the big boys laugh at us.

@michah321

6 ай бұрын

​@@kalesmonroe2556it's actually A LOT bigger than that, but obviously, you want to keep it simple and focused on the individual when you didn't even consider what the commenter was saying.

Man I couldn’t imagine living there. But you really have to live it to understand & I’m not one to judge based off circumstances.. only character.

I am happy for Mrs. Wade and Mr. Larry and their families. I wish them all the best.

Those stairs going up and down look like an absolute nightmare

Well their ancestors didn’t get 40 acres and a mule just sharecropping. Forced to move north from Jim Crow. The resultants of an obsolete labor class

@keithparkhill8546

4 жыл бұрын

@kush King LMAO Africans can't stand African Americans .

@jeremiahstraight6301

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithparkhill8546 FUCK U MEAN...EN WE DNT LIKE DEM🤷🏾🤷🏾

@aroujohnson8507

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeremiahstraight6301 wat kinda dumb shit why would fall for his bait

@mrkjsmooth16

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithparkhill8546 who cares what an "African" thinks anyways?

@nevalyin7802

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithparkhill8546 both our skins dark n we all losin sooo ?

I remember when I was younger on mothers day me and mother was out and when was returning home they started shooting. The elevator wasn't coming fast enough and we was right in the middle of everything in front of the elevator doors that was my first and scariest shootout I ever been in

@incognitonegress3453

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry sis. I'm glad u made it out! 😢🙏🏽

@simonyip5978

Жыл бұрын

Was that around the same time as this video was made? In the late 1970's.

@SupaStar100

Жыл бұрын

Crazy black fools shooting around children.

Great upload Bro!!!! Keep Grinding!!!

That's one of the biggest problems 90% of the tenants there are single moms with kids. It's was a breeding ground for gangs drugs and violence, 90% of kids no father they see the gangbangers and drug dealers with wads of cash, new clothes and cars flashy jewelry

@kalesmonroe2556

Жыл бұрын

One of the biggest problems is that it even had to exist in the first place.

Wasn't always that way. Housing inspections were done in the beginning and professional people lived in them. That soon changed! King Richard wasn't supposed to build those past 6 stories high. People we're used as lab rats by the University of Illinois Chicago that leased them the land! The lease ran out, the damage was done.

This makes me miss the 20th century and the old Chicago for some reason. They just tore all of Taylor down and built almost nothing. Chicago fucked these people once more.

Such insightful content. Thank you!

The 23 year old lady broke my heart

@giftedpurpose5369

9 ай бұрын

Yes! You can tell life been hard for her since forever.

Would love to see one of these on NYC public housing

@Sammydx1

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

With high rise housing, the largest concerns I’d have are how often the eve toes are broken and fire alarms go off.

Am I the only one who wonder if some of these people are still alive and where are they now..

@DarylDawkins

2 жыл бұрын

I do all the time on these videos. I be looking people up on linkedIn and facebook n shit lol. Tryin to see if they ever made it out.

@8213apice

2 жыл бұрын

Some of them are.

@jaaysinbarber2924

2 жыл бұрын

Especially the children 😥

@shannaswurl9445

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaaysinbarber2924 Yesss

@robertafierro5592

2 жыл бұрын

No. I wonder also.

Years ago all communities in western cities,poor or otherwise had,criminals ,nextdoor​ to the butcher,the brick layer,the lawyer,doctor,factory worker etc,so kids didn't just see gangsters or sportsmen as successful,they had all the proffesions to aspire to.Thats what a mixed community produces.A real community.

Now when the police are scared to enter ! Then should tell you something! Lord have mercu

Corey Holcomb is from Robert Taylor homes. #5150

@FCm-tq2ho

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. T.... Kirby Puckett... From Robert Taylor...don Thomson (CEO of McDonald's) was from Cabrini Green.. Talent came from the gutter..

@yosimtybred1762

3 жыл бұрын

@@FCm-tq2hoMr T from Robert Taylor

@alanbrown3172

2 жыл бұрын

Oh shit that's why they called it the 5150 podcast

Its interesting to see the effort put into making things work.

I remember being from waukegan going to chicago to the projects. those were some scary times man. my aunt used a lighter just to illuminate the stair way. everywhere smelled like piss. sometimes the elevators would get stuck. im glad those places are gone.

That's a shame women had to be the leaders of the community, black man lost.

@daspoohmunich7235

Жыл бұрын

magnified tenfold now

@matthewjones3422

11 ай бұрын

So silly to even say 😂 I guess u think the guys just played ball the whole time right ??? 😂😂

@daspoohmunich7235

11 ай бұрын

@@matthewjones3422 you on the rag?

@matthewjones3422

11 ай бұрын

I don’t even know what the rag is I don’t indulge in bs like what your saying lmao 😂😂😂

@daspoohmunich7235

11 ай бұрын

@matthewjones3422 haha google it thought all the kids google everything now haha your on the rag & don't know what it means go save the environment so you can save the world bs haha lol 🎈

Happy to hear Larry ended up in the new housing.

Its 2020 and nothings changed..

Look who raised productive children. THE BLACK MAN WHO WAS IN THE HOME AND DID NOT TAKE WELFARE !

@incognitonegress3453

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@BrandyTexas214

Жыл бұрын

He was living on welfare by being there.. that was welfare and why haven’t his kids helped him move

I went to Columbia College in Chicago after I left The Bronx. I grew up in the streets! We used to pass Robert Taylor Homes going down past Cermak Ave. it was like you stepped into another world. The city abandoned these people! Period! I knew Vice Lords and Disciples from the south side. My father hung with Black Panthers after Vietnam. My ex is from 76th & Champlain Ave. I used to hangout at Heroes night club! I’m as much a Chicagoan as I am a Bronx boy. Like I said, I’m from the streets. My sister is still living back in The Bronx witnessing hardcore violence everyday! We are Sicilian 🤌🏼

@buffcosby1038

Жыл бұрын

Fogettaboutit

I know this may sound crazy...as much as shit that went on in the projects but I miss it like hell. I had so much fun there & had family at almost every project you can think of. The Greens, Calumet building (Randolph Towers), Ikes, Parkway, Taylors. It was home and a nightmare wrapped in one.

@fishydinner44

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing, I'm very interested in these towers. Absolutely insane that people would live in such high rise towers. Which one did you live in, if you don't mind sharing.

@dinkyb2000

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, I lived in Ida B Wells on 39th, I lived im stateway gardens on 35th and I had family im Robert Taylor. If you didnt live on state St you aint lived in Chicago

@Gold_gyrl

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@williamalmendarez9157

Жыл бұрын

Go back

@ftwdamfseyg

Жыл бұрын

That's how I feel about the 80s in Brooklyn yea it was crazy and crack took over but at the sametime it was so much fun I miss dat shit sometimes I Kno it sounds crazy

I am a former housing authority resident ( ABLA HOMES),RACINE- ROOSEVELT RD-ASHLAND - LOOMIS COURTS), I LIVED IN 1209 SO RACINE #1305 W/ 4 SMALL BABIES BY MYSELF, BUT HAD FAMILY SUPPORT, LEFT CHICAGO IN 2000 A YEAR AFTER THEY STARTED TEARING THEM DOWN. WENT TO DALLAS TX, FOR 12 YRS, NOW IN PHOENIX AZ BEEN HERE 9 YRS. LOVE IT ! IT'S BEAUTIFUL HERE! AND THE CLIMATE IS SEMI COLD.

That poor 5 year old boy who was dropped out of a window 14 floors up by a 10 and 11 year old always spooks me man.

@andrewanderson7912

7 ай бұрын

I was about 10 when that happened and my heart hurt so much for that boy when I read about that.

79 families got to move in the new units from cabrini green. Its at least 80 to 120 apartments in each building! It was like i believe 12 high rise buildings in cabrini plus the row houses. So basically about 5% of the ppl from the projects got to move in.

@83reggieT

4 жыл бұрын

They were just the tokens to make it look good .Before they used to just pocket the money and just let the buildings go to hell. The rich fucking over the poor par for the course.

@user-rz9wz1bx2l

4 жыл бұрын

Rise in homelessness. Wefare reform. They never replaced the low income housing. Most people went to south side, west side, poor black suburbs. Some went back down south. Black people screwed again. Now its CHA lotteries for the few low income apartments.

@noelc2

3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t they tear that down?

@leedaniels7196

3 жыл бұрын

@@noelc2 Yes,they did.It’s all gone.

@BagmansLastBag

2 жыл бұрын

@@noelc2 yup tore down and built a target.

My mom moved to Cabrini green from Memphis TN when I was a newborn and we stayed there until I was PROBABLY around 6-7/5-6. She NEVER allowed us to go away from our apartment balcony unless we were going to school ( FOR ME, Truth School or head start really can't remember). Or Church. Those apartments were RUUUUFFFFFF i can truly say. We witnessed so many deaths from the balcony alone

My friend Josh Davis grew up in the Robert Taylor homes. I grew up in the middle class suburbia. Despite how vastly different our upbringings were, at the end of the day, we still had more in common than we had differences.

Now, these same people have destroyed Chatham, and Grand Crossing, Bellwood, Maywood. It was better when they were contained.

@ChucksGhost01

Жыл бұрын

Chicago has been rough for a very long time. Walt Disneys father built his own house in Hermosa back in the 1890s and decided to move after only a few years because the neighborhood was getting bad. That was when the northwest side was first being built!

I LOVE YOUR CHANNELLLLLLL NUFF RESPECT FROM TORONTO

I used to work for Renault Robinson he is good man and did a lot for black Chicago. Especially in the police dept in the 60’s after Fred Hamptons assassination. He sued the city and police dept as a cop and won and got more black cops on the force patrolling there own neighborhoods.

Lived in stateway garden from 76-89 we were poor, but we had our best memories being there

There’s a simple solution if you don’t like living in places like this and that’s if you already have a kid you’re struggling to take care of,don’t have anymore and add to your problems. It’s not fair to you,the taxpayers and most importantly the child you intend to have grow up in a situation like this,where they will most likely repeat the cycle.

@TheOpenSociety777

3 ай бұрын

It's called genetics 🧬

Some people don't realize what they have until it is taken away from them.

I tried to put closed caption on the old man at 5:48, but no success.

Not me thinking that “Hezakaya Newz” was her name lol Love the video❤

I lived here when I was like 7 or 8 years old went to Sojourner Truth wow I made it out! I've come a long way❤

They sound like they’re freshly migrated from Mississippi with those accents

@terranceof2007

3 жыл бұрын

Chicago was Mississippi north most their peoples from their they picked up the accent of the south

@realdeal8303

3 жыл бұрын

And Arkansas

@cedfri

3 жыл бұрын

@@realdeal8303 Yep that Arkansas delta region

@MeeMee-gz5vp

3 жыл бұрын

They still talk with a twang accent in 2020

@cedfri

3 жыл бұрын

@@terranceof2007 yep we all (Mississippian) have a Chicago, Detroit, or Milwaukee cousin

You can still hear their southern accent real good

@Nino_J

2 жыл бұрын

Most of those people were from Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama etc

@youtubecommenter1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nino_J No we just talk like that here

@Nino_J

2 жыл бұрын

@@youtubecommenter1000 I’m from Chicago

@youtubecommenter1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nino_J So am I, it’s true that we have a lot of people who migrated here from the South. But as you know, we have our own dialect.

@MonaJ888

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nino_J yep. I got 4 generations of bloodline out there. All from Mississippi & Louisiana

1:41 1:42 Knowledge 1:52. !!! Wherever she's at i hope her is blessed!❤ Great Documentary! !!!!! History ❤.

🤯🤯🤯 "12 successful children". And they can't give their loving father a better place to live??? UNGRATEFUL!!! 😭😭😭

the ending is perfect

I lived there as I think the only White guy in the place (Cabrini Green). Had some fun I can tell you.

2:10 that’s true. You still can’t get a job with a high school diploma

God forbid you had a criminal record and your trying to put it all past you. The state or government will not let you they rather see you homeless

@dougedoug2105

Жыл бұрын

Man you don’t even need a criminal record. I graduated college in 2019, and had been doing okay for myself ever since then. I got COVID really bad this past January, and was laid off from work causing me to fall behind on some bills. Interviewed and found my dream corporate job 2 weeks ago. After I received and signed my offer letter, I passed the mandatory criminal background check & drug tests also, but I got my job offer rescinded late last week because I didn’t have good credit. 🤦🏾‍♂️Man I worked so hard and I maintained excellent credit the entire pandemic,but I fell on hard times ☝🏽 once, and just like that I was denied employment. I have to take responsibility for my debts, which I always do, but it sure felt a hell of a lot like I was being criminalized due to my recent credit history. Man I swear companies & society will use anything in your past against you, even if it’s all behind you. In my particular case, I was provided an opportunity to rectify the situation but choosing between homelessness and a job is a difficult decision. I know I will find another opportunity but I honestly feel for people who have an actual criminal past. They will probably never ever get a decent job their entire life

Good Times. Any time you meet a payment. Good Times. Any time you need a friend. Good Times. Any time you're out from under. Not getting hassled, not getting hustled. Keepin' your head above water, Making a wave when you can. Temporary lay offs. Good Times. Easy credit rip offs. Good Times. Scratchin' and survivin'. Good Times. Hangin' in and jivin'* Good Times. Ain't we lucky we got 'em Good Times.

@Noway673

2 жыл бұрын

Easy Credit rip off's Good Times? Scratching and surviving Goodtimes I mean who wrote these lyric and call a bad situation a good time! Really!🤥

@Noway673

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not having a good time being lay off my job wondering where my next rent money gonna come from.

@AshleySpeaks09

Жыл бұрын

That piano intro at the end tho. I lived for the ending credits

@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79

2 ай бұрын

@@Noway673who was behind the show and who owns the networks it’s was played on. I’m sure outsiders had the last say on the theme of the show. Think hard and deep vs scratching the surface.

5:35 I fw dude I wanna get old feeling like him 🔥 he got that fire in him 17:42 history repeats itself. Rip LA Capone . And I use to wonder why did they call it a PROJECT.. it was exactly what it’s called a project to test the living of multiple black ppl living together with only drugs and guns at reach with no jobs or good education. And after a 20-40 year mark it was time to stop the project and spread them out like a virus and now you have multiple gangs instead of 1 or 2 now you have 3k drug dealers instead of a few in a building smh it’s sad how they did us and the guys that are beefing and killing each other today actually knew their killers as kids smh.

@cabrinigreenbornbred1058

Жыл бұрын

FACTS, THAT'S WHY THE CRIME IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH ESPECIALLY FROM VIOLENT CRIMES. LIKE CAGING ANIMALS FOR YEARS, FEEDING THEM ENOUGH TO LIVE. THEN RELEASING THEM. HMMMM, I WONDER HOW THEY'LL BEHAVE? (PROJECT)....

@Scythesyn

Жыл бұрын

Nothing but a social experiment wit folk reality

@seanthe100

Жыл бұрын

The projects were originally for white people though

@3namechangezalowdevry90day7

9 ай бұрын

The people that planned the housing projects thought they were FIXING society by housing poor widows and orphans! They weren't psychic to know that the era of "free love" and skyrocketing out of wedlock birth was coming! Your conspiracy makes no sense. Racists want to ELIMINATE " human weeds" not pay taxes to breed more of them and seed them all over the place!

I'm alive.. just turned 49

I get bad vibes just looking at that building

Government hide SECTION 3 from folks where both parents can be in the house. Give us a video to share about that!!!!!!!

If all of his kids are doing well why don't they help him improve his situation.

@msindymusic

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!! I wouldn't leave my parents there!!!!

@teebee3631

2 жыл бұрын

Everything about that man screams pride and stubbornness! There's no way he would let his kids "help him."

@83reggieT

2 жыл бұрын

@@teebee3631 yeah probably he's most certainly dead now anyhow.

@yahis8011

2 жыл бұрын

It’s all most of them know. They know of nothing else. When those residents filled out job applications, the employers looked at where they lived and rejected every single application. I bet it was hard as hell making it out that death trap being successful.

I’m looking at this video and I’m floored at how obvious they purposely tried to put all the black people in one area away from the rest of society. Those places were huge and there were so many buildings.

@OSTARAEB4

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. They tore these ugly projects down in the 1990’s and now look at the crime problem everywhere in Chicago.

@williamalmendarez9157

Жыл бұрын

Bingo

@great-eyedea

Жыл бұрын

It's a tricky situation. For the government they just want the profits of public housing. They don't care about the people in general. But for the people in there, why make your home such an unsafe horrible environment? Raping and murdering your neighbors just don't make sense to me. I don't see how anyone can justify that or blame those actions on someone/something else. It's up to the individuals to change the cycles/patterns and that all starts with family

@easntx

Жыл бұрын

@@great-eyedea what profits? There are no profits. Just more tax dollars

@goddessb582

Жыл бұрын

No one forced them go there. Men was running from their responsibilities so these women & children had to go where they can survive.

Its like watching the news today man where did the black love go man I love my people and my city but I fear for my kids like my parents did for me

@8213apice

2 жыл бұрын

Black men left their families before the white man

@rogersmithh

2 жыл бұрын

@@8213apice the white men stay with their family but do messes up stuff behind their back, at least the black man will be bold and just leave

@sean9820

Жыл бұрын

The welfare state destroyed your community.

Look how the kids surround the reporters as they walk thru the projects. My question is where are the parents? If it's so dangerous why the parents letting the kids wonder thru the whole projects. Not safe at all, broken elevators and everything I'll be afraid to let my kids go out without supervision. Oh ik where the parents are, dad in jail, mom on drugs prolly.

And for the people wondering how did they get there?? Just remember this was right after civil rights we had no rights before this , we couldn't get jobs and our education was limited.. The govt did this to us after slavery to keep us under even though we were free, we would never elevate that was the plan.. These people were put here due to conditions they didn't choose this ..

@teetot5276

Жыл бұрын

Always somebody else’s fault… typical of blk people.

Some things never change....

HEARD YOU LOOKING FOR CANDYMAN BISH!!!

When those buildings came down.... I could bet a billion dollars that people died in the demolition itself!!!

@AshleySpeaks09

Жыл бұрын

Can u elaborate on this?

Being at the mercy of the state or federal government for your most basic needs of food and shelter is the penultimate nightmare. Every American knows that in such a predicament you're going to have to eat one big S sandwich. But it's only supposed to be very temporary, until you pull yourself back up. So 1) why are the residents so surprised it sucks, and 2) why did so many of them turn a short term fix into a lifetime of miserable reliance??

@venomkiler1

2 жыл бұрын

Because of welfare traps. Its happened to me. I am chronically ill and need medical insurance. I deliberately make less than 1,500 a month just so I can get free Healthcare, because if I made 2,000 dollars, I would be spending money on private insurance and co-pays and deductibles, which would be a net loss for me even though I am working and making more. Losing welfare is like having withdrawals from drugs, and the government needs to change the rules so that people can wean off of welfare and don't just lose it completely

@Caddy911

Жыл бұрын

@@venomkiler1 I couldn’t agree more. Education, financial guidance so one can be financially stable without assistance !

@whatsthebigfndeal

8 ай бұрын

Global average IQ of 78

90% single parent households with an average of 4 children is insane. It's hardly surprising the cycle of violence continues on.

People talk about trenches!!! Chicago was the definition of trenches back in 80s 90s! , but for some reason People assumed cities like New Orleans was worst biggest lies

@lyricaldre42

2 жыл бұрын

New Orleans always been different. Back in the 80s Chicago, DC, LA, STL ect was the worst but New Orleans was definitely in there wit em.

@Lamo2100

2 жыл бұрын

Chicago is a gang city and population 6-7x’s larger than NO. Them Chicago high rise projects was flat-out demonic.

@aaronx8006

Жыл бұрын

The Bronx alone had more murders then the entire Chicago in 1990

@justingarrett8656

Жыл бұрын

If you don't think new orleans was the trenches in those days you must be dreaming homie!

Life is what you make it

This why black folks always have my heart

@rob9528

4 жыл бұрын

God don't like black people it seems

@nevalyin7802

3 жыл бұрын

@@rob9528 Things ain’t always what it seem . .

@nophucyew8326

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah right

@suspiciouswatermelon7639

Жыл бұрын

And your wallet!

@georgejetson1025

Жыл бұрын

@@suspiciouswatermelon7639lmfao

Would love to know how that worked out for the Tomlinson's.

Government Projects ( GOVERNMENT SOCIAL EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS)

Unfortunately the new development was/is a failure. Prices steadily declined

@dougedoug2105

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I googled the community today, and found several units on the market for around the original selling price, indicating that the property didn’t appreciate in value. The actual buyers did not see a return on their original investment and as a result are no longer still residents today. I knew it wouldn’t be a success though, I don’t care what particular version of the gentrification dream a property developer is selling, well-to-do and successfully individuals will never want to live next to poor and impoverished people; Think about it like affluent white people refusing to live next to what would be considered to be w hite trash. I’m sorry but the two mentalities are just too different to consider them living together as neighbors, harmoniously. It’s funny how that other lady ended up leaving her husband to raise her kids in a safer neighborhood. My mother is one of 7 and she, several of her siblings, and a few of us kids are first and second generation college grads, respectively. Before my grandfather died, my grandparents had been married 53 years. Growing up my grandfather left home a lot in search of work, leaving my grandma to raise the kids on her own. She never went on public assistance because it almost certainly would’ve forced her to divorce her husband, which is what the welfare system was designed to do; Take the black father out of the home and remarry the mother to government assistance. The cycle then continues

Welfare, women and children.

They built that place like that on purpose😢

Every kitchen needs a garbage can. Every house needs a toilet.

All of this created by design 🇺🇸❗❗

@buffcosby1038

Жыл бұрын

Yes it does take a design aka blueprints to build something like a building

Musical genius Curtis Mayfield grew up in Cabrini Green.

@outdamuddd-r0532

11 ай бұрын

Hi cutie

What year was this?

I grew up here... I was never afraid or scared...we could play until dusk with no worries of anything bad happening...this was home...I miss this place!!!

@hungsolow7090

21 күн бұрын

Could white people come visit and play ??

Don't blame the housing for the actions of people.

@lianalonge1984

Жыл бұрын

@John Ratican 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽‼️

Good for the father & son. Also the woman and her girls

Undoubtedly the origin of the expression "up in here". Anyone know what year this was shot??