I can not believe I'm just finding this channel. Channels like this is the reason KZread exists.

@curiosityl.6261

3 жыл бұрын

Yet KZread shows no appreciation towards them. And yes, this channel has it all. Like everything I'm interested in relating to humans and our development over time and how we've changed in so many ways this channel has

@biancalord488

3 жыл бұрын

Just found it today

@nonamernobrainer846

3 жыл бұрын

No, it's not. KZread's first videos were cats, people throwing themselves around and getting hurt for fun and. You have no idea of what you're talking about.

@ORGANICsoulJAZZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@nonamernobrainer846... Read the creator's of KZread's reason for creating KZread. ..🔥

@collinsimpson1008

2 жыл бұрын

I just found it about a month ago. Don’t beat yourself about it. How has your life changed since finding the channel?

My family didn't stop sharecropping for the same former slave families until 1979. This really hits home. I even still stay in the same freedman town my ancestors were released from slavery to.

@SpiritMover314

3 жыл бұрын

@ Joshua Cofer...Wow, that's deep. Turns out, my dad's hometown had a plantation house where slaves with our last name worked. All my years traveling there as a kid, no one ever knew, not even my dad, that there was a plantation house in the middle of town. The Pillars is what it's called, Bolivar,TN. I actually found out through a cousin I had just met that day on my fathers side of the family, who happened to overhear a conversation about my family surname. The plantation was owned by John Houston Bills who migrated from Tennessee to North Carolina. He married the daughter of President James Polk. My family had to sharecrop as well.

@waitaminute2015

3 жыл бұрын

@ravi oli people have family ties and support where they grow up.

@kitfenwick1641

Жыл бұрын

That's deep🧐

I find this so fascinating as a 24 year old white woman living (and having grown up in) North Carolina. So much of this history seems to be so hidden and hard to find. I'm grateful for people like you, David, who have been documenting it. Thank you.

I live in the south; born and raised. My grandmother was born in 1928. She worked in fields with her dad. She didn't speak much about it. She passed in 2015, about two hours after my first grandchild was born. She was 88 years old.

This is so interesting to watch from a first-hand account. So interesting.

I always wanted to hear from the people who actually lived through this. I wanted to hear what they experienced and how they moved forward during a difficult time. I am so happy I found this channel. Thank you.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Milagros for your comments. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZread is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

David, you have inspired me to record everything. I am planning on interviewing my parents

@301cameosis

3 жыл бұрын

Very good.....do that work

@cherylalt101

3 жыл бұрын

Red Hood I wish I had done that. I'm here a year later and I hope you did that!

Such a valuable archive of wonderfully captured video documents. Thank you for making them and for sharing too :)

David, I've been watching your videos on youtube since I was 17. I am now 24 and all I can say is thank you for giving us a glimpse into the lives of our parents and grandparents.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gino. David Hoffman filmmaker

@ORGANICsoulJAZZ

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully, you're still watching

@MrReigato

Жыл бұрын

@@ORGANICsoulJAZZ I need to get back to watching more for sure. I've been busy going back to school. Thanks for this.

I worked in industrial agriculture not too long ago, and for several years... I remember asking one of the farm managers why so many blacks were seemingly held captive in that lifestyle and he said that it was a 'land grab' where so many have had a mule and 40 acres but when times got hard and they made promises to the Country Store that the Country Store owner got a lawyer and took those scripts straight to the Judge who took that land. Mind you, this was not the 1950s, but much more recent.

@stevethompson5785

3 жыл бұрын

Hey my brother what state and County was that in

@michaelgray1803

3 жыл бұрын

What 40 acres and a mule

@cristyluv1205

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah you believe that 💩 if you want to.

@SpiritMover314

3 жыл бұрын

@@cristyluv1205 What part, the 40 acres and mule??? Oh, and if that's your real profile, you have a pretty, full chocolate face...👌🏿

@souljaboytellemvevo7331

3 жыл бұрын

Your Majesty I believe there was 400,000 acres of land that was supposed to be given to freed slaves. 40 acres and a mule for black families, but it never happened because Andrew Jackson overturned the Orderthe 400,000 acres ended up going back to the original white farmers smh

This channel is pure gold! Thank you very much!

Dr. Anderson has a very accurate assessment of the condition of North Carolinians. He was there in the 50s, but much of what he described was still true as recently as the early 90s. He was actually in one of the more “civilized” parts of the state near the Charlotte area. My family from eastern NC (Lenoir County) where the economy was heavily dependent on tobacco and the textile industries-again as recently as the early 90s...only there was no legal segregation. To this day large swaths of the state still have tracts of poverty. Like myself, those who can get out, do; those who can’t have to “make do.”

Cant get enough of this channel.

David - you were always ahead of the curve. These videos make me feel proud of you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you for sharing these voices.

Another great perspective, another great video.

Amazing interview, definitely an experience that needed to be shared.

Yes this channel is pure gold.

The tone of his voice is 💕. Thank you for posting this.

Sir Hoffman when will you do a HUGE docu series of black ppl adventures you personally have come in contact with??? I think it would be a welcome watch 🖤🖤🖤

@David Hoffman I really enjoy your documentary videos! Thank you for your contribution in capturing stories of African American history and American history in general!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

I found this man spectacularly intelligent and articulate. Bernard Anderson. David Hoffman - filmmaker

Thank you for sharing Mr Hoffman, Thursday April 8, 2021 7:41am est

The time frame he is talking about my youngest sister was a year old. I can remember quite a bit of life right around toddlerhood and steadily from about three years old. I remember living in an apartment or house with a bathtub. A family of visitors. Not much else. Another walking in a line behind my sister in the middle of a street. At age 3. We lived on a horse ranch. My dad was a ranch hand. We had to leave. The guy had race horses and greyhounds. They weren't winning or something. He wasn't able to pay my dad so gave my dad a silver streak trailer (an airstream) and 5 horses. We set up for summer work and horse rides in midpines, ca before anything but the store front facade and wooden sidewalk of a ghost town was there. That was actually in 1963. Next as autumn was coming on my dad traded the airstream for a year's lease on a park ranger's cabin on the outskirts of mariposa ca and the ranger gave us his german shepherd duke. The year went quickly and mom was getting close to having the last child. Time to go. Ended up going to my grandmother's home town. That was the time frame. I can remember the many jobs that my dad had to take. From road work building highway 49 up in the mountains, to fireman on a steam locomotive, to truck driver in salvage yard to hospital orderly to manufacturing.

@eliescott210

3 жыл бұрын

mn7h

Tremendous! Wish you could have an interview with Dr. Thomas Sowell (born in 1930). He's a brilliant writer and talks about his experience in high school in late 40's Harlem and how demanding was the curricula, the standards were also high for comportment despite Jim Crow. I think that video is on Wm. F. Buckley.

@MrPickledede

Жыл бұрын

@@IsisAdgerWasHere21stC. How so?

@galientl4723

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPickledede him denying the number of policies implemented with the explicit purpose of harming black communities is a start.

@MrPickledede

Жыл бұрын

@@galientl4723 examples?

@MrPickledede

Жыл бұрын

@@galientl4723 the problem in my view with the black community in the United States is its inability to focus on the problems they have today which include Chief among them the lack of accountability at the community level and the tendency to blame all problems including black on black violence which is the highest cause of mortality in the black community, the breakup of the black family which has now become a generational problem, the proliferation of the glorification of violence as a means to address internal fractures and chief of all I believe is the apathy and even in some sectors hostility that is shown in the black community towards education and Entrepreneurship that would bring about real prosperity and change in the black community but instead tends to potentiate A continuing path toward a victim culture in which everything is blamed on racism and self accountability does not exist.

I like the way this guy articulates. Very accessible for the layperson.

Our elders are the most neglected natural resource. Thank you for the knowledge Mr. H.

First. Thank you for posting this David.

History, from the mouths of those who were in the thick of it, is sooooooo amazing. To see living symbols, people, experiences from the recent past is palpable, pulsating, resonate ...

I,ve lived through some of the things in the 50s i was born in 1947 i thank God everyday for my life iwas raised by a strong black woman thank you mother

Interesting and insightful. Somehow I've missed learning about this man. I'll fix that.

First time visiting this channel. And it is early morning 2 October 2020🤔

I like this guy I could listen to him all day

David, God bless you for this channel. I've been searching far and wide on race relations during the 1950s

I found it today,Amazing

That was a really interesting insight to the black Community at the time that I don’t think I’ve ever heard before. Never would have realized the things he spoke about regarding the black middle class, setting of cultural norms, or the effects on economy connected to global trade. The bit about trade in the 50s is especially interesting to note with trade being a Trump talking points any chance he gets!

@cherylalt101

3 жыл бұрын

YouT00ber I've heard farmers say everything Trump has done has hurt them and I've heard lots of pundits saying Trump's trade war with China has only hurt America, but I don't know enough myself to know what's true as Trump and his supporters always say how great he's doing.

@guleiro

3 жыл бұрын

@@cherylalt101 Trade wars always hurt both sides... It's inevitable.

@mrsaye499

3 жыл бұрын

@@cherylalt101 I don't know what has hurt the United States more than opening up trade with China. The U.S. economy has suffered ever since, probably the entire global economy.

Will keep in touch on a regular bases.

Great video but it seems like it ended abruptly before I could find out what social Dynamite was.

Smart man.

good content.

I used to live I Salisbury. Or next door in Mocksville but it's pretty much the same thing all the way to yadkinville. Nowadays .ixed relations is an extremely common occurrence. The middle class is still thriving but alot of the old buildings still stand. I used to pass by living stone college everyday to go to work

Great history of the 60’s south

Why dont you provide a clickable link to your patreon?

You left us on a cliffhanger with “social dynamite”

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

You are right. His entire interview is fantastic and I will present it in the next six months. Stay tuned. David Hoffman, Filmmaker.

Where is the second part?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

5 жыл бұрын

I will post more comments from him in the next few weeks. Bernard Anderson was and is a brilliant thinker, researcher, and speaker. David Hoffman-filmmaker

Do you have the full video?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I do. Over the next week I will be posting more clips from him. David Hoffman-filmmaker

I've watched a few of these videos and it's really interesting to hear what the people who actually lived it have to say about it. It's such a more detailed, nuanced description of how things were. It sounds like the social control that southern blacks had over their society is what you often hear black people talk about today. I guess the question is how can you get there without re-segregating society? Or is it even something that should be attempted because of where it could lead?

Minimum wage laws disproportionately hurt minorities, particularly teens and entry level employees.

@cherylalt101

3 жыл бұрын

Steven Birn is that true? I've never heard that but it definitely is something everyone should know if it's true, so I guess I better start looking stuff up. Thanks for your comment.

@waitaminute2015

3 жыл бұрын

I don't understand how you come to that conclusion.

@cherylalt101

3 жыл бұрын

Regina Buttons I finally got around to looking into this idea that minimum wage hikes are bad. There are some studies that come to the conclusion that teens and entry-level employees lose out when the minimum wage is increased, but the truth seems to be a lot more complicated. For example, restaurants use a lot of teens and entry-level folks and a forced wage increase might cause a restaurant struggling to go out of business sooner or they hire less people because they can't afford them. One study showed restaurants that already weren't liked very much and had just 2 or 3 stars were negatively affected and in turn low-level employees are affected, but good restaurants like 5-star restaurants had no trouble with a minimum wage increase so neither did their employees. It all sounds like excuses to me as though these studies wanted to conclude minimum wage increases were bad and didn't help the poorest or youngest of workers, but the increases did help young workers who lived at home with families making $75,000 or more. What? Increases would be helpful to middle class kids but not poor kids? That logic really doesn't make sense to me lol. I can see how businesses already doing badly and very small businesses wouldn't want to pay the extra money, but any big businesses or businesses doing well didn't have any problems and hired just as many as they would have at the lower pay. Well, take care Regina and don't forget to vote!

@redwingfan9393

3 жыл бұрын

@@waitaminute2015 statistics bare this out. When the minimum wage rises above market wage rates businesses get rid of employees or cut back hours. This disproportionately hurts teens because they have limited work experience and minorities who disproportionately take minimum wage jobs as adults. Furthermore, raising minimum wage above market wage results in more discrimination because there are more applicants seeking employment. If you have 100 people applying for an unskilled job that pays an over market wage, discrimination is easy whereas if you only have a couple applying for a job with a market wage even the worst racist will choose green over discrimination. The greater the skills and the fewer the applicants the less discrimination there is.

@waitaminute2015

3 жыл бұрын

@@redwingfan9393 I don't care what study that came from. I grew up in a family owned small business. We always paid more than minimum wage. You can expect higher standards with higher wages. Paying people low wages leads to poor outcome for everyone. Have any of those studies ever actually asked the working person? I would bet NO.

I guess the increase in technology also would have reduced the need for alot of farm labour?

He would fit the black republican skit by Kay and Peele xD

well spoken gentleman

So this is what home school feels like ... The new normal 2020

Truman-Eisenhower era

The black experience is the human experience, the history should be studied as such. Any group or race of people in a society subjected to the kind of treatment that black Americans were would have a serious problem. It’s depression, depression is crippling, it kills your sense of joy and freedom, it kills your ambition, it hinders your perspective. Be careful not to lose yours, they determine how well you will live.

And we still have a way to go.

@allthingsexpendable2433

5 жыл бұрын

It's clear that blacks thrived under segregation, more so than now. As the guy alluded to, international trade has resulted in lack of opportunities for blacks, and this is compounded by low-wage immigrants. Siphoning away America's manufacturing independence and the demographic rise after 1965 of people from the third world has been utterly destructive for blacks. And blacks will continue to suffer, without even the opportunity for redress, because the demographic wave that will be disastrous for America, come 2050 and onwards, an influx of third worlders, will outcompete blacks for low-wage jobs; black people have continually voted for their degradation, unfortunately.

I subscribed back after youtube unsubed me

this guy's cadence reminds me of Obama

@beasthunt

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@davidhakadoober._1-

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree Obama sounded like he was trying to sound hood and educated at the same time. this man just sounds educated and honest completely unlike obama

@michaelgray1803

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhakadoober._1- he's way more fluent

@josesbox9555

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It does.

@truthbetold6011

3 жыл бұрын

Not I rather hear him speak instead of Obama.

I imagine to be this innately, relentlessly hateful has GOT to be exhausting. Perhaps it’s the lack of melanin 🤷🏽‍♀️

@hawks7775

3 жыл бұрын

Well that's not nice lol....let's be real men and woman in general are COMPETITIVE...I'd say the black culture is as competitive as any race..including against thenselves..think gangster rap and sports ...so I dont think it's necessary hate..its innate competitiveness...but if its between 2 different races it comes off as hate ..and of course skin color will be the first things used if it gets really heated and aggressive...its too bad because most of us love eachother and we all make eachother better in the long run

@marisutton334

3 жыл бұрын

Cristy Luv I concur.

@kims767

3 жыл бұрын

@@hawks7775 Nothing wrong with competitiveness but when combined with a system of overwhelming subjugation and cruelty, it's no longer a competition by any standards.

This is a heavy accurate account of the south 50s,60’s 70s

According to the US census bureau, North Carolina's urban population was 33.7% in 1950 and rose to 39.5% in 1960. In the 1960s, minimum wage mandates, globalization, and women entering the workforce priced out entry level workers and drove down wages. That isn't necessarily "bad", but laws and demographic shifts do have consequences. Both intended and unintended. Combined with the massive welfare state established in the 1960s incentivizing unemployment and children born out of wedlock, the black community in the US as a group is economically and culturally worse off today than it ever was before. Including the racist Jim Crow south of the 1950s and 60s.

@saggyt5496

5 жыл бұрын

thats cause of racist laws, racist Cops, Racist Judges, lawyers, FBI, they are everywhere. Not much has changed.

@aileenm.6492

5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Man it's a brain that pays attention to current events

@TheRealGnolti

5 жыл бұрын

schmohawk: What you're saying is that the South was and is structurally hopeless in an economic sense, for reasons that racism is entirely to blame and for which North Carolina's working class population, white or black, reaped what Jim Crow policy sowed, regardless of "welfare state" policies which themselves would have never been dreamed up were it not for Jim Crow. You can insert moralistic tangents like out of wedlock children and the like, but what you're essentially saying is that once the federal government stepped in to rectify what decades of abhorrent and self-destructive racist policies did to the region, well "then" things got really bad. What get-me-and-my-kind off-the-historical-hook hooey. You are regurgitating Milton Friedmen-esque cliches while saying next to zero about what Southern policy makers did to their disenfranchised black constituents as well as the idiots who kept them voted into office. The South is a cursed region with a legacy of cruelty and hatred that will never be expiated.

@CrackaLackaHacka

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealGnolti "Out of wedlock children and the like" are not moralistic tangents. A study by Princeton and Columbia have shown that children born out of wedlock are more likely to be depressed, have substance abuse problems, live in poverty, etc. Your argument, if you can even call it that, can basically be boiled down to "the south is racist and evil". Bravo, sir.

@TheRealGnolti

5 жыл бұрын

@@CrackaLackaHacka You're welcome.

Wonder why would he bother to go south ?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

4 жыл бұрын

I believe that he got a job as a professor at a southern black university. David Hoffman-filmmaker

@myuhdidas

3 жыл бұрын

Instead of questioning the pale devils for being demonic, you question him for being human. God i cannot stand you “people”

Let him cook.

I know they say Black don’t crack but goodness! When was this recorded. If he was in College in 1955 then this guy has to be 70 or 80 years old.😂😂😂😂

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

As the description says, 1989. David Hoffman - filmmaker

Take the glasses off and you would think you were listening to Dr. Martin Luther King

NC blacks are prospering more than blacks in other states.

Wait. So only the south was racists to your face but where u grew up at in Philadelphia they not racists to your face but they racist lol.