"Black on Black" (1968; journalism professor Joe Saltzman)
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- "Black on Black" has been hailed for its pioneering effort to capture the voices and experiences of black America during one of the most volatile times in the nation's history.
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Being an African immigrant from Nigeria who came here and took advantage of the products of the civil rights struggle to get a sound education and a nice job that helps me afford a beautiful lifestyle. I say THANK YOU to our dear black brothers and sisters who had to go through hell, that we may have the good life today . It is on your shoulders that we stand ! WE ARE GRATEFUL . THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏.
I'm surprised you even acknowledged the civil Rights and what American black struggled for so other people from other countries can also take advantage.
@@freemygrandma8752 Our struggle has been everyone elses salvation.
I have to say, I have never heard that perspective from anyone of African decent who immigrated here. I appreciate you!
@@Taytay_79 You are welcome Cherise. TRUST ME. This is the way most of us think. We hold the civil rights heroes of America in very high esteem.
In some circles in Africa, martin Luther King Jr is a god. He is worshipped in a shrine like Catholics have virgin Mary on a shrine.
You probably only see that Africans resent the way some black kids of these days have no self control, and a penchant for violence, and you mistook that for a 'dislike' of the entire black Americans right ? 😊
@@Taytay_79 You appreciate the very people who rounded you up and sold you to the Grecians and the Arabs? Who are taking your benefits from your struggle because they have the same skin color as you?
People were more intelligent and well spoken back then they had a proud sense of self
so what happened?
@rattlesnake pete that's some serious bullshit you are claiming.
Failure of the US educational system.
Yeah…. And than Jerry Springer came and changed everything. 😒
@@davisworth5114 Rap music
" The liquor stores inflict the greatest amount of pain to the community."
Still, the liquor does not drink itself !11
@@jellyrun1 right!
Abortion Clinics. Margaret Sanger.
Baptist church!!
@@SaturnStarOfDavid Abortion wasn't legal while Sanger was alive.
I love this TH-cam video I have been sober for 1 Year and 18 months after 22 years of drinking gambling and drugs just to look and see what the black man and black women had to go through back then I really really really really really take my hat off for them as of a black man turning 60 September 28- 2021 if I knew back then what I know today I would have listened more from MOM AND DAD AS OF A BLACK MAN I ENCOURAGE EVERY NATIONALITY STAY SOBER YOU WILL GO A LONG WAY IN LIFE OVER THE LAST 1 YEAR AND 18 MONTHS SOBER I HAVE BEEN VERY VERY VERY VERY BLESSED NO MORE HANGOVERS FEELING BAD LOOSING JOBS THANKS AGAIN FOR SHARING THIS TH-cam AND STAY DRUG FREE ALCOHOL FREE AND GAMBLING FREE 🙏❤️🙏
So right my friend.
Congratulations on winning your constant fight
I hope you're still doing well. Keep the faith.
SHALOM ✡ BROTHER ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH GOD 🙏🙌✨
May God continue to bless you.
Growing up I didn't live in low income housing, but my friend did. When I went to visit my friend's house for the first time, I was completely blown away...their house was decorated as if you were stepping into a magazine. Very beautiful, don't underestimate people living in low housing it what people make of it.
True because mine was used in a magazine/ local newspaper....
Beautiful
Except to get out of the projects
Exactly 💞💯 you can make a nice home in a hole in the wall if you have a mind to pride cleaness and respect for others living around you 💕🐝💜
@@taharamuhammad3771 what magazine was it in TM so I can research it
@@taharamuhammad3771 we a
As a native of Los angeles my sister an I along with my mom lived in Nickerson Garden back in the 60's but my mom left shortly after the watts riott and she went on to be a nurse and my dad went on to work in the aerospace industry but I still had relatives that stayed there for many yrs!!! This document makes me sad & happy at the sametime really makes me think of my dad ..I sure miss him too !
I love this song to bring at home
...there can be a deep unspoken bond of love..between father and son..and son and father BECAUSE it may often go unsaid...even thou it is eternally there 🐝🌈💫
@@cosmicman621 ...and that's WHY it Needs to be SAID, my brother.
The injustice continues pray for the chaos to stop
@@amazin997 : IT'S DONE IN JESUS' NAME.
How can we get this video mainstream again...this is a masterpiece and must be seen by everyone everywhere
But sadly, during the segment where they are talking about food. Sure that’s pretty much all we could eat, but the generational physical damage, how can we save ourselves???
It's ALREADY mainstreamed....didn't you get the Message?
I said the same thing
Huh? Mainstream for what? Were you encouraged watching this? All I hear is a people without hope. A people who have been stripped of who they truly are. They have allowed another being to take everything from them including who they are. I can imagine this being on basic TV just to reinforce the insignificance they already feel.The only thing that made sense was the man at end that spoke how he hated church & the blue eyed white haired dude on the wall at church. Rev ike should be mainstream and others like him!
I saw/heard so much more. Perhaps it’s just the perspective of which I am viewing.
" The reason I have a picture of me is because I love me.." I love that, and I love listening to him..
I love the fact that you love the fact that you love the fact that he has a picture of him and he loves himself and you love listening to the fact that he lives him.
Dumbest thing I ever heard. The man said “me” so many times it made my head spin.
I watched the area of 25:30 or so when they discussed food; black food or soul food. I fel so awful that we were subjected to regarding what we ate. That filthy swine for the most part. It did not have to be that way. That animal was not designed for human consumption. But I have to give everyone who was innterviewed in this documentary.. This ws shot during the time in this country I was growing up.
Yes it was dehumanizing,!! That they made us eat like that, they knew exactly what they were doing,!,,
15:00
My mother is from this era, and she said the same thing about the grocery stores. We had a grocery store like that growing up in the 70s, and when the people came out to complain about the quality of the canned goods and produce, instead of correcting it, they just shut the store down. We've never had a grocery store since, and that was 50 years ago.
Damn they shut the store down instead of just bringing better quality food?
Wow we have its n lil town called Brotmanville.N.j.always it would exchange hands to another family of blacks we all r greatful for
We had vegetable and fruit trucks and stands. We own most of the businesses., and I am 80 from Chicago,, Oak Park and Waukegan, but moved to Queretaro, Mexico since 2021. I love here, and over 60 years of traveling Mexico and the world. I than God. Allah u Akbar MGT GCC Sister Judith 3X. Temple #2.
@@acajudi100Asa Sister! What made you decide to move internationally at 77-78 years young? I have been researching Latin countries recently
Whose fault is that? Go start your own grocery store.
Black has and will always be beautiful. Thanks for posting this. 👍
...but how is working
Can't get a job cuz the white man !?
The color of the skin is brown though
Racist
Damn right black is the most beautiful race ever✊🏿✊🏿
These Classic Documentaries
Should be Required Viewing
For all our households.
That will never happen if I tell someone about this video they're going to say how old are you that video was so long ago
True, But I doubt it would change racism but you do have a good point and yes everybody should learn about these things in every household
@@1990758 sorry I grew up through those times in LA and I always thought black people were beautiful, much more fun and I was proud of my friends.
Staying in school, getting a job, working hard, avoiding unwed pregnancy, and staying away from drugs and gangs should be required by all household.
I agree 💯
Every generation of our people should make their babies watch this ... its imperative
@@jacoboc2244 it has nothing to do with that genius...
People need to understand history so it doesn't repeat itself and so they grasp the concept of sacrifice and struggle to have more gratitude in the times where they are down..
Wow ,learn how to think outside of the box guy..
@@BlancoToldYou I totally agree with what you was saying we need shit like this. The problem is the younger generation is off guard because of social media and bullshit . Then when random shit like mass shooting in buffalo NY go on they are dumb founded. They always talking about forgiveness and shit and this Juneteenth shit fuck that pay us our respiration and land so we as a people can get the fuck on . The did it to the native Americans and this our land just as much of not more the black man and woman our the original people on earth. Every younger person should watch this just like I grew up in the 80s and 90s watching Roots.
@@traviscarter1023 I couldn't have said it any better fam. I'm 40 and I feel the same way
@@BlancoToldYou Facts Queen always talking about forgiveness fuck that. Shit that happened in upstate NY you would think something like that go on down south. But they tried hidden shit like this in NY. We as blacks got to get our shit together really and start investing in land and business in Africa. Spending our black dollars with our own people they not going to do right over here. America going down hill anyway for the most part look at that gas prices. Africa needs us more for real not trying to sound like Nas in Belly but for real this shit for the most part is at a end of a era if I ever have kids I don't want to rise them over here in Babylon it's so backwards. Would love my kids being home school by black teachers.
@@traviscarter1023 that's why we are homeschooling our 9yo, ppl need to get away from government indoctrination (public school) and the LIEble(Christianity) institutionalized paganism, and get back to their essence-their roots, we've been lied to soo much. My mom is Puerto rican and even she taught us black history and made sure we knew our roots derived in Africa.
I grew up in South Central L.A. I been truck driving for 7yrs. I been to every ghetto in America. I can relate to this video from the jump. I might not want to live in the ghetto. But I will always get my good eatin from my people.
These places you call ghettos are highly sought gentrification targets now.
I enjoyed this. There seemed to be more unity back then amongst us. Yet we had much less.So much has changed, yet not a lot has CHANGED.
Get ready to laugh black people. 😄
Preach
Talk about the irony of it all.
Most blacks are still just as racist as the folks in this video. That’s an unfortunate fact.
there was much more of a community.
Me and my DAD used to listen to this Live LOU RAWLS Album tobacco rd.when i was a kid in the 60's.rest in peace , to my DAD. OMAR HASSAN my first hero.
I LOVE BEING BLACK...🖤
I love being White!
@@JohnGalt1960 As You Should. Me being happy who I am does not mean I'm anti anything else. I support Human Rights! We all MEAN SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT to the Earth John, "Why" because we all were placed here!
✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊✊🏽💯🌎✨
@@Jay-ozo1 yes, we the salt of the earth
We are more than our color. Don’t submit to ignorant fools that that’s all they see. Say instead, I am proud that I live a righteous life in the eyes of God all mighty. God said vengeance is mine. Therefore, don’t loose your righteousness because of the evil sinners of all ages & color. We are a human race. One race! We don’t even take this body to heaven. We will be bright and luminous like the stars. Our human silhouettes is what we will be seeing. Remember we all from one man & one woman. Adam & Eve. Therefore, Persevere til the end. Our true home is in heaven. The only thing that divides us are those who belong to God and those who don’t! Don’t give the enemy a foot hold into our lives. We all suffer, one way or another. Some pain are more outwardly than others. Someone may look like they have the whole world. When in actuality, they are wretched, Jesus says! A test is a test for our worthiness of heaven. Beatitudes, blessed are those who are persecuted for there’s is the kingdom of heaven. (Blame the Holy Spirit, for me telling you all this, I didn’t know I knew this stuff, myself!)
@@JohnGalt1960 why r u even here yall love stalking black ppl huh
This video is Golden!!! Someone should remaster it digitally and put it back out for people of today to see 🙏🏽
That Ain't No Secret 👍🏿💪🏿✊🏾
Exactly! This generation is not like this no more!!
Number one why did he interview this depressed man very negative no hope get yourself together positive thoughts and positivity of of yourself . Number two this video does not need to be remastered with all the negativity please!!! Come again
@@forensicflies7272 maybe your just negative they are speaking the real of the way it was then. Nothing is negative about it besides the one watching it negatively
@@teetot5276 First of all loose the attitude it's my opinion and my right to express myself making a video to feel sorry for one's self is depressing you make change within yourself life is not easy that's why it's called life and black on black crime is not the wave look in your own back yard before you try and come for me
Thank you for posting!
Best documentary on Black culture i have found so far. Brilliant, thank you!
This randomly came up in my recommended. And I'm so glad! What an interesting watch. Sad how much is still relevant in the US today
The enemies plans have never changed, its systematic and automatic, its our job to keep the history passed on, if not no one will, sit our children down and make em watch this! Its our job.
Powerful. Everyone is so beautifully spoken. I could listen forever.
Points out so much about the soulessness of whyt culture.
Now we can’t speak basic English it’s sad
Back in 1968, people had better analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as the ability to use reason and logic. Today in 2022, we've lost those abilities due to being dumbed down.
@@SunnyandNova You bet it's sad. And it's going to get worse. You can count on it.
Right on!
As a 28 year old black man living in 2022 I see many comparisons of now and back then and some things are the same. Glad I watched this
This video was very powerful it’s crazy this was made in 1968 and we still going through the same thing today 💯
So sad
I thought it had improved a lot.
Yes still going through the same things in 2022. Jobs. Police. Food. Businesses. Education. Health. We are constantly being oppressed.
When Jim Crow ended we all live under the same laws. It's an individuals choice what to make of their lives.
Black men ain’t changed since
This is such a powerful story about how black people live and what they had to go through too. I really like this film and this really inspires me a lot. And this film also teaches me on how to be proud of who I am as a black man. This film was recorded before I was born and I was only born on December 26, 1976. And this film also inspires me to be who I am and to also to accept myself for who I am. I really love this film a lot.
Your a loser if you needed this to respect who you are.
@@kool9174 in all due respect, I’m curious as to what motivates someone to be disrespectful to a stranger online. I’m writing a paper for school about race relations and how different sides are affected by it. If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, would you mind taking a moment and telling me, as honestly as possible, what would make you think it’s okay to call another human being a “loser” because they expressed their self pride after being inspired by this video. I’d like to know why one person will wish a person well and someone like yourself will call that person “a loser”. I have no judgment of you, I’m just curious as to your honest though process that allows you to choose to be dismissive instead of uplifting. Thank you in advance for indulging my curiosity. Be well.
@@barboza009 I don’t have time for your politically bullshit ass views to garner attention.
If you need a video like this to love yourself and or uplift yourself then you’re a fucking loser with no education of who he is.
Hope this answers your fucking question.
@@kool9174 perfect answer. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Be well.
@@kool9174 No! the big losers are the people that get so upset just because some body feel proud about something what you fail to realise you educated idiot Is that most of the new generation never seen our black culture in this way before So yes it make us proud to see that we are more than just Rappers and thugs Like television try to make us out to be Yes it give us a sense of pride to actually see black men walking around with their pants pulled up yes it give us a sense of pride to see black women fully dress going to work being real mothers Yes it gave us a sense of pride to know how the media moves and television try to make us out to look like We are nothing more than just thugs But if you was really one of us you will understand this already and it wouldn't have to be explain to you for the simple fact was understood should never have to be explained Now go have a heart attack or stroke or something because how Easily mad you get about the next person happiness it just might happen 😅🤣
The black experience is Soo real. Gotta respect it. Much love to the ancestors
💯💯💯
Wasn’t that long ago smh
@@SunnyandNova Still cooking breakfast over this, it was two seconds ago
@@LEllis-ui3lx I’m not asking I’m telling him it wasn’t that long ago so using words like ancestors make it seem dated
@@SunnyandNova I agree. Yup that's true
Damn, this is a great documentary, a keeper for sure!
Honestly this is was one of the best documentary to see as a BLACK MAN...... its 2022 my people
Thank you so much for sharing this powerful video. I remember. I lived not too far in the LBC. I went to church in Compton. Dearest Memories. Next lifetime, I am coming back Black. No matter what, I love my Soul people. I am black beautiful, and proud! I wish we all stand up, unite and wear Afros tomorrow. Wouldn't that be awesome? Or wear Afros for the entire month of February. The masses would shake in fear. God bless you all! ❤️
AMEN 🙏🏿 BEAUTIFUL POST 💖
One of the famous words from Tupac the ghetto is good for nobody I love being black but it's more to life then just stand in the ghetto
My bad Tupac the hood is all good for nobody me there's more to life then staying in the ghetto
They had no choice back then.
@@DJB635 We have a choice now but look at this young generation acting ignorant
Exactly!.They don't realize how lucky they are.@@rawdrizzy
@@rawdrizzyI TOTALLY DISAGREE.....
Not a single victim in this documentary. Just honesty, pride and pure drive. People today, of all colors, need to take notes.
I dislike your comment, because it lacks historical understanding. We WERE victims THEN, and NOW, but the way to express our issues, was to immerse ourselves in that which made/makes us a unique people...the ability to survive EVERY atrocity meted against us, and STILL be innovators. If the trauma my people are forced to suppress, does not make us victims, then WHAT is the definition of the word "victim".
@@BriC7 no one is trying to suppress it and you are not a victim NOW. That's completely asinine to suggest that you are.
@@BriC7 we have no other option but move forward. Ain't no one trying to suppress what happened but when you only focus on that. You fail to see the reality of today. People act like society is deteriorating when society has always been sht. You can't name a time in human history where we all were at peace. Where there's difference there's conflict. That's just apart of human nature.
@@BriC7 you are literally lacking historical understand. Because the Jews dont play victim about the holocaust. They dont play the victim when they've been prosecuted for over 2000 years. I'm not denying or trying suppress the black struggle but I guarantee you I know more about that struggle then you. But because I'm white it gets discredited. But yet when I do the same I'm in the wrong for speaking truth. Even tho I've dealt with the struggle more then you. Only difference being you can sue someone if you're being discriminated against for being black. If I'm being discriminated against for being white I can't do sht. If I swing I'll go to jail not you. But if the shoe was on the other foot... so yeah you're not a victim. Being black in america is more of a privilege then being white.
@@kevingarth6682 It would be an exercise in futility, to debate this subject with you. Your knowledge of "history" AND current events, appears to be from a viewpoint of either privilege, ignorance, or both. Whatever the case, your word salad is just that. Lots of words, no substance. But, thank you for trying. 'C' for your effort. Good day.
17:56 "They just not, in that, in that bag man."
Using the word bag and how it is used now, that's soul!
I'm in my 50's and everything in this documentary that was shown or talked about I've seen, experienced or can identify with, the only thing that's changed is time, the same things exist just in a modern, technological and scientific era which actually makes it more volatile, extreme and worse...on a national and global scale, smh. It's like the echoes if my grandparents, parents and older siblings!!!
Your comment was absolutely correct assessment of black America but can I add something in the video I comment was made about black people losing their identity and given one by our oppressors the truth of the matter is we are the Jewel of God ! And if pick up ⬆️ your bible and read in the book 📖 it talk about that will go in captivity for 400 years in a strange and The people of that land will always forever oppress those people! To the time of our captivity returns and we are put back in our own land Monahans of our creator our Lord our God we must repent from our sins and keep God‘s laws and Commandments
78 here, but happy, I obeyed my family and ancestors
Things have changed but the situation remains the same, the generation after this film has had more opportunity and chances to make a difference but the situation remains the same.
Same here, but I'm the white man they blamed in this video so...
the story of the struggle
past present and future
This was a very good film. What is truly sad, however, is that the same conditions the people are speaking about in the film still exist today. You could even argue that conditions are worse. We all have this belief that we now live in a post-racial society now based on equality. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Your a moron or been brainwashed by mass media if you think America is more racist today then in 1968....
It's culture destroying the black community, not the white man...
@@KnightsUnion white boy alert 🚨
I am 68 an I can tell you in 2020 you just seen how raciest America is way more today than 1968 more people go and check the votes for Nov. 3rd election 2020
@@brianbrown6806 you mean WHITE MAN... That knows the game y'all play...
@terrance thomas nah
Thank you for uploading. The information in this video is much needed.
Born 1966 and listen to each person express their experiences growing up during that time which I were only an infant!!! My parents would be that next generation talking about the life of her parents!!!! I love listening to the struggle of my people and 2024 we are still struggling to get ourselves and others to know we are somebody if you give us a chance!!!! Some of our people are still living in yesterday pass and not teaching our children to rise above their circumstances and do better !!!! We still got a long ways to go!!!! Father Yahawah Bahasham Yahawahshi help us and forgive us of our sins and ancestors!!!!
Correct
I remember these days as a child and i always loved this generation those who were young in 68, i thought they were the most beautiful people on earth. I loved those "naturals" the pride, breaking the ties with old master, they taught me to love and respect myself and by doing so to respect humanity. The greatest generation.❤❤❤🙏
You put into words what I have thinking for some time. We needed people to show us how to venture forth into the whole world with excellence and “keep our funkiness”. We need intellectual guidance from recognized giants and we need real live examples in our midst. Our Greatest Generation.👊🏾
Ive ofter thought it but not often come across people talking about it ,those people that began to flower , to rise from the struggles and oppression of that time , they were the most bequtiful people .
So do you remember the pandemic of 1968?
I love the way my people can put words together... groovy
Leaning different languages after 450 years of slavery ! Go Figure ?
@Devon Digby he could do it bc he was an intellectual ...what’s your problem?
@@MuvaTwerks Malcolm X could do it All. Harvard - Yale - Harlem - Compton..
Pure and True..
In Swahili
isiyo na wakati..
( Timeless )
@@kewsiyehboah6058 Asè
The police hasn't changed.
Same ole tactics, same ole bs.
Same ole harrassment.
And people say " Its not All Cops"
Well maybe so. But the nature of the beast, PD, Is ,and always be to harass people.
I believe that many of these Black Barber's "should" write books on life wisdom of Black Communities and the true character of our beloved Negro Communities. I think one or a few of these would be number one best sellers!!
I was a white boy growing up in the south in the 60's. My dad was a notorious tightwad. He took me to the village barber, who was a deaf mute, and the cheapest cut, to get a "crew cut", or "G I" cut. When that guy closed, he took me to a black "barber school" for a cheap cut. I remember sitting in the chair with the pictures all over the wall of black hair styles. Afro's, Jerry curls..Dad tells him to give me a crew cut. The guy had no idea what to do with my mop, and nobody looked too happy that we were there..😏
Wow..Los Angeles..My mother took me there that year on my very first plane ride to see relatives that migrated to L.A. from Louisiana and Mississippi in the late 40s and they lived in Watts and Compton. The ones that are still living have either left California or moved further out from L.A.
This film is a magnificent achievement and a true labor of love. I entered the University of Southern California in 1960. Joe Saltzman was editor of the Daily Trojan. He ran that newspaper with the same passion as the editor of a big city daily. Yeah, I did get pilloried for a reckless anti-communist letter to the editor. I deserved it. We were all learning, but Joe seemed to already be the tough as nails pro. Our school was then and now close to the struggles of black South Los Angeles. Between 1960 and 1968, when Joe made this documentary for local station KNXT, race in America went through an upheaval. It was an exciting, painful and hopeful time, days that need to be remembered for black is beautiful as much as for urban unrest. USC is lucky to have Joe on its faculty today. As of 2022 he still teaches a course on the Culture of Journalism and guides graduate research.
Is he a Communist?
@@Geezerelli Joe is a news guy. Back then, news guys were interested in facts and exposing the truth, the opposite of an ideologue like a communist. Our difference did not have anything to do with any communist tendencies in his publication. Rather, it was about sources and documentation, classic journalistic stuff.
@@slowtony2 tell that to Yuri Bezmenov.
@@slowtony2 news? Like CNN?
@@Geezerelli Yes news, like CNN, all the other cable news channels, and most remaining newspapers (including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times) pretend to be. The news business always had its biases. The old Los Angeles Times was for many years an anti-union newspaper. However, the guys behind the typewriters (I remember those newsrooms) were hard to fool and dogged in getting to the truth about what was going on. And their owners had the guts to publish it.
I wish young people today who have rightly lost their trust in "mainstream news" could have known what the news business meant back in the 1950s and 1960s. It wasn't just print and radio. Televison introduced a new immediacy that was coopted by charismatic characters like the strident anti-Communist Joe McCarthy. Then Edward R. Murrow, a real news guy who had earned public trust from his radio broadcasts during the London Blitz, had the courage to step up and expose McCarthy as a liar and charlatan. I still remember that television broacast. It was mesmerizing, even to a young boy. The power of Joe Saltzman's 1968 video for Los Angeles TV station KNXT is a product of that era. A determined news guy, a REAL old-fashion news guy, did his best to tell a story that America needed to hear.
Yuri Bezmenov was a Russian KGB agent who specialized in planting divisive news stories in the media of many countries. He defected to the West in 1970, when on a trip to India. Today Russia (and now many others) still do the same thing. They pick cracks in a society, like ethnic and racial divisions, and use those points of entry to inflame dissent. In 2022 it is widely recognized as war by other means. The best defense is an educated populace who are good at judging which media and which stories are more reliable. If you simply distrust ALL news, you are putty in their hands. I deeply worry that a failing education system has created lots of that putty in modern America.
Born and raised in Watts in the Jordan Downs Project 1968
I heard about those projects. They're known all over the world!
Where u their when they filmed menace II society? (My favorite movie besides fridray)
@ the 50 min mark, they begin to go over the issues we still face in the bc. the same curses remain generational
This is no curse just the devil doing , at least woman didn't feel then they don't need a man ,or that black man ain't shit . The woman then knew the reason you feel we are " curse"
You need to learn from the pass or DOOMED to repeat the negative.
Our curses just like in Deuteronomy 28 in the Bible , we didn't keep the laws , statues and commandments.
@@sankaragarvey5862 THE MOST HIGH PUT US THEIR..
Black peoples’ issues are self inflicted.
Love this documentary about our ancestors, we still in the struggle in 2021.
That's everywhere man. And in all races. It's the ones who rule and the one who follow the rules. That's in every structured society
@@mempho38128 Dont' lump Black ppl in with "all races". It's the easiest way to water-down and ignore Black issues that are disproportionately worse and have been continuing for decades....
@@penguin902 yes blk is in it as well. Nobody excluded. We as bulk folks need to speak on the ills our people did to our people as well. No exceptions.
THE CHILLINS IS STILL STRUGGLIN, Y’ALL
Still!? We are deeper into the problem
Their conversation fell on my ears like poetry. The highs and lows of being black
So many people migrate here and know nothing about black people. It should be a mandatory course before graduation. Black Power!
They know. Trust me
You would be amazed that they have more artifacts of us where they are from... They know exactly who we are...
This video is amazing! I think EVERY home needs to see this. Many of the issues they talked about are happing today. I think this will help younger people understand the why when someone says don’t have children out of wedlock. This will also educate whites who are in denial of the obstacles that were placed before blacks.
It’s a bit too much complaining and excuse making in this video. And at the very end they displayed a poor image of themselves. Accuse others of being racist when it’s the very same way you feel maybe even worse. Straight hypocrisy.
That whole bit where that guy was saying that he’s gotta keep his guard up and keep a close eye on the white devil whenever he’s around? I almost wanted to punch the stupidity out of that fool.
This generation cannot relate to this video.
@@1990758 If you feel that way, you must be around people who haven’t fallen into the pitfalls observed in the video. nevertheless they can learn from the video.
@@beesworld04 what is a pitfall in your opinion?
@@1990758 This is a sociological perspective on where we were - and where we should no longer REMAIN. Humans are here to evolve.
@beesworld04 is right.
Very little has changed in the decades since the premiere of this program. Blacks still have the same mindset today as they did then.
If you are referring to pride in one's own community.....I just don't see it. At least I don't see it in some places in the country or when BM insult BW and chose to marry outside their race or walk around saying they hate dark skin etc.
@@joywilkins64 those insults go both ways
Most black women love black men. Their just not receiving that same love in return. It's been slowly progressing in this direction since back then, and it's a great deal worse now.
@@natalieac8409 lmao yeah right
@@joywilkins64 go away with the bs.
Exactly, I enjoy living in the ghetto. My dream is to make our ghetto so beautiful and nice that everyone else will wanna live here also.ijs. with the right leadership it's definitely possible. Shout-out to Mayor Ras Barraka in the city 🏙️ of Newark, he's been doing a wonderful job. Surely bringing the pride back to our town.
What if that causes gentrification? Which would then cause the local population to move out as rent, cost of living and land value increase?
Would that not be a problem? Development is good if it serves the local people
You love living in a ghetto ????? Wth
That's insanity
@@kidjustice7945 I think this is a white person imposing.
Right … until they start shooting-up, or breaking into your crib.
After Continuously seeing
Documentaries like this,
One would think the
second we become
Successful, Community
Empowerment would be
Top Priority over a Icy
Rollie, and Some Rims.
You can't be healed in the same place you got sick. Remember that.
@@borngreat-4-life930 That’s why successful black men leave their communities.
Why would you think that? The youth is not watching this and we do far more than wear ice and rims, black people dont call jewelry ice no more bud..lol...this is white control at your finest back then, which they still have because fear is a dangerous weapon against the righteous by nature.cream will only rise no matter how much its kept back...
I was born in 1968 and I was born in the ghetto (Harlem). Even though this doc is about South Central, it has special meaning for me. I’m always fascinated with Black American life in 1968.
After 1968, black people and business went down to the drain.
@@lovelyvanessadorahill8585 That's definitely arguable.
@@lovelyvanessadorahill8585 Strange that 1968 was after landmark national Civil Rights legislation that eliminated or outlawed stubborn pockets of segregation and made Affirmative Action a national policy for employment.
Then, nationwide riots in various cities.
Knowledge ✊🏾. Thank you for uploading this. Love from 🇬🇧 🙏🏾🧐
very strong documentary
When they saw we felt this way about ourselves, they went into phase two and dropped crack into our community!
@terrance thomas no the government did
@terrance thomas you don't know your history!
AND IT BACKFIRED WITH THE OPIATE MASS OVERDOSES/CRISIS WITH THEY WHITE SONS & DAUGHTERS. DON'T MESS WITH GOD CHOSEN PEOPLE!
@terrance thomas the feds & dea did/allowed it and turned a blind eye until it hit their white suburbs! NOW IT'S A "CRISIS/EPIDEMIC" soon as Blacks smarten up and started pushing that shit to lil bobby and he overdosed that's when they stepped in. Now opiates are kicking they asses that's karma!
@terrance thomas Your White government gave yall Methamphetamine as well Have you ever heard of the Vietnam war go ask your great great grandfather im pretty sure he can tell you The White government been given people drugs every since then and still do to this day Have you ever heard of a drugstore buddy where you think acsi cotton come from xanex Obi oits Narcos Percocet Why do you think America is so addicted to pills now days and lets not forget the drink syrup Codeine And pramitha Xen pay attention because attention is not gonna pay you buddy And do your research and think before you speak
Food for thought🤔💭
We really need consistency, in my opinion! Constant motivation, real role models, fight the power, break the certain cycles…
I have much Love and Respect to our
Ancestors they Paved the way for us
Here they really went through so much
All PRAISES TO the Most High God 🙏🙌✨
YES, THEY DID. I'M SO PROUD OF OUR ANCESTORS. MAY THEY ALL REST IN PEACE..
These documentaries need to required viewing in many schools.
I agree 💯
Keep the truth coming forward BE AWESOME
1:10:00 That brother is very intelligent and right on in my opinion. Don't expect anyone to do anything for you, educate yourself and work as intelligently as you can. You don't have to be twice as smart as anyone, just be the best you can be for yourself and trust no one. Especially if it's one of them.
SOUL IS YOUR INNER VIBES/ENERGY.
Ya done turned into your enemy.
I love seeing this old footage of black los angeles. Its gone now. This time period( '68) is very instructive . Two years later ('70) Raymond Washington would start the Crips in these same neighborhoods.
Damn
State agency!
Yes I remember I used to live in Imperial courts after the riot I was not afraid now no hell no
Because the projects and ghettos are now “hoods”. You still felt love in the ghetto and projects. You don’t feel that in “the hood”.
This documentary is of great historical significance; thank you so much for sharing it with us. It's mesmerizing looking back on this footage from 54 years ago and realizing that the issues affecting our society here in the U.S. were also dealt with by previous generations.
His description of Soul is on point!!! I really miss the vibe of the 60s 70s!!!
Black american southern accent is amazing. I am a brotha straight out of Africa speaking, Salute to Blk Americans only!!
Mississippi native black man approves this comment 😁👍🏿
One love
Peace unto you!
Unfortunately alot of our brothers and sisters from africa shun the black american and look down on us here, not understanding how the enemy of us both, use divide and conquer techniques systematically, especially through false propaganda,to make africans not want to associate or build families with black americans. This divide i see everywhere. A business associate of mine, that's from liberia asked me why do i wear jewelry and whas does it mean to wear it like that. I felt the pain for him, and shame, ...for allowing white american influence, remove him from his culture in or to similate and make money here in newark nj. He has become like the enemy. Ashamed of his culture, has a distane for mine, marry outside of his race, live in a white neiborhood and own multiple properties in newark nj. Looking down on the people. He refuse to be a friend of mine,only contact me for business because to him, I am not on his level. What he refuses to see, is that i have something he lacks..self love, knowledge of self and others, and the knowledge of history in africa and america. Do everyone a major love favor and share your thoughts with our people from africa,, because we love them so dearly, but alot of them are lost in the old mind the oppressor created against us.
They use oppression to keep us divided.
.Love Preech.
A lot of people benefitted off the struggles and the horrors and success of being black in America including those of the diaspora who spit on our history and step on our backs. If it wasn't for our fight, our determination it would not have been easy for them. They're black when it's convenient but of their native born places according to their identity. No other country where slaves have survived has fought so hard for human rights. So thank us.
Great Video Truth and very Informative Thanks
24:10 or -1:03:10
The brother in the Barber's chair is thinking; "Bruh, you doin all that "deep" talking with a straight razor on my face".
In the beauty salon scene when that girl gets an afro, I hear Aretha on the radio. Cool .
This video is so true right now 2020 black people don't like to leave there neighborhood and then when they go downtown Chicago where mostly White's are at they feel uncomfortable and want to leave and go back to the black neighborhood or the hood still today this going on video is so true . I love my natural black women all the blond long weave not into that.
That is why the govt incorporated integration because they didn't want unity , money kept in the community etc
Desegregation was and still is a military social mandate issued by the department of defense after WW2, to prevent another red hot summer of 1919, and to keep black men volunteering for military service. It was common knowledge after WW,1race riots popped off all over the United States. White people looking to uphold the status quo, along wiith black people feeling a new pride of citizenship, due to our participation in the war, it was the perfect powder keg and in 1919 it erupted . Fast forward to the end of WW2, and things was about to repeat, with the Colombia, Tennessee riot of 46. But something remarkable happened Jackie Robinson, Hof baseball player, civil rights activist, and before all that a "military officer." That was 47, by the 50s the military desegregated its ranks, and soon after the public social order was desegregated. I use desegregated only because true integration is a willingness of the people to do so. There are few areas of activity where Americans choose to integrate, musicians being one area, white dudes that wanna be the best basketball players, and interracial couples.
@harry Johnson The boomer generation and the crack epidemic broke down family values.
@harry Johnson Like voting Republican is going to change anything. Two cheeks on the same ass.
@@janetownley Hey America always been divided race, wealth, gender, education, North, South, Democrats, Republicans, red state blue state, religion, Boomers, Xers, millennials. Okay we Xers where the generation that went full crack kingpins, I admit we where a major degenerate generation, but boomers where our biggest customers. All that aside I not about to point the finger at a particular political party and say yeah it's their fault, but I will say the boomer generation was the beginning of the fuck ups, and my generation pass the torch to the millennials. If you got the solution I'm all ears.
This is false! Go read on Thurgood Marshall! Integration was because we were BY LAW discriminated against even in the courts+ no representation yet we pay taxes! Stop the lies! Black people worked their tales off for integration to remove how bad segregation was and here you come to undo that because a. You don't know and b. You're frustrated at how WHITES STILL fought hard then and now to keep us from having and passing down ANYTHING
Who would dislike this video? it's well done and very informative..i enjoyed it
An idiot!!!!! Plan and simple
“They’ll try to sing with soul; they’ll try to dress with soul …” That basically explained the music industry of the 00s.
54 years later not a damn thing changed but the times.
Exactly..However, the police start unaliving us more frequently now
@@mistyblue5158 they been killing blacks u just didn't know about it they could easy cover it up back then there was know questions asked
Many of the inflictions that black people have are inflicted by themselves……
Many things are out of our hands, we as woman/men can avoid poverty by not having so many unplanned pregnancies.
Even in 2023 women residing in the projects continue to have so many children..
I always wonder why?
No one has ever taught them that they deserve better and stop believing that struggling is normal..It’s not…..
@@Essence56 You brought up so many problems, But the prego thing comes from them not feeling beautiful and sex being the only thing or being sexualized, is the only way they know how to be perceived as beautiful. And being ashamed of how they look comes from things like, telling black women they are ugly for more then 100 years. OR making Bandana laws ect. This was addressed in the video too which makes me think u jumped straight to the comments
I remember graduating high school in Virginia 1991, and it was difficult getting a job. So many doors close, because they required experience. I asked one potential employer, how am i suppose to get experience when no one is willing to hire. Needless to say, my family had independent businesses, and i went to work until i could enroll in a program through college offering a work study. I commend any parent that works laborously to position their children to excel when doors are closed to them. We have two options: either knocked down that door or go around the door looking for another way inside.
We must find ourselves a RIGHTEOUS MIND to LOVE AND VALUE OURSELVES. We must realize that OUR DIVISION IS OUR DESTRUCTION. WE MUST UNIFY! NOT ONLY on the DANCE FLOOR !!!ł
We would still be united. Buy first the ignorance of self need to be looked into.
South Central L.A., *Compton,* and Watts.....my throne, my home!!!!
Rep yo set cuzzzz
Stay there.....dont leave!
A lot of history in those areas.
@@KennyE0311 shut up.. don't nobody talk like that from there.
I’m sorry this should have way more views period
The music at the end was powerful especially that lyrics they call me Sarah they call me safaniya they call me peaches and I pray that all who suffered then and now in this life because of skin tonee colour and racism or because of their ethnicity I pray they all go on to be blessed by the lord and rest under his mighty wings while having the things one can only dream of as part of their blessings and have eternal life because of the treatment they got on earth.
Fuck heaven. Death is a slave's freedom.
Odd how comforting and welcoming the "ghetto" felt to the
narrator during those times...how could he have imagined what the gang explosion and drug pandemic would have done to these communities making
them more unsafe than anywhere else in the US
Sadly that all started just two or three years after this documentary was made.
My father told me once, “Go to the Filmore district.”
Absolutely priceless insight!!!!
This man sounds so ahead of his time but really it’s just that nothing has changed much, and the same things have been going on for forever.
If they only knew that in 12 years a crack pandemic was going to start
It was bad enough with heroin.
The CIA started that epidemic in black neighborhoods to simultaneously poison us and to lock up those that are left
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
Digdat!
Great documentary! Thank you for posting!
This is powerful... and it should be seen in classrooms across this county. Not to bring forth hate, but to work on the differences and build together and promote being good humans is a must... Signed Peaches. Peace.
This white grandma agrees. I want my grandchildren to see this.
I'm pretty sure portions of it was shown and certain black communities. Or i'm pretty sure at one time it was on sixty minutes.
Excellent. Thank you!
1:00:40 “It all stems from one factor, the unemployment of the father.”
1:16 What she is saying is so true even today in the year 2022,and it's not going the change any time soon.
I love this video. The sad thing is we see these videos and seem to have the same problems because of economics.
So when we as black people stop putting so much emphasis on material things like clothes, sneakers, cars and alcohol and learn how to save and invest money in their own communities. When we will be better off as black people!
We put our pennies into banks that are making millions of dollars off our money but pay us less than 1 percent interest. We buy expensive cars that depreciate by thousands of dollars as soon as you drive it off the lot. Many of us will spend hundreds of dollars on jewelry that is worth much less when you try to pawn it.
We complain about how we are treated by society but all of the money we spend leaves our community and goes into the hands of people who have no respect for us.
When our actions begin to support us and not the people who oppress us America will take notice and rethink how their actions have affected us as people and may make the necessary changes to level the playing field for blacks and whites.
Wrong. This shit was designed this way. That's why the liquor store is in our community to begin with. If anything we've showed resilience over any and every circumstance they throw.
And the game you're talking about is rich vs. poor. Most just unaware they're playing.
@@rchar9757 It is not designed that way. Just because a liquor store opens up doesn't mean you buy there. I grew up on the south side with liquor stores, which didn't mean anything. Hold yourself accountable.
White people will never feel bad for anything they have done. They are proud of their legacy. Black people have 3 choices: 1. Leave and establish a home in an uninhabited area not occupied by a military force. 2. Unite, establish a nation, build a hierarchical order, set moral guidelines and rules as to how to conduct oneself, develop military armed forces equipped with the most highly advanced severely deadly weapons and artillery, choose a spot to inhabit, ruthlessly take over and occupy that spot, and continue to defend and launch preemptive attacks against the onslaught of US military backlash, and expand our territory until we have occupied the world. 3. Simply abandon our black identity and fully embrace the Ways of the White Civilization turning a blind eye to All inequality.
@@bossthemessiah409bigron The third option isn't a choice. It's no different from giving up, and that's not a choice.
We need a renaissance. We’ve been in the dark ages for the last 30 years. We need to bring this type of Black, BACK, and remember what soul is.
Women would have to first, need the Black Man back
@@leestyles6687 Starting with changing the mindset of women like Jada.
Whose, video is deep, 🤔with a lot of facts and true meanings that we still live in today.🙏
My uncle Henry "Pim" Irby back in 1967 was the first person in rock hill,SC fresh out the Air force to be riding around in a brand new GTO. My uncle always kept it full beard and wore shades and the police would always pull him over and give him a ticket because they thought that he was a militant and the police were jealous of him because he was driving a nice GTO. My uncle had lost his license because of them police jealousy.💜
Damn. 50 years and some things are still the same.
its all still the same
@@markhym2280 no it isn’t, blacks have equality now but we’re lazy, ignorant, and uneducated for the most part. Stop the victim playing
@@thecraplordsell4575 plenty changed for the worst.
@@doeb3 yeah because of our ignorance and stupidity.
@@thecraplordsell4575 that is true to an extent.
Very deep love this video very educational
Don't forget this was 1968. Just 3 years after the civil rights bill. The country was still IN JIM CROW. They couldn't help but bow to a system that oppressed them.
2 years later came the gangs and drugs changing those communities forever
thats great what have you done to give back to those who paved the road for your success
Thank you for sharing. 🖤
LBJ started a massive program in his war on poverty three years before. But because he was in cahoots with the cabal who killed JFK he got caught up in escalating the counterinsurgency into a war in South Vietnam, which diverted much needed resources from poor Americans like the people in this film.
FAX
@terrance thomas stfu
@terrance thomas im sorry, Oswald absolutely did not fire one shot at JFK! It was already arranged by Top Echelon in The Pentagon to bring in foreign sharp shooter snipers. And there were (3) and therefore created a guaranteed assassination by having a "Triangulated Crossfire" so to ensure that atleast one "killshot" got through. This is just how determined "THEY" were to destroying Kennedy and his ideas!! But more importantly what got him killed against most popular opinion was the fact he got the attention of The Rothschilds & International Bankers by going to meet his friend President Sukarno of Indonesia in 63' and it was agreed by the Indonesian President to let Kennedy use Indonesia's Gold to create a new Gold Standard for America against The Rothschilds fiat currency the US Dollar and most American population dont know that we all pay a "franchise percentage fee" for each & every dollar we spend...ie started the creation of The Federal Reserve!! Btw...there is absolutely NOTHING Federal about the Federal Reserve!! We can thank President Woodrow Wilson for RubberStamping the creation of this Federal Reserve that met in secret on Ellis Island on Christmas day..you see these bastards knew that 98% of American citizens would never believe that something like this could ever be created against them??
Very true
My mother and dad went through some shit for us
I totally agree with her. Most fathers is not in our kid’s lives anymore!
Amen
I couldn’t do it!!
I’ve been down that road
That’s so jacked up
This video was phenomenal
I wish All the People could see this
This Documentary has Educated &
Gave my heart A feeling & Understanding!!! Finally, THANK YOU 💯🙏🇺🇸🗽 SO VERY MUCH, WITH ALL MY HEART. GOD BLESS YOU
TO THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE 4
THIS FILM🌟🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
So many times watching this documentary it speaks to me about my life. Who in the hell could give this a thumbs down this needs to be taught in school prisons run on TV cable definitely to the Senate Congress and the president
That's what I was gonna comment on, this is reality and needs to be taught to younger generations because seems as if we've lost our dignity and respect as a people it just errks me to tears the way women disrespect themselves and others, I can hardly watch TH-cam, I was born in 1957 all this and more I distinctly remember and the way these brothers and sisters speak is music to my ears, Thanx for your time😘
Why? You want to teach the new generation that it’s ok to make excuses and believe people hate you because you happen to be a different skin color? You want to teach virgin minds this bullshit?
How about you exclude all this crap and teach them about how they have the freedom and opportunity just like every other US citizen. You think people like Tiger Woods ever thought like this? Hell fucking no.
The Devil always had the same agenda all the he time. God has the better plan that continues to uncover the devil and his people's plans all the time.