Divided: a Documentary on Chicago's Segregation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- 2016 All-American High School Film Festival Official Selection.
A documentary exploring the history of residential segregation in Chicago and how it has shaped the city today.
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I'm an Uber driver in Chicago and get taken all over the city and suburbs, every neighborhood. Yes, the "ghettos" may be somewhat more dangerous, but people are people. The vast majority are not troublemakers, regardless of race.
The ghettos are not somewhat dangerous. They are extremely dangerous
I agree
It's common in every city fellow.
I’m surprised you’re still alive being an Uber driver in Chicago a job I would never take
This is apartheid, pure and simple. A national tragedy which just won't go away
Which is why the USA 🇺🇸 is being torn apart
Thanks for posting your mini doc, I enjoyed watching it
No one is going to invest in a crime ridden part of town.Would you?
I'm so sorry to see all the ignorant comments by people who obviously have no knowledge of racial politics and how they have affected segregation in this city & the entire country. This is a very fair and knowledgeable presentation; I speak as a white person in Chicago who has studied racism and been an antiracism organizer & trainer for years. Why are you so afraid to see things as they are and work to change them? People are people and most of them deal with their circumstances the best they are able. There's a REASON people are poor or violent or jobless or homeless... and it has very little to do with their ability or motivation or their desire for a good, safe life.
If you run for president, I would gladly vote for you. You are very aware and we need more people like you.
Barbara Wahler then why are people poor? Maybe the decisions they made in life??? Maybe their culture that whites don’t want anything to do with??? No more excuses, no more victims, but hey, nobody axxxed me!!!
today it's self segregation by blacks
Barbara, the Socialist mindset is to keep blacks mired in despair. Black people are just as smart as white people. But, if they try to rise above their circumstances, other black people will oppose them.
@Kyle S. I have proudly lived in one of the most diverse (economically, racially, linguistically, sexualitally [?], etc) in the US for 35 years. I will pardon your ignorant assumptions.
I'm from the UK and stayed in the south side for some mouths around 94, I aways seen segregation throughout America But Chicago had a different energy and seeing this I can understand why, this shit is terrible.
Like the UK doesn't have it?
Just shut the fuck up and go about your life in the UK.
londanastan?
Segregation is a choice. Just because a black person is born in a ghetto, that doesn't mean he is doomed to stay there.
@@MIKECNW just seen this lol, you being tough on the Internet has no value, I'm old school we talk in person...., I can't do nothing to you and you to me.... communication like that it's silly
@@davidlafleche1142 It's economic
So sad! My family migrated to Chicago from Arkansas. This is very sad to hear this!
WHY??? I would take rural over big-city any day!
@@davidlafleche1142 Probably during the great migration.
@@asdfghjkl3003 Well, I suppose if I had met a 19th Century Kansas farm girl, I might have taken a chance with the Oregon Trail.
It's not too late to move back.
Never get on the red line.
As someone who grew up in one of America's wealthiest communities, and who moved into the big city, I can confirm what she said about the grocery stores. Nicer places always have better services. The only exception I can think of is the slower fire response times for the residents of west LA and beverly hills, but that's mainly because of the winding roads.
Yes wealthier neighborhoods have better grocery stores. If you are unable to travel far and live in a poorer neighborhood go to a grocery store that caters to Latinos or Asians, you will find quality produce and fresher meat.
When you violate the principle of people wanting to live among themselves, what you end up doing is causing hatred and conflict.
Nope, the hatred and conflict was already present. That is the point of the documentary. Also, it violates the principle of the country when people demand that only people like themselves have DOMINION over portions of the country. That is NOT WHAT THE USA IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT. They don't have the right to deny a fellow citizen their right to live in a house they desire to live in, nor a part of the country, or neighborhood they desire to live in. This is what Caucasian Americans who think that way refuse to understand: their rights don't extend to the point to where others rights are diminished. In other words, what they want shouldn't be more important than what the other people want, period.
That is why King spend so much time in Chicago
background music is fine - but, not if it makes it impossible to clearly hear & it's constantly distracting
Chicago's murder rate is atrocious particularly in the South Side.Sad but true.
Chicago DOES NOT make the list of the top 100 most violent US cities. Per the FBI. Like the young lady said at the start, it's about racial stereotype. Sad but true.
Not even in the top 15 cities for violence.
When it comes down to it people of color need to graduate college and work on improving their communities period there's no other way out of poverty except thru education
Such as lifting yourself up by your own bootstraps
Plot twist: this still exists
Unfortunately true
Very very accurate! Thank you for this
What year was this video produced? Where is the entire documentary?
I live in one of the best neighborhoods in the country which is Asian and white but I definitely feel bad about racial discrimination and inequality and want to do something to help African Americans.
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Do people prefer living amongst their own racial sort, or, do people prefer living in mixed racial communities.
Personally I prefer being with my own racial type. Nothing about supremacy, just comfortable preference, who I'm most comfortable with, in general.
It's debatable whether your mindset is racist but it's certainly prejudiced. I think in this case choosing to live among people who look like you simply because they look like you assumes that skin color automatically makes them good neighbors. For example would you be comfortable living among people who look like you in a neighborhood that was street with trash, or plagued with violence? Being respectful of the unwritten (and in some cases written) tenants of living in a community is, IMO, the core of what makes one a good neighbor. Deciding that what makes a good neighbor or a good neighborhood can be determined by someone's skin color is immature, naive, racist, prejudiced or some combination thereof. I've often found that when someone needs to say they're not racist, they're deluding themselves and others in an attempt to avoid judgement. Be well.
I think a lot of people "prefer" to be around thier own racial group/ ethnicity because that's what they are used to. They believe they feel more comfortable. However, of course there are people of your group that you don't want anything to do with due to character defects. Many people, eventually, find that they prefer certain personality types regardless of race. Your favorite cashier, the neighbors that smile and wave over the one that rolls their eyes, and the people you prefer to hang out with. If a person is well adjusted, they wouldn't want to be with someone just because it's their own group. Yes, cultural similarities are a deep connection, but personality determines the dynamic of the relationship. Also, anyone can prefer a certain musical genre or type of food from another culture.
Fantastic job!
People that make the claim of Chicago segregation, over look the reality that Chicago ethnic groups prefer to live among their own. I'm black, and when younger (in the '70s), was a nomad, moving from place to place. And I've lived in many white neighborhoods with no problems. You name a group, and they have a specific area they prefer to live. This in not "segregation", it's preference. Big difference.
No it isn't. it's self Segregation. However, realize that the cultural differences are due to either the different groups from other countries preferring to remain say a Polish person who happens to live in Chicago rather than assimilate, or with the African Americans, which is due to the Segregation and being treated as less than and not allowed to fully integrate with the Caucasian Americans. The reason African Americans live in concentrations is because for most of the history of this country, they had no choice in the matter, and the places they were forced to concentrate in became run down and crime ridden is because they had far less wealth overall than Caucasian America. Also, they were less well thought of by the Caucasians running the cities, so they were less well taken care of by those politicians, which also leads to urban decay. The point is that the African Americans had no choice of where to live, their choices were artificially limited in a very deliberate and hostile manner, and that is a true example of SOCIAL INJUSTICE!
@@jonathancummings6400 so why not focus on today and start building today...
@@noewey8821 I do. I have a historians sensibilities, and Social Scientist schooling. Thus, I made sure I understood the situation as fully as possible. It's also the only way to improve and move forward. Here's the problem though, humans are a species of organism that are at their best when they learn from the past and from their relatives and peers. Being forced segregated for generations, and now due to economic reality, it's a lot harder to make fundamental change than to do as Obama kept saying, "just believe" optimism. That's just silly. It would take literally generations worth of dedication, hard work, AND WILLINGNESS of the people on all sides to make it work. Think about it, it took the entire time from the pre Civil War Abolitionists protests until last Summer for the people in this society to change enough for a significant enough percentage of the population of the USA to rise up in enough force to have real influence on the politics, and society's overall acceptance of social injustice. It will continue to take time, and new generations of people with new feelings on these matters. Because, here's the sad truth most people cannot change who they are, nor what they believe, nor do they want to, nor willing to do so.
That is not true
@@pamparker4047 It is true. "Red lining" ended in the '60s. Try to catch up with the times.
Your beach story was incomplete. What started the massacre was the stoning of the black youth that drowned him.
So much for census
So true! I travel from different sides of the city. The recognition is instant when you cross the different sides of Chicago. Now they have begun to provide low appraisals to black families.
All this lip service about segregation.......hell, in NYC, Back neighborhood s are rapidly shrinking because of GENTRIFICATION!!
That's happening in California too.
Just off the top of my head I sometimes question black people wanting to move into all white neighborhoods or wanting to send their kids to all white schools..... I remember when I was a small boy growing up in Chicago and I would talk to the older kids like 10 years older than me and at that time in the late sixties early seventies they were busting black kids out of their neighborhood and send them to traditionally all white schools I'll pick two off the top of my head limb Bloom CVS... And I can remember the bigger boys telling me that they would fight from first period all the way to 8th. And then sometimes have to fight at the bus stops or fight on their way to the school buses...... (Side note those two School mentioned at least 80% black as of now and even when I was going to high school in the early 80s)... But sometimes I always wondered how come black folks didn't try to cultivate the academic talent within their communities.. I mean the people in charge was so determined to segregate everything I'm sure they could have built some more schools which would have been stated that art than just to keep black people from going to school with their kids.. the most precious thing that this great country can give your kid is a free education and my question to black folks at the time is why would you trust the education of your kids with people who didn't give a crap about your kids I question that to this day I question Brown versus the board of education also where did it really get us... Some of the greatest black American intellectuals came from all black institutes and you mean to tell me at that time that talent that educated some of our greatest black intellects couldn't have been raised to educate our kids at that time..
What was going through black people's mind.. if you see your kid next to a white kid you get an instant road scholar... That's crazy.. and don't even get me started on economics and housing I dropped the mic
And on a side note just so I don't sound phony and self-righteous yes I went to school and was raised up in Hyde Park and. Had a good peaceful upbringing for the most part... I just couldn't post that in good faith without telling on myself
showing photos from 40s 50s 60s but then speaking about 1990 ???
Why you can’t you pay attention 50 thousand black migrated to the north in 1916 to 1921 that’s around the time of Tulsa Oklahoma massacre🇺🇸😢500 hundred million stolen from blacks between 1940 to 1970 in (Chicago)
Great work!
Absolutely true
What's interesting to me is how we speak of "Chicago's" racial and socioeconomic segregation as if it were exceptional on a national level. Ever been to Detroit or Miami? It's a national problem we have suffered from historically. Chicago is an American city and this is an American problem, if not a universal human problem. Where do people of different races and vastly different socioeconomic classes live harmoniously (or at all) in such a way that we can call that society not segregated?
This is so good! The Saga Education program directed to this for something to watch during training! You really made something great!
Awesome Documentary! I am natively from the South and moved to Chicago and I always wanted to KNOW THIS question because you have blacks, whites, chinese, and Hispanics living in this city and I never understood it until now. This has GOT TO STOP!
It was maliciously done.
The way some of theses mooks are acting lately, segregation is not such a bad idea. People just might live longer in Chicago. Especially the the young.
Great observation greaseball. I agree.
Segregation is illegal
There is still segregation in The U.S supposedly hidden but, their are areas that are only for whites you don’t see colored people like myself .
Tell that to our corrupt politicians.
Lived on the far south side was nice then the people kept up their property the blacks moved in and didn't keep up the property just stating facts
Axe me like, like axe me like,, like
Still trying to stir up trouble.
5:03 It's Brooklyn, NY, not Santa Monica, CA!
Breaking News
When we achieved perfection!
Segregation aside, the uploaded looking like a cutie
Work hard, act right, you can live anywhere. It’s that simple. The best neighbors are the ones you rarely see but, you know they respect all and perform neighborhood watch. I hate fools hanging in corners. Saggy pants. It’s really simple. Be professional. We can live good. Self respect is the key.
Not true. Did you watch what happened to people who “worked hard and acted right”? They were charged double to live in the nice neighborhoods, evicted from the neighborhoods and/or had their homes burned down.
FabulosityNextDoor look gorgeous you are talking about the 60s and 70s. You don’t think my family had to take out licks. We kept marching. Education and self respect is the way. Money is green and at the end of the day it’s king. Why do poor people from India come here and take our jobs? We are lack the knowledge of people trying to hold us back. Because they fear we can dominate the nation. Let’s get it done and take care of our kids, and neighbors. If nothing else, handle your business.
Nah. Not hasn’t changed much. Not hasn change much. /
When free people are left alone to choose, people self segregate by race, culture...Its completely natural! There is nothing wrong with it! The whole world including America is segregated!...There would be no diversity if everyone were the same!...So love your people and be proud of your race and culture! STOP trying to force different cultures to live together when they don't want to! Multiculturalism is NOT a strength!
You are a psycho
It's true but if you're a non Black person who never grew up or lived in any "Redlined communities" then you'd purposely look for any excuse as to why this video isn't true.
I see black people in every neighborhood of the city, it seems like every northside yuppy neighborhood has little segments of public housing in them, I wouldn't say were segregated I just think blacks are the majority race of the city, so there's only such a thing as certain areas that are all black and every other area is mixed with every race including black.
Abe Goldman blacks have te lowest population of the city bro
John Smith nope go do some research
32%.......black
32%...... White
28%......Latino
5%........Asian
3%........mixed
77 neighborhoods in Chicago... How many do you say are truly diverse?
WALLS ARE A BEAUTIFUL THING
I was like, he was like ,they were like. It was like, so then was like. The shtreets were like, everything was like...
"It's like" because white people have no point of reference to this reality. "It's like" your blind & someone's trying to decribe to you what color is...... "It's like" you still don't get it.
@@lakitawright5012 No I dont. It either ' is' or it 'isnt'. ' Like' , as a filler, is just a new phenomenon. A filler. Has nothing to do with colour, race, anything. When did S become SH?
A habit of over using the word like. In California, it's called talking like a "valley girl." Black and White girls developed that habit.
I dont think we see it so much as racial segregation here in Chicago as this video puts it. Its out here for sure but its gotten better. Our main problem is wide spread corruption in this city. Just look at our alderman. They are the shadiest.
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Make your own town thrive, bloom where you are planted. Don't force yourself where no one wants you.
If you wanted to be accepted in society, prove to them first that you can contribute to the common good by not depending on section 8, weed day and night, join gangs because is brodahood. Chicago is made up of Neighborhoods; Greek, Polish, Mexican, White, White-Asian, Asian, Italian, and alot more, only because people are comfortable living in places where they are alike with everybody - there's nothing racist about that. These neighborhoods strongly reflect culture and identity. Fix your own culture so people would even want to be in ya hood.
ok understand so what about black people that are well established that decide to stop in predominately white neighborhoods, are they bad? do they deserve to be potentially harassed? or are they a problem just for simply just being and coexist in that space ? I'm curious to further understand your perspective
I'll be honest, I know chicago is kinda like this but florida is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more rascist
It's called freedom of association, or not.