THIS IS BRIXTON
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This is Brixton, Directed by Shane Duncan, is the first of a series of films about gentrification which is working its way throughout London by swallowing up popular working-class areas and converting them into spaces fit for the middle class. Brixton is following in the footsteps of other areas around London - The loss of its historic culture Is nearly complete.
Director - Shane Duncan (@shaneduncan1)
Cinematographer - Shane Duncan
Editor - Shane Duncan
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This is amazing - We Are Brixton
Brixton Soup Kitchen hey can i work for u free i have no problem cleaning toilets and lifting stuff
Brixton Soup Kitchen all I ask for a plate of food
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Brixton today, get a mortgage to buy chicken and chips!! One of the most wealthy areas of London. Be honest it’s not the Brixton of the 80s I remember.
It would be good if there was a documentary that followed up on the communities that got pushed out of Brixton and where they are now.
Probably in Abbey Wood, Plumstead, Thamesmead or Erith where working class housing is still being built and where many working class people from inner London are rehoused!
ye exactly
@@angusmeigh5141 exactly.. REHOUSED.. PUSHED OUT..SCANDALOUS
Brixton market - £10 for a burger and chips. No thanks
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Order a Burger king from Uber or Just eat and you'll find that's a standard price. 🤨
I was in refill the other day. 1 hipster told the worker from refill he doesnt want the rice from bottom of the pot. They learning already
please remember people of Brixton, this town was owned by YOU. Gentrification by outsiders was made possible because you cashed in on the higher prices being offered. Of course it's understandable that people took the big bucks, but they knew there was a price to be paid by those that remained. Personally, I like the growing integration in the area, I just hope that a balance is maintained, nobody should feel it's no longer their home. Black culture is well established, and is the essence of what Brixton is and hopefully always will be.
a balance won't be attained you can already see a segregation within the area itself and things will only get worse!..
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it wouldnt of needed a clean up if it wasnt turned into a slum by the residents of old. there just gutted that someone has shown them it isnt the area it was them that made it poor by not caring.
why is everyone moaning I lived in Brixton since 1992 we worked hard to save up and get out things always change there's so much more to the UK than London
My parents (Irish immigrants) moved to Brixton in the early 60's, my brothers and I were born and raised in SW2..my mum and dad still live in the same house... We've seen so many changes over the years but Brixton will always be my home.
We have a lot of love for this film. We shared. Keep sharing the story of Brixton.
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I'm from New Zealand and I lived in Brixtion on Coldharbour Lane. I Don't want it to change. I want it to be the way it was when I lived there. The Culture, the people, the community.
its such a cool place..it will lose all its charm if ppl are bought out
It's a fantastic place but its becoming unrecognisable.
I lived in Edinburgh for 13 years and saw a lot of change in that time. Every where you look, new buildings. Mostly student accommodation too. It's a multi million pound industry now. Rich parents pay their kids rent in lump sums while the rest have to live in box rooms with no window and work 20/30 hours on top of all that study.
I think people should move back out into the country 😊
Using this for my Year 7 Geography lesson. Amazing video! Thanks for sharing it.
That lady said Brixton doesn’t sleep now and dit’s known for partying now and everyone is talking about Brixton now... she must be new because Brixton has never slept and it got less sleep in da 80s and 90s and was always the talk of the town. And the place to be for every thing including partying
Man said he brought his first hamster from there 😂
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Shane Duncan, what an amazing young man. This is great work and please give me a shout if there is anything I can do to help.
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This was super interesting. Thank you.
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The word 'community' has become a meaningless word, used way too frequently. We are just British people who live together, we have friends and people we know and see regularly. The more we divide ourselves up into 'communities' the weaker we become as a whole. Our enemy wants to divide us and conquer us. They manipulate our language to stoke division. We are all British first and foremost and if we ALL strive to improve our country for ALL of us, we will be unbeatable.
The media and the government is the cause of divisions.
@@sarahfemi9862 Black and white people dont want to live together thats why you get these black areas . White people are leaving London in droves as the immigrants move in . We will never be this multi cultural utopia because the British people were not asked and they resent the tsunami of foreigners (at least 7 million) in the last 20 years. They now see a situation where their children will never own their own home and a health service thats always at full capacity.
@@keithrose6931 British people are lazy and don't want to work left the EU and loads of jobs british don't want to get thier hands dirty this is why London has loads of cultures working in its city ,we all know multiculturalism doesn't work as for that no one told your white women in the UK to keep pushing out mix race black kids no one forced them.
Pretty much the same thing happens in the US.. anyone ever heard of Brooklyn, NY ?
Yes Gentrification= low key racism.
Parts of Brooklyn have always been rich like Brooklyn Heights and some other areas.
@@Zlervo There are rich black and asian people in the London suburbs. So gentrification is nothing do with racism. A lot of ethnic minority people own multi million pound houses in Knightsbridge and Bayswater for example!
@@angusmeigh5141 You've heard the term "in the grand scheme of things" right?
No, Where's that?
The issue is that gentrification is NOT for the black or working class people of Brixton but SOLELY for the white middle class people who want to take over the area, with blatant disregard for the people originally there.
No one is denying that Brixton at the turn of the last century (1900's) was white middle class but the issue is that, after pushing black immigrants and working classes into particular areas (and estates specifically built there for them in the 50's, 60's and 70's - with Somerlayton and Aylesbury estates being prime examples), only to then call them 'ghettos', gentrification is disgusting as it is these said 'ghettos' and areas as a whole that - because of the locals - and more specifically BLACK immigrants - ways of bringing life into an otherwise dreary area, these covetous middle class people then want the area ... for THEMSELVES.
It is the evil ways they then go on to do this by way of pushing black families into other areas (such as Norbury, Thornton Heath and Streatham Vale... which they'll probably then try to gentrify a few years from now!), then raising property prices, taking over local owned small businesses and - what I find the most ridiculous - charging ridiculous prices for 'ethnic' food and meals they cannot even pronounce properly and hadn't even heard of a few years ago (white priviledged toff DeliciouslyElla, who only made it thanks to her Sainsbury heiress mother, springs to mind...).
The blatant home eviction of ethnic minorities for petty and injust reasons to then say that they made themselves 'intentionally homeless' in order to deliberately move them out to places like Manchester, etc (and thus, in effect uprooting and breaking up these families and their networks) so that they can then cheaply buy up their properties and either sell on at unreasonable rates that no one local can afford is disgusting in itself but for these developers to then GIVE these properties to their spoilt MADE IN CHELSEA style children who wouldn't know a hard day's work if it hit them in the face is somethng that really grinds my gears as it is these types of beings that personify gentrification and whom walk around as if they own the place and not only look down on the black people who were born there but also act as if they are better.
It is these disgusting and racist methods of iradicating black people from an area that they covet that cause many black and working class people to have a valid resentment for the middle class people now living in Brixton. These white middle class twats don't want to integrate with the locals but want them OUT. This is FACT. They move to Brixton for the lively atmosphere that black people bring but detest the very same black people they are amongst.
Gentrification is the epitome of white priviledge and it stinks.
Just the other day I was outside Herne Hill station and watched as a stupid posh white girl handed out flyers for a restuarant nearby and ONLY gave out flyers to white people.
When I appraoched her and asked her why she felt she had the right to be so racist in BRIXTON, she laughed, admitted she had seen me and said I could have a menu flyer if I really wanted one so badly...!
On top of these disgusting methods of gentrification, the flip side is that if there happens to be too many ethnic minorities/working class people in middle class areas such as Chelsea that white people don't want around because they believe OUR presence brings THEIR property prices down, they tend to be able to get away with mass genocide and ethnic cleansing in the form of such autrocities as the Grenfell Tower fire... only to then attempt to cover it up by having the media say the fire was started by an 'African' tenant's faulty WASHINE MACHINE!
(To date, many of the survivers of this autrocity have yet to be housed and those that have have had disgraceful opposition from the middle class residents of Chelsea who have taken offence to these victims being given 'free' properties that they themselves had to pay for.
These type of wicked jealous scum who get envious of others getting what they have to work for make me want to heave...)
So ask again what the issue is, please.
(Oh, and by the way, for the man who commented on a similar post: Brixton was NOT the shithole it is now before gentrification.
If this was the case, these middle class, green-eyed demons would not continuously want to come and live there.
It is the working class and ethnic minorities who MADE Brixton and other 'ghettos' such as Hackey, Peckham and other areas PREVIOUSLY populated by ethnic minorities SO DESIRABLE in the first place... hence why the middle class have been coveting these areas for years and think they can just take from right under the feet of black and working class people in such underhanded ways (just as THEIR queen did with the Bronze of Benin and literally ALL of the jewels adourning her crown and museums... )
What saddens me is that so many black sheeple just let all of this injust bullshit happen, only to cry about it later.
How did Block peepul arrive in Brixton? Were they there in 1850?
I know black middle class and asians who have moved to Brixton, so saying that it is SOLELY for white people is not true. I think this is a money issue not a 'race' issue, not deliberately planned. If you have a lot of growth in a city like London then you are going to get house pricing rising. Most people that have moved to Brixton I know have worked hard for their money, and no they were not "MADE IN CHELSEA" type of people. I do understand that there are a lot of black people that are disadvantaged living in Brixton, sure they will feel the pressure. But you make it sound like this is a deliberate attack on black people and I disagree with that, I think this is a money issue. Where we can discuss racism is that are there enough opportunities for the local population to make it out of poverty and is there a place to reflect on this issue, but I don't think that making statements about 'one group' to be accurate. Yes I admit there are racist assholes in this society, but to claim that white people think that black people bring down property value is just ridiculous. I've rented a long time from a Nigerian doctor and have Turkish, Pakistani and a Chinese neighbour (I'm not British even). So I would like to disagree with your perception of "white" people, sure I'm not denying there are assholes like that out there, but please count me out of that crowd. I've never been a racist, never will be a racist. I'm also not British so my ancestors did not take part in the slave trade nor did they have colonies in Africa (so you can't put history on me either). In fact Finland was a colony (where I was born) of Russia until 1914 and lots of Finnish people had to migrate because of poverty to Sweden where they were treated like 2nd class citizens, but yes I do look like an average white person. But in my home if you are my friend and visit no there will be no racism, sexism or homophobia... nope not under my roof so please count me out.
And your contribution is?
@@val-schaeffer1117 from 1948 though to the 1960's people from the Caribbean were invited to Britain to work public service jobs to help Britain recover after the world war 2. After some of the people living in England for 50 years they are being told their citizenship is 'invalid' due to theresa mays policies despite the fact they were granted right to remain in the 50s. Its called the windrush scandal.
It's solely the location relative to the rest of London that makes Brixton desirable. If you don't own property, you have no say in the matter. Go somewhere you can afford to buy, or shut up.
There are a lot more white people displaced in the UK by housing costs.
i love brixton . i lived 7 months in brixton
You still there ?
@@Sas-ki2uu no ,right now i living in Colombia. so sad because i wanna go back. to the best city London.
@@HandsomeAngellifefunDisney ahh yeah man.... come back some day 😁
Man got gunned down on railton rd shot 12 times Brixton is frightening.
Love it❤ hard work is meaningful
I grew up in Lower Clapton.
Apparently Lower Clapton road was called ' Murder mile' for a long time,
a bit different to the 1960s when I was growing up there.
Coldharbour lane was way worse
Im french i love city london brixton
Areas change and Brixton is no different. In the 40s and 30s it was a well off place to live and now its going back to that
Brixton is better than croydon
I'm originally from NW London, Wembley, but I lived there for about a year in 1982, on Arlingford Road. It was a great place to live.
Amazing
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Brixton is culturally and ethnically the same as East Flatbush, Brooklyn
I agree
Not many Haitians in Brixton or the UK at all though
Brixton Team!!!
2 estates I lived in got knocked down. I'm probably not going to live there again before it gets knocked down again
Rent control and social housing is the answer, like he said you can’t stop popularity but you can slow gentrification. If you slow the financial incentives in gentrification then there is more time for people to become part of a community instead of overwriting it
Ha "rent control!!! Ask NYC how that socialist crap worked out back in the day. Yeah the answer is always more government. Just maybe the community should have invested in itself over the last 30 years...and let's not pretend that the current inhabitants are some sort of indigenous tribe specific to Brixton.
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❤Brixton.
Ahh i remember that pet shop in brixton market
Did you go there
I went there all the time
I work Brixton in the 80s for BT. It was a sh*thole as was most of south east London. Now south east London reaches Orpington and thats going the same way .
Brixtons in south west.
Don't hold back progress, be part of it, fix the house it is your home, your children's memories, don't sell it cheap.
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Brixton means kholcha (culture) , it means Khola (colour).
I've been in brixton my hole live to!
Whole**
@@edervenancio2912 it doest matter cuz we are not at school
@@mrblue_guy9376 i aint either dropped out lol ur point is?
@@edervenancio2912 My point is that we are online so grammer doest really matter like there's no teacher to say Oh correct that/:
@@mrblue_guy9376 I'm yo teacher online lil nigga
What an amazing film.. where is part 2? There is a lot to be said here which isn't being said. We talk about communities, but is the voice of the communities being heard? There is recognition of the problem but no real ACTIVITIES from the current Councillors/Officers engaging with communities at ground roots level (except to a run up to an election) and when they do what actually transpires? it seems like Land = profits communities = problems yet these same communities engage people in Brixton, from the market traders to the local businesses (excluding corporate). Yes we should have development but not at the cost of local communities. Look at Brixton's history and culture Gentrification is destroying it.
Prophet Uk / part 2 will be out in a week or two, some of the things you mentioned in your comments will be touched on the second film! - you won’t have long to wait, thanks for your comment and thank you for watching. It means a lot!
Shane Duncan you have no link to part 2 anywhere on TH-cam
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There's a lot of talk about BLACK and WHITE people in these broad statements in the comments. First property is not usually collectively owned, so it belongs to individuals. Brixton is also not just WHITE or BLACK... I know Asians, and middle class black people who own their house there. Ridiculous over simplification going on here. Not everyone is racist. London has been experiencing massive growth so house prices closer to the central would be going up, and it is not a plot to push out some ethnic group. This is a money issue as such. Where talk about racism is more relevant is looking at why local people who in Brixton are not getting out of poverty? Is there not enough opportunities, are there policies in place preventing this etc.
But this black white BS and rich hipsters is just not true, sure there are racists and rich people, but for the most part the people who I know live there work hard and no not all of them are WHITE.
I'm an American, in Texas. Unfortunately, it always seems to be that the issues in this world of ours is White vs Black doesn't it? I don't know why, but it just is. Especially in the US. Yes, we have immigration issues and Hispanics are in the hot seat right now. At the end of the day, when it comes to race relations, it's always between the White and Black. I don't see it changing anytime soon either and I think it's because of the very long history the two groups have had with one another. Everyone else is just part of the current mix of things, just sort of there.
Ectoid a lot of the white ppl in the uk are far far far more poor than a lot of black ppl
Agree, people need to stop making everything about race, and accusing anything that isn't going their way of racism.
People are individuals and act in their own self interest. If they want to move to an area they can, regardless of race. The state of these people whose families ALL moved to the area within living memory telling British people they can't live anywhere they like in their own capital city.
There are plenty of people elsewhere in London who'd kill to have their rent paid by the council and live in a flat in Brixton - nothing entitled more entitled than council tenants.
This is how you prevent gentrification. Own your property out right. Then you prevent others from coming in. If not then just like others coming in you to are only a visitor.
Do Camden or Tottenham, everyone knows Tottenham
Do a lewisham one
Do one on Poplar East London, (racist history and gang violence)
Poplar? When it comes to East London it has to be Hackney or Newham.
@@loveislove8741 Poplar has some crazy history. You just do not hear about it bengalis used to suffer there. Everyday kids, woman, grandmothers used to get hurt. Teviot estate at one point in history. www.google.com/amp/s/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/a-sigh-of-relief-but-how-did-it-happen-1-2417193/amp.
One of many of the stories, " notorious Teviot estate in Poplar, London, where racism against Asians was rife.
The estate in fact had the unenviable record of the highest incidence of racial attacks in the country." Every single day asians were getting hurt robbed knocked out unconcious, my far distant cousin even got stabbed to death. My dad has been robbed several times. This is only one of the many stories of East London's different areas and the racist history. Now it's full of gangs kids running with acid and knives.
@@loveislove8741 then after that, the Asians fought back took over formed their own gangs. The asians fought for our safety in these deprived areas, full of racist hate crimes.
Truss poplar would deffo have the best drone shots aswell lol
Yes. Poplar doesn't get enough coverage. It is racist, as a matter of fact the whole of Tower Hamlets has elements of racism.
Town Hall
at the end of the day we can't really complain because england wasn't our country to start of with so it had a culture before black people came over
The racial purity of the British has always been a myth.
From the days when the Norman French invaded Anglo-Saxon Britain, we have been a culturally diverse nation. But because the different nationalities shared a common skin colour, it was possible to ignore the racial diversity which always existed in the British Isles. And even if you take race to mean what it is often commonly meant to imply - skin colour- there have been black people in Britain for centuries. The earliest blacks in Britain were probably black Roman centurions that came over hundreds of years before Christ.
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I P are you pretending that indigenous britons don't exist because romans were here 2000 years ago? loool. moron.
@@ip3043 everything you described is wrong. They were all Indo-European invaders. White People are Indo-European.
Black centaurians? Lmao. No mostly European but sure a few Berber brown me. Maybe? But black? There was no subsaharan people please
Instrumental name?
Please please come to white city, shepherds bush
Make this is battersea
I went their today and I am heartbroken at the change. Hardly any market left, so many traders and faces gone, Network rail have ripped the heart out the place.
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Good Times here
Only one good thing about any part of London...... The road out!
Rather live in London than any other racist segregated UK cities no thanks, London very multicultural and tolerant as a city .
Getting stabbed in London, I’d rather live in Leicester
Business!
There is another brixton in Johannesburg south Africa and its full of foreigners
Are they black?
@@ashyclaret yes. African
Or this is tooting
TF ON EDT LA
Brixton is waaay better and safer than I used to be in the 80s and 90s The influx of the Middle Classes has much improved the Area.Nothing at all stops the local people integrating imo
Exactly and remember the so called 'locals' are 1/2nd generation migrants.
WHO needs a champagne and fromage shop in a working class market/ area??? who needs 15 burger restaurants/cafes with black truffle topping at £12.99 a pop in a working class area.. ?? people in this area dont need or can afford this type of shit... thats the problem... so fuk offffffffffffffffffffff!!! here's a french snail marinated in my own Urine from a heavy hangover for 3 months in a garnish of parsley and frog vomit!! piss offfffffffffffff!!!!
@@chicagobullslauren9340
Well it's better than having fried Chicken shops on every corner and much of the area is Middle class funnily enough like it used to be at the turn of the century so that's why they are there.The area is much better than it used to be in the 80s and 90s because at least now you can walk around late at night without the fear of street crime that was during that time.Maybe you should move with the Times Lauren and indulge in something abit different 😀As for people not affording it ..you can see these various establishments packed with local people at the weekend's so I'm sure the businesses in the area won't be complaining anytime soon
@@sinistercharger youve just outed yourself as a white Tory racist with the comment "it used to be a white middle class area" its called racial and social cleansing..
your comment "nothing at all stops the local people integrating" shows how young and inexperienced you are in the world..its the middle classes with there new businesses who should be integrating into the local communities by showing love and respect.. these new businesses only bring in 1 type of clientele that there trying to attract and i know way whatsoever help integrate into the local community.. u white middle class kids who were students at the university of winchester and still call your mum..mummy, should feel absolutely privaleged youve stepped foot into my area.. i dont owe you anything.. its people like you who should be trying to integrate into local communities
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Guys never forget before the windrush generation came over, not only was there only white people in Brixton but it was thriving.
What are you trying to say?
@@joelmoeketsi3324 British culture is more advanced than the imported African/Carribean culture. Fact.
@@jamiestewart9407 through no fault of the carribean people seeing as it was actually the British that put them in their situation.
@@joelmoeketsi3324 Yep a poor decision made 80 years ago to let them over, I agree.. Glad you also didn't disagree with the acknowledgment that their culture is inferior.
Fucking xenophobe. We made Britain a much better place
I've been to Brixton many times in the 90s , 2000s 2010s and I don't see brixton that bad I see brixton evolving and it is good .
Born and raised in Washington D.C same thing is happening here as well.
Good
@@closed7234 trolling huh lol
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Shane Duncan sorry dude but I was after part 2 of Brixton story. You linked to Peckham.
Dosen't gentrification bring order, better area ,less crime ,quality of life for people
Kind of but gentrifications makes the prices rise. So it's harder for the people living there
Yes, but its at Cost of a whole community and identity
Gentrification causes racism and segregation and divisions not always a good thing.
Yes but not for the original people. That means nothing if the original people don't get to experience it because they have to move away from the area because of the high rent.
The original Brixton people were the white English / British people before the wind rush
There will have been a mix here and there though only small.
After the war, England and Britain needed immigrants to come and help build our country. We have to see that change is a constant and people of different backgrounds will come and go.
The bigger problems come from class struggles. Rich and poor, the haves and have nots
2:46 white people saving the day again.
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