With No One to Help Us (1970) | Newark New Jersey Welfare System Co-Operative Buying Power
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- Short documentary film "With No One to Help Us," produced by Project Head Start with funding from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. The flim, narrated in part by Marion Kidd, head of the Welfare Committee of the People's Action Group (UCC Area Board #3), documents the organization of a consumer buyer's club for welfare recipients in the community. Established as a response to the discriminatory business practices that grocers used against welfare recipients, the Welfare Committee organized the consumer buyer's club to buy groceries collectively at wholesale prices to help mothers on welfare save money.
To learn more, riseupnewark.com/chapters/chapter-3/part-1/welfare-rights/
Directed by Gene and Carole Marner www.dignitymemorial.com/obitu...
Originally posted on the Rise Up North Newark Vimeo Page.
Shared for historical purposes. I do not own the rights.
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My grandmother who has since transitioned appears in this reel. Thank you for this❣
Oh wow. How cool.
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Yes...I shared this with my family. What a serendipitous find. Happy New Year!
My condolences she is awesome
People have to see BOTH SIDES..
This should be a movie!
Born and raised in Newark, definitely excited for this. TY for such wonderful content all the time:) GOD bless you.
You are so welcome!
Brick City / New Jerusalem stand up. ✊🏿
I’m from the Bricks too .. connect with me :)
@@AKAT1980 fosho!
@@brickcitynetwork wassup! :)
Lifelong Newark resident so this definitely got my attention. I shared it with my mother and aunt and asked if they recognized anyone. I love my city and the beautiful residents within.❤
This is my grandmother's generation, and those kids are my mom's generation. I'm so thankful to them for working so hard in those times to make a better life for me and those in my generation.
Intelligent, hard working women, doing their best for their families. Women on welfare, who were so well spoken, and definitely not lazy.
Same! I love to view gems like this, especially knowing my grandmother's past back in Michigan around this time. It brings a certain type of joy to my heart.
These women have so much dignity, class and beauty. They are working women that grouped together to help each other and their children. BW on welfare are always stereotyped as lazy and that they do not work and pay into the system. These women worked and formed a shopping cooperative. There is a shopping cooperative in my neighborhood. These ladies were so organized and forward thinking. I love this video.
Most of these woman look like they never got pretty or cheerful! Or worked out or wanted too for nobody including themselves ! In this time that was a lame thing to do for black women! These women pioneered dysfunctional black woman! These are not our real empowered liberated beautiful black women of the 60s! & 70s too! These are our sexually liberated nerd woman! The same kind having the dysfunctional reign of today! Passed down through generations! These women really need professional emotional help! This is why black woman never had to prove that our men wasn’t providing! Just word of mouth! So black woman could lie. & initiate welfare & being on her own for whatever reason she feeeeels the need to 😂😆😆right or wrong!!!!!!No other woman in any other culture in the U.S had that type of security. While having complete social freedom to roam without moral restrictions. Except black woman! & they took advantage & helped initiate the ruin our neighborhoods in the process!
I’m not buying it! These black women don’t know how to be in relationships with black men! Over & over child after child. Due to emotional issues we should’ve looked at as a people a long time ago! Now most of our women are like this! Daaaaaaaaaaang! Way to go older generations!
@@centrallivewire7922 These women got child after child from BM. Duh. Women do not get children from air. If one man sleeps with one woman for 365 days and gets all of them pregnant, before the end of the year he will have at least 365 not counting twins. A woman can only get pregnant once maybe twice a year. At the most she could have two to six children within that time. That is if she had two sets of triples having back to back pregnancies. Stop being emotional. There are non-Black women in this video. These were poor women of all races and ages that worked together to help each other. There is nothing wrong with that. They are not lazy, stupid or lacking in anyway. They dealt with the reality of their lives by getting up and solving their problems. They did not wait on any man of any race. Stop blaming BW and making excuses.
@@victorialake9474 Me making excuses not one time did you hold these women accountable for their wombs… Or the men they chose to mate with! Back then most of the black family’s stayed together! & welfare was not an option! I’m watching the video again and all I see are insecure! Unhealthy black woman entitled! to government funds! Instead of continuing to fight for Civil black progress! Black women obviously didn’t have it in them! & our insecure nerd black women were the front runners of the ghettos you see now! Back when the majority of us were doing just fine morally! This is why to this day no one has ask black woman collectively back then who this pertained to! Black women why are you having these children like this with no plan? & who told you to do this? & who told you it was all right! We as black people don’t do this! Today it’s common but back then no! Nice try though! But it’s no secret most of our women were a lot stronger back then!
@@victorialake9474 You can’t even hide it today black women get up on the Internet and tell you! Because of something they didn’t like in the relationship based off of their feelings! They quit the man! & filed for welfare! Devastate his life and the childrens mostly! She’s selfish as hell literally went on with her life! Not a second thought and I’m telling you right now! They got it from these nerd ass low value can’t tell us nothing ass woman on this old ass video! No way you can tell me these type of woman got up every day ready to face the world with their black men😆😂😂😆😂 I think black women are afraid of black men going back in the passed & really investigating what really happened! I’ve seen the videos pictures and statistics of Black people in the 40s and 50s compared to the 60s and 70s! Black women got real loose. But let me guess. It was the black man’s fault right! Black men collectively made black women do it and black women did it! It’s collectively black men’s fault! 😂😆😆😂😂 Dont feel bad I roast a lot of you ignorant black women that don’t know what really time it is!
This sort of co-op should be renewed and implemented by the sisters who are struggling to make ends meet.....if they can donate a couple of dollars to help their pastors pay HIS bills...women have to rethink their BUSINESS in the communities
Co-operative buying should have been activated and made a part of the culture. I deeply feel it would have been the norm today. Costco and many companies adopted the concept. The lack of understanding and economics caused programs like that to fail. CO-OP buying was tried in Virginia in the late 80s by different groups who targeted certain items like appliances, dry beans, etc. For poor people with limited incomes, it is vital and should be used today!!!!!
Yes, you are quite right. I heard someone say Black people to go back to using cooperative economics of the past, to provide for our communities. Being Caribbean, I first thought of a su-su, and wasn’t sure how we would implement that to solve today problems. Today we have the same problems, they may present themselves differently, but it’s still a struggle for affordable healthy , readily accessible food for all people. However, this was a good example of how this could have worked to cut out food deserts in poor black neighborhoods. There was a food coop in Flatbush, Brooklyn long before gentrification that sold fresh, organic vegetables. In Jamaica, Queens we had dollar cabs, and vans, to make up for inadequacies in the public transportation system in what was also a double fair zone. Black men going to wore themselves would pick up extra riders in their neighborhoods who were also needing a twenty minute ride to the subway or another bus. When layoffs from big corporations happened many black males did this to earn extra cash. Even when their cars got licensed and paid the fees, they were heavily targeted by the police, and taxi and limousine commission. The drivers were primarily Black males who were marginalized by the mainstream economy. They were ticketed, locked up, their very expensive brand new town cars and vans taken and auctioned after spending years working to buy them, and earn money for their families. This helped black people all over NYC and surrounding areas get around affordably without a car. Now, Uber and Lyft are allowed to operate freely, which came about fairly easily for them, using a similar business model with the huge advantage of the internet and are billion dollar companies. We have always been industrious people, but we are thwarted everytime. We need to become wholesalers, buying goods from black farmers, if they can get the USDA stamp. That’s another story, it’s very rare for them, when they can’t get low interest loans and grants for farm equipment to allow them to remain competitive. This is the real racism.
I agree with you, David.
These women are our mothers and grandmothers now they’re not like this anymore 🥺.
I wonder what became of these ladies and their children. I would love to know. I am glad they formed a club, worked together, and made things better for themselves.
This feat did not call for a lot of education. What these women had was motivation, determination, and effort, They knew what they wanted, where to get these things, and how to calculate the cost. They were instrumental in building a community. They did not entertain failure in any form. They broke down the strongholds and chased away the wolf.
So true. They were amazing ladies.
Proud to see these women standing up for themselves and their rights so intelligently. People spent decades stereotyping welfare mothers. Well here some are, and they were nothing to play with.
This is a little bit before my time. But being born and raised in Newark in the 80's. I definitely know something about this experience. No matter where I am, 188 Howard St projects is were my heart is.
Did you ever notice any people that were unaccounted for when they closed down certain projects down?
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What? It's not something I'm privy to but you have to take in account. It was a lot going on during those times. With the crack epidemic being as monumental as that was. Also, after my mother passed in 92 I didn't stay in Newark much longer after that. Left like a year later, but the way you worded that sounds like you are going in the serial killer direction? If so the only thing I can think of is the dude Melvin. That was assaulting women in the elevator then eventually. Ended up getting crushed on top were he was hiding. But other then that no, but now you have me interested. In what you're talking about so please elaborate.
@@AKAT1980 I asked because Bobby Hemmitt a metaphysical teacher(his lectures are on TH-cam) noticed it in Atlanta. When they closed down the projects a lot of people were missing. He was giving a lecture in Newark and some brothas there had noticed it too. Then people all over were noticing it like some cities in NC such as Charlotte and Greensboro. I also happened to watch a St. Louis documentary on the projects there, I forgot the name of them but the woman came out her own mouth and asked what happened to the people when they closed them down. She used to live there. So since Bobby was doin lectures across the U.S and telling people about it the Chicago sun times released an article stating that when they closed down their projects they put some families else where like in affordable housing. This was happening all over the u.s .
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I never heard about Newark but I did heard about Atlanta and all the black kids that disappeared. Not sure if it's the same situation or not but anyone in the know. That is familiar with how the powers that be move especially if it's sinister. Is most likely human trafficking and organ harvesting. Homeless and poor people are the main targets. But during my time while they were knocking them down. I can't say I heard of anything like that but I'm definitely going to look it all up.
Nah, it's not the same situation. You're talking about the Atlanta child murders which was very sinister. They were mining melanated black children for interferon. Yes you are correct the poor and homeless are targets.
Bless all who struggle against all that created any system which doesn't value human life🌹💯
Newark native here.. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
What happened? We had so much promise and drive as a community now it's all corrupted...I want the feeling of Unity back in my hometown
People got satisfied with little or nothing. Others are into self promotion and not so much of that of the community. We definitely need this feeling and action back.
Maybe crack and witchcraft happened
I was born after this video was made. I lived in California but my family is Southern so that’s my heritage and culture. in my grandparents generations they all had large families and produced a different percentages of their own food from their gardens or farms. Some of my family back then didn’t go to grocery stores at all. My parents, my. cousins and I I had to pick and shuck and shell. We never ate store canned string beans. I remember my great aunt canning vegetables and making homemade fruit preserves for wintertime. Nowadays I grow lettuce and some other stuff because I like to and I find it fun but if I was hard up for money, I’d definitely lean more of my family’s traditional ways.
It’s so fascinating that Whitney Houston was being raised in Newark during this very time that this film was shot. Amazing.
Its Tale of Two Cities. Whitney may have gone to school with many children whose family went through this. Whitney did not.
Whitney was middle class, she lived in Newark, but didn't live that experience.
I went to school with kids who were on welfare & lived in the projects right here in Newark too. My mother, a single mother, had a job. I had to pay for my lunch. I see no reason to apologize for that. Some have, some don't. I didn't make it that way.
I'll be quick to say that not being on welfare & not living in the projects didn't inoculate my family from any of the financial issues & difficulties that the families represented in this video experienced.
I and my family lived in Newark during time. This was so very real. I was employed at New Jersey Bell telephone company. God is Truth.
Thank you for never letting us forget our history.
Still so much food desert, huge problem, can’t be healthy shopping at gas stations and fast food. Good grocery stores still not accessible.
Been watching a lot of these videos and they cement what I already knew and it is that black women have always been the backbone of our communities. There's no hurdle you can put before them that they cannot get over!! 🖤👏🏿👏🏿
I see something totally different from that video.
Sadly, welfare needs to end because it robbed “The Community” of Individuality of “The Family.”
I understand the feeling from the video but my counter is what good has been served if the lifeblood/money never reaches the correct person at the time?
Time determines all, our generation seems to suffer a lot because we seem to always be out of money for time itself.
I do thank you for the video because it’s confirming my understanding on how we have two different but distinct histories in America as Blacks.
In my head, I’m trying to combine the two and it’s a headache.
Again, thank you for the glimpse in the past.
President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" plan did more harm than slavery, we have not recovered and seem to be getting worse. The more that they help us the farther we fall behind. It also created single parent homes which is our biggest problem and our Black leader's refuse to talk about it. I wonder why?
He's looking out for himself not for the people and who knows who sent him
HE LOST ME WHEN HE SAID COME IN THE HUNDREDS, SO YA RIGHT HE WAS VOTED IN TO REPRESENT, PROTECT AND PROVIDE
That's a little harsh. Give the brother the benefit of the doubt.
The women bought into the Welfare system, which broke up the Black family.
HUSTLER & CONMAN Mindset/Behavior.😠
@@tom11zz884 should their children starve?
Thank you for this video, black ladies rock!!! I miss my beautiful mother so much
Its hard to believe ten dollars was a lot but twenty five could fill the car and trunk with food. I remember this time frame well . At the films end the credits mentioned the Head Start program . That was one of the best programs ever to teach people health and nutrition . It grew to become a true family and community tool because people were included in it that benefited from its success .
STILL HAPPENING TODAY, SO HURTFUL AND TRUE SYSTEM TO DEMOLISH THE GOOD WITHIN US
TO HEAR THIS AND SEE SO MANY SPEND SO MUCH WITH THOSE WHO REFUSE TO HELP IS MIND BLOWING
She said “they’re making me payback for the mistake that they made,” isn’t that what you’re doing, making them pay you for the mistakes that you made!
Wow!,working smart women!,God bless their souls where ever they are!
That's like the wholesalers and the beauty supply stores they don't want to sell you anything like that a large bulk amount they have a monopoly on that
Ase’ to these Queens 👑 🕯 🕯
So inspiring.
That’s my grandmother and me and my aunt and uncle at the end of the video my grandmother in this video is Marion Kidd I’m Jeffrey at the end love an miss you Grandma
Wow.
This is the scruw1ng we took with the results of integration! I love that these blkwm tried to formulate plans to make a better way for their families and communities, but we didn’t have to resort to such survival tactics pre-civil rights era as we were a very productive and self-sufficient people when left to our own devices and without yhtppl tearing down what we created. Our families were intact (75 - 85% marriage rates pre-mid-60s), we had more ownership of land and businesses, we had the drive and innovative mindsets to create/build, and we were a very cohesive group who kept to ourselves - that’s how we should have kept things!
Pre-mid-1960s, we did not have to depend on the government to take care of us; letting someone take care of you for long periods of time gives that other party control of how you live, eat and exist. I think these blkwm were on the right track to creating a way for us to have wholesale businesses (possibly an AA version of Sam Walton?) and in turn, being self-sufficient, but one can only imagine what occurred to derail the momentum of such a plan; whatever it was, I can see that it kept our collective stuck in the same Moebius strip since the mid-1960s…..
PS: Thanks for posting this! I love your channel and I hope you have all these important videos archived somewhere safe! You sir are doing excellent work! Also, my parents and their siblings are originally from Newark (they grew up in the Stella Wright projects) before they decided to move to the Oranges next door….
Integration was the end of legal second class citizenship.
Jesse lee peterson always mention this. Sames like a lot of our history is nothing but a lie. Being that I'm a 80's baby it's just amazing to look back at our history, the Bible says the truth will come to light. Great comment
Integration definitely messed this up. MLK is at fault with this smh
Blessings True family. This is the reason Jeff Fort and the Brothas went at the local stores in the City of Chicago. No more of needing the government for a New government is upon one’s shoulders to raise up our people. Bless up eternally righteous ones!!!
Wow Thank you for this! I try to share your content with everyone I know. I appreciate the education I get from it and the movies. I am from Newark and I love researching and learning about the people and their experiences. My grandmother tells such interesting stories. I cannot wait to talk with her about this.
Born and raised in Newark and at this time I was 4 years old. So much has changed, Every one in the neighborhoods took care of each other. We were family. It was also at this time, when they made all black fathers leave home, if black women needed Welfare. They broke down the family union. Although, I no longer live in NJ, I still have fond memories that made me into the woman I am today.
Respect... I was 11.... thanks for speaking truths
Black women were willfully divorcing their husbands in order to get government assistance? What happened to their husbands? Where did they live and work?
Brings up a proven point about the welfare system is not fair for all!
Sad but this was the beginning of the end.
Wow... @ 12:07 - 12:12...That's Mrs. Scott from Rose St., Newark, RIP
That’s why I love me some Newark…the people have that fighter spirit. I witnessed this for the 25 years of living there, working for places like Newark Emergency Services & Newark Board Of Education.
I'm a white woman and when I visited autwitiz concentration camp I really had a change of heart I used to hate because of skin color and I really felt shame for it I was raised to hate and I choose now to love now matter what color or race or disability and I want to apologize for my self and my race and what they teach I'm asking for forgiveness for myself and one person of color told me and it is going to forever stay with me said there is nothing wrong with us and she's right
To think I was searching for a specific song (Life of the Party by Kanye ft. Andre 300) and after a few clicks, I found this gem of a page. I love it and you have a subscriber in me 🤝🏾
I got teary eyes looking at this. I seen my cousin Daisy Ash. R.I.P cousin Daisy. She was ALWAYS in the fight for NEWARK RESIDENTS! This really touched me... I look at how we buy in bulk now from Costco and BJ's to cut cost for families. SO GREAT TO SEE ALL OF THESE WOMEN IN THE FIGHT FOR NEWARK FAMILIES. #stopoverchargingourpeople
#wecanshowyoubetterthanwecantellyou
Yes, I saw cousin Daisy as well! She was always helping, feeding people. She was a part of such strong women... Rest In Heaven cousin and all the other women and men affiliated with this video who've passed on...
I see Daisy & mom was involved as well. I remember going with them to help sort & distribute. About that time Jane Fonda's husband Tom & his friend came to stay a few days with Daisy to see how things worked. They also brought a monkey with them & the monkey died.
THIS IS AMZING!!
I was born 1969 newark nj and I'm lookto see if I know any of these courageous women
Honestly I can appreciate these women .
I remember when I was very young , the elder women would buy food on time .
Thats like layaway .
They always had plenty of food, enough to share with others .
They had large gardens and chickens and sold eggs .
Had pigs , and sold every part .
I also remember the elder men , telling me , that they worked all week , a full grown man for $1.00
Unbelievable , but true .
A family man , with a wife , children and a home .
They actually cut the woods off the land , and the men got together and built each other's homes , schools and Churches .
Dr. King had to be strategic about his approach.
He had to say voting rights.
Honey , he was fighting for his ppl to be seen as humans , adults , equal.
What is $1 , a week, add to that , a grown man 50 to 70+ years old being addressed as boy , or a grown woman called Auntie , instead of Mrs. , or Miss.
A 5 year old could and did call you boy .
And you couldn't even shop for the things you needed for your family.
No education for your children , without the Church building a school .
It was so much more than mixing , but human rights.
You couldn't even look at them eye to eye.
Criminal charges .
Some people really need to do their research , your great- grandparents experienced all this and worse.
I've heard the stories first hand.
And don't get me started on WW1 , WW2 , VIETNAM , no jobs waiting for them and no parade, not considered a citizen or human.
Thats why Dr. King was taken, and be careful who you trust and associate with .
Thank you 💕 for sharing your insightful knowledge. Being sentimental, is useful in its own context, but clear sighted truth, is the only historic documents that have real value. This should be taught in British schools too as we also have a problem teaching Black History, in its true context. This results in racism, and sub classification of Black People. 🌺🌹🌷🌼🦋💕
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Thank you for understanding my point .
I appreciate you .
I have done a Series about this topic on my channel.
Its so much to this era in history .
Also , we have to talk to the people who lived through these times .
Thank you again .
Please let them know!!!!
@@maxinesobers2606 💫💜💫
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Thank you , I am more than happy to share what I know with others .
So authentic with their encounters
A systematic entity that was used then and now to keep us in bondage. It takes a clever mind to outwit the plan and furthermore consistent unity which is painfully difficult for us to do. Opposition meets us on every hand, even for those who are educated and makes a decent salary. Systemic racism is everywhere, even on the job. Wholesale items ( many vendors today won't even sell hair weave to blacks,only Asians) are often blocked from black business owners. Why do you think there are so many laws and licenses required to start legitimate businesses or to have things trademarked? Making it difficult on purpose. Welp! until we realized how much business that OUR dollars generate and the power behind it...We will remain.
You're a wise woman.
Thanks & God bless.
I love our people only if we had the same energy and love we would make it we would be unstoppable
LOVE the Sistas Trying to Unify for their Families & each other.
Hated the
"Alderman Davis" character coming in with his BS.
Yeah Fred BALDY Davis and you too Willona.
@@raycurry4168 "you Too Willona." ☺️
Government never did enough greed is so evil
BLESSED DAY STAY SAFE
What a system to just keep people struggling 😪 😕
Love the fight and tenacious attitude of these strong women.
I applaud the determination
What were the men doing while this was going on??
Out in the streets hustling..
These women were lobbying for Welfare.
Most were already in bad relationships with Black men and was looking to the government to be their DADDY....
In jail a lot of men came back from war and they was on drug's they had gave them diseases it's a lot of different thing's that happened in the 70s that was detrimental to the black community !
@@tashajordan8856 yup. And the brothas pretty was forced to fight in the war or they'll be doing jail time smh
@@getithowyoulive2. Yes you are right..
This was great
Yes a Newark native. This would be my grandmother erra.
Blessing..
Who was the man that was talking? I wonder what happened of him.
He ended up leaving with his TAIL between his legs and reported to his white boss man.
I love Newark.
This has always been our problem, no unity and trust in the process, especially when money is involved.
The power of unity!
Born in Newark. South 19th street in the 70's
Seem like when the brotha came up in der them women got riled up chile
That man at the meeting was/is a real life caricature of the token black who is comfortable with the system keeping those he deems as below him stuck in perpetual struggle. It was sickening seeing him trying to sabotage these Queens' efforts by moving the "carrot" farther and farther away.
Was this part of a news or network program? I’m just curious. My old local station would get network directives for a special program or report. I always enjoy watching these.
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That guy was part of the problem.
So disappointed by how bro bro came down to their meeting to sh!t on what efforts they had made, instead of showing support and asking where he could add to the cause. If 20 ppl weren't enough, hit the streets on their behalf and recruit more ppl. Don't just run your mouth about it, be about it.
I swear I thought the same thing
@@loveatlast3927 glad I wasn't the only one
Real SISTAHS WORKING TOGETHER TO SURVIVE IN MY OLD STOMPING GROUNDS EDUCATING, UPLIFTNG AS WE CLIMB! SISTAHS WE MUST GO BACK TO THIS TO SURVIVE THESE HARDSHIPS! LET FACEBOOK AND ALL THE REST OF THAT BRAINWASHING KRAP AND DRAMA GO! IT'S REAL DEAL TIME! ASE' O!
Sisters Gonna Work It Out!
🙏🏾🙏🏾
Working Women who got great idea.... Dignity and pride.... I love it... Story for Movie,Community owner Movie.
And we continue to fight against oppression. Reason why I made sure to get the highest level of education as possible.
Heavy.
Thank god for real earth angels, sadly we need them now 2.. fly like an eagle, lyrics amaz but seals version 💛
Black women are truly something special. Black Power ✊🏾
Urban farms!!
When you see travel & tourism or city neighborhood real estate promotions, especially with America's wave of gentrification, the marketing of black communities is always degradation and fear. This helps to lower property values so housing stock is cheap. BLACK WOMEN have always tried to uplift their communities, despite right wing propaganda. This is what our children need to see instead of Housewives of wherever. THANK YOU REELBLACK!!!
Wow deja vu
Verlivian Scott, Kenneth Peterson and Mr. Sayiid.
That is the year I moved to newark
If only these women and their husbands could’ve worked it out! Two adults working is better than one!!.
Many of the men lost faith and become hopeless and left 💯
@@loveatlast3927 negative. Not true. Speak for yourself
Let's be for real ...welfare back then is not welfare today...back then welfare was to help you get back on your feet or stay afloat and thats how it was understood but today it is a lifestyle that many people think it's owed to them ...I understand hard times but I don't understand you getting help but deciding to stay in that position just because you know it's easier to get that check rather than striving to get better and work harder to get out of the rut ...that's why I believe this system was built by racist white folk to keep black folk enslaved and living in a poverty mentality and state so that they don't see beyond their fish bowl existence that this system provides them ...this poverty mentality and I don't mean being poor ...but the mentality of staying poor ..by choice so as to make advantage of the system destorys a society ..destroys the drive to do better and kills initiave ..it is a socialist mentality where you do good enough to get by and wait for the state to do the hard work or for the other hardworking citizens to put their hard earned money for your benefit ..it's very demonic ..because God designed you to seek him and ask him for help and assistance but this system will make you dependent on man ..on the government from cradle to grave and it's a system like i said was used by racists to keep minorities poor but now you have politicians of every race ..mainly democrat politicians that have found a way to really keep the people under this system In thier pockets ...that's why if you go to many democrat controlled cities ..this is what is causing alot of poverty ...and you find people that have seen thier parents or mostly parent live under it and they come under it too because it's easy to just wait for a free check than go on your knees ,pray to God for a strategy to get out of the ghetto and go out and work hard and look for a way out ....this is why areas under the system are filled with vultures who know the free money and checks are moving around and know that the people that are receiving the free government checks have no responsibility or knowledge of money because you value more something you have worked for than something given free to you so the vultures know this and they come to these areas and put up bars and alcohol stores and drug dealing spots , pimps put up prostitution spots etc ..to pry the money off people with no understanding and wisdom ...and All these affects mostly the males who bring this home and destroy the families and down the road you find fatherless homes ,young misdirected males and little girls with no male covering ...exactly how the racist designed it to work ...and now the democrat politicians want it to work ....a welfare society is a weak society ....like I said ...if you are poor and cannot make it financially ....use it ...but use it as a stepping stone to something better but don't settle for it ...don't rely on that government check as your existence til you die ....pray....go find a better job....if no jobs in your state ..save money and move your family to a state or city with jobs but don't stay in that poverty state that these crooked politicians want you to stay in ....a good picture of what I mean with these crooked politicians is that good times episode where the black councilman was looking for votes to get reelected and he was goin g house to house working for those votes ..he comes to jjs home and asks for them to vote for him but they say no because they know he is corrupt and a liar but look what he says ..he says that because he was the one that gave them that government owned apartment that if they don't vote for him he would kick them out ....and they had no choice but to vote him in even if they did not like him because they didn't want to lose their government provided home ..and this is how the crooked democrat politicians play thier consistuents......you vote me in and I will make sure I will keep the free government checks coming in ...but question is where is he or she getting the free money to give them ??....and this is the other evil part of it where they take money ..overtax hardworking people to get money to keep the other side of the population that is not working happy ....and In the long run ...the hard working class gets tired of being overtaxed pack thier bags and leave the city or state ...exactly what's happening right now in many democrat run states like California and all you are left is the poor who cannot move ...there is soo much to look at when you really see what this evil system has produced ....and the evil part is the attitude it breeds where people come to believe that they are owed a free check by the government ...they aren't putting into it but somehow they are owed ...a very evil system that kills the life of individuals and cities
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AMEN!!(that's why I went back to work,HATE IT,, but I went back)
YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. SPOT ON PERFECTLY. I’m 16, but I truly prayyyy my generation reaps the benefits of working hard for themselves rather than living comfortably in a evil system as such welfare and any other poverty stricken system ran by our government
Man @Rovers Thierry if you don't say that louder for the people in the back. I absolutely LOVE you for this 👏🏽comment. You hit the nail on it's head. A self sufficient society is a flourishing society. This is why other races that have been oppressed have long surpassed the black race and it's heartbreaking because we are capable of so much more.
Most folks can not provide for the family with just a welfare check. Midt welfare mom's work they in welfare for childcare assistance, health insurance ir food stamps. Just look up the cash aid they give folks in cities and you will know folks aren't sitting around collecting a check.
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Thank God I lived in Oklahoma . My family had our farms and ranches. Plenty of fresh produce and meat. Call me a country hick but could never imagine living like these poor women having to eat food out of a can or box!
You were very blessed
When Black people took care of Black people. Black people always been the target... #willielynch
Is that James Evans?
Women get things done!
Born & raised in Newark nj
I saw that Documentary as a little girl 50 years ago. I am was 5 years age. 34 years later I Retired earning enough work credits on the books to Retire. Increase after Retirement is $250 age 5 worked over 9 years 2 months 7 days to be exact. Increased again 5 years Accruling $273 16 years of Unpaid Retirement due from Onset Date 55 years capped out. Now work now is Social Security. My Retirement Payments is Pending Retroactive
Just putting there mind together let's get back to the mind business..
This is for all who just make negative remarks about African Americans women on welfare. My mom, who was a working LPN in the early 1960s also worked part time at the post office during the Xmas season and told us of the welfare checks going in some instances, not just into mothers names, but also Mr. & Mrs names in Livingston, W. Orange, Orange etc and these weren’t African American families. Welfare wasn’t created for Black. Read up on the history, the beginnings. Many black men/fathers were forced out the home. Many of these women worked, many low wages, but, eventually worked their way out of the system. Worked their butts off to send their children to college to stop the cycle of welfare.
Ask yourself why many of the businesses failed. If you look deep enough you will come up with many answers and it isn’t because blacks were lazy, didn’t want to work etc other negatives. One, in maybe just my opinion was “Integration” wasn’t all it was made up to be. We might have gained in some areas, but lost in many others.
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Someone should post..The Nation of Islam community..In Newark during the 1960s and 70s
This is 2021 bordering on 2022. I live here. Things are somewhat better 40 years later but they are far from perfect. A major part of the problems are gentrification and extreme tribalism. The arts community, where I currently work is working to protect it's old image of old men or color trying to keep young people of color from doing new things. Old stakeholders like Prudential, Rutgers, City Hall (to a lesser degree) and the Arts council are opposing change (wrongly) and mitigating gentrification (a good thing. Mitigating, not preventing..No-one can stand in front of a freight train). Some of the old school/tribal crews are protecting their tribe at the risk of suffocating them and the change that they could represent
I love the sistas of Newark .NJ then & now stand up
Civil Right Bill being passed caused this whole debacle...Now ask me HOW!!??