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The neighborhood in the very first part of this video is where I grew up. It’s called Baptist Town. It’s also where Morgan Freemon once stayed when he was going to and graduated high school in Greenwood, Mississippi. The city is a shell of its former self. It was a vibrant town until all of the manufacturing jobs that were there went to Mexico and China in the early to mid 90s.
I want you people to know that am 72 years old and I don't remember the 60's being anything like it is today, I was raised and born in Alabama on the gulf coast and traveled though Alabama and Mississippi and never seen the things am seeing today. We lived well and we were happy we had everything and lost it all after 1964 because we wanted to be with the white folks, big mistake on our part and we're paying for it today
I was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and drifted between Greenwood and Chicago most of my life. Greenwood is what it is, just as Chicago is what it is now. We make our environments by what we allow and accept. We as a people all can do better.
This is my hometown. Seeing this brought tears to my eyes. Used to be such a beautiful vibrant town before the crack epidemic of the 80's destroyed so many people and families and all the factories left. Now its just a poor spirit less place that needs the grace of God to fix it! 😢
Im from Toledo Ohio and this is my mother and grandmother home Town they moved north during the great migration in the 1950s im a bit of a historian and i always wanted to go visit their hometown both of them has passed but i just want to visit and feel their spirit of where they came from
@@EJ-zs8ll No it don't, they're probably paying rent to some old P-wood that only collect the rent and won't fix anything. But if you're Black, which I highly doubt you are, your comment show anyone that read this, your level of ignorance
That place itself would motivate me to have a better life. While my hometown is not to that degree, the mentality is. It's a place stuck in time. I went into the military after high school and that was it. Now a college graduate, professional job, in another state, and a better life. Thank you, Jesus
@@theartistcherrypi6454 now think about that, "made it out" people shouldn't have to make it out, sound like they lived in a disaster zone here in the good old USA, like a lot of small cities and towns across the U.S. they usually have one to three large employers in/near them with support business around and those areas do fine, then things start getting shut down, some people relocate and others believe the rumors of some other company coming it to reopen that business that close that will breath life back into that area, which never happens, which leaves a older population retirees and some hopeful and hopeless young people, and AI is right around the corner about to flip everything on it's head. (and let not forget about the drug waves that hit the country with devastation about every 10 years) So get out and go where? because what a nice area today, could become something different five years from now or what look like an so-called disaster zone today, can/will become the hottest place to live (Gentrification) when you see a Starbucks or a few cafes open up there's a change coming, you might see an art galleries or brewery pop up too, in a warehouse that been empty for years, but don't worry about the neighborhood changing, because you won't be able to afford the high rent and will have to move. What's funny in the city where I live, in the so-called hood (Black areas) the rent is usually lower than other areas, but now with the rent on the rise in those others area, white people are now moving into the so called hood, but here's the problem with that, they're causing the rent in the so called hood, that they complained about for years to go up fast, displacing the people that live there for years, and I heard that it's happening in a few areas on the east coast
These towns are the direct creation of the white supremacists gentrification, I don't know who you are but black people are always in the path of destruction by them folks, so how can you say that you are glad to be out of those conditions, there's no escaping blackness I this country, wherever you In this wicked country, you will be dealing with white supremacy.
It's refreshing to see neighborly country towns where most homes have a front porch and neighbors actually have relationships and get together. Kids run around and get together to play without formal parent-arranged play appointments.
GROWN MEN STANDING AROUND IN THE MORNING MIDDAY OR EVENING OUGHT TOO BE WORKING. THE COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK DEFINITELY AIN'T NETWORKING REMOVAL OF GARBAGE AND DEBRIS OUT OF THE IMMEDIATE LIVING AREA'S, HOUSES AND ABANDONED HOMES DECREASED EVERY VALUE OF THE AREA'S ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. DAMIT GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI WHERE'S YA'LL PRIDE IN WHERE Y'ALL RESIDENTS RESIDE IT'S DEFINITELY UNDIGNIFIED AND SO ARE THE GREENWOOD PEOPLE. PLEASE UPDATE AND UPLIFT Y'ALLS NEIGHBORHOOD 🤔
There is this chick I work with always bragging about Mississippi, this and Mississippi that talking down on us but you’re up here on the West Coast living in the dream smh 🤦🏿 I should’ve sent her this video to remind her. How far have you come so be grateful
Towns that look like this are very common here in the south. The one thing I am noting thats particularly special about this town is all the trash on the ground though. Might do them some good to clean up once or twice. I know its hard to pay attention to that kinda stuff when youre broke as fuck though.
Dawggggg you are not lying. That’s my wife’s grandmother hometown. It’s like they’re stuck & can’t leave like the twilight zone. Her cousin took us to see the emmitt till memorial & on the way there he showed us some old slave quarters that was their juke joint. I couldn’t believe tht shi.
He didn’t make “your city” look like anything but the reality of what it is. If you don’t like it, “you” and the people of “your city” should bring awareness and do something about it.
Change what we don’t have enough jobs nothing in the city fast foods ! That’s all you gone see nothing for kids to do nothing! If we had enough resources we the poorest state for a reason ! They want us to stay poor ! Sip made
😂😂😂I’m from Mississippi as well and it’s another TH-camr that does this type of reaction/filming and I recall one time I was so pissed… I went on a livestream and talked sh** an hour or so. It’s like only the rough areas are shown like Jackson MS, etc. It’s all for clicks and views
O lugar em si é bonito, o que falta é o cuidado que as pessoas deveriam ter com suas casas e com as ruas . Não existe necessidade de ter lixo espalhado pelas calçadas se existem recipientes para isso. Vejo muitas árvores e ruas largas. As pessoas deveriam saber valorizar onde moram.
How can you keep up a home with no jobs and resources. We find the same dilapidated homes when you visit white areas with no employment opportunities. Street cleaning is the cities responsibility. This is why Americans pay taxes. The abandoned homes should be knocked down, and the land should be taken care of by the government. These problems aren't the residents' fault. F your uneducated comment.
I’ve been all over the world Spain, London, France, Germany, Portugal, Monte Carlo, Canada, Mexico, Australia but I’ve NEVER seen such poverty like this in my own country
These Towns may be dated and old but these people in some form seem pretty happy. Fresh nature no hustle and bustle everyone knows everyone. If i was able i would just go around and buy these small towns rehab them restructure their downtown areas one by one and bring each town back to life. ❤blessings everyone.
I did. Moved away then came back. All of my town is not like this. Most of it is rather nice now. But sometimes I miss the simple times. Now it's all about money and gettn over.
A lot of nice people still reside in such communities. Why would you assume that nice people do not live there? It is the same in predominantly White small towns across America.
@reyandy4851 I think that you misinterpreted my comment. I was born and raised accross the bridge from this place in a rural area that was actually poorer, so my comment was actually a pat on the back to myself.
I rather live in Greenwood than a big city. I live in Canton which is a hour from Greenwood and I was born here. Don’t want to live anywhere else on the planet regardless of what other people think.
I love Mississippi it's a lot of rich history here that folks don't know bout. I'm from Marks Mississippi 1 hrs away from Greenwood been there many times.
Hi I’m from Mississippi… moved back here from Texas and it’s been depression on a daily 😂seriously there’s so much that I could say but it’s not that it’s not a good state… it just has terrible leadership and we’re light years behind most other states
I lived in LA back in the late 80s early 90s. Lived in Oakland also. Now I'm next door to Mississippi in Alabama. No offense but if I had to choose. I'll take Mississippi.
@@bobbyanderson8647 its a free country and we all have a right to say where you would prefer to live. I'm sorry but I'll take southern Cal over Mississippi.
Most so cal people would. I got family that moved back to Alabama and I got family that never will they love so cal. Nuttn wrong wit dat. Yall b blessed out there ok. Visit some time. ❤❤
I was in Miss in the late 80's. Look like that still had not recovered from slavery days. This is what happens when people leave in droves to get out of a bad situation
Living in the south ain't bad as you think all the neighbors knows everyone they look out for each other and they care about each other I'm originally from the Midwest and you don't even know your neighbors in most cases and anyway greenwood looks like Beverly hills compared to Baltimore and Philly
Them lies you mean they messy and gossiping about each other! Killing each other! Selling drugs in their own neighborhood! And refusing to work or get a education and get out of the hood!😆
I dislike these videos when they don’t provide a historical backstory. Let’s not forget that farming and picking cotton were the main sources of “employment” in this area. Too often these videos peddle stereotypes of black people and exploit the pure poverty in which they have been forced to survive. It would have been more effective to ask people in the neighborhood about the violent racism, about how black people were cut out of the catfish farm ownership, how family farms were stolen, etc. Everything just shown on the surface has a painful backstory behind it.
Pause the video at the 88 second mark. if you needed to paint your house would you hire the painter that painted that mansion of a shed? Wonder if that town is has building code's and building inspectors? I don't think sheds have indoor plumbing?
That's my hometown I forever rep Gwood 662 I moved up north a while ago but my family still down there. I was raised and lived in, Snowden Jones, Long Acres, the Quarters, and Glendale! But damn my city is a ghost town I plan on building it back up though that's my long term goal bring a movie theater back down there, a mall, and all.
and could you add a skating for the young folk 🥰with SO OOO many negative comments -it WARMs my Spirit to hear someone dreams as I do - of Renovating the south - we gotta get back down there to do JUST that!!!
I remember seeing this one video on here back in 2012 about Mississippi,and I swear me and my bro thought it was made in the 50s ( who ever filmed had crappy video quality).They had blacks working on a cotton field plantation with their white cousins,who were in charged. What’s even more messed up was some would sleep in a shack on the property,while others in the house. And I’m talking family generations since slavery time still picking cotton….Now, it’s all good and dandy their white relatives acknowledge them as cousins…but it was in the late 80s when the video was made!
As someone who has traveled thtoughout the world: Europe, Guam, Sicily, etc. I would tell you that there are blighted areas everywhere. Why ?Because people are the same everywhere. People make the environments they find themselves occupying.
There are 49 more states in this country. Take everything worth taking get in the car hit the highway and stop in every state until you find one you like because this ain't it. Just Go!! Damm
This has to be due economic disparity. Shameful how we can help other countries and do help ourselves. And I know this is not the only place. But this is ridiculous.
It needs people to care more about their community, which they do NOT. This is all easily fixable but the mindset there is fixed on poverty. Damn shame!
I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s an intentional fixation on poverty. However, being from Mississippi I will say this… there are some who have never witnessed anything from a different perspective or view. Sometimes one has to gain enlightenment from a bird ‘s eye view. I don’t think it’s fair to judge from the outside. Mississippians are very talented people, resourceful and hospitable for the most part.
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Who did this video a white or black man ?
U live in America right
@@JeremyWard-z9ook. Enough said
The neighborhood in the very first part of this video is where I grew up. It’s called Baptist Town. It’s also where Morgan Freemon once stayed when he was going to and graduated high school in Greenwood, Mississippi. The city is a shell of its former self. It was a vibrant town until all of the manufacturing jobs that were there went to Mexico and China in the early to mid 90s.
The loss of manufacturing destroyed many black middle class communities.. happened to a similar city where I grew up
Are these types of towns dangerous?
@MrCguy24 Yes the gun violence here is bad! This place has a very bad spirit over it. Used to be so nice right up until the 80's.
I had a homeboy from McLaren
I remember when most of the streets were gravel and I rode horse back then
I want you people to know that am 72 years old and I don't remember the 60's being anything like it is today, I was raised and born in Alabama on the gulf coast and traveled though Alabama and Mississippi and never seen the things am seeing today. We lived well and we were happy we had everything and lost it all after 1964 because we wanted to be with the white folks, big mistake on our part and we're paying for it today
Exactly
with that mentality who wants you around??
This is the mentality that keeps you folks in the mud, let’s blame everybody except our actions
What did white folks do to you?
@@ufc_fan we need more of that mentality... You can stay with the folks. To each their own.
So many different worlds in the US. It's bizarre to think
I was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and drifted between Greenwood and Chicago most of my life. Greenwood is what it is, just as Chicago is what it is now. We make our environments by what we allow and accept. We as a people all can do better.
This is my hometown. Seeing this brought tears to my eyes. Used to be such a beautiful vibrant town before the crack epidemic of the 80's destroyed so many people and families and all the factories left. Now its just a poor spirit less place that needs the grace of God to fix it! 😢
I’m from Sharkey county and it’s the same way…..Sad
Lmao y'all never stood a chance pre crack anyway, that country ass shit 😂😂😂
@@toodieceaser😮
It will 😮plp)lll😊ll
I know what you talking bout my pops was from pickens
Sad 😢
Im from Toledo Ohio and this is my mother and grandmother home Town they moved north during the great migration in the 1950s im a bit of a historian and i always wanted to go visit their hometown both of them has passed but i just want to visit and feel their spirit of where they came from
Made me want some Gino's pizza
The cars are worth more than the houses and probably are maintained the same.
WoW so they can't have cars?
😂 so true that shows the ignorant of our black people!
Cars cost more than the houses but I’m sure the cars are in poor condition smh 🤦🏿♂️ we need to better
@@EJ-zs8ll No it don't, they're probably paying rent to some old P-wood that only collect the rent and won't fix anything.
But if you're Black, which I highly doubt you are, your comment show anyone that read this, your level of ignorance
Mark Cuban is building his next mansion here!! Sheeeeit
That place itself would motivate me to have a better life.
While my hometown is not to that degree, the mentality is. It's a place stuck in time. I went into the military after high school and that was it.
Now a college graduate, professional job, in another state, and a better life. Thank you, Jesus
Yeah right just get and run right
look at that place on goggle maps, just move a few blocks to the other side of town😏
Glad you made it out!
@@theartistcherrypi6454 now think about that, "made it out" people shouldn't have to make it out, sound like they lived in a disaster zone here in the good old USA, like a lot of small cities and towns across the U.S. they usually have one to three large employers in/near them with support business around and those areas do fine, then things start getting shut down, some people relocate and others believe the rumors of some other company coming it to reopen that business that close that will breath life back into that area, which never happens, which leaves a older population retirees and some hopeful and hopeless young people, and AI is right around the corner about to flip everything on it's head.
(and let not forget about the drug waves that hit the country with devastation about every 10 years)
So get out and go where? because what a nice area today, could become something different five years from now or what look like an so-called disaster zone today, can/will become the hottest place to live (Gentrification) when you see a Starbucks or a few cafes open up there's a change coming, you might see an art galleries or brewery pop up too, in a warehouse that been empty for years, but don't worry about the neighborhood changing, because you won't be able to afford the high rent and will have to move.
What's funny in the city where I live, in the so-called hood (Black areas) the rent is usually lower than other areas, but now with the rent on the rise in those others area, white people are now moving into the so called hood, but here's the problem with that, they're causing the rent in the so called hood, that they complained about for years to go up fast, displacing the people that live there for years, and I heard that it's happening in a few areas on the east coast
@@plutoslikk1404 If you don't run, you stay where you are...that is the problem
The more i watch these kinds of videos, the more grateful i am that Im not in them.
Good bye!
@@zacharywallace2243 I never left
@@zacharywallace2243wannabe
ok?@@zacharywallace2243
These towns are the direct creation of the white supremacists gentrification, I don't know who you are but black people are always in the path of destruction by them folks, so how can you say that you are glad to be out of those conditions, there's no escaping blackness I this country, wherever you In this wicked country, you will be dealing with white supremacy.
It's refreshing to see neighborly country towns where most homes have a front porch and neighbors actually have relationships and get together. Kids run around and get together to play without formal parent-arranged play appointments.
It looks like shit there
GROWN MEN STANDING AROUND IN THE MORNING MIDDAY OR EVENING OUGHT TOO BE WORKING. THE COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK DEFINITELY AIN'T NETWORKING REMOVAL OF GARBAGE AND DEBRIS OUT OF THE IMMEDIATE LIVING AREA'S, HOUSES AND ABANDONED HOMES DECREASED EVERY VALUE OF THE AREA'S ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. DAMIT GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI WHERE'S YA'LL PRIDE IN WHERE Y'ALL RESIDENTS RESIDE IT'S DEFINITELY UNDIGNIFIED AND SO ARE THE GREENWOOD PEOPLE. PLEASE UPDATE AND UPLIFT Y'ALLS NEIGHBORHOOD 🤔
That was kind of funny in a nerdy way.😂
❤silver linings✨
You should drop your kids off to play one day. "Have fun Arthur Jr, here's some money for Newports and liquor"
When you from the hood somebody feel comfortable but improvement is a must in life
My grandfather was killed here in 1957! My family still lives here!! I will be visiting in a few weeks
Hope you made it back
You should be absolutely ashamed you’d let anyone you love live there
How ironic. They don’t seem to have any school buildings
@@ls400s
How much can we put you down for ?
@@ls400sIT'S NONE OF YO BIZZ NESS! WE'RE STILL SMARTER THAN YOU PEOPLE 😅
Our people live poorly because we don't even try to help us win more of us needs to come together financially to be successful
Money ain't the problem
There is this chick I work with always bragging about Mississippi, this and Mississippi that talking down on us but you’re up here on the West Coast living in the dream smh 🤦🏿 I should’ve sent her this video to remind her. How far have you come so be grateful
It's other parts of Mississippi that looks nothing like this..I live in California but I'm from Mississippi ❤
@@mzparidise3000 Mississippi is top 5 poorest states in America that’s a fact
@@BigBrothaAlmighty OH that's not question sir that's FACTS..But again it's places in Mississippi that looks nothing like that!!!
There are so many different parts of Mississippi. This is only a fraction. I grew up in Mississippi and my area did not look like this.
@@fredac8881 Same here,When I lived in Mississippi it didn't look like this at all ...Still don't to this day lol
I remember when he had like 30k subs. Glad to see he’s still at it. He’s had some great interviews
Towns that look like this are very common here in the south. The one thing I am noting thats particularly special about this town is all the trash on the ground though. Might do them some good to clean up once or twice. I know its hard to pay attention to that kinda stuff when youre broke as fuck though.
Being Clean don't cost $$$$$$ just some ambition and pride !
@@bextar6365Totally agree!
Dawggggg you are not lying. That’s my wife’s grandmother hometown. It’s like they’re stuck & can’t leave like the twilight zone. Her cousin took us to see the emmitt till memorial & on the way there he showed us some old slave quarters that was their juke joint. I couldn’t believe tht shi.
Dis dat sit on your porch with a rocking chair, with a shotgun type town
Buildings from sixties The rest is just a lazy mess , no pride
I blame the landlord and the city
Never want to visit. I stay in virginia
The buildings are all pre WW2 y’all are idiots
If you went to the north side of the river, it looks like a regular suburb...thanks for making my city look like crap on the internet!!!
He didn’t make “your city” look like anything but the reality of what it is. If you don’t like it, “you” and the people of “your city” should bring awareness and do something about it.
@jazziesgroove lmao! every city has lower income areas...but it seems that is all that was shown here...thanks for your input though!
@@kevinlee7669
That's pretty much the entire point of the channel
Some parts of the country is 3rd world. And we're worrying about people across the ocean. That's pathetic. 😢
Lol nope it's not you haven't seen the real third world I've been to parts of Africa this is no comparison our poor and their poor is night and day
This still looks 100 times better than say Kensington Philadelphia or New Orleans.
Amen brother there happy with what they have you can’t force people to change . Degrading people that don’t know you is terrible.
Change what we don’t have enough jobs nothing in the city fast foods ! That’s all you gone see nothing for kids to do nothing! If we had enough resources we the poorest state for a reason ! They want us to stay poor ! Sip made
Simply beautiful- the south has so much culture and history and amazing food 😋
Beautiful?
@@MrCandlewax yeah I find hoods very attractive and beautiful but y’all don’t have to agree with me ✌️
@@josevenancio5008man that shit is terrible lol
I’m from there and go back all the time. Now tell him to do a part 3 and show the good part
😂😂😂I’m from Mississippi as well and it’s another TH-camr that does this type of reaction/filming and I recall one time I was so pissed… I went on a livestream and talked sh** an hour or so.
It’s like only the rough areas are shown like Jackson MS, etc. It’s all for clicks and views
Some people just content where they are which is sad for their kids. Gotta want better to do better.
Except when one of them tries to do better the community shames them and accuses them of "being white".
I went through greenwood Ms. Once, and that was enough for me!
O lugar em si é bonito, o que falta é o cuidado que as pessoas deveriam ter com suas casas e com as ruas . Não existe necessidade de ter lixo espalhado pelas calçadas se existem recipientes para isso. Vejo muitas árvores e ruas largas. As pessoas deveriam saber valorizar onde moram.
Infelizmente essas pessoas estão presas dentro de uma "mentalidade de gueto"
How can you keep up a home with no jobs and resources. We find the same dilapidated homes when you visit white areas with no employment opportunities. Street cleaning is the cities responsibility. This is why Americans pay taxes. The abandoned homes should be knocked down, and the land should be taken care of by the government. These problems aren't the residents' fault. F your uneducated comment.
In these streets where this was filmed, I've watched people just throw their trash out of the car on the street...this side is very low income...
@@kevinlee7669 o problema é a falta de consciência das pessoas. O lugar é muito bonito!
Trapped inside a ghetto mentality? Even prison mentality has a clean block/cell.
Dam!, however every other small town in every State in America is only one paychek away from experiencing the same.
Thanks! Go to Gulfport,ms and 2 a hood called Turnkey.
The 60's is far better than today. I understand why they might want to turn back time
@Charlie thank you for doing this and bringing awareness to the conditions of these towns
There are deep and painful histories to these towns that need to be told. Awareness is not an appropriate word…
Mississippi have some of the best cooks in the world
Not really
The energy in Mississippi is crazy I couldn’t do it it’s like a old movie
It's slow moving as fuck ain't no motion.
Amazon delivery is sorely needed in every little corner of America! And a WaWa and buckeees too!!!!
I’ve been all over the world Spain, London, France, Germany, Portugal, Monte Carlo, Canada, Mexico, Australia but I’ve NEVER seen such poverty like this in my own country
Because they lazy and don't want to work or get a education!
You need to travel more within the US. Follow the Appalachian Trail. 😢
I lived there in 1981 and the town still looks the same except it it worser now in 2023...
How are they stuck in the 60’s again?
the infastructure the homes?
Still voting Democrat.
@techwatch1228 you do know that black people use to vote Republican in the 60’s right? They didn’t start voting Democrat until the 70’s
These Towns may be dated and old but these people in some form seem pretty happy. Fresh nature no hustle and bustle everyone knows everyone. If i was able i would just go around and buy these small towns rehab them restructure their downtown areas one by one and bring each town back to life. ❤blessings everyone.
That is a noble ideal.
Morgan Freeman is from Greenwood!
Imagine growing up in an area like this, but still turning out to be a nice person 😊
What 😒
Wtf!?
I did. Moved away then came back. All of my town is not like this. Most of it is rather nice now. But sometimes I miss the simple times. Now it's all about money and gettn over.
A lot of nice people still reside in such communities. Why would you assume that nice people do not live there? It is the same in predominantly White small towns across America.
@reyandy4851 I think that you misinterpreted my comment. I was born and raised accross the bridge from this place in a rural area that was actually poorer, so my comment was actually a pat on the back to myself.
I just hated being broke in a small town. It was a smothering depression
May God see them through 😢🇳🇬
Lord I'm grateful for my spot bless those who isn't as fortunate
I'm surprised you ain't go to Drew, MS... It's the same way there too...
The neighborhood does look dated , but it also looks like something could pop off quick !!
Im pretty sure a lot of the southern states have neighborhoods or areas that look like this. Texas have a lot of places that still look like this.
I grew up in greenville. Use to go to greenwood allllll the time. Memories
My grandmother is from Greenwood, Mississippi by way of a small town called "Itta Bena" and the neighborhood looks exactly like these.
I rather live in Greenwood than a big city. I live in Canton which is a hour from Greenwood and I was born here. Don’t want to live anywhere else on the planet regardless of what other people think.
I went to visit here with my Ex, it was mind blowing, it was around 2011, coming from Houston, I felt like it was 1980
This place is like the Holy Land. to those folks, like me, who are interested in early Blues Music
I grew up in the neighborhood in first part of this video. It’s also the same neighborhood that the Blues legend Robert Johnson died in.
I love Mississippi it's a lot of rich history here that folks don't know bout. I'm from Marks Mississippi 1 hrs away from Greenwood been there many times.
Hi I’m from Mississippi… moved back here from Texas and it’s been depression on a daily 😂seriously there’s so much that I could say but it’s not that it’s not a good state… it just has terrible leadership and we’re light years behind most other states
Somethings will never change some people will never change
I grew up in Mississippi got love for Mississippi but I really got to get tf up out of Mississippi
Being born and raised in Los Angeles Ca. this is mind blowing.🤯🤯🤯🤯
I said the the same thing went I went to Los Angeles and I’m from South Carolina but live in San Diego
I lived in LA back in the late 80s early 90s. Lived in Oakland also. Now I'm next door to Mississippi in Alabama. No offense but if I had to choose. I'll take Mississippi.
@@bobbyanderson8647 its a free country and we all have a right to say where you would prefer to live. I'm sorry but I'll take southern Cal over Mississippi.
Most so cal people would. I got family that moved back to Alabama and I got family that never will they love so cal. Nuttn wrong wit dat. Yall b blessed out there ok. Visit some time. ❤❤
I was in Miss in the late 80's. Look like that still had not recovered from slavery days. This is what happens when people leave in droves to get out of a bad situation
First and only time I seen real cotton fields!! Driving past them gives you an erry feeling
Have you considered doing a this part of town vs. that part of town just to show the division in these cities. Thanks for what you do.
I can assure you all those boarded up properties don’t belong to people in the neighborhoods or people that look like them. Facts!☝🏽🥸
My brother usta visit Greenville...he said he always had a nice time n the people were cool
This is absolutely awful and anyone still raising children in these types of conditions should ashamed.
If theres love joy and piece nothing else matters..
Living in the south ain't bad as you think all the neighbors knows everyone they look out for each other and they care about each other I'm originally from the Midwest and you don't even know your neighbors in most cases and anyway greenwood looks like Beverly hills compared to Baltimore and Philly
Them lies you mean they messy and gossiping about each other! Killing each other! Selling drugs in their own neighborhood! And refusing to work or get a education and get out of the hood!😆
@@EJ-zs8ll where you talking bout greenwood
You can think they dont stick together if you want to,they'll be pulling the whole town off yo ass in the country
You know Philly and Baltimore are big cities. they only show yall parts they want you to see?
@@ultimatevixn I feel you but the heart of both cities is the bad parts. The stuff you mainly thinking of is suburban
Looks like a section of town from "The Heat of the night" TV show.
Them little Towns are the best 👌 👍
Better know it!!!!
It almost looks like Africa. But in America.
What could possibly be the commonality?
I dislike these videos when they don’t provide a historical backstory. Let’s not forget that farming and picking cotton were the main sources of “employment” in this area. Too often these videos peddle stereotypes of black people and exploit the pure poverty in which they have been forced to survive. It would have been more effective to ask people in the neighborhood about the violent racism, about how black people were cut out of the catfish farm ownership, how family farms were stolen, etc. Everything just shown on the surface has a painful backstory behind it.
This is my mom's home town grew up visiting and go time to time now.
Mississippi ❤
My granddaughter and her mom, live in Greenwood 😊
Pause the video at the 88 second mark. if you needed to paint your house would you hire the painter that painted that mansion of a shed? Wonder if that town is has building code's and building inspectors? I don't think sheds have indoor plumbing?
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That’s some real Caribbean style poverty
Gosto muito de seus vídeos Charlie! Você é top! Abraços do Brasil.
I use to think that having a roof over your head was a good thing but after seeing this place I've changed my mind!!
…but the city put speed bumps in the road…that’s crazy
I’m from Florida but I love Mississippi the people are beautiful there stay in the 60’s if you can
That's my hometown I forever rep Gwood 662 I moved up north a while ago but my family still down there. I was raised and lived in, Snowden Jones, Long Acres, the Quarters, and Glendale! But damn my city is a ghost town I plan on building it back up though that's my long term goal bring a movie theater back down there, a mall, and all.
and could you add a skating for the young folk 🥰with SO OOO many negative comments -it WARMs my Spirit to hear someone dreams as I do - of Renovating the south - we gotta get back down there to do JUST that!!!
Thanks for showing us what politicians are doing with our money's...but yet we're still voting...smh
Don't get to high horsed, many of these towns and counties these folks are were economically targeted and deprived ever since Jim Crow..
I remember seeing this one video on here back in 2012 about Mississippi,and I swear me and my bro thought it was made in the 50s ( who ever filmed had crappy video quality).They had blacks working on a cotton field plantation with their white cousins,who were in charged. What’s even more messed up was some would sleep in a shack on the property,while others in the house. And I’m talking family generations since slavery time still picking cotton….Now, it’s all good and dandy their white relatives acknowledge them as cousins…but it was in the late 80s when the video was made!
At least it looks peaceful.
If it's not crime-ridden and the people are good neighbors then they are good.
The “ STOP “ sign is upgraded more than the neighborhood , facts !
Was this filmed in Africa?
The people need to clean their neighborhood its like a landfill kids in that environment can't enjoy growing up like that
This mf said stuck in the 60s 😂😂😂 judgemental ASF and quick to put others down
“Stuck in the 60’s”. Like who wants to be stuck in the 2020’s. Huh???? Anyway. Love Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana.
Dunn, NC exit 72-73 youll see some old country just like this
I went to a Church in Dunn NC It looked good about 7 or 8 years ago 🤔🤔✌️✌️💯💯
The governor of Mississippi needs to be jailed.
As someone who has traveled thtoughout the world: Europe, Guam, Sicily, etc. I would tell you that there are blighted areas everywhere. Why ?Because people are the same everywhere. People make the environments they find themselves occupying.
There are 49 more states in this country. Take everything worth taking get in the car hit the highway and stop in every state until you find one you like because this ain't it. Just Go!! Damm
No rusty cars is a positive!
No repo man creeping either good sign
It’s Jumping when they have I’m So Greenwood. I’m from Texas and have been there a few times.
Shotgun homes - Row houses - Bungalows - Huts - Cottages ....Etc😜🤪😝💩💩💩
Yes sir!
This has to be due economic disparity. Shameful how we can help other countries and do help ourselves. And I know this is not the only place. But this is ridiculous.
It needs people to care more about their community, which they do NOT. This is all easily fixable but the mindset there is fixed on poverty. Damn shame!
I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s an intentional fixation on poverty. However, being from Mississippi I will say this… there are some who have never witnessed anything from a different perspective or view. Sometimes one has to gain enlightenment from a bird ‘s eye view. I don’t think it’s fair to judge from the outside. Mississippians are very talented people, resourceful and hospitable for the most part.
LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME.
At least people are actually outside tho.
Most of Mississippi cities look like this! West Point, Ms is where my family originated from to Los Angeles
Mississippi and the United States should be ashamed of themselves. This just should not be.