Well what a time we had, This is Tom Slick from Cabrini Green ,From back in the day, AKA Lamonte' Johnson living in London Now. If you were growing up in CG 911 Club , St Josep stepper's party and The Jesse White team, God bless us all this world can be very heart less and misguiding, I had my Mother Emily Moon Johnson Artist& Poet and Jesse White to help me go forward with my Dreams to becoming a fashion designer and teaching young youth's in Paris and London my skills , I learn as a youth. To Paris from the projects in Chicago ill. It's not over even with all the bad issue in the world. Look out for Chicago Gypsy Ltd London this year, A real Artist who gives back to my community No matter where I live. from the hood and my Westside roots Love also. Peace out Chicago Ill
Glad to hear you are doing well. My mom past this year and when I see videos like this I think her because she was around the age of the first women in the video. God bless.
So elated to see that you and others have benefited from social programs like Jesse White. may that brother and his descendants be forever blessed for the good & noble deeds he has done!
In 83 my mom was here with a little me. Growing up in this, you didn’t realize how inhumane it was until you left. Some people were there until the mid 2000s so I always went back. Grateful to say I survived the greens!
Lived at 502 west Oak in Cabrini Greens red walls..There were good times but mostly bad...drugs..gangs...poverty and miseducation...and watching people I know and love be destroyed by the crack and coke epidemics...I'll never forget 502...it's forced me to be the best woman I can possibly be...when things get hard I look back and I'm truly humbled by the inhumane conditions through which I've survived...to my Cabrini/ Town and garden/ row house/orange door people...I'm sending love and light ❤❤
I learned about Cabrini Green from watching Candyman many years ago. I am glad this footage still exists to speak to history that might have remained hidden from those who were not local.
It was horrifying living in housing projects across the nation. I stayed in a very dangerous housing project in Atlanta back then. I didn’t realize it was inhumane until we moved to the suburbs
And what do we learn for the movie? That Annie shouldn’t be going to no damn hood to help these people she got sucker punched in the face in the restroom and got framed for the dog and taking the child 👀✊🏿👩🏼🦳
Skinny dude with the red hat was speaking with an accent closer to the hood chicago accent you hear today. Probably because he was young. The older people spoke with a more classic american accent like how they used to speak in those old films from the 60's and 50's. Its interesting to see both the developments and decaying of speech here
Im from Brooklyn NYC. '92. I was raised by old school southern men and woman. If they all were alive they'll be bout hundred now. Hearing these ladies fear reminds me of how scared my mom was for me. She raised me to be a good man. I was picked on alot growing up in the projects in NYC. I assume because she raised me with Southern morals I just seemed different to kids. Looking back i understand. She just wanted me to be strong live and grow peacefully. I know what its like cold water, project roaches everywhere no matter how much she cleaned. Taking me snd picking me up from school to insure my safety...i relate to chicago. I feel the people pf Chicago in spirit for some reason. God bless the good folk and Good lord heal the bad. Amen
🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever
Everybody was scared, we stayed out Cabrini, we knew better. I wish there was a documentary about what happened to these young men and how their lives panned out. I fear a lot of them lost their lives in Cabrini Green.
@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona Because there were nothing but very violent gangs. If you went through, you were sure to get shot, robbed, or at the least beat down. It was a very poor, angry, and overlooked neighborhood where many residents also suffered.
Ha... went to high school with Derrick (Near North Career Magnet H.S.). Back in 1979 NNCM H. S. newly opened, with all the kids from the famous Cooley High transferring over. I transferred in from out of district 1979 left in 1981. Some of the guys look familiar, can't place a name, over 40 yrs ago.... Love the brother in yellow... DJ for the Loop(WLUP)... yeah buddy. Peace Love and Soul!!
My aunt stayed in the Chicago projects. I actually had fun visiting her..other than the smell of piss and wild people. It was different to take the paper food stamps to the store. I thought it was monopoly money. It was very interesting coming from the suburbs in Atlanta to the war zone in Chicago
Did you ever venture out to the positivity in Chicago. Those areas are not what Chicago is I reside in upscale Chicago and trust and believe crime her is very, very limited. No gun shots or junkies everywhere. The city has libraries, museums, restaurants, high end restaurants&stores, etc. it’s a shame that the ghettos which is a small area in Chicago get the most publicity. This is a great place not just the hood, 🙄. Where I live is 90 percent upper class or wealthy ppl, we enjoy our lives, community, etc.
Love seeing old videos of major cities!!! Classic Housing I watched growing up!!! Kids have a slight chance of doing good coming from this!!! Not using excuses but most of it the truth. Makes you grow up fast and wish no one ever had to go thru this.
My dad stayed in Chicago for about a year in a half and it was about this year like this video was in 1983 and 1984 my dad went in Cabrini green in 83 when he was 16 and 17 years old and he was visiting a friend and he told me he saw some gang members shooting dice on the project staircase step and bumping music and they all surrounded him they told him what colors you rockin and he said I don’t gang bang man and my dads friend who lived in Cabrini green came down just in time and told the gang bangers he was with him and he was his friend
This was a great documentary. It was refreshing to hear the young men talking about what they want to do over the next five years. Even in a bad situation, most of them had realistic goals. The one that got me was the young man who said he just hopes to still be living. Hope they were able to achieve the goals. Crazy how things have not changed in those areas. It's like that all over the country. It's shows that if you give people jobs, resources, quality education, etc. it will make a huge difference in the community. But it's not on the government's agenda to make things better for those areas.
All that government assistance and housing assistance black mayors black Secretary of State black president and still blame white and still can’t get it right 🤦🏽♂️
This warmed my heart and idk why….my mom lived in the projects for some time but I would visit her on the weekends and I always stayed in fights too all by myself…..I fought my way back all the way to her apartment once while a whole groups of kids and teenagers followed…..they stood outside until my mother got back home smfh DAMN was I there alone 🤔
The one lady said CONCENTRATION CAMP 🚨 They put us in a cement COMPOUND, put drugs and guns in our neighborhoods and let them DESTROY EACH OTHER. What a #PROJECT😢
I guess the government should build mansions for everyone who needs a place to stay and let them stay there for free? Also, the main issues with the projects seem to come from the people there/community. There's nothing the government can do about that. Look a modern day st Louis, New Orleans, they have the same issues.
A lot of people dont know , that the (EVANS FAMILY) from the TV Show - (GOOD TIMES) was depicted living in an APARTMENT inside the (CABRINI GREEN HOUSING PROJECTS) back in the 1970's CHICAGO.
That's true, the government started promoting single motherhood especially in the 70s & got worse from there, they reward single mothers with more benefits than a married woman would receive, black community never had this problem in the 40s, 50s, 60s, look at the single mother stats, only risen in every community
If you had an adult male living in the home you would lose your housing. My mom had to hide my uncles that needed a place to stay in the closet or under the bed when them people came for random inspections to make sure no men were living in the home. I actually grew up thinking that was normal. It was social engineering at its most evil. Reason number 5011 why we need reparations now.
@@miskwainini Yes as a young boy I can vividly remember living in the Cabrini Green housing projects during the 1970s in buildings 923 N. Sedwick & 819 on Clevland St. in the rowhouses and the case worker would come twice a month to check in on the living situation of my family. This caseworker was so sneaky and lowdown that on many occasions she would come unannounced and this stinking heifer would do just what you stated prior looking in our closets, bathroom, and under the beds for a male figure. she would even go as far as deducting from my mother's monthly allotment if she found that we had extras like, a television, radio, or a new appliance. Yes, these folks and their Marxist, socialist, programs were definitely used to destroy Black America as we know it...
Its a sad situation I feel bad for kids who have to grow up in these situations. We gotta make smart decisions early dont have kids unless you ready to settle down with someone reliable and caring. We gotta bring discipline to our youth back. When the youth lose all respect for their elders its not a good thing.
@@NotLikeUs17right, there’s no excuse, especially in this day and age. The reason it seems like a never ending cycle is because people refuse to accept accountability.
Watching this hurts. And to understand that 4 decades later, the needle hasn't moved very far is even more heart breaking. So many systems, constructs and ideas have to fail to get here. Just sad. We have long needed our very own Nehemiah...
Yet, they've found 58 million dollars to roll out the red carpet for the ILLEGAL Migrants tent shelters. The South side of Chicago is fighting back. They are giving resources to these people that black folks have been begging after for years! These people don't speak the language, vote, pay taxes, etc...they come here as a complete burden and make it not only the country's problem but more specifically poor black folks, because those are the communities these buses are dumping these people in. Keep in mind these same Hispanics come here telling their kids to stay away from black folks.
I learned a lot about Jesse White watching this. As a Republican, it is rare that I will praise a Democrat politician, but before he became a politician he did more good work for these kids than all of the politicians combined. He genuinely cared. He actually walked the walk, while Jesse Jackson and AL Sharpton have talked the talk and done so mostly for their own sake. The kids don't need promises, they need someone with a plan to help them who is sincere, and that was Jesse White.
@tomgrunhard5400 We should put political differences aside. We're all Americans. We got to work together instead of seeing the other side as "an enemy out to destroy the country". The only group that helps is the actual enemies of the US. Democrat, republican whatever. American. Jesse White wanted to help the people because he was a human being who cared watching other human beings struggle to survive. Not cuz of his political party.
Definitely not a Republican or Democrat debate. If the Federal Government truly cared about equality and taking care of the youth, they’d be pumping enough funding into schools so that education and resources ensured success and opportunity for All American children despite any neighborhood disadvantages. Plenty of kids in this documentary and still today from environments like these want better in life and deserve opportunities.
@@KB8Killa NOT true At ALL! This country could afford to subsidize ALL public schools to be fully financially equipped to compete with private schools in Every community and not be pressed IF*** citizens prioritized Education. It’s been proven there’s more than enough in our tax structure to afford the best in education and healthcare if we wanted? But that money is being poured into other areas as well as waste, greed and corruption. It’s an out and out lie when they try to say there’s not enough money for better education
@@NotLikeUs17it was the government program that caused this. Use that melanated magic to educate your self on the social engineering egregores they instilled on the black american family
@guesswhosgoing2jail2nite78 The welfare system gives more money to the single mothers! That's why the men leave and the fatherless epidemic was engineered!
I'm sorry to hear that bro bro- I lost my mom in 1999 and its hard growing up without parents--we had to stay strong, I've overcome a lot of obstacles in my life--its not easy for BM in this world.
It’s a shame that this country sanctions using Black people for their experiments. Black people continue to support the party that’s doing absolutely nothing for us. Years later and nothing has changed.
When they put them out of that prison chicago crime rate went up tremendously. It’s sad but true. I’m black. Lived down the street. People from the projects were just different.
1983 and 2023 still no difference amongst my brothers. Still out here killing each other and still can’t figure out why they hate each other so much. 😢
Well that the problem not everyone your brother some ppl out here to rape steal and murder all ages that why I don't support BLM because it a paid lie organization
@@MarcKlark as bad as it was back then it nothing compared to Chicago today......One dude used his own daughter as a shield while they was shooting at him for dissing the dead by pissing on graves
Im from NYC and know all about these types of conditions. No one should ever have to live like this! When I was young I just didnt really think about it. Just accepted it as a part of life. Thats just the way it is mind set. If I could go back in time I would have gotten involved somehow. Those people needed a Booker T Washington. Why didnt anyone rise to the challenge?
Of course, because black men/boys think that's the only things that they're good at is dribble a ball or rap a damn lyric, they never say that they want to be a profession (doctor, lawyer, scientist) that meaningful....it's either being a rapper or an athlete--nothing more, nothing less.
Interesting the guy in the red PLAYBOY hat didn’t seem to understand why guys went at him. If he wore that hat that’s probably why. Gotta be aware of stuff like that in a city like Chicago
I live in the projects in Olean NY. Lots of poor uneducated people live here but there is very little crime and the apartments are in very good shape. I couldn't imagine living in big city projects with all the drugs and crime.
I just don’t know why you have to tear up and vandalize things. That’s what always gets on my nerves. We’re poor and so we are here. Let’s try and keep the place together. But the city definitely had a responsibility to do better! Ridiculous!!
I grew up in Cabrini green and what it worth a wasn't that bad ,but look at the area now it's beautiful and I wouldn't have changed anything about how I grew up because it molded who I am now and a lot of success people came out of Cabrini green.
When they leveled Cabrini Green, the area turned into condos. Gentrification completely. And they pushed the people out to a lot of parts of the Chicagoland Area.
Not just Chicagoland area, they moved them to the adjacent states. Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana. The river town I lived in, in Iowa had an influx in the 90's from Cabrini and Robert Taylor Homes. It wasn't just the good folks they displaced, it was the gang bangers too. The criminals have no reason to be walking the streets.
This hurt's my stomach for my people.. My damn we come from some treacherous situations and living conditions. From the minute we "left" the field, we've had so many trials and tribulations, and we're still fighting.. I love Us, forever..
Who was hurting them? Who was tearing up the free complex? Who was causing the complex to be unsafe? The same people that lived there. Blame those people for hurting your people. They are to blame. Keep your stuff nice and safe. Keep it a safe environment.
@@77-ty7gb poverty/lack of resources = crime jackass.. It's much deeper than you're stating, but you don't want to understand lol, so just keep it cool.. They named them "Projects" for a reason.
I grew up in Louisiana,it wasn't that bad my mom never did drugs worked her butt off to take care of us, watching some of these videos i feel sorry for them,its cold no heat the police mess with them gangs gotta worry about getting killed just walking down the street
@@tiffanyblanton476depends on how and where you grew up. It was nothing like that for me growing up in New Orleans. I lived on the Westbank of New Orleans tho. We didn't fuck around in are around the projects.
He knows dam well why He prolly meant*were down to fight but we rather keep community smooth to make our $$" lmfao you already know like other cat said we to close
@@djlukacs before I even looked at his hat I could tell he was just by demeanor and way he carries himself slash talks to the media(forget media pr training my man's laced up stronger then a Mexicans forest gump72 Nike Cortez ya Hur me?) Lol some bout the finballs mane,I saw the bunny I said mane I know my hood nih skills wasn't going off fo no reason lol
Are they going to do an investigative report on Wisconsin rentals for poor people with section 8 in fond du lac Wisconsin thank you we need more videos on section 8 and what really going on with the money that they get and give out for the poor people there's so much that could be done for these people thank you on the truth and talent like it is
the craziest part is they talk like they’re forced to live there. when the reality is you could get a good paying trade job, save your money and get a decent spot
@@williamjohnson9158you’re speaking in hindsight about how people were living 40 years ago. You have no idea the lack of opportunities there was for black people living in the projects in the 1980s. So keep your mouth shut about what you don’t understand.
@@southsidesaiyan8641 ofcourse there’s lack of job opportunities when all the grown men in that area would rather be in the streets then become business owners 🤷♂️ stop complaining it’s not our fault
The real truth. But they still do not want to acknowledge the facts and speak on the history. Learn from the historical mistakes like redlining and discrimination amongst other unnecessary hardships we faced all because of our skin color. The solution is to not hide the history but teach it and learn from the past mistakes. But the green dollar greed makes everybody colorblind, especially yt people.
Wooow…I go back to the 70s 80s….knowing Jesse white…I also went to sojourner truth school on clybourn, swam at the tank and lived in 1230 north Larrabee and 624 west division white projects. Understanding my constitutional rights today I’m watching these videos these cops are breaking all kinds of laws and policies and bullying and infringing on constitutional rights impeding pathways unlawful searches…we have a right to invoke our fourth amendment right of no searches of ourselves properties papers identification if the person wasn’t committing a crime according to the 4th amendment to the constitution….what about the second amendment to bare arms. I hope people who read this will understand and exercise the teachings on TH-cam from auditing videos of your constitutional rights and as a first amendment protected activity and use your cellphone and record any encounter with these jack boot thugs if they try and infringe on your rights but you have to learn the language and when you invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent when their hassling you they need to no if they arrest you unlawfully will be ground for litigation they could loose their job or get sued…I will attach myself to your police retirement plan for the rest of your days with this one incident
The Brotha at 6:36 in this video said it all. We have to change as a people. We have to stop blaming the government and other races of people for our condition and realize they have nothing to do with our condition. God is the one responsible for our condition because we continue to not keep his laws, statutes, amd commandments he gave to our ancestors. They didn't listen either and that's the reason we're even over here in this condition today. He gave us the blueprint in the scriptures of your history, culture , and traditions along with the warnings of what would happen to future generations for our continued disobedience. So the change is we need to wake up to who we are part of the 12 lost tribes of Israel, get back to teaching and keeping his word, and get away from the fake Christianity masked as paganism that the European slave masters lied to us about and just get back to doing the truth in the bible God gave us to do. And then and only then will you see a change. It's been 400 years and our people continue to get worse.
Well what a time we had, This is Tom Slick from Cabrini Green ,From back in the day, AKA Lamonte' Johnson living in London Now. If you were growing up in CG 911 Club , St Josep stepper's party and The Jesse White team, God bless us all this world can be very heart less and misguiding,
I had my Mother Emily Moon Johnson Artist& Poet and Jesse White to help me go forward with my Dreams to becoming a fashion designer and teaching young youth's in Paris and London my skills , I learn as a youth.
To Paris from the projects in Chicago ill. It's not over even with all the bad issue in the world. Look out for Chicago Gypsy Ltd London this year, A real Artist who gives back to my community No matter where I live.
from the hood and my Westside roots Love also. Peace out Chicago Ill
Glad to hear you are doing well. My mom past this year and when I see videos like this I think her because she was around the age of the first women in the video. God bless.
@@indo3000my condolences, keep ya head up 🫡
So elated to see that you and others have benefited from social programs like Jesse White. may that brother and his descendants be forever blessed for the good & noble deeds he has done!
How wonderful! Thanks for letting us know! I'm from the Chicago area.
Bless you my brother 🙏
In 83 my mom was here with a little me. Growing up in this, you didn’t realize how inhumane it was until you left. Some people were there until the mid 2000s so I always went back. Grateful to say I survived the greens!
wow
Wow, where was your father?
Little me, lived in the Robert Taylors at this time, I feel you.
@@MsTy2908where is yours ?
@@MsTy2908 Somewhere not taking care of his children.
this is a real piece of history. I love old footage like this, its like our only form of time travel.
time travel? people STILL live in conditions like these because of their race and ethnicities.
@aliciabobo8051 go take a nap, you know what she meant
Lived at 502 west Oak in Cabrini Greens red walls..There were good times but mostly bad...drugs..gangs...poverty and miseducation...and watching people I know and love be destroyed by the crack and coke epidemics...I'll never forget 502...it's forced me to be the best woman I can possibly be...when things get hard I look back and I'm truly humbled by the inhumane conditions through which I've survived...to my Cabrini/ Town and garden/ row house/orange door people...I'm sending love and light ❤❤
I learned about Cabrini Green from watching Candyman many years ago. I am glad this footage still exists to speak to history that might have remained hidden from those who were not local.
I learned about it on Good Times.
Scariest movie restroom ever (Trainspotting a close second)😂
It was horrifying living in housing projects across the nation. I stayed in a very dangerous housing project in Atlanta back then. I didn’t realize it was inhumane until we moved to the suburbs
And what do we learn for the movie? That Annie shouldn’t be going to no damn hood to help these people she got sucker punched in the face in the restroom and got framed for the dog and taking the child 👀✊🏿👩🏼🦳
Lol so what about Annie's blk best friend ? She did nothing to anyone.
Skinny dude with the red hat was speaking with an accent closer to the hood chicago accent you hear today. Probably because he was young. The older people spoke with a more classic american accent like how they used to speak in those old films from the 60's and 50's. Its interesting to see both the developments and decaying of speech here
Im from Brooklyn NYC. '92. I was raised by old school southern men and woman. If they all were alive they'll be bout hundred now. Hearing these ladies fear reminds me of how scared my mom was for me. She raised me to be a good man. I was picked on alot growing up in the projects in NYC. I assume because she raised me with Southern morals I just seemed different to kids. Looking back i understand. She just wanted me to be strong live and grow peacefully. I know what its like cold water, project roaches everywhere no matter how much she cleaned. Taking me snd picking me up from school to insure my safety...i relate to chicago. I feel the people pf Chicago in spirit for some reason. God bless the good folk and Good lord heal the bad. Amen
Praise the Good Lord. So much good in the hearts of so many makes this a place you can love
I say peace 2 u OG, from Medina.
All that changes is the year
Hey it's me my husband and I are southern lived in the south proudly reared our children with southern values!!!!!
Jesse White a true legend, played for the Chicago Cubs, gave back to the community and became the longest serving Illinois Secretary of State. 💪🏿
Yep!! Jesse White put in more work for Cabrini - Chicago - Illinois and the Country than the President! 💯💯💪🏿 Thank You for your service Mr. White🥇🎖
🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever
@D7538 was that movie about him? On some Wayne Williams tip....
All that government assistance and housing assistance still couldn’t get it together
He helped destroy the black community
I listened to the audiobook High Risers about the history of Cabrini Green. It was a great book.
That young man knew. "We're just too close to each other." 💯. Overpopulation.
It's a whole city in and of itself
Dude with white head band speaking truth even back in day!!! Thanks for video!!!
Thomas lamonte.... hes a fashion designer in Paris Now...
Everybody was scared, we stayed out Cabrini, we knew better.
I wish there was a documentary about what happened to these young men and how their lives panned out. I fear a lot of them lost their lives in Cabrini Green.
why did you stay out? What kind of ppl would go in?
@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona Because there were nothing but very violent gangs. If you went through, you were sure to get shot, robbed, or at the least beat down. It was a very poor, angry, and overlooked neighborhood where many residents also suffered.
I was thinking the same thing 😢
@@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadonawhat do you mean why lol
Not everyone died... A lot of us came to Racine and died there 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️ 🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️
Always with the dope ass videos!!! Love seeing these it's like opening a time capsule from a time some of us never saw
I was born in 83. I love looking back.
Ha... went to high school with Derrick (Near North Career Magnet H.S.). Back in 1979 NNCM H. S. newly opened, with all the kids from the famous Cooley High transferring over. I transferred in from out of district 1979 left in 1981. Some of the guys look familiar, can't place a name, over 40 yrs ago.... Love the brother in yellow... DJ for the Loop(WLUP)... yeah buddy. Peace Love and Soul!!
My aunt stayed in the Chicago projects. I actually had fun visiting her..other than the smell of piss and wild people. It was different to take the paper food stamps to the store. I thought it was monopoly money. It was very interesting coming from the suburbs in Atlanta to the war zone in Chicago
Did you ever venture out to the positivity in Chicago. Those areas are not what Chicago is I reside in upscale Chicago and trust and believe crime her is very, very limited. No gun shots or junkies everywhere. The city has libraries, museums, restaurants, high end restaurants&stores, etc. it’s a shame that the ghettos which is a small area in Chicago get the most publicity. This is a great place not just the hood, 🙄. Where I live is 90 percent upper class or wealthy ppl, we enjoy our lives, community, etc.
@@SlayingBullshytSlayingBullshytbut wealthy and upperclass is the “ minority “ not the average person.
Hearing their hopes and dreams.. man, I shed a tear for my people. 😢
Love seeing old videos of major cities!!! Classic Housing I watched growing up!!! Kids have a slight chance of doing good coming from this!!! Not using excuses but most of it the truth. Makes you grow up fast and wish no one ever had to go thru this.
Good video. Interesting seeing life back in the early 80s. Thank you for sharing this!
My dad stayed in Chicago for about a year in a half and it was about this year like this video was in 1983 and 1984 my dad went in Cabrini green in 83 when he was 16 and 17 years old and he was visiting a friend and he told me he saw some gang members shooting dice on the project staircase step and bumping music and they all surrounded him they told him what colors you rockin and he said I don’t gang bang man and my dads friend who lived in Cabrini green came down just in time and told the gang bangers he was with him and he was his friend
This was a great documentary. It was refreshing to hear the young men talking about what they want to do over the next five years. Even in a bad situation, most of them had realistic goals. The one that got me was the young man who said he just hopes to still be living. Hope they were able to achieve the goals.
Crazy how things have not changed in those areas. It's like that all over the country. It's shows that if you give people jobs, resources, quality education, etc. it will make a huge difference in the community. But it's not on the government's agenda to make things better for those areas.
It’s crazy how we still saying the same thing to this day …it’s 30-40 years later & it ain’t changed yet
It’s like people don’t won’t to change
@@v.w.1000Yeah government ppl crackas!
All that government assistance and housing assistance black mayors black Secretary of State black president and still blame white and still can’t get it right 🤦🏽♂️
Chicago has not changed in over a century. This city is known for crime. The mob riddled that city with bullets.
Generational curse, this the cycle continues.
Watching this video reminds me of why I left Chicago, I used to hangout here and in Robert Taylor projects and it’s true what these people say.
Damn… this was right before crack hit heavy 😢 they don’t even know whats coming
Damn I didn’t even notice that. I bet they was thinking it couldn’t possibly get any worse until it did.
Whew! Ain't that the truth! 😢
Now they got switches and more shi 🤦🏾♂️
@@CB-pd8xvdamn thats a brazy way to look at it
@@Kellz-l9znobody worried about switches it was way worse back then
Good Times was based off of Cabrini Green & watching this documentary , must’ve been rough!
They are really out here dealing with racism, discrimination, poverty, food desert, gangs, police violence, and no time to worry about Candyman
😂
I think candy man is a manifestation of all that hence why that girl got beat up in the bathroom in the movie she f’d around and found out
And our LEADERS let it happen smh .. #BlackFathers👎🏽
Candy man hell to the nah the 80’s and 90’s was so raw
🍬man 🪝
The real story that candyman is based off of is crazy also
The 90s 🎉🎉
😂
@@keyme52525 wow
This warmed my heart and idk why….my mom lived in the projects for some time but I would visit her on the weekends and I always stayed in fights too all by myself…..I fought my way back all the way to her apartment once while a whole groups of kids and teenagers followed…..they stood outside until my mother got back home smfh DAMN was I there alone 🤔
I am so sorry that you had to relive such a traumatic experience and to be attacked alone. It’s so sad. I hope you are doing well. 🙏🏽
@@queensparkleintexas8090 I am and I fight a different battle every day at 37 yrs old….I still feel blessed though 🙏🏽 Thank You
@@ceemuhammad3707lol. My nigga.
@@Goddessoftarot216that's blessing to share your testimony.
That's right, in our generation you came out swinging!!!
Amazing video you found here bro 🙌
Eerily similar to that of what we see on the sitcom GOOD TIMES, only there are no good times!!
The one lady said CONCENTRATION CAMP 🚨 They put us in a cement COMPOUND, put drugs and guns in our neighborhoods and let them DESTROY EACH OTHER. What a #PROJECT😢
Who is "they"?
I guess the government should build mansions for everyone who needs a place to stay and let them stay there for free? Also, the main issues with the projects seem to come from the people there/community. There's nothing the government can do about that. Look a modern day st Louis, New Orleans, they have the same issues.
@@michaelbradley7621they did it on purpose is the point mor on
Why do they have so many kids!? Duh
no your parents put you there
nobody forced them to live there, they could’ve gotten a good paying job, saved there money and got a decent spot
A lot of people dont know ,
that the (EVANS FAMILY) from the TV Show - (GOOD TIMES) was depicted living in an APARTMENT inside the (CABRINI GREEN HOUSING PROJECTS) back in the 1970's CHICAGO.
Right and they never kept their door locked lol!
6:35 THANK YOU! The people have to CHANGE! My black people have to unite and stop relying on the government to handle a neighborhhod problem
Right
This breaks my heart because we are still having these same issues in 2023
Not one time did I see a father interviewed in this tv broadcast... Jesse White was the closest thing to a father figure in the whole video!
That's true, the government started promoting single motherhood especially in the 70s & got worse from there, they reward single mothers with more benefits than a married woman would receive, black community never had this problem in the 40s, 50s, 60s, look at the single mother stats, only risen in every community
@@HOODKINGSofficial real talk
If you had an adult male living in the home you would lose your housing. My mom had to hide my uncles that needed a place to stay in the closet or under the bed when them people came for random inspections to make sure no men were living in the home. I actually grew up thinking that was normal. It was social engineering at its most evil. Reason number 5011 why we need reparations now.
@@miskwainini Yes as a young boy I can vividly remember living in the Cabrini Green housing projects during the 1970s in buildings 923 N. Sedwick & 819 on Clevland St. in the rowhouses and the case worker would come twice a month to check in on the living situation of my family.
This caseworker was so sneaky and lowdown that on many occasions she would come unannounced and this stinking heifer would do just what you stated prior looking in our closets, bathroom, and under the beds for a male figure. she would even go as far as deducting from my mother's monthly allotment if she found that we had extras like, a television, radio, or a new appliance.
Yes, these folks and their Marxist, socialist, programs were definitely used to destroy Black America as we know it...
@@jackman435 man, you ain't never lied. I'm from Newport News, Virginia. This was a nationwide program and it worked like a charm.
The VL with the playboy hat should’ve gotten an Oscar lying to them white folks like that
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Facts
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Played super victim ain't it 😂😂😂 "idk why they messing with us" lol
I was born and raised in Chicago and I've never set foot in Cabrini. I've heard the stories about that place at the time
This was a time when I was a king there Lookin for u
Its a sad situation I feel bad for kids who have to grow up in these situations. We gotta make smart decisions early dont have kids unless you ready to settle down with someone reliable and caring. We gotta bring discipline to our youth back. When the youth lose all respect for their elders its not a good thing.
More like don’t have kids if you’re living in poverty.
@@NotLikeUs17right, there’s no excuse, especially in this day and age. The reason it seems like a never ending cycle is because people refuse to accept accountability.
Or once the kids get here the fathers could help.
@@Beautyroom300 they wouldn't get the housing with the father in the home so the father left in alot of cases
@@Beautyroom300 That's a problem that the woman put herself in. Don't have babies with a man who isn't willing or ready to be a father.
Watching this hurts. And to understand that 4 decades later, the needle hasn't moved very far is even more heart breaking. So many systems, constructs and ideas have to fail to get here. Just sad. We have long needed our very own Nehemiah...
Exactly
Yet, they've found 58 million dollars to roll out the red carpet for the ILLEGAL Migrants tent shelters. The South side of Chicago is fighting back. They are giving resources to these people that black folks have been begging after for years! These people don't speak the language, vote, pay taxes, etc...they come here as a complete burden and make it not only the country's problem but more specifically poor black folks, because those are the communities these buses are dumping these people in. Keep in mind these same Hispanics come here telling their kids to stay away from black folks.
So many bad decisions made by these people. 7-8 kids with no job and no money? Personal responsibility is a thing.
@@Thank-u6b These people work you df. Was the redlining that put them there personal responsibility?
They did it to themselves. They broke everything and tore it up and made it a n unsafe area.
Personal responsibility.
IT was 2008 was the last time I seen Cabrini Green Projects before it got demolished
I learned a lot about Jesse White watching this. As a Republican, it is rare that I will praise a Democrat politician, but before he became a politician he did more good work for these kids than all of the politicians combined. He genuinely cared. He actually walked the walk, while Jesse Jackson and AL Sharpton have talked the talk and done so mostly for their own sake. The kids don't need promises, they need someone with a plan to help them who is sincere, and that was Jesse White.
@tomgrunhard5400
We should put political differences aside. We're all Americans. We got to work together instead of seeing the other side as "an enemy out to destroy the country". The only group that helps is the actual enemies of the US.
Democrat, republican whatever. American.
Jesse White wanted to help the people because he was a human being who cared watching other human beings struggle to survive. Not cuz of his political party.
Definitely not a Republican or Democrat debate. If the Federal Government truly cared about equality and taking care of the youth, they’d be pumping enough funding into schools so that education and resources ensured success and opportunity for All American children despite any neighborhood disadvantages. Plenty of kids in this documentary and still today from environments like these want better in life and deserve opportunities.
You praise Republicans though? Lots of these issues you see in the video are because of Republicans.
@@seensay2132education spending is incredibly high in places like Baltimore Chicago, etc
@@KB8Killa NOT true At ALL! This country could afford to subsidize ALL public schools to be fully financially equipped to compete with private schools in Every community and not be pressed IF*** citizens prioritized Education. It’s been proven there’s more than enough in our tax structure to afford the best in education and healthcare if we wanted? But that money is being poured into other areas as well as waste, greed and corruption. It’s an out and out lie when they try to say there’s not enough money for better education
I'd like to know where these kids are now. I pray they are all successful and healthy!
These kids are I they 50’s &60’s crazy
They ass probably dead or in jail
I pray alive and successful.🙏🙏🙏
Are these the apartments “Good Times”was filmed ?
@@beautifuldarkskin5867 Yes, those are the apartments.
These kids had goals young back then!! Love seeing this!!!
Be careful telling a white what you want to do. They'll say something to discourage you like oh that's going to be hard
Good times told us about these projects
Such beautiful people
My grandmother had a book called "There Are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz about two brothers growing up in Henry Horner Homes in Chicago 🙏🏼💕
THATS A MOVIE ALSO WITH OPRAH USE TO WATCH IT BACC IN THE DAY
Wow I read that book as a child.
That is a good book
I read this book while I was locked up. It was interesting hearing from the “shorties”
I never read that book!!!
I remember Jesse white tumblers use to come to lex ky to perform they were amazing
It's crazy that the women were covered and looked respectful. Well spoken in spite of their circumstances. Smh
The women were better back then
@@jerrygraves6531and still being left to be single mothers living in poverty, so what exactly is your point?
@@NotLikeUs17it was the government program that caused this. Use that melanated magic to educate your self on the social engineering egregores they instilled on the black american family
@guesswhosgoing2jail2nite78 The welfare system gives more money to the single mothers! That's why the men leave and the fatherless epidemic was engineered!
@@jerrygraves6531I agree with that. I just wish they educated themselves more.
Youngsta in the red hat was Vice-lord. He had sense enough not to incriminate himself on camera but yet show his people he was down with his apparel.
Yall see his hat joe⭐️🌙 All mighty don't love nobody
I was about to say, I thought that Playboy bunny meant affiliation
This is a tragedy! It's awful that people are and were forced to live like this. This is heartbreaking!
when you choose to have 7-8 kids with no jobs what do you think will happen?
@@Thank-u6bthat’s not the only reason man
They weren’t forced. It was a choice
Forced? It saved them from being on the street they should be grateful.
@@sean-bz7gw you serious ? 😂
40 years later and nothing has changed
I was born Feb 1983 and I lived by the Old Cabrini Green Projects- Nothing really changed since then expect the demolishing of the CG projects.
Me too Bro. Born in 1983 My Mother was Murdered in 1986 in Grace Abbot Houses...I Remember Lot of things ....LORD HAVE MERCY
I'm sorry to hear that bro bro- I lost my mom in 1999 and its hard growing up without parents--we had to stay strong, I've overcome a lot of obstacles in my life--its not easy for BM in this world.
Projects were just that.. experiments
It’s a shame that this country sanctions using Black people for their experiments. Black people continue to support the party that’s doing absolutely nothing for us. Years later and nothing has changed.
Yes, a guy told me the same thing
More like FAILED experiments!
When they put them out of that prison chicago crime rate went up tremendously. It’s sad but true. I’m black. Lived down the street. People from the projects were just different.
This happen over 40yrs & it still the same problem
1983 and 2023 still no difference amongst my brothers. Still out here killing each other and still can’t figure out why they hate each other so much. 😢
Well that the problem not everyone your brother some ppl out here to rape steal and murder all ages that why I don't support BLM because it a paid lie organization
Social phenomena
Yup. It’s sad
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@@MarcKlark as bad as it was back then it nothing compared to Chicago today......One dude used his own daughter as a shield while they was shooting at him for dissing the dead by pissing on graves
Buddy in the red hat say he don’t gang bang but got a Vice Lord sign on his hat lol
Str8 lyin to them ppl lol
reminds me when that GD said he was Jewish to the police for having that Star of David chain on lol
It was probably donated to him.
All I know is living in the project if you make it outs we a different breed!
We strong in the mind body etc!
And most of us are very smart!
This is the saddest video I’ve seen in a long time, basically good times in real life and decades later still a full blown mess
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What's still a full blown mess??
@@sunlight3844 Chicago’s socialization of impoverished blacks.
Good times scratching and surviving 🎶 🎵
Im from NYC and know all about these types of conditions. No one should ever have to live like this! When I was young I just didnt really think about it. Just accepted it as a part of life. Thats just the way it is mind set. If I could go back in time I would have gotten involved somehow. Those people needed a Booker T Washington. Why didnt anyone rise to the challenge?
being born in 99 its sad and funny to see how things havent really changed. but cool to see this kinda black history
Another problem is the pursuit of sports and entertainment. Basketball players and Rappers. Life is much more than entertainment.
Hands down the best comment!!!
Of course, because black men/boys think that's the only things that they're good at is dribble a ball or rap a damn lyric, they never say that they want to be a profession (doctor, lawyer, scientist) that meaningful....it's either being a rapper or an athlete--nothing more, nothing less.
That's where they made their money and their mark
That boy got on a whole playboy hat
i grew up in ROBERT TAYLOR homes. ALL we seem to do is talk.
things have gotten WORSE and we've the same old talking points.
Word. Interesting fact though....in my native Wilmington, NC we have a project named Taylor Homes as well built by the same man.
I hated that place. I sent I’ll remember the pissy ass smell😩
@@Ilovechicago100 and how STICKY the floors were, dark ass hallways
My mom and dad also grew up in Robert Taylor my dad was a DJ
Last young man said hope to still be living 🤦🏾♂️ I hope time can continue to evolve us and fix things
Interesting the guy in the red PLAYBOY hat didn’t seem to understand why guys went at him. If he wore that hat that’s probably why. Gotta be aware of stuff like that in a city like Chicago
I live in the projects in Olean NY. Lots of poor uneducated people live here but there is very little crime and the apartments are in very good shape. I couldn't imagine living in big city projects with all the drugs and crime.
I just don’t know why you have to tear up and vandalize things. That’s what always gets on my nerves. We’re poor and so we are here. Let’s try and keep the place together. But the city definitely had a responsibility to do better! Ridiculous!!
It’s part of the culture that perpetuates poverty.
I would love to know where these men are now. We need a follow up on this.
Im from Chicago, i grew up in the era on the Westside, North Lawndale, Im 52
I grew up in Cabrini green and what it worth a wasn't that bad ,but look at the area now it's beautiful and I wouldn't have changed anything about how I grew up because it molded who I am now and a lot of success people came out of Cabrini green.
Dude in da hat red hat 🎩 has VLS BUNNY 🐰?🤔
LOL yeah he's saying he's not a gang member while wearing a maroon hat with a playboy bunny on it 🤔😂Bless him
When he first mentions gang members he looks up at his hat and chuckles. I love it 😂. Probably King Von grand daddy.
Excatly talking bout ion know why err body picking on him🤣
@@miskwaininiman y'all think king von is involved with everything dude wasnt even a sperm cell around this time.
I understand but back in the 80s most black people was rocking playboy. So he probably didnt know
As we see today nothing changed, it got worse
When they leveled Cabrini Green, the area turned into condos. Gentrification completely. And they pushed the people out to a lot of parts of the Chicagoland Area.
Not just Chicagoland area, they moved them to the adjacent states. Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana. The river town I lived in, in Iowa had an influx in the 90's from Cabrini and Robert Taylor Homes. It wasn't just the good folks they displaced, it was the gang bangers too. The criminals have no reason to be walking the streets.
Them mfs haunted 💀
This hurt's my stomach for my people.. My damn we come from some treacherous situations and living conditions. From the minute we "left" the field, we've had so many trials and tribulations, and we're still fighting..
I love Us, forever..
Who was hurting them? Who was tearing up the free complex? Who was causing the complex to be unsafe? The same people that lived there. Blame those people for hurting your people. They are to blame.
Keep your stuff nice and safe. Keep it a safe environment.
@@77-ty7gb poverty/lack of resources = crime jackass.. It's much deeper than you're stating, but you don't want to understand lol, so just keep it cool.. They named them "Projects" for a reason.
Yall gotta stop with the bs. If folks are currently living in treacherous conditions it’s a choice. The fact that your stomach hurts is hilarious 😂
@@chuckbrownrealestateuncle tom go away
Yeah, the people that lived there are the ones who made things horrible for others.
1:35, 3:10, and 3:56 to hear how the young'ns talked back in the day. I think 1:35 sounds like how the young Chicagoans sounds today.
And we are still out here fighting and killing one another.
I remember these interviews as a shorty in uptown seeing it like dam these young men held composure and still seen a future 🫡💯
Now it’s condos’s and apple store, REI and several others. You wouldn’t recognize it now
I grew up in Louisiana,it wasn't that bad my mom never did drugs worked her butt off to take care of us, watching some of these videos i feel sorry for them,its cold no heat the police mess with them gangs gotta worry about getting killed just walking down the street
New Orleans was no different back in the 80s and 90s.
@@tiffanyblanton476if you was off the porch in the streets and lived through 94 you a gangsta
@@JjjNas-mj8keyou think you Soulja Slim
@@blacksheep9278 hahaa you caught me llol. I figured someone was gunna say something like that
@@tiffanyblanton476depends on how and where you grew up. It was nothing like that for me growing up in New Orleans. I lived on the Westbank of New Orleans tho. We didn't fuck around in are around the projects.
I bet them boys DID become Dj's & Ballers.. that was their prime time
I grew up in Rockwell and have always heard about this area..
He got that playboy bunny on his hat 🎩 and don't know why the gangs fucked with him 😂.....
He knows dam well why
He prolly meant*were down to fight but we rather keep community smooth to make our $$" lmfao you already know like other cat said we to close
He was 100 percent VL lol
@@djlukacs before I even looked at his hat I could tell he was just by demeanor and way he carries himself slash talks to the media(forget media pr training my man's laced up stronger then a Mexicans forest gump72 Nike Cortez ya Hur me?) Lol some bout the finballs mane,I saw the bunny I said mane I know my hood nih skills wasn't going off fo no reason lol
Are they going to do an investigative report on Wisconsin rentals for poor people with section 8 in fond du lac Wisconsin thank you we need more videos on section 8 and what really going on with the money that they get and give out for the poor people there's so much that could be done for these people thank you on the truth and talent like it is
So many folks from the south!
Used to go through there all the time. Scary place is an understatement.
The playboy bunny logo means he’s a vice lord
7:00 right!!! It’s still like this today. He spoke a word. Talking ain’t gonna do nothing but actions will make a change
That shit looks like a prison...literally
the craziest part is they talk like they’re forced to live there. when the reality is you could get a good paying trade job, save your money and get a decent spot
@@williamjohnson9158you’re speaking in hindsight about how people were living 40 years ago. You have no idea the lack of opportunities there was for black people living in the projects in the 1980s. So keep your mouth shut about what you don’t understand.
@@southsidesaiyan8641 ofcourse there’s lack of job opportunities when all the grown men in that area would rather be in the streets then become business owners 🤷♂️ stop complaining it’s not our fault
@@southsidesaiyan8641 i’ve lived in chicago my whole life i know what im talkin about pookie 😂😂😂
The blueprint was laid in 1619. This is the culmination 💯
expound pls
The real truth. But they still do not want to acknowledge the facts and speak on the history. Learn from the historical mistakes like redlining and discrimination amongst other unnecessary hardships we faced all because of our skin color. The solution is to not hide the history but teach it and learn from the past mistakes. But the green dollar greed makes everybody colorblind, especially yt people.
In 1983 I was 8 years of age in elementary at Harvey ,IL around that time.
Harvey World
I wonder where some of these kids are today as adults.
Today we still tear up our own things and kill each other! So sad! God help us😩
Wooow…I go back to the 70s 80s….knowing Jesse white…I also went to sojourner truth school on clybourn, swam at the tank and lived in 1230 north Larrabee and 624 west division white projects. Understanding my constitutional rights today I’m watching these videos these cops are breaking all kinds of laws and policies and bullying and infringing on constitutional rights impeding pathways unlawful searches…we have a right to invoke our fourth amendment right of no searches of ourselves properties papers identification if the person wasn’t committing a crime according to the 4th amendment to the constitution….what about the second amendment to bare arms. I hope people who read this will understand and exercise the teachings on TH-cam from auditing videos of your constitutional rights and as a first amendment protected activity and use your cellphone and record any encounter with these jack boot thugs if they try and infringe on your rights but you have to learn the language and when you invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent when their hassling you they need to no if they arrest you unlawfully will be ground for litigation they could loose their job or get sued…I will attach myself to your police retirement plan for the rest of your days with this one incident
I live in Chicago. If you see that area now you’d be pleasantly shocked one of the better sides of Chicago now
this felt eerily like Boyz in the Hood..
The Brotha at 6:36 in this video said it all. We have to change as a people. We have to stop blaming the government and other races of people for our condition and realize they have nothing to do with our condition. God is the one responsible for our condition because we continue to not keep his laws, statutes, amd commandments he gave to our ancestors. They didn't listen either and that's the reason we're even over here in this condition today. He gave us the blueprint in the scriptures of your history, culture , and traditions along with the warnings of what would happen to future generations for our continued disobedience. So the change is we need to wake up to who we are part of the 12 lost tribes of Israel, get back to teaching and keeping his word, and get away from the fake Christianity masked as paganism that the European slave masters lied to us about and just get back to doing the truth in the bible God gave us to do. And then and only then will you see a change. It's been 400 years and our people continue to get worse.
This is sad to watch no father figures .
Real estate must be worth billions on that plot of land.
Dude in the thumbnail looks like Hurricane Chris lol 😭
Nah man that looks like errol spence jr. The boxer
@@Anbu-x1 yeah him too lol 😭
@@Anbu-x1nah OP got it right.. Thats Hurricane Chris all the way
Todd Bridges
40yr later and shit ain’t changed in these type of environments
Like it’s sad as hell no hope 😢
@@nickhearn3602especially when these chicks are have 7-8 kids? Who does that? It very common in the hood tho.
@sntmdsa3628 Who does that?? Presidents, your so called founding fathers.. All ethnic groups.. Your point??
Yep, by design.. How did those environments get there in the first place?? Umm yeah