@@drinkingpoolwater how?? The projects been torn down. He’s not living their no more & anyway the projects was put there in the old days for families & affordable rent. The projects didn’t start out bad.
A very long time right after world war 2. Alot of factorys, mills, and businesses closed shop when no longer needed. Alot of people lost jobs and moved. Back then there was alot more Italian and European immigrants. They also left and what was left behind were alot of African Americans. Living in the streets and tents. So the city started building high rise apartments everywhere that were poorly made and nobody to really maintain the buildings but also segregated from more upscale parts of the city.. By the time late 1960s came around the current President LBJ created the "welfare act" and other policies thinking that would help out poor inner city families. The question is did it make it worse or better?
@@tribulation138 they put poor Italians there on purpose on racist shit first then put poor blacks there on purpose and just left them there and didn't even allow married couples only single mothers you could lose your housing if a man lived there and helped out they wanted men out of the kids picture then the government imported in guns and drugs.. They did all the shit on purpose on racist shit same way they killed off martin Luther king Malcolm x all the black panthers put Rosa parks in jails for sitting on front of the bus just look at the times years and think about the way the world was blacks couldn't hardly legally drink from same water fountains or go to same schools or even attend college or get jobs in the 70s and early 80s and the 60s and before was really fucked its 2022 and the police still getting away with shooting little black and Mexican kids in the back and poor whites have it bad 2
To people asking yes. A lot of these people are still alive. My family grew up in the Prairie Courts and Robert Taylor’s. Despite what the people may say as a kid I didn’t even realize how impoverished it really was. I just had me some fun and ran the halls from floor to floor daily going to friends and family houses.
Right I didn't realize how poor we were as kids. I didn't even know , I had a fun and great childhood playing in the streets staying outside even after dark But we were poor reall poor. But wouldn't trade a day for anything.
This is great to read. To hear others perspectives. I am trying to get my American Gigolo dream-which is essentially a fancy HIGH RISE and I'm being pushed out by HOA fees. I hate YARDS. So the media's focus on the violence might actually be perpetuating it. I don't think World War 2 vets that built those high rises imagined they would be a generational thing. Upward mobility is an issue and the computer has made it worse. I just found out my UNCLE got his education PAID FOR. 100,000 debt here. Who complains more? Hiim. Not to mention the quality is no longer there in clothing or appliances with outsourcing. MARTIN LUTHER KING and his supporters had THREADS you have to go to ARMANI for these days.
A baby and a woman got thrown from the top of the building I was 8 when that happened…now it was a lot of shooting but back then it was a code and it was a lot of love I actually miss them
@@levibondjr4650 what do you mean why? no one knows why shit happened the way it did back then, I grew up in the ida b wells homes. It was choas all the time in these areas, ppl think the violence in chicago is bad now boy if we had actual accurate information back then lord only knows how many murders were happening. Cabrini green got alot of the media hype but robert taylor and ida b wells homes were legit warzones in the 80s luckily i got my ged and joined the military and was able to escape but sadly 99% of the ppl there never had a shot.
Yeah s/o the wife who lost her husband and the kids who lost their father cause the government said so. If you from Chicago you know that plan didn’t work it’s the single parent home kids that’s carjacking and killing
The man moved on because the Democrats made it more profitable for single mothers. President Johnson basically brought down the black family before Johnson sign those papers the black families were more prosperous than the white families
@@IK_4 yeah I'm with you on that, as a black man I understand that before you can address outside issues you must start with the ones your creating for your self. Like. BLK on BLK violence.
One thing they didn't mention was. When the projects were all being torn down developers all over the city made huge money by using a few units for CHA use. It wasn't just thet Northtown Village. It was all over the city. Started I'll say in 1998 1999 2000. Any new city development secretly or not had a few units. They got a kick back in taxes and CHA payed top dollar.
@@BullGooseTV Hats off to you for not raising a serial killer, a school shooter ,A mass family murdering demon, or a fuckin pedophile With out your weird Daddy's assistants! You Fuccin jack off..
The story of girl X. It hurts. I remember being in 5th grade at the time. The teachers were crying. They pulled us out of class for grief counseling and how to make sure we were safe.
The true story of Candyman that inspired the horror classic film came from a resident of the ABLA Homes in this video (made up of the Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts and Grace Abbott Homes) located on Chicago’s South Side, where Ruthie May McCoy and 17,000 others lived. The tragic murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy, a lonely, mentally ill resident of the ABLA homes on Chicago’s South Side. On the night of April 22, 1987, a terrified Ruthie called 911 to request help from the police. She told the dispatcher that someone in the apartment next door was trying to come through her bathroom mirror. “They throwed the cabinet down,” she said, confusing the dispatcher, who thought she must be crazy. What the dispatcher didn’t know is that McCoy was right. Narrow passages between apartments allowed maintenance workers easy access, but they also became a popular way for burglars to break in by pushing the bathroom cabinet out of the wall. Although a neighbor reported gunshots coming from McCoy’s apartment, police chose not to break down the door due to the risk of being sued by residents had they done so. When a building superintendent finally drilled the lock two days later, he discovered McCoy’s body face-down on the floor, shot four times.
ABLA homes were on the West Side bruh.... My mother is from the jects documented in this video and my cousin is from ABLA. They're nowhere near each other....
This makes me miss the 20th century and the old Chicago for some reason. They just tore all of Taylor down and built almost nothing. Chicago fucked these people once more.
Those housing projects and others across America were full of lead paint and the residents are still suffering the health side effects of the lead paint from that to this very day. Government has gentrified the housing projects all across America in 2019 and replaced them with condos and the like...from Boston to Seattle and everywhere inbetween...
IceManLikeGervin Yeah unfortunately that doesn’t just apply to project residents that applies to anyone and everyone who lived 25+ years ago. It doesn’t matter about skin color or public housing lead paint was everywhere.
Generational poverty isn't an accident. It's encouraged intentionally. At this point it's not even divided racially necessarily. There are incredibly poor parts of the country that break black or Latino but there are also the same places for Asians, whites, islanders, etc. We've got a full on class war happening but no one sees it because the rhetoric is racial instead of economic. This serves those at the top who make the rules: division is good for their business.
Yes encouraged because it is not encouraged to work hard, study and take accountability. It is encouraged just to complain, take from the working folks, and blame everyone else for your problems.
@@kalesmonroe2556it's actually A LOT bigger than that, but obviously, you want to keep it simple and focused on the individual when you didn't even consider what the commenter was saying.
I know this may sound crazy...as much as shit that went on in the projects but I miss it like hell. I had so much fun there & had family at almost every project you can think of. The Greens, Calumet building (Randolph Towers), Ikes, Parkway, Taylors. It was home and a nightmare wrapped in one.
Thank you for sharing, I'm very interested in these towers. Absolutely insane that people would live in such high rise towers. Which one did you live in, if you don't mind sharing.
Me too, I lived in Ida B Wells on 39th, I lived im stateway gardens on 35th and I had family im Robert Taylor. If you didnt live on state St you aint lived in Chicago
That's how I feel about the 80s in Brooklyn yea it was crazy and crack took over but at the sametime it was so much fun I miss dat shit sometimes I Kno it sounds crazy
I remember when I was younger on mothers day me and mother was out and when was returning home they started shooting. The elevator wasn't coming fast enough and we was right in the middle of everything in front of the elevator doors that was my first and scariest shootout I ever been in
My friend Josh Davis grew up in the Robert Taylor homes. I grew up in the middle class suburbia. Despite how vastly different our upbringings were, at the end of the day, we still had more in common than we had differences.
I am a former housing authority resident ( ABLA HOMES),RACINE- ROOSEVELT RD-ASHLAND - LOOMIS COURTS), I LIVED IN 1209 SO RACINE #1305 W/ 4 SMALL BABIES BY MYSELF, BUT HAD FAMILY SUPPORT, LEFT CHICAGO IN 2000 A YEAR AFTER THEY STARTED TEARING THEM DOWN. WENT TO DALLAS TX, FOR 12 YRS, NOW IN PHOENIX AZ BEEN HERE 9 YRS. LOVE IT ! IT'S BEAUTIFUL HERE! AND THE CLIMATE IS SEMI COLD.
@matthewjones3422 haha google it thought all the kids google everything now haha your on the rag & don't know what it means go save the environment so you can save the world bs haha lol 🎈
Years ago all communities in western cities,poor or otherwise had,criminals ,nextdoor to the butcher,the brick layer,the lawyer,doctor,factory worker etc,so kids didn't just see gangsters or sportsmen as successful,they had all the proffesions to aspire to.Thats what a mixed community produces.A real community.
79 families got to move in the new units from cabrini green. Its at least 80 to 120 apartments in each building! It was like i believe 12 high rise buildings in cabrini plus the row houses. So basically about 5% of the ppl from the projects got to move in.
They were just the tokens to make it look good .Before they used to just pocket the money and just let the buildings go to hell. The rich fucking over the poor par for the course.
Rise in homelessness. Wefare reform. They never replaced the low income housing. Most people went to south side, west side, poor black suburbs. Some went back down south. Black people screwed again. Now its CHA lotteries for the few low income apartments.
That's one of the biggest problems 90% of the tenants there are single moms with kids. It's was a breeding ground for gangs drugs and violence, 90% of kids no father they see the gangbangers and drug dealers with wads of cash, new clothes and cars flashy jewelry
My mom moved to Cabrini green from Memphis TN when I was a newborn and we stayed there until I was PROBABLY around 6-7/5-6. She NEVER allowed us to go away from our apartment balcony unless we were going to school ( FOR ME, Truth School or head start really can't remember). Or Church. Those apartments were RUUUUFFFFFF i can truly say. We witnessed so many deaths from the balcony alone
I’m looking at this video and I’m floored at how obvious they purposely tried to put all the black people in one area away from the rest of society. Those places were huge and there were so many buildings.
It's a tricky situation. For the government they just want the profits of public housing. They don't care about the people in general. But for the people in there, why make your home such an unsafe horrible environment? Raping and murdering your neighbors just don't make sense to me. I don't see how anyone can justify that or blame those actions on someone/something else. It's up to the individuals to change the cycles/patterns and that all starts with family
I remember being from waukegan going to chicago to the projects. those were some scary times man. my aunt used a lighter just to illuminate the stair way. everywhere smelled like piss. sometimes the elevators would get stuck. im glad those places are gone.
Wasn't always that way. Housing inspections were done in the beginning and professional people lived in them. That soon changed! King Richard wasn't supposed to build those past 6 stories high. People we're used as lab rats by the University of Illinois Chicago that leased them the land! The lease ran out, the damage was done.
There’s a simple solution if you don’t like living in places like this and that’s if you already have a kid you’re struggling to take care of,don’t have anymore and add to your problems. It’s not fair to you,the taxpayers and most importantly the child you intend to have grow up in a situation like this,where they will most likely repeat the cycle.
I went to Columbia College in Chicago after I left The Bronx. I grew up in the streets! We used to pass Robert Taylor Homes going down past Cermak Ave. it was like you stepped into another world. The city abandoned these people! Period! I knew Vice Lords and Disciples from the south side. My father hung with Black Panthers after Vietnam. My ex is from 76th & Champlain Ave. I used to hangout at Heroes night club! I’m as much a Chicagoan as I am a Bronx boy. Like I said, I’m from the streets. My sister is still living back in The Bronx witnessing hardcore violence everyday! We are Sicilian 🤌🏼
Chicago has been rough for a very long time. Walt Disneys father built his own house in Hermosa back in the 1890s and decided to move after only a few years because the neighborhood was getting bad. That was when the northwest side was first being built!
Look how the kids surround the reporters as they walk thru the projects. My question is where are the parents? If it's so dangerous why the parents letting the kids wonder thru the whole projects. Not safe at all, broken elevators and everything I'll be afraid to let my kids go out without supervision. Oh ik where the parents are, dad in jail, mom on drugs prolly.
Being at the mercy of the state or federal government for your most basic needs of food and shelter is the penultimate nightmare. Every American knows that in such a predicament you're going to have to eat one big S sandwich. But it's only supposed to be very temporary, until you pull yourself back up. So 1) why are the residents so surprised it sucks, and 2) why did so many of them turn a short term fix into a lifetime of miserable reliance??
Because of welfare traps. Its happened to me. I am chronically ill and need medical insurance. I deliberately make less than 1,500 a month just so I can get free Healthcare, because if I made 2,000 dollars, I would be spending money on private insurance and co-pays and deductibles, which would be a net loss for me even though I am working and making more. Losing welfare is like having withdrawals from drugs, and the government needs to change the rules so that people can wean off of welfare and don't just lose it completely
I used to work for Renault Robinson he is good man and did a lot for black Chicago. Especially in the police dept in the 60’s after Fred Hamptons assassination. He sued the city and police dept as a cop and won and got more black cops on the force patrolling there own neighborhoods.
It's probable that the 7 and 8-year-olds were coerced by an older male or influenced by a group to admit to the crime, with the expectation that they would likely be returned to their parents without facing jail time. Furthermore, the adult involved would not be identified. The community is typically aware of who engages in what criminal activities within their community, and it's likely they know whose modus operandi matches this crime.
Good Times. Any time you meet a payment. Good Times. Any time you need a friend. Good Times. Any time you're out from under. Not getting hassled, not getting hustled. Keepin' your head above water, Making a wave when you can. Temporary lay offs. Good Times. Easy credit rip offs. Good Times. Scratchin' and survivin'. Good Times. Hangin' in and jivin'* Good Times. Ain't we lucky we got 'em Good Times.
@@Noway673who was behind the show and who owns the networks it’s was played on. I’m sure outsiders had the last say on the theme of the show. Think hard and deep vs scratching the surface.
Anything that the g-vt gets involved in is screwed up.There are 4 economic classes. Rich, middle class, poor, and broke. (I've been broke, eating "Helper" and a can of vegetables a several times a week. Helper = Hamburger Helper, without the hamburger.) With the actions perpetuated on the people, who expected a different outcome? People need to be uplifted and given respect, hope, and schooling, not a foot put down on their necks to keep them down. (I went to a 2 yr trade school, and it changed my situation.) Be blessed, Hezakya, today and always! =) Keep doing what you do!
@@keithparkhill8546 - No, it doesn't. That's why I stopped at 2. I knew I couldn't take care of any more than that. After trade school, it was much easier. Be blessed, Keith, today and always! =)
5:35 I fw dude I wanna get old feeling like him 🔥 he got that fire in him 17:42 history repeats itself. Rip LA Capone . And I use to wonder why did they call it a PROJECT.. it was exactly what it’s called a project to test the living of multiple black ppl living together with only drugs and guns at reach with no jobs or good education. And after a 20-40 year mark it was time to stop the project and spread them out like a virus and now you have multiple gangs instead of 1 or 2 now you have 3k drug dealers instead of a few in a building smh it’s sad how they did us and the guys that are beefing and killing each other today actually knew their killers as kids smh.
FACTS, THAT'S WHY THE CRIME IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH ESPECIALLY FROM VIOLENT CRIMES. LIKE CAGING ANIMALS FOR YEARS, FEEDING THEM ENOUGH TO LIVE. THEN RELEASING THEM. HMMMM, I WONDER HOW THEY'LL BEHAVE? (PROJECT)....
The people that planned the housing projects thought they were FIXING society by housing poor widows and orphans! They weren't psychic to know that the era of "free love" and skyrocketing out of wedlock birth was coming! Your conspiracy makes no sense. Racists want to ELIMINATE " human weeds" not pay taxes to breed more of them and seed them all over the place!
It’s all most of them know. They know of nothing else. When those residents filled out job applications, the employers looked at where they lived and rejected every single application. I bet it was hard as hell making it out that death trap being successful.
Yes the whole idea was to breakdown the entire black family and it worked! They knew when they introduced drugs to the black community, many fathers would fall for the hokie doke! Now, kids are raised without a father which makes them more susceptible for them to become single parents living on the system just to start the process all over again.
We as a race will never defeat the enemy without some sort of strong power behind us. We didn’t have a chance from the beginning! We just don’t have what the enemy has to put up fight. Our lives makes up the biblical scriptures. So we we at a loss as a whole.
Man you don’t even need a criminal record. I graduated college in 2019, and had been doing okay for myself ever since then. I got COVID really bad this past January, and was laid off from work causing me to fall behind on some bills. Interviewed and found my dream corporate job 2 weeks ago. After I received and signed my offer letter, I passed the mandatory criminal background check & drug tests also, but I got my job offer rescinded late last week because I didn’t have good credit. 🤦🏾♂️Man I worked so hard and I maintained excellent credit the entire pandemic,but I fell on hard times ☝🏽 once, and just like that I was denied employment. I have to take responsibility for my debts, which I always do, but it sure felt a hell of a lot like I was being criminalized due to my recent credit history. Man I swear companies & society will use anything in your past against you, even if it’s all behind you. In my particular case, I was provided an opportunity to rectify the situation but choosing between homelessness and a job is a difficult decision. I know I will find another opportunity but I honestly feel for people who have an actual criminal past. They will probably never ever get a decent job their entire life
People talk about trenches!!! Chicago was the definition of trenches back in 80s 90s! , but for some reason People assumed cities like New Orleans was worst biggest lies
I went to college with a white dude, his name was Chris Harris, who lived in Cabrini green from 78 to 84, that mf was tough as hell, hard worker too, got his momma out the projects, he even had photos to prove it. my friends and I had no idea growing up what the hell kind of place he grew up in, until we saw the movie CandyMan and me and my friends said: “damn that mf was from there?!?!”.
Remember what the cop said, they were certain they caught the right people, the 7 and 8 year old boys. Guess what, the girl was raped. DNA evidence was left behind yet they still somehow had no problem believing an 8yo and a 7yo raped and killed her. That’s why people in Black communities don’t trust the police.
And for the people wondering how did they get there?? Just remember this was right after civil rights we had no rights before this , we couldn't get jobs and our education was limited.. The govt did this to us after slavery to keep us under even though we were free, we would never elevate that was the plan.. These people were put here due to conditions they didn't choose this ..
Agreed. I googled the community today, and found several units on the market for around the original selling price, indicating that the property didn’t appreciate in value. The actual buyers did not see a return on their original investment and as a result are no longer still residents today. I knew it wouldn’t be a success though, I don’t care what particular version of the gentrification dream a property developer is selling, well-to-do and successfully individuals will never want to live next to poor and impoverished people; Think about it like affluent white people refusing to live next to what would be considered to be w hite trash. I’m sorry but the two mentalities are just too different to consider them living together as neighbors, harmoniously. It’s funny how that other lady ended up leaving her husband to raise her kids in a safer neighborhood. My mother is one of 7 and she, several of her siblings, and a few of us kids are first and second generation college grads, respectively. Before my grandfather died, my grandparents had been married 53 years. Growing up my grandfather left home a lot in search of work, leaving my grandma to raise the kids on her own. She never went on public assistance because it almost certainly would’ve forced her to divorce her husband, which is what the welfare system was designed to do; Take the black father out of the home and remarry the mother to government assistance. The cycle then continues
The story of Cabrini-Green, is the story of public housing all over the USA. When you put an overwhelming percentage of poor/low-income people in public housing (especially underserved communities of Black, Latino, AAPI and Native American residents), don't do any regular maintenance/upgrades, and allow the properties to fall into squalor and disrepair, you create an environment that breeds anarchy, lawlessness, illegal activities and entrenched poverty. Mix that with the cocaine/crack epidemic of the 80's and 90's, and you have a stewing crock-pot of residents doing whatever they can to survive. Public housing authorities all across the USA are almost always embroiled in scandals like this, because there's no profit in it: they have no incentive to give the most vulnerable citizens a decent a safe place to call home, because their mindset is that a tenant receiving government assistance/Section-8 vouchers, will not appreciate nice things the way a market-rate tenant will (often true, sadly). The fact that people are still being allowed to live in these surviving row houses, crumbling and rotting as they are, is a testament to this.
I grew up here... I was never afraid or scared...we could play until dusk with no worries of anything bad happening...this was home...I miss this place!!!
That's right pops! You worked three jobs, raised 12 kids, been married 47 years!! You tell ' em!!!!
but still living in the projects smh.
@@drinkingpoolwater how?? The projects been torn down. He’s not living their no more & anyway the projects was put there in the old days for families & affordable rent. The projects didn’t start out bad.
The problem is he kept having kids knowing he was living in this extremely dangerous place. Them projects was not for children!
Your comments reinforce antiblackness and a slave mentality; as though what this man did should be looked upon as a prototype for success or survival.
Let's be proud of the old brother! Everybody wasn't on the welfare even if they worked low minimum wage jobs.
50 years later, still women sleeping with these men and raising kids by themselves blaming police for their mistakes.
I'm obsessed with watching this its shows a lot about how this are today, deep thinking .. The problem we have today started a long time ago
absolute facts
A very long time right after world war 2. Alot of factorys, mills, and businesses closed shop when no longer needed. Alot of people lost jobs and moved. Back then there was alot more Italian and European immigrants. They also left and what was left behind were alot of African Americans. Living in the streets and tents. So the city started building high rise apartments everywhere that were poorly made and nobody to really maintain the buildings but also segregated from more upscale parts of the city.. By the time late 1960s came around the current President LBJ created the "welfare act" and other policies thinking that would help out poor inner city families. The question is did it make it worse or better?
@@tribulation138 they put poor Italians there on purpose on racist shit first then put poor blacks there on purpose and just left them there and didn't even allow married couples only single mothers you could lose your housing if a man lived there and helped out they wanted men out of the kids picture then the government imported in guns and drugs.. They did all the shit on purpose on racist shit same way they killed off martin Luther king Malcolm x all the black panthers put Rosa parks in jails for sitting on front of the bus just look at the times years and think about the way the world was blacks couldn't hardly legally drink from same water fountains or go to same schools or even attend college or get jobs in the 70s and early 80s and the 60s and before was really fucked its 2022 and the police still getting away with shooting little black and Mexican kids in the back and poor whites have it bad 2
@@tribulation138 Civics 101….More Caucasians are on welfare than us.
Reverse some of the past the policies and many of these problems will decrease or go away completely
Those elevators and stairs are super scary and look like a death trap
They was!!
when they worked...I grew up in Rockwell Gardens (westside)
I live in a death trap
I knew elevator enthusiasts would label those elevators as death traps,
The whole building was terrifying, they were so tall
To people asking yes. A lot of these people are still alive. My family grew up in the Prairie Courts and Robert Taylor’s. Despite what the people may say as a kid I didn’t even realize how impoverished it really was. I just had me some fun and ran the halls from floor to floor daily going to friends and family houses.
Exactly but I did understand I stayed in the worst of the worst buildings
Right I didn't realize how poor we were as kids. I didn't even know , I had a fun and great childhood playing in the streets staying outside even after dark But we were poor reall poor. But wouldn't trade a day for anything.
MS De' jenae latrice if you don't mind me asking how old are you?
What schools did you go to? God bless you and your future!
This is great to read. To hear others perspectives. I am trying to get my American Gigolo dream-which is essentially a fancy HIGH RISE and I'm being pushed out by HOA fees. I hate YARDS. So the media's focus on the violence might actually be perpetuating it. I don't think World War 2 vets that built those high rises imagined they would be a generational thing. Upward mobility is an issue and the computer has made it worse. I just found out my UNCLE got his education PAID FOR. 100,000 debt here. Who complains more? Hiim. Not to mention the quality is no longer there in clothing or appliances with outsourcing. MARTIN LUTHER KING and his supporters had THREADS you have to go to ARMANI for these days.
Crazy part is the fenced in balconies; mess looked like jail. It was built for safety reasons because folks would get thrown off the top floors.
Tales from the south side
A baby and a woman got thrown from the top of the building I was 8 when that happened…now it was a lot of shooting but back then it was a code and it was a lot of love I actually miss them
@@kingroyaltytrucking9353 This was the 80s or 90s? Why did they toss the woman and the baby off the roof?
@@levibondjr4650 what do you mean why? no one knows why shit happened the way it did back then, I grew up in the ida b wells homes. It was choas all the time in these areas, ppl think the violence in chicago is bad now boy if we had actual accurate information back then lord only knows how many murders were happening. Cabrini green got alot of the media hype but robert taylor and ida b wells homes were legit warzones in the 80s luckily i got my ged and joined the military and was able to escape but sadly 99% of the ppl there never had a shot.
The upper fence was enforced because of deaths some from committed murders other from children being dare devils.
Even candyman got his a** whooped out there. What a nightmare!
Smh 😂😂😂
LoL 😆
😂😂
Stop playing!🤣😂
😂😂😂😂
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 s/o to the man who was able to move on, have custody of his son, and is moving forward! S/O to the mom who was also able to make the move
💯💯
What does s/o mean?
@@tripleq7888 short for “shout out”
Yeah s/o the wife who lost her husband and the kids who lost their father cause the government said so. If you from Chicago you know that plan didn’t work it’s the single parent home kids that’s carjacking and killing
The man moved on because the Democrats made it more profitable for single mothers. President Johnson basically brought down the black family before Johnson sign those papers the black families were more prosperous than the white families
shout out to all that are still here past Chicago public housing!! you the truth!
I grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes 70's baby! Grandmother from Mississippi! I had both of my parents in my life back than
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Breaks my heart to know my mom actually had to live in this type of crap
uaightdoee
@Michael Robins crumb.
Why do they have 4 children if the man isn't gonna stick around
Mine as well 🖤
No human should ever have to live like this.
They protest about police violence but say and do nothing about the fact that they're terrorizing their own neighborhoods.
Exactly
Its always an anonymous profile talking about “them”. As if you arent part of the problem.
@@petej7002 How am I a part of the problem? And who can see you in that small distant photo?
@@IK_4 yeah I'm with you on that, as a black man I understand that before you can address outside issues you must start with the ones your creating for your self. Like. BLK on BLK violence.
Because the police supposed to come in to help out but they actually make shit worse
One thing they didn't mention was. When the projects were all being torn down developers all over the city made huge money by using a few units for CHA use. It wasn't just thet Northtown Village. It was all over the city. Started I'll say in 1998 1999 2000. Any new city development secretly or not had a few units. They got a kick back in taxes and CHA payed top dollar.
Sad asl
One word... CORRUPTION!!!
Hats off to he 69 year old man that raised 12 children..and with no government assistance.
He’s living in public housing provided by the government
Do you know what a housing project is?
@@BullGooseTV 😂😂😂 right!? …
LMFAO
@@BullGooseTV Hats off to you for not raising a serial killer, a school shooter ,A mass family murdering demon, or a fuckin pedophile With out your weird Daddy's assistants! You Fuccin jack off..
90% single parent households with an average of 4 children is insane. It's hardly surprising the cycle of violence continues on.
The story of girl X. It hurts. I remember being in 5th grade at the time. The teachers were crying. They pulled us out of class for grief counseling and how to make sure we were safe.
Ewwww
@@xXKillaBGXx ewww for what?
@@lox3csimiami22
Ewww for you.
The true story of Candyman that inspired the horror classic film came from a resident of the ABLA Homes in this video (made up of the Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts and Grace Abbott Homes) located on Chicago’s South Side, where Ruthie May McCoy and 17,000 others lived. The tragic murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy, a lonely, mentally ill resident of the ABLA homes on Chicago’s South Side. On the night of April 22, 1987, a terrified Ruthie called 911 to request help from the police. She told the dispatcher that someone in the apartment next door was trying to come through her bathroom mirror. “They throwed the cabinet down,” she said, confusing the dispatcher, who thought she must be crazy.
What the dispatcher didn’t know is that McCoy was right. Narrow passages between apartments allowed maintenance workers easy access, but they also became a popular way for burglars to break in by pushing the bathroom cabinet out of the wall. Although a neighbor reported gunshots coming from McCoy’s apartment, police chose not to break down the door due to the risk of being sued by residents had they done so. When a building superintendent finally drilled the lock two days later, he discovered McCoy’s body face-down on the floor, shot four times.
ABLA homes were on the West Side bruh.... My mother is from the jects documented in this video and my cousin is from ABLA. They're nowhere near each other....
Thank you for the information
A security guard job in the projects back then, lol yea I ain’t showin up for work , even if I lived there and needed the money
🤣🤣🤣...
😂😂😂💯💯💯
This makes me miss the 20th century and the old Chicago for some reason. They just tore all of Taylor down and built almost nothing. Chicago fucked these people once more.
Hezakya Thank you so much for these Throwbacks. I enjoy them so much! Please know that you are appreciated! 😘✌️
Those housing projects and others across America were full of lead paint and the residents are still suffering the health side effects of the lead paint from that to this very day. Government has gentrified the housing projects all across America in 2019 and replaced them with condos and the like...from Boston to Seattle and everywhere inbetween...
@sara Allison aka Miss true Freeman Gentrification...they were societal experiments that ran their course and served their purpose ie projects.
IceManLikeGervin Yeah unfortunately that doesn’t just apply to project residents that applies to anyone and everyone who lived 25+ years ago. It doesn’t matter about skin color or public housing lead paint was everywhere.
Pre 1978 all houses used lead paint.
@@P_RoC45 And? Many white people lived in public housing complexes too Sherlock...
@@keithparkhill8546 I'm fully aware of that fact.
Generational poverty isn't an accident. It's encouraged intentionally. At this point it's not even divided racially necessarily. There are incredibly poor parts of the country that break black or Latino but there are also the same places for Asians, whites, islanders, etc. We've got a full on class war happening but no one sees it because the rhetoric is racial instead of economic. This serves those at the top who make the rules: division is good for their business.
Yes encouraged because it is not encouraged to work hard, study and take accountability. It is encouraged just to complain, take from the working folks, and blame everyone else for your problems.
This is exactly what the democratic party wants. Give people a free place to live and free food, you'll get their votes
finally someone sees it.
It will and ALWAYS has been a class war. And we sit and fight each other while the big boys laugh at us.
@@kalesmonroe2556it's actually A LOT bigger than that, but obviously, you want to keep it simple and focused on the individual when you didn't even consider what the commenter was saying.
Nothing ever changed, thank God they tore them down
All that did was spread all their bullshit around , it was the worst decision ever , they had the fuckers contained then
I know this may sound crazy...as much as shit that went on in the projects but I miss it like hell. I had so much fun there & had family at almost every project you can think of. The Greens, Calumet building (Randolph Towers), Ikes, Parkway, Taylors. It was home and a nightmare wrapped in one.
Thank you for sharing, I'm very interested in these towers. Absolutely insane that people would live in such high rise towers. Which one did you live in, if you don't mind sharing.
Me too, I lived in Ida B Wells on 39th, I lived im stateway gardens on 35th and I had family im Robert Taylor. If you didnt live on state St you aint lived in Chicago
Yup
Go back
That's how I feel about the 80s in Brooklyn yea it was crazy and crack took over but at the sametime it was so much fun I miss dat shit sometimes I Kno it sounds crazy
Well their ancestors didn’t get 40 acres and a mule just sharecropping. Forced to move north from Jim Crow. The resultants of an obsolete labor class
@kush King LMAO Africans can't stand African Americans .
@@keithparkhill8546 FUCK U MEAN...EN WE DNT LIKE DEM🤷🏾🤷🏾
@@jeremiahstraight6301 wat kinda dumb shit why would fall for his bait
@@keithparkhill8546 who cares what an "African" thinks anyways?
@@keithparkhill8546 both our skins dark n we all losin sooo ?
Man I couldn’t imagine living there. But you really have to live it to understand & I’m not one to judge based off circumstances.. only character.
Am I the only one who wonder if some of these people are still alive and where are they now..
I do all the time on these videos. I be looking people up on linkedIn and facebook n shit lol. Tryin to see if they ever made it out.
Some of them are.
Especially the children 😥
@@jaaysinbarber2924 Yesss
No. I wonder also.
Lived in stateway garden from 76-89 we were poor, but we had our best memories being there
I remember when I was younger on mothers day me and mother was out and when was returning home they started shooting. The elevator wasn't coming fast enough and we was right in the middle of everything in front of the elevator doors that was my first and scariest shootout I ever been in
I'm so sorry sis. I'm glad u made it out! 😢🙏🏽
Was that around the same time as this video was made? In the late 1970's.
Crazy black fools shooting around children.
My friend Josh Davis grew up in the Robert Taylor homes. I grew up in the middle class suburbia. Despite how vastly different our upbringings were, at the end of the day, we still had more in common than we had differences.
That poor 5 year old boy who was dropped out of a window 14 floors up by a 10 and 11 year old always spooks me man.
I was about 10 when that happened and my heart hurt so much for that boy when I read about that.
I am a former housing authority resident ( ABLA HOMES),RACINE- ROOSEVELT RD-ASHLAND - LOOMIS COURTS), I LIVED IN 1209 SO RACINE #1305 W/ 4 SMALL BABIES BY MYSELF, BUT HAD FAMILY SUPPORT, LEFT CHICAGO IN 2000 A YEAR AFTER THEY STARTED TEARING THEM DOWN. WENT TO DALLAS TX, FOR 12 YRS, NOW IN PHOENIX AZ BEEN HERE 9 YRS. LOVE IT ! IT'S BEAUTIFUL HERE! AND THE CLIMATE IS SEMI COLD.
That's a shame women had to be the leaders of the community, black man lost.
magnified tenfold now
So silly to even say 😂 I guess u think the guys just played ball the whole time right ??? 😂😂
@@matthewjones3422 you on the rag?
I don’t even know what the rag is I don’t indulge in bs like what your saying lmao 😂😂😂
@matthewjones3422 haha google it thought all the kids google everything now haha your on the rag & don't know what it means go save the environment so you can save the world bs haha lol 🎈
I am happy for Mrs. Wade and Mr. Larry and their families. I wish them all the best.
Terrible no one should live like this
Years ago all communities in western cities,poor or otherwise had,criminals ,nextdoor to the butcher,the brick layer,the lawyer,doctor,factory worker etc,so kids didn't just see gangsters or sportsmen as successful,they had all the proffesions to aspire to.Thats what a mixed community produces.A real community.
79 families got to move in the new units from cabrini green. Its at least 80 to 120 apartments in each building! It was like i believe 12 high rise buildings in cabrini plus the row houses. So basically about 5% of the ppl from the projects got to move in.
They were just the tokens to make it look good .Before they used to just pocket the money and just let the buildings go to hell. The rich fucking over the poor par for the course.
Rise in homelessness. Wefare reform. They never replaced the low income housing. Most people went to south side, west side, poor black suburbs. Some went back down south. Black people screwed again.
Now its CHA lotteries for the few low income apartments.
Didn’t they tear that down?
@@noelc2 Yes,they did.It’s all gone.
@@noelc2 yup tore down and built a target.
That's one of the biggest problems 90% of the tenants there are single moms with kids. It's was a breeding ground for gangs drugs and violence, 90% of kids no father they see the gangbangers and drug dealers with wads of cash, new clothes and cars flashy jewelry
One of the biggest problems is that it even had to exist in the first place.
Would love to see one of these on NYC public housing
Me too.
Its 2020 and nothings changed..
Now when the police are scared to enter ! Then should tell you something! Lord have mercu
My mom moved to Cabrini green from Memphis TN when I was a newborn and we stayed there until I was PROBABLY around 6-7/5-6. She NEVER allowed us to go away from our apartment balcony unless we were going to school ( FOR ME, Truth School or head start really can't remember). Or Church. Those apartments were RUUUUFFFFFF i can truly say. We witnessed so many deaths from the balcony alone
I’m looking at this video and I’m floored at how obvious they purposely tried to put all the black people in one area away from the rest of society. Those places were huge and there were so many buildings.
Yes. They tore these ugly projects down in the 1990’s and now look at the crime problem everywhere in Chicago.
Bingo
It's a tricky situation. For the government they just want the profits of public housing. They don't care about the people in general. But for the people in there, why make your home such an unsafe horrible environment? Raping and murdering your neighbors just don't make sense to me. I don't see how anyone can justify that or blame those actions on someone/something else.
It's up to the individuals to change the cycles/patterns and that all starts with family
@@great-eyedea what profits? There are no profits. Just more tax dollars
And for the most part it worked to keep crime away , now look at the place it’s gone to hell
I remember being from waukegan going to chicago to the projects. those were some scary times man. my aunt used a lighter just to illuminate the stair way. everywhere smelled like piss. sometimes the elevators would get stuck. im glad those places are gone.
Wasn't always that way. Housing inspections were done in the beginning and professional people lived in them. That soon changed! King Richard wasn't supposed to build those past 6 stories high. People we're used as lab rats by the University of Illinois Chicago that leased them the land! The lease ran out, the damage was done.
There’s a simple solution if you don’t like living in places like this and that’s if you already have a kid you’re struggling to take care of,don’t have anymore and add to your problems. It’s not fair to you,the taxpayers and most importantly the child you intend to have grow up in a situation like this,where they will most likely repeat the cycle.
It's called genetics 🧬
The 23 year old lady broke my heart
Yes! You can tell life been hard for her since forever.
I went to Columbia College in Chicago after I left The Bronx. I grew up in the streets! We used to pass Robert Taylor Homes going down past Cermak Ave. it was like you stepped into another world. The city abandoned these people! Period! I knew Vice Lords and Disciples from the south side. My father hung with Black Panthers after Vietnam. My ex is from 76th & Champlain Ave. I used to hangout at Heroes night club! I’m as much a Chicagoan as I am a Bronx boy. Like I said, I’m from the streets. My sister is still living back in The Bronx witnessing hardcore violence everyday!
We are Sicilian 🤌🏼
Fogettaboutit
This why black folks always have my heart
God don't like black people it seems
@@rob9528 Things ain’t always what it seem . .
Yeah right
And your wallet!
@@suspiciouswatermelon7639lmfao
🤯🤯🤯 "12 successful children". And they can't give their loving father a better place to live??? UNGRATEFUL!!! 😭😭😭
Look who raised productive children. THE BLACK MAN WHO WAS IN THE HOME AND DID NOT TAKE WELFARE !
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He was living on welfare by being there.. that was welfare and why haven’t his kids helped him move
Now, these same people have destroyed Chatham, and Grand Crossing, Bellwood, Maywood. It was better when they were contained.
Chicago has been rough for a very long time. Walt Disneys father built his own house in Hermosa back in the 1890s and decided to move after only a few years because the neighborhood was getting bad. That was when the northwest side was first being built!
They sound like they’re freshly migrated from Mississippi with those accents
Chicago was Mississippi north most their peoples from their they picked up the accent of the south
And Arkansas
@@realdeal8303 Yep that Arkansas delta region
They still talk with a twang accent in 2020
@@terranceof2007 yep we all (Mississippian) have a Chicago, Detroit, or Milwaukee cousin
You can still hear their southern accent real good
Most of those people were from Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama etc
@@Nino_J No we just talk like that here
@@youtubecommenter1000 I’m from Chicago
@@Nino_J So am I, it’s true that we have a lot of people who migrated here from the South. But as you know, we have our own dialect.
@@Nino_J yep. I got 4 generations of bloodline out there. All from Mississippi & Louisiana
Look how the kids surround the reporters as they walk thru the projects. My question is where are the parents? If it's so dangerous why the parents letting the kids wonder thru the whole projects. Not safe at all, broken elevators and everything I'll be afraid to let my kids go out without supervision. Oh ik where the parents are, dad in jail, mom on drugs prolly.
Corey Holcomb is from Robert Taylor homes. #5150
Mr. T.... Kirby Puckett... From Robert Taylor...don Thomson (CEO of McDonald's) was from Cabrini Green..
Talent came from the gutter..
@@FCm-tq2hoMr T from Robert Taylor
Oh shit that's why they called it the 5150 podcast
Happy to hear Larry ended up in the new housing.
1:41 1:42 Knowledge 1:52. !!! Wherever she's at i hope her is blessed!❤ Great Documentary! !!!!! History ❤.
Being at the mercy of the state or federal government for your most basic needs of food and shelter is the penultimate nightmare. Every American knows that in such a predicament you're going to have to eat one big S sandwich. But it's only supposed to be very temporary, until you pull yourself back up. So 1) why are the residents so surprised it sucks, and 2) why did so many of them turn a short term fix into a lifetime of miserable reliance??
Because of welfare traps. Its happened to me. I am chronically ill and need medical insurance. I deliberately make less than 1,500 a month just so I can get free Healthcare, because if I made 2,000 dollars, I would be spending money on private insurance and co-pays and deductibles, which would be a net loss for me even though I am working and making more. Losing welfare is like having withdrawals from drugs, and the government needs to change the rules so that people can wean off of welfare and don't just lose it completely
@@venomkiler1 I couldn’t agree more. Education, financial guidance so one can be financially stable without assistance !
Global average IQ of 78
I lived here when I was like 7 or 8 years old went to Sojourner Truth wow I made it out! I've come a long way❤
Some people don't realize what they have until it is taken away from them.
With high rise housing, the largest concerns I’d have are how often the eve toes are broken and fire alarms go off.
I used to work for Renault Robinson he is good man and did a lot for black Chicago. Especially in the police dept in the 60’s after Fred Hamptons assassination. He sued the city and police dept as a cop and won and got more black cops on the force patrolling there own neighborhoods.
Don't blame the housing for the actions of people.
@John Ratican 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽‼️
Great upload Bro!!!! Keep Grinding!!!
It's probable that the 7 and 8-year-olds were coerced by an older male or influenced by a group to admit to the crime, with the expectation that they would likely be returned to their parents without facing jail time. Furthermore, the adult involved would not be identified. The community is typically aware of who engages in what criminal activities within their community, and it's likely they know whose modus operandi matches this crime.
Good Times.
Any time you meet a payment.
Good Times.
Any time you need a friend.
Good Times.
Any time you're out from under.
Not getting hassled, not getting hustled.
Keepin' your head above water,
Making a wave when you can.
Temporary lay offs.
Good Times.
Easy credit rip offs.
Good Times.
Scratchin' and survivin'.
Good Times.
Hangin' in and jivin'*
Good Times.
Ain't we lucky we got 'em
Good Times.
Easy Credit rip off's Good Times?
Scratching and surviving Goodtimes I mean who wrote these lyric and call a bad situation a good time! Really!🤥
I'm not having a good time being lay off my job wondering where my next rent money gonna come from.
That piano intro at the end tho. I lived for the ending credits
@@Noway673who was behind the show and who owns the networks it’s was played on. I’m sure outsiders had the last say on the theme of the show. Think hard and deep vs scratching the surface.
Its interesting to see the effort put into making things work.
I get bad vibes just looking at that building
Government Projects ( GOVERNMENT SOCIAL EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS)
Anything that the g-vt gets involved in is screwed up.There are 4 economic classes. Rich, middle class, poor, and broke. (I've been broke, eating "Helper" and a can of vegetables a several times a week. Helper = Hamburger Helper, without the hamburger.) With the actions perpetuated on the people, who expected a different outcome? People need to be uplifted and given respect, hope, and schooling, not a foot put down on their necks to keep them down. (I went to a 2 yr trade school, and it changed my situation.) Be blessed, Hezakya, today and always! =) Keep doing what you do!
Shitting out a bunch of kids doesn't exactly help.
@@keithparkhill8546 - No, it doesn't. That's why I stopped at 2. I knew I couldn't take care of any more than that. After trade school, it was much easier. Be blessed, Keith, today and always! =)
Blessings 😇💗
@@DarkMoonLilith7 Be blessed, today and always, doll! =)
@Sara Allison - Thank you for the kind words. Be blessed, today and always! =)
I dont know why after watching this,
i now have the urge to watch an episode of (GOODTIMES)
...my exhusband lived in the building that the little boy is on his bike is in front of.
I do too lol
5:35 I fw dude
I wanna get old feeling like him 🔥 he got that fire in him
17:42 history repeats itself. Rip LA Capone .
And I use to wonder why did they call it a PROJECT.. it was exactly what it’s called a project to test the living of multiple black ppl living together with only drugs and guns at reach with no jobs or good education. And after a 20-40 year mark it was time to stop the project and spread them out like a virus and now you have multiple gangs instead of 1 or 2 now you have 3k drug dealers instead of a few in a building smh it’s sad how they did us and the guys that are beefing and killing each other today actually knew their killers as kids smh.
FACTS, THAT'S WHY THE CRIME IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH ESPECIALLY FROM VIOLENT CRIMES. LIKE CAGING ANIMALS FOR YEARS, FEEDING THEM ENOUGH TO LIVE. THEN RELEASING THEM. HMMMM, I WONDER HOW THEY'LL BEHAVE? (PROJECT)....
Nothing but a social experiment wit folk reality
The projects were originally for white people though
The people that planned the housing projects thought they were FIXING society by housing poor widows and orphans! They weren't psychic to know that the era of "free love" and skyrocketing out of wedlock birth was coming!
Your conspiracy makes no sense. Racists want to ELIMINATE " human weeds" not pay taxes to breed more of them and seed them all over the place!
Government hide SECTION 3 from folks where both parents can be in the house. Give us a video to share about that!!!!!!!
If all of his kids are doing well why don't they help him improve his situation.
My thoughts exactly!! I wouldn't leave my parents there!!!!
Everything about that man screams pride and stubbornness! There's no way he would let his kids "help him."
@@teebee3631 yeah probably he's most certainly dead now anyhow.
It’s all most of them know. They know of nothing else. When those residents filled out job applications, the employers looked at where they lived and rejected every single application. I bet it was hard as hell making it out that death trap being successful.
"no drugs, no loud music, no loitering"
How some people were like this shit is oppressive is amazing.
I laughed at that so much
@@ToeKnife166 it's pretty sad also. It's an environment that just has no opportunity to leave.
I lived there as I think the only White guy in the place (Cabrini Green).
Had some fun I can tell you.
Yes the whole idea was to breakdown the entire black family and it worked! They knew when they introduced drugs to the black community, many fathers would fall for the hokie doke! Now, kids are raised without a father which makes them more susceptible for them to become single parents living on the system just to start the process all over again.
lol zero accountability for our own choices at a certain point we have to look in the mirror
@@Revengex19999 accountability is needed but you can’t just simply ignore all that has been done by the government to intentionally aid our demise.
We as a race will never defeat the enemy without some sort of strong power behind us. We didn’t have a chance from the beginning! We just don’t have what the enemy has to put up fight. Our lives makes up the biblical scriptures. So we we at a loss as a whole.
@@june61999 No one's forcing poor people to raise children or sell drug's.
All from the democratic party
God forbid you had a criminal record and your trying to put it all past you. The state or government will not let you they rather see you homeless
Man you don’t even need a criminal record. I graduated college in 2019, and had been doing okay for myself ever since then. I got COVID really bad this past January, and was laid off from work causing me to fall behind on some bills. Interviewed and found my dream corporate job 2 weeks ago.
After I received and signed my offer letter, I passed the mandatory criminal background check & drug tests also, but I got my job offer rescinded late last week because I didn’t have good credit.
🤦🏾♂️Man I worked so hard and I maintained excellent credit the entire pandemic,but I fell on hard times ☝🏽 once, and just like that I was denied employment. I have to take responsibility for my debts, which I always do, but it sure felt a hell of a lot like I was being criminalized due to my recent credit history.
Man I swear companies & society will use anything in your past against you, even if it’s all behind you. In my particular case, I was provided an opportunity to rectify the situation but choosing between homelessness and a job is a difficult decision. I know I will find another opportunity but I honestly feel for people who have an actual criminal past. They will probably never ever get a decent job their entire life
Some things never change....
Its like watching the news today man where did the black love go man I love my people and my city but I fear for my kids like my parents did for me
Black men left their families before the white man
@@8213apice the white men stay with their family but do messes up stuff behind their back, at least the black man will be bold and just leave
The welfare state destroyed your community.
Sad, the men couldnt help
HEARD YOU LOOKING FOR CANDYMAN BISH!!!
2:10 that’s true. You still can’t get a job with a high school diploma
Would love to know how that worked out for the Tomlinson's.
Life is what you make it
This was absolutely inhumane, America truly never cared about the lower class.
the clintona do ...just ax um.
These projects were set up by do-gooders to house widows and orphans. Should they have left them to starve and freeze on the street instead?
These projects were set up by do-gooders to house widows and orphans. Should they have left them to starve and freeze on the street instead?
I can agree.
Not me thinking that “Hezakaya Newz” was her name lol
Love the video❤
People talk about trenches!!! Chicago was the definition of trenches back in 80s 90s! , but for some reason People assumed cities like New Orleans was worst biggest lies
New Orleans always been different. Back in the 80s Chicago, DC, LA, STL ect was the worst but New Orleans was definitely in there wit em.
Chicago is a gang city and population 6-7x’s larger than NO. Them Chicago high rise projects was flat-out demonic.
The Bronx alone had more murders then the entire Chicago in 1990
If you don't think new orleans was the trenches in those days you must be dreaming homie!
I went to college with a white dude, his name was Chris Harris, who lived in Cabrini green from 78 to 84, that mf was tough as hell, hard worker too, got his momma out the projects, he even had photos to prove it. my friends and I had no idea growing up what the hell kind of place he grew up in, until we saw the movie CandyMan and me and my friends said: “damn that mf was from there?!?!”.
I would love to see a updated interview with the white couple, seeing as nothing changed in the black community
The 2 boys were exonerated and the real killer was caught.
Wow! Hope it wasn't an adult...sick people.. RIP to the young girl
Those Durr brothers are psychos
If that is the case then that is a miracle and a blessing from God and the supposed real killer or murderer god exactly what he and or she deserved
@B dash Lee Wow 😮
Remember what the cop said, they were certain they caught the right people, the 7 and 8 year old boys. Guess what, the girl was raped. DNA evidence was left behind yet they still somehow had no problem believing an 8yo and a 7yo raped and killed her. That’s why people in Black communities don’t trust the police.
I thank God I wasn't born in this mess especially having my kids around there I feel for these ppl
I'm alive.. just turned 49
And for the people wondering how did they get there?? Just remember this was right after civil rights we had no rights before this , we couldn't get jobs and our education was limited.. The govt did this to us after slavery to keep us under even though we were free, we would never elevate that was the plan.. These people were put here due to conditions they didn't choose this ..
Always somebody else’s fault… typical of blk people.
Every kitchen needs a garbage can. Every house needs a toilet.
Welfare, women and children.
Unfortunately the new development was/is a failure. Prices steadily declined
Agreed. I googled the community today, and found several units on the market for around the original selling price, indicating that the property didn’t appreciate in value. The actual buyers did not see a return on their original investment and as a result are no longer still residents today.
I knew it wouldn’t be a success though, I don’t care what particular version of the gentrification dream a property developer is selling, well-to-do and successfully individuals will never want to live next to poor and impoverished people; Think about it like affluent white people refusing to live next to what would be considered to be w hite trash. I’m sorry but the two mentalities are just too different to consider them living together as neighbors, harmoniously.
It’s funny how that other lady ended up leaving her husband to raise her kids in a safer neighborhood. My mother is one of 7 and she, several of her siblings, and a few of us kids are first and second generation college grads, respectively. Before my grandfather died, my grandparents had been married 53 years. Growing up my grandfather left home a lot in search of work, leaving my grandma to raise the kids on her own. She never went on public assistance because it almost certainly would’ve forced her to divorce her husband, which is what the welfare system was designed to do; Take the black father out of the home and remarry the mother to government assistance. The cycle then continues
The story of Cabrini-Green, is the story of public housing all over the USA. When you put an overwhelming percentage of poor/low-income people in public housing (especially underserved communities of Black, Latino, AAPI and Native American residents), don't do any regular maintenance/upgrades, and allow the properties to fall into squalor and disrepair, you create an environment that breeds anarchy, lawlessness, illegal activities and entrenched poverty. Mix that with the cocaine/crack epidemic of the 80's and 90's, and you have a stewing crock-pot of residents doing whatever they can to survive.
Public housing authorities all across the USA are almost always embroiled in scandals like this, because there's no profit in it: they have no incentive to give the most vulnerable citizens a decent a safe place to call home, because their mindset is that a tenant receiving government assistance/Section-8 vouchers, will not appreciate nice things the way a market-rate tenant will (often true, sadly). The fact that people are still being allowed to live in these surviving row houses, crumbling and rotting as they are, is a testament to this.
Yeah yeah, it's always someone elses fault...
@@fabonzanaon8177 He made this exact comment on another video lol
@@fabonzanaon8177 You’re not very smart, are you?
I grew up here... I was never afraid or scared...we could play until dusk with no worries of anything bad happening...this was home...I miss this place!!!
Could white people come visit and play ??