Racial Segregation and Concentrated Poverty: The History of Housing in Black America

In the 70's... we had a clinic, recreation center, ymca, salvation army, grocery store, & a small library; right in the community 😊those were good times, even though we were poor... by the mid 80's all those facilities were gone & replaced with a police station & crack 🥺

I love how it went from denial that it happened to "oh get over it"

I am not from here. But in my country we read America History in class. this isn't what we learned. We read that America is a place of freedom, equality, and justice. I'm so heartbroken. How could a country claim to be good and moral yet they mistreat their most vulnerable citizens.

It’s called the Projects because that’s literally what they are… projects aimed at a specific demographic of people.

I live in corpus Christi Texas and I am literally watching them build a new overpass right through a lower income neighborhood. Many of the residents would not sell their land to the government so they're building a highway right through it to force them out. This is still happening today

The Federal Government destroyed many of black neighborhoods but never wanting to admit what that did to our communities.

I forgot where I heard the quote from but "Black people have been called lazy ever since we stopped working for free"

I’m white, conservative leaning with notes of left, and am constantly BLOWN AWAY by people who don’t know this history. I was born in the 60’s and knew people who lived in the projects, visited friends in the projects, and always wondered why is was full of Black Americans. Now I get it: American made slavery illegal, but then turned around and made it illegal to be black. When others say “Look at the immigrants who come here with nothing and do so well…” I have to point out that there was an expectation that we’d take care of our own first. Sure some people make it out of poverty, but only Black Americans were “legally” deprived of prosperity by their own government. No, it’s not rounding up and entire race and exterminating them, but it’s still unconscionable. Even our precious suburbs are racists, but most Americans don’t see that. Biden is doing what he can to start change, but the truth is that YouTube which giving Americans the platform they need to bring these injustices to light. If you think about, outside of the pilgrims, and a few others, most Americans have a history, which is much shorter in this country than that of African-Americans. Definitely something to think about.

This is why I be so baffled when us black/African Americans be so trusting of the government it’s hilarious to me whew😅

There’s a book called ‘The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America’ that covers this in detail.

This is why history is important.

I was researching this a few years at how the government progressively made it more difficult for black folk to raise a family but easier for them to destroy it. Basically eugenics and that the problems were never resolved. This is so fu*king tragic.

Please stop acting as if Bidens really helped after 45yrs in the senate. Not to mention 8yrs of vice president.

Damn black people literally jumped out of the skillet right into the frying pan. Leaving the south to escape racism but ended up covertly experiencing racism in the north & was forced to live in terrible housing conditions. Today a lot of northern black people are moving back south. I live in FL & it’s getting to the point that’s hard to find native Floridian. Everyone I met is from somewhere else lol.

And racists say that black people are their own WORST enemy but they completely left this part OUT.....SMH.....

I knew this information for my own city where I grew up. HUD did a "lot" in my city. When I was a little girl, when we blacks moved in all the whites moved out. When I was a little girl, there was only one old white woman who lived in our neighborhood. She was too old to move. White folks came through to take up the rent and the insurance money. Yeah, once a month the "government cheese" man came through. I did not go downtown until I was about 17 or 18. We knew which sections of town we could go through safely. It is a story that needs to be told. Thank you for sharing it.

This is why they are literally making laws to prevent topics like this from being taught. They don't want to feel bad about what they did.

I know one thing in the 40s to late 60s during segregation, black communities were clean, well maintained, blacks had their own businesses, etc. Integration came, black businesses closed, the drugs came in and now look at our neighborhoods

Gangster rap started being played on the radio the same year private prisons became active.

I’m so proud of you for figuring out the Picture in Picture for your viewers 👍 you’re learning so fast as you go along and I think that’s AWESOME!!! I ❤ you and your reactions!