5 Days In July

[Texasjim2007]

The riots were caused by idiots who tore up their own neighborhoods and got their own neighbors shot up and put in jail and scared off all the jobs and middle class taxpayers to the suburbs under the delusion there was going to be some socialist revolution killing all the white people and stealing all their property for black people which is first of all racist in itself and secondly a fantasy you need to be smoking crack to believe could actually happen.

[Texasjim2007]

I spent 20 years in the US Army working with individuals with all sorts of ethnic backgrounds and skin complexions who are my brothers and sisters. If you don't like where you live move someplace else. If you want more money, get educated for a better job. If you want a socialist government paying all your bills and giving you a free lunch, get your stupid butt put in jail. If you think my brothers and sisters in the Army are just going to let punks shoot at them, you're on crack.

[fanspeed1956]

remember when you could get cheap cigs and watermelon out of the back of a trailer truck right before the entrance to route 280

[NHLbamboon]

what i dont understand is i hear dumb monkeys here trying to blame the national guard for this. it was the stupid fucking niggers who did this, they take advantage of the freedom we whites gave to them, we didnt have to. i think all niggers should be deported or killed, LOOK WHAT THEYVE DONE TO THIS COUNTRY!

[BrunoDaKeeper]

@NHLbamboon WOW ur a fuckn rascist, freedom we gave black people?

WHO THE FUCK TOOK IT FROM THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE

LMAO deported? r u serious? they didnt cross a border to get here, the ones that are alive today were all born here

I was born in newark, so i know more about the subject then the propaganda ur parents taught u

1 more thing

IM WHITE so FUCK YOU

[DG3744]

@BrunoDaKeeper WOW! You don't have to be black to see this! people in Europe say the same thing!! I think NJ/NY are backwards racist cities!!

[BrunoDaKeeper]

@DG3744 WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT BEING BLACK TO SEE THIS VIDEO?

[DG3744]

@BrunoDaKeeper fact is you can see it! Everything is always biased from a black perspective!!

[DG3744]

@NHLbamboon Go back to ginzo land where you came from?? No body like your shitty starch infested dishes anyway!! You bought crime to america with you dirty mafia!! You W.O.P's are errand boys for the oven dodgers!!

[lyfe1zruff]

@DG3744 lmao its tru..the jews is who made them powerful

[lyfe1zruff]

@NHLbamboon may you rott in hell

[worldbroadcastvideo]

Civil Rights should be reserved for civil individuals -

The blacks have been given EVERY major city in the US - They are the MAJORITY in all the major US cities. What have they done with these cities?

Are these cities better off today or 60-80 years ago?

Are blacks unemployed or unemployable?

[wrazzaq]

I lived directly across from Martland Medical, I will never forget looking out the bathroom window and seeing the bullet traces from the National gard machine guns,Excellent presentation!!!

[yannelli55]

I was 12 yrs old when the riots broke, I was from S.16 ST at 15 AVE.

So many people were crowded into a small area, and there was not enough jobs. Period. People wanted work, could we at least try to learn from history?

[SHMUJEW]

back then young black men couldnt find jobs and now white young men cant find jobs

[socalpimp1974]

Newark has a huge airport, who new it was black and white outside and people drove cars from the 1960's

[jackjaackson90]

Thunderbolt75 newark (america) was very diffrent tha it is today. black Negros could not work for it because they wernt givin a job. its easy for you because you got every thing hannded to you. be black in newark in the 1960s and see how easy it would be to get a job.

[alibangsmooth]

fuk just da 60's try doin it 2day

[jackjaackson90]

agree no jobs for blacks today in newark thanks to Cory Booker

[jerseyimperial]

I live in Newark. Go down to city hall and tell me how many whites are currently employed there...

[Thunderbolt75]

Nice suit, spoke well, but WTF? "I didn't need anything. That's why I didn't loot. If I needed something I'd have stolen it too." How about working for it. I 'need' a Cadilac but I can only afford a Dodge. So I drive a Dodge. And all this crap about substandard housing and no jobs...MOVE! Go to a better place. PLEASE! That's the beauty of America. You're free to go. It's not the goverments job to feed and house you. Pick yourself up and get responsible! Stop blaming everyone else!

[doywin1]

I suppose if you don't have a job its tough to move since you don't have a car or money to afford a new apartment. I don't advocate violence, but you should recognize that this is an eruption of racial tension that had been boiling since slavery.

[1polymath]

Please don't tell him that, he could never understand this. To talk about slavery and racism with whites is as talking to a arab muslim about the jewish holocost!

[thatentrenchingtool]

I guess I really should direct my comments to Thunderbolt75, but... "spoke well?"

[jerseyimperial]

I going to have to agree with Thunderbolt75 on a some of this. IT IS NOT the goverments job to feed and house you. America is NOT a communist country. And what about the whole BLACK MIDDLE CLASS that vanished from Newark during the riots?? No one ever speaks of their flight from Brick City but it is documented.

[thatentrenchingtool]

@jerseyimperial Many Black Americans were forced by law to live in undesirable areas with no work, dilapidation, smog, and little public services such as sanitation and police. Realtors wouldn't sell desirable homes to Black people, employers refused to hire them, and police were instead used to keep Black people out of desirable ares claimed by Whites. Many Black neighborhoods were like Indian reservations; people forced to live on nothing in the middle of nowhere. Black people were not free.

[jerseyimperial]

How does any of what you just said apply to my statement? And what the hell are you talking about Blacks not being free??? Slavery was abolished in 1865 slick and only 5 years later black men were allowed to vote. Thats a whopping 50 years BEFORE women were even allowed to vote. So dont hand me that nonsense. You clearly don't have much knowledge of this subject.

[thatentrenchingtool]

Don't take my word for it.

[jerseyimperial]

I won't!

[thatentrenchingtool]

Well the information's out there, when you're ready for it I trust you'll know how to find it.

[jerseyimperial]

Me? I live in Newark and I live it everyday of my life. Clearly youre the one in need of a dose of reality.

[thatentrenchingtool]

@jerseyimperial Oh, my bad, I see you have several comments. I was trying to reply to your earlier statement, agreeing with the "free country" guy, not to your statement about living in Newark. I clicked "Reply" but it looks like my comments keep showing up at the top of the list.

[thatentrenchingtool]

Have you found it yet? Any information suggesting that maybe Black Americans were not as free as you thought they were, post-1865?

[jerseyimperial]

Yes. And you're still wrong. I did a little research and have come to find out that we have a black president here in the US...My God! How did the white man let that one slip by?! *sarcastic*

[thatentrenchingtool]

I think we're talking about two different things. I'm talking about 1967, the year this video is about, the year the Newark uprising occurred, the year the Newark resident in the film voiced sympathy for the looters. So Thunderbolt75's sermon in reaction to the sympathizer, about the "beauty of America," is misapplied, because 1967 America was not the Land of Opportunity for Black Americans that it was for Whites. So the point I'm making is not about modern-day Newark, or about President Obama.

[jerseyimperial]

Listen. A lot of others besides blacks were not "free" in 1967. Racial tension was heavy everywhere in the US during that period. Try being Latino or various other cultures at that time and trying to buy a house in an all Italian or white neighborhood in Newark. Unless you were seriously affluent it wasn't going to happen. They were also pushed to other undesirable neighborhoods as well and did they riot over it? NO. Perseverance my friend.

[thatentrenchingtool]

I think everything you just said is absolutely right on, since, and I'm no expert on Newark, but it seems that perseverance is exactly what Newark's newfound African-American majority achieved in the 60s, seeing as how they took the initiative to throw off a government-enforced, bank-enforced system of segregation, non-representation, and police brutality, and changed virtual non-representation into the kind of representation you see today. That certainly fits my definition of perseverance.

[1polymath]

What does communism have anything to do with equal opportunity and civil rights for ALL Americans?

[BLUE439]

poignant

[y2kmalone]

i wonder why there was never a movie made about the Newark riots

[payless1981]

This is simular to what sparked the Buffalo, NY riots in June of that year. Police went and arrested several African-American men for dancing in the street and saying they were being arrested for loitering. And we had 3 1/2 days of rioting mostly on the city's East Side.

[hoteldennis]

Noticed a lot of footage of Detroit mixed in here.

[acidqueen69]

Who is that woman with the head scarf? She looks familiar.

[laurensadriaanse]

all the way with hughy j