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  • I LOVE YOUR DOC CHECK OUT A KID WITH A KID ON MY PAGE

  • If we the "target people" go along with the plan & allow our property values to drop & don't improve our own neighborhoods how can we then complain because what we allowed to happen is no longer tolerated! Stop bitching & take control of what's ours & no one can wrongfully take it! What we allowed to happen in our areas allows them to then "Legally Take it" the Same way churches take property all the time with imminent domain laws!

  • Glad they ran those ghetto ass people out and are using the land for something productive. Public housing and government assistance keeps the poor down.

  • @billybassman21 Ok, I hear that comment a lot and there may be some truth to it, however, who are the ones that trash, damage, vandalize and deface the buildings and Crimes committed left and right? Did an army of white people go through the hood and fuck the place up overnight? This is why everyone (not just white people) who is not black has the worst impression of black people, because they don't even respect themselves or each other so why should anyone else care about them?

  • 773 represent man. chicago! 773, 608, 630 and 312.!

  • this is sad. glad i'm not poor.

  • A new Target is going up at the Cabrini sight, and a Apple Store opened like 2 blocks away in Lincoln Park

  • @eaguir3 A lot has changed.

  • the key is education. Respect your teachers, and your classrooms instead of disregarding your intelligence. If you continue to fall prey to the myth that selling drugs and gang banging is the way out of ghettos and projects, then you will never become part of the change that is necessary. Ice-T said the lethal weapon is the mind. This video is in need of gentrification.

  • @MrBrillare I hope you get a chance to watch the second part.

  • This is bullshit. Kick me out of my house and give it to the rich. When the riots start don't say you weren't warned Us Gov.

  • (con'td) by very BS said here in most of these posts. All of it is ignorance! Unbelievable. I'm raising two boys in this world on my own, single mom, I came from a middle class upbringing and b/c of being a single parent I have struggled. I've needed government subsidized housing. I see the problems in the SYSTEM, BUT how do I explain the stupidity of comments like these?? Remember those that have lead our nation and rallied for rights for ALL, you fall into those "buckets" somewhere. We all do.

  • @EKRBarnes Thank you. I hope you watch part 2.

  • I'm appauled but more than anything sad reading a lot of these comments. Both sides disgust me... How can you sit back and not hear yourselves?? There are working people living in the areas shown here and talked about in your comments below. The high % isn't thugs, drug dealers... this is one of several large social issues WE ALL HAVE BECAUSE WE ARE ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS that have a responsibility to each other AND to our children. The problems both sides of this argue are perpetuated (cont'd)

  • JJ did you steal that?. no mamma ,I find things!....

  • I'm from hunters point and for yall that think sf is for fags sf is the most segregated place I ever lived blks there well and my somoan brothas n sistas. Mexican here asians there. Gays n lesbos in the middle. And evry ghetto is the same the pain is the same. Modern day slave quarters. My people get it together now. God is near. But u got relearn who we are. We are not naturally like the slave masters know that.

  • @blkgirlblues5150

    Don't need masters anymore.Your people are willingly re-enslaving themselves.90% illegitimacy rate,highest high school drop-out rates,highest teen pregnancy rates,highest illiteracy rates,dis-proportionate abortion rates.And your people keep voting for those that would maintain or expand the very same principles and ideology that has rendered your people impotent. Lose the slave mentality, stop demanding from others. It only weakens you.

  • Wow, I'm amazed that this video continues to receive views and comments. Thanks everyone, good and bad. 

  • cant get more gutter than cabrini green projects that dude said? go to the slums of africa of the filipines

  • Black People Fucked Up Those Buildings I Heard White People Lived In Them Years Ago And Moved Out In The 70s When The Blacks Came Moving In

  • @247xReviews

    Poor whites! Well, thank God the master-race have YOU to speak up for them. For you are very special.

  • why do these blacks act like wild monkies in heat? cant they learn to be republican and join the state senat judicairy comittee and help present legislative bills to congress?

  • @jenn1ifer

    LOL: Here's a far more significant question - why can't YT racists learn to SPELL??

    Riddle me that, Batman.

  • @jenn1ifer

    'Monkies in heat'? Speak for yourself.

  • Swedish ghetto housing projects commie blocks (real hoods) check it out on youtube

  • Many public housing project and historically Black neighborhoods were constructed on toxic waste landfills, dumps, and toxic coal waste and incinerator waste wer used as fill dirt. These chemicals cause both medical and mental problems that could be responsible for much of the sickness, death, and violence that goes on in these neighborhoods. I believe all these neighborhood should be inspected for toxic waste. Today, many public housing are being demolished to cover up the toxic waste issues

  • @Rubenleesims Um, Doubt it - My neighborhood was FINE until the apartments next to me got Section 8'd. The people who lived in my neighborhood for decades are nice and courteous, Now the neighborhood is getting really bad. In my case It's definitely the PEOPLE and not the environment.

  • american people are being brainwashed by this ultra capitalist country,always more money, american people are to greedy ,

    in america its very easy to find jobs, and food and renting house is very cheap , so it is very easy to live a good life and eating at your hunger ,they are only playing the gangsta because they want to be millionnaire

    , they only play the poor gangsta ghetto people because they want to be rich like tiger wood and drive last ferrari

    ,.

  • WHERES MR EVANS AND J.J

  • isnt this p stone shit chicago thing ?

  • @Im4rmDaSco415 stones originated in chicago. blackstone rangers and what not. but t rogers opened up shop of the set when he moved from chicago to the jungles in LA. became a blood set....junglestones.

  • @Im4rmDaSco415 yea started in Chicago

  • 2:28 ahaha FUCK THE POLICE

  • Not every white person is Bill Gates, I'm white like Casper and never grew up in a stable home. And you can't blame people TODAY for things that Happened over a Hundred years ago. In case you forgot a white man abolished slavery, his name was Abraham Lincoln!

  • Thank fuck i live in australia and we don't have gang problems like your country YET.

  • @910364 I envy you. since Chicago ripped the place down in "hopes" of the Olympics, These bottom feeding scum are moving 40 miles north near me.

  • I find it hilarious in the video how they're SO PROUD to live there..like it's the shit...are you serious? are they in denial? do they even want help? or just want to endlessly complain? 100s of years to move on...sad

  • .it will take 100s of years for black people to be on the same level with the whites. i'm not saying that in a racist way..its the way history was made. white people all over the world are to blame...Nothing right now will help any of this. it's pointless. ..its sad..age old question...product of environment or product of heredity?..some do make it out..This country was built on slavery..i guess the people want it all now..i get both sides but everyone cannot just get handouts..work your way.

  • @UzeYourBrain You must be joking if you think this country was built on slavery, that couldnt be any further from the truth and not to mention I believe it was the blacks that sold their own people into slavery.

  • I watched this show and I think White people have a LOT to answer for....

    You Devils put Black people in these Housing projects and DENY them Human Rights, jobs, health care, decent schools, and a good life.

    You WANT Black people to DIE in the Projects because we are all just "nigger animals" to you people....right?

    Whites have a LOT to answer for....Karma will get you Racists.

  • @PaulDougouba White people lived in the projects first, learn your history moron.

  • @PaulDougouba - You are just as bad if not worst than a white supremacist. "White have a lot to answer for"? The president is black, maybe you should ASK him.

  • @PaulDougouba my family are from a country where a middle class normal family have to live in 10 m²and have to eat rice everyday in being carefull

    ,  the poor psedo american gangsta boy dream of ferrari and louis vuitton,them they dream of eating meat

    so imagin how the poor people live in this country,

  • I think you'l find if you read my comment carefully that i was replying to a previous comment made which said ' people choose to live that way as they can easily move'.

    Which is why i replied move where? etc

    I wasnt judging anyone, infact i  was defending them, by saying some people dont live there through choice. But through neccessity.

    Re-read my comment before jumping to conclusions and judging people yourself.

    Also, my closet is spotless thank you...

  • I made it out! I was born in Cabrini Green in 1974 -I live in Kansas City now. I will always remember growing up in Cabrini Green in the Late 70's and early 80's with my Great Grandparents on Larrabee-It was rough for me being a mixed-race child.

  • pussys bitch we smoke all yall

  • no you wont

  • nice--drunck niggers. niggers blacks asswhipe shits--showing guns---aw wha wha you are stupid waste of the world

  • cant believe people still think like this...it's 2010 not 1887...dumb rednecks guess some people will always be ignorant

  • wath i the music in 2 min 35 pleazz

  • Back in the day if you were Mexican or White Gangbanger cought by Fat eating ass Pigs an dyou out smarted them your ass was dropp of in cabrini broke and beat up!...then it was worst or sometime the people around there would try helping you out..Much Luv 4 1980-1990's

  • That has to be one of the most stupid comments ive ever heard in my life. 'people want to live that way....cuz they can easily move'.

    Move where? These people are living on food stamps in government housing. They have nothing. If they could put in a transfer to move, it would be about a 10yr waiting list and they'd end up with another house in exactly the same area.

  • Everybody dont have clean living values. Some people have to live this way because they dont have mommy and daddy giving them everything they want, but you better believe there is trash in every community yes even yours. Some trash show it self some don't. Stop judging people, clean your own closet out.

  • people want to live that way ...cuz they can easily move

  • You must be oblivious to the struggle

  • funny too shorts from oakland

  • u did a great job on your documentary.

  • Is this where the show"Good Times" is supposed to be ?

  • Yes - Cabrini Greens.

  • The make make reference to it on the show, but yes, The Evans family on Good Times is supposed to be residing in the Cabrini Green Projects in Chicago.

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  • Harlem

  • This is the result of poor minority neighborhoods being left neglected, but as soon as some white folks start moving in.. they are quick to "improve" the hood and start cleaning things up! They should use all the money they are putting in2 that to help the neighborhood out instead of destroying it. Most of the people living in da hood are hard working class people barely making it.. the little thugs/gangbangers are the result of frustrated impoverished souls who gave up hope on themselves (cont)

  • (cont) a long time ago and chose that lifestyle at a young age because all they wanted was some nice things for a change, but didnt know no better. They are just uneducated poor people fighting for crumbs, and it is really sad. They could be building more teen centers, after school programs, etc. intstead they just tear it down and close down small businesses and kick out families that now have to find jobs and homes somewhere else. Its a vicious cycle dats been goin on 4ever dat must be stopped

  • thank you. alot of people dont understand this shit. they just say ignorant hateful things about ghettos and the people FORCED to inhabit them, seldom do i read something as valid as your statements.

  • There's no reason for those impoverished souls to give up. They live better than most people in Asia, Africa, Europe , and Latin America. When other poor immigrants such as Latinos and Asians move into the ghetto, the neigborhood improves. It's a mentality of self pity and entitlement that keeps these people down. They have themselves to blame and not society at large.

  • Chicago looks the tuffest

  • Cuz it is nigga!

  • i dont know about that baltimore is rough i mean most of the city is hood.. we got serious gun control issues here

  • CHICAGO ISNT TUFFF CALM THAT DOWN

  • no it isnt

  • I can tell you where we went wrong. When you forget to love your neighbor and help one another, this is what you get. To all black americans from these situations that left, improved, and never lend a changing hand - shame on you!!! We can fix these problems, but turning our backs will fuel this part of our culture.

  • whoa now that's gangsta!! nice video - not that i like the violence, but its a good insight into wot's happening in america and the planning thats involved to improve those areas. thanks.

  • REALITY!

  • Very glad chicago tore down Cabrini Green housing projects where these low life gansgters lived.

    Just because you are poor, no reason you have to be a low life, disrespectful, punk, gangster, drug dealer etc.

    We should send these criminals to Iraq, let them clear mines, put them in bright uniforms with targets for the terrorists to get a good shot at them.

    There are so many good Black people in Chicago, America - these low lifes need to be taken out of our city/country.

  • This is so true, and I love your Iraq idea! My question is this - why the fuck does our government allow these pieces of shit to qualify for things like subsidized housing, food stamps, cash assistance, welfare, etc?? Now I happen to be moving into some low-income apartments after being homeless for the past 7 months. I've made some mistakes, sure, but any of my teachers or coworkers/bosses will tell you I'm a damn hard worker. I would hate to have to live in a shithole like this.

  • It's not a black thing, and it's not a white thing. Poverty doesn't give a fuck about what race you are.

  • La doesnt even have that naby blacks

  • This is really sad, I hate this our culture. Where did we go wrong. You can't blame fighting and shooting and shit on the government. Is is life imitating art or art imitating life. It's real yeah, but it wasn't supposed to be this way. Watch some of the other Cabrini Green vids. Man they were poverished but their mindset was different then people living in poverty today. I hate this. (shaking my head)

  • Crack comes from cocaine but, who is more likely to have cocaine powder and who is more likely to have crack the laws give you a year for a rock and probation for a fat sack of cane. There are more white drug users than blacks. The blacks are concentrated together with other poor blacks so they fight to sell it. Thats where your crime comes in it. if police pulled over whites and the laws made cane and pills the same time as crack there would be more whites in jail!!

  • first off...tht is not the home of black p stones...they originted in chicago...on the southside thers a block called blackstone and thtz where the history began

  • True that but, the Stones are one of the few Chicago gangs that migrated to LA kinda' like the Kings went to New York The Latin Counts is the only gang here that originated somewhere else (Detroit)

  • So................ How is that correction helping improve the problem?

  • simple...go outside and pick up trash.(just a start)

  • Well, I guess we should just deport you guys. You are never gonna change. Never.

  • thats what im talkkin bout nigga fukk LA dat shi9t lookk alll clean and nice nigga go 2 where im from CHICAGO DA REAL GANG CAPITAL FUKK U MEAN AND MURDER CAPITAL!!!!!!!!

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  • I wish people really new what public housing does. What they do is they give you a certain level to be at and when you try to go above that they punish you for it. So when you try to move up the y drag you back down. How are we suppose to prosper.

  • I sincerely appreciate ALL of the commments - good and bad. I understand that this is an emotionally charged issue. This week I'll be reading through and responding to individual commments.

  • @alquincia this seems to just be random clips of thugs. how is that a documentary? how about doing a video about the hardworking ppl that have jobs and have to put bars on their windows to keep the thugs in this video from breaking in?

  • @boogiechillen123 look at part 2

  • @boogiechillen123 did you watch part 2 or read the info in the description?

  • An example of niggers just acting like niggers. Have you ever contimplated what a great country America would be without niggers?

  • Have you ever contimplated what a great country America would be without wite trash

  • Yes. And it is not half as good as the country without niggers!

  • Then yo ole faggot ass wouldn't have no country! Nigga We BUILT this shit.... all of it!!

  • drexelir..Have you contemplated what the US would be without idiots like you? Just think no more GOP, KKK, Bu$h, wars.

    And I'll bet you are a Christian, huh?

  • hahahaa good point stupid ass white dude just pissed me off, mothfukkas stayu callin us niggers and talkkin shit but scared as fukk 2 come around us or even drive thru r hoods fukking bitches keep uya mouth shut pissies!!!!!!

  • You can't even put together a simple sentence, but you're laughing.  The joke is on you.

  • Tha fedz Love to cause disruption in organizational unity and stir up urban warfare.Then they make grantz in other Gov't unitz to micromanage tha livez of people so they alwayz have dependentz in tha ghettoez who are stuck in one place fighting over crumbz.This is America tha beautiful,tha fact that some way we still survive a lot better than even we thought we would.But tha fact standz that if we keep takin it,we will keep gettin murdered and enslaved when victorious at battle... AllAsOne...

  • was good folkks GDN^6^

  • geez, this is so unacceptable in or country but NOT NEW and reflects what our foreign policy has also been foryears. re "educational opportunities" watch The Wire which captures the reality of our inner city schools. Funding in school districts in this country is dependent on the tax rate. stop the violence.

  • alquincia, do you agree with gentrification, or are you against it? Have you visited Atlanta-post Olympics-designated by Congress home to 3 of the deadliest projects in the country: Perry Homes, Techwood/Clark Howell Homes, and Eastlake Meadows?- now torn down.

  • Chicago and Atlanta are going to be the first cities in the country to clear out all public housing in the whole city- Both cities were both ranked in the top 5 amongst North American cities in raw # of public housing units: nyc, toronto, chicago, baltimore, and Atlanta. Atlanta, is significantly smaller than each city minus baltimore but had more public housing per capita than each city- 1 of 9 residents.

  • alquincia..One last word, the video was very well done and hope you got an 'A'..Thanks for bringing this to our attention..seems like it's one more of the US's 'dirty little secrets'..How, how does the very wealthy salve their conscience when they know this other US exists. HOW can TRILLIONS be spent in Iraq to line the pockets of profiteers when our own people are in such despair and need?

    Thank heavens for Obama, who will address problems like this.

  • Sorry but he can't save none of US!

  • Why is this going on in the supposed "greatest country in the world"? For one the US is hardly the greatest..practically a third-world country in 2008.

    We elect a moron president, let him and his cronies start an immoral, illegal war..ALL FOR PROFIT. While this shit is going on in OUR OWN COUNTRY!Glorify violence & war. Hundreds of yrs of slavery, then hundreds of yrs of disenfranchisement are the root cause..the chickens come home to roost and then you ask WHY??? Jesus wept.

  • Also, I'm a working-class caucasian for any psycoanalysts who want to delve into my motives for seeing the root causes..The US is the only developed country that uses the death penalty, a sure example of violence breeding violence. The US glories in war & killing..500,000 Iraqis to date. A million Indians. Millions of Japanese. Millions of Vietnamese ..all would still be living but for the biggest gangsta of all..the US govt.

    And 'war on drugs'? war on drug users is more apt.

  • fuck is yall comin from wit all this white and black shit cabrini gonna do what they wanna do so fuck all you mutha fuckers that hatin and yall can suck nae-nezzy dick

  • They do not know any different... I deal with crime every day. Nobody chooses to live like this.

  • fuck all niggers!!!! la eMe

  • All this is bullshit...most the people who increase crime in public housing USUALLY don't live there anyway, its a just a good place where they won't get bothered. The vast majority of people who live in housing projects WORK, usually more than one job! And lets face it--the way the economy is now we're going to need MORE public housing

  • AT 4:32 those crips are from holland "Main triad crips" there not american...type in main triad crips if u dont belive me

  • Black anger breeding more black anger, then blaming the anger on the white establishment or something else. How many generations does this cycle have to go thru? The ghetto has looked this way for decades. If a person was uncomfortable living here, he/she would see there's a way out and pursue that path. Millions have done it. Judging by this video, acceptance of the ghetto as it is appears overwhelming. Is a life of violence and poverty as great as it doesn't look?

  • I'm a socialist democrat and preach equality all the time, but I am with you here. Displacement? Displacement where? If these low income families have a problem with their neighborhoods being renovated and fixed up, then there is something profoundly wrong with that. How could someone LIKE living in filth and among violence?

  • I don't think they LIKE it. They just don't have any other options for the most part.

    They're born in these ghettos, with little to no access to education; that makes it pretty hard to get a job.

    Kids born in this don't know any better. All they see around them is crime and violence, and most of the time, they'll reciprocate what they see. Normal behaviour. It's a cycle that needs to be broken.

    Whether or not destroying projects is the way to do it, I'm not sure. Maybe rehabilitate them?

  • Well they do have access to education, but I can understand where you're coming from with the generational poverty bred violence and tough attitude. This all starts with the parents though. The parents need to be educated so that they can lead their children AWAY from gang ghetto mentality.  Then perhaos they will pay attention in school and take their education seriously instead of thinking it is for the "white man".

  • yall got p stones in cali.. i didnt kno that..

  • stones got introduced into LA by T Rogers in the 70's. became a blood set.

  • because that's what they (the inhabitants) love so much...violence, no respect for law, each other and a poor me attitude. Why do you think they are neglected and ignored. Why do you think the gov't put you ignorant people in the same area.....Your the fools!

  • What do these neighborhoods have in common?

    Crime, residents who enjoy crime, trash, no maintenence of property, hate for education, destructive and anti-social residents, lazy inhabitants that won't get a job, foolish violent thugs, noise, crazies that talk loudly to themselves.

    Those places should be nuked, cleared of the filty ghetto types, leveled + rebuilt nicely so good clean respectable + productive American people can move in and make it prosperous law abiding enjoyable area.

  • I am so happy they tore down Stateway Gardens in Chicago it was like 15 blocks of projects, now they have $500,000 houses going up and I plan on buying one!! LOL

  • Wow, this what the children of the Most High have become, killers of self.

  • This is what we love so much, don't get no gooder tah this, wow totally lost generation,

    beyond childish, embrionic perhaps.

  • la some bittin ass nigggas stealin bpsn from chicago

  • i hate videos that are just slideshows

  • im from the south bronx hunts point man but i got fam in chicago they tore cabrini green down

  • damn i thinkk dat t-mac fightin in dat video

    cabrini love baby

  • AFRIKA AT ITS BEST KEEP IT UP BROTHERS

  • stop talking bout blacks n get a life u white stanking ugly bitch ass bastard n go 2 compton so da gang members can hear u

  • hhhhoold on no 3RD ward houston.... southside baby

  • nigga its hp all day

  • Why do some white people always have to talk about mi young black people on youtube its hard to get along with whites but i do it eney way the asistist of black or eney raice is not the problem with are country its becouse a man wants what he cant have and blacks where not given the same thing whites where given from point one when the slaves came over seas.

  • these videos overexagerate shit.

  • Is it just coincidence that everyone who shares your viewpoints have the IQ of a turtle??

  • Angry white male, you need a nice prick in your butt. hahhah a ahha . That will calm your sweet sexy butt down. nah ha hahahhah

  • my dad is making me look up these kind of videos for saying i hate the town we live in.

    now im sad.

    =(

    it should be illegal to live like that!

    isnt our supposed to be "oh so powerful, and wealthy" wtf?

  • I am not truly missing the point. I watched both parts but only commented on part 1. This is you tube my opinion is just as valid as the last!

  • While some people love to do nothing more than post racist and ignorant comments, I believe others have made a true effort to engage in a serious dialouge about the subject matter.

    If you are really looking to post a meaningful comment, you MUST watch Part 2 of this video. I wish I could post the video in it's entirety, but youtube has time limits (or did when I posted it).

    If you only watch part 1...you are truly missing the point.

  • ive been there a few times..

  • stupid bitch!!!!!!!!!

  • I too am friends with the black folk that grew up in bad neighbourhoods to shitty parents, but now through hard work and school they hold high positions at my place of work and live in nice neighbourhoods with expensive homes and are ashamed to even admit where they came from. So i don't know why these kids think it's so cool to be poor?

  • You need to tell your "black folk friends" that they should never be ashamed of where they came from becasue if it wasnt for where they came from, they wouldnt be where they are now.

  • I agree. I have no idea why people think its "cool" to live like this and be violent and stuff. But I disagree with your friends who are ashame to admit where they are from. Cuz believe it or not if they were from somewher else they woul BE someone else. When I grow older and be prosperous i will PROUD to admit where I was from so people can see like "you had all that negativity around you and all of them obstacles in your way but u made it".

  • Also Paris hilton came from a good neighborhood with rich parents so its no suprise to see that she is famous (why i dnt know). But for instance, alicia keys, or tyra banks, or jay-z, etc. If you have SOMETHING then its no suprise to see that you still have SOMETHING. If you have NOTHING and you find a way to make SOMETHING, now thats an accomplishment.

  • But seriously. I would not want these type of people living next to me anyday. That's why the government will alway's put up section 8 ghettos so all these people will just stay there and not ruin the nice parts of cities like they did in my city of Cleveland. It used to be nice industrious hard workin people until globalization kicked in and Now you can't even go into cleveland at night without a weapon or you get those broke bums in this video and shit harrasing you for your hard earned money.

  • This is a stupid video & I am so embarrassed by my own people behaving in this manner. How dumb can U be to get in front of a camera where a tape can surface & verbally show weapons that I am sure has a dozen bodies on them & say U will kill someone. That's why we out # any race in the prison system because of that. Fighting and killing all for nothing. The best thing that ever happen to Chicago was the tear down of those state street projects writing on the wall and piss in the hallway.

  • While the actions of some may be stupid, the video in of itself is not. Unfortunately, youtube has a time limitation (or did when I posted it) because so many people only watch part 1 and don't watch part 2, which is the REAL PURPOSE AND POINT to the video, which is why I don't often reply. Instead of projecting a bias POV and depict everyone in the hood as "victims" I wanted to show multiple viewpoints. Every story has 2 sides. Hopefully you & others will take the time to see both...THEN JUDGE.

  • I did watch both parts as it states on the right. I just gave my opinion. I might have stepped on someones toes but oh well. The way some of my people live is still ridiculous and shameful.....and this video depicts just that. I judged based on experience as well not just this video!!!

  • That's great that you're self-made. My parents were not wealthy and I joined the army to pay for my schooling. But you're still ignoring the fact that where you live and to whom you are born play a HUGE role in your chances at life. No one likes to admit that society has a say in who we are and instead prefer to say their success is only due to their hard work. It is not generally true. Being white, not in a ghetto, and in a family with two parents is already a huge advantage over ghetto kids.

  • This is so true! I live in the "ghetto" in chicago(not the projects) and I actually feel sorry for alot of people around here who dont think that there is a better life. I dont know, I think that we (6 siblings) were raised better. I have 3 big bros that never sold drugs or hung out on the corner, A big sis that has a family and is a manager at fedx, another sis thats in college, where i plan to be soon. So luckily its not ALL Black ppl or ALL people in the ghetto who are like the ppl in dis vid

  • I wished more of them would think outside the box and get some hip hop in their life. Hip hop is real, a real black person's way out, but too many cats are too street struck to see the truth.

  • Alot of people would say the hip hop culture is the problem, plus there are other ways of getting out of the ghetto, e.g. using your Brain. Its how other immigrant communities did it.

  • Oh, and it's "definitely", not "definately." It's nice to see our tax dollars hard at work.

  • *yawn*

  • Why? Because I am educated, not ignorant, not closed-minded, and not some 40 year old who has nothing better to do than post stereotypical rants on ghetto YouTube videos?  I am a sociology student at UW and forgive me if I do not find having informed opinions based on more than the narrowness of one's experience not embarassing.

  • You make me embarrassed to be a Wisconsinite.

  • You also choose to conveniently ignore the history of race in the US. The reason many blacks are stuck in ghettos goes way back to the suburbanization trend after WWII. Seriously, get educated or read a history book or something and stop being so closed minded and ignorant of society.

  • Okay, I'm just going to quit posting. The first half of my message mysteriously didn't post...which doesn't make sense. YouTube has serious issues they need to get fixed.

  • So you are implying that only whites work and buy their own homes and only blacks live in projects? What in ignorant statement. Go to college or at least read a book or something.

  • I don't know why my message are being posted up here--this was a reply to pSartaWi.

  • the road to hell is paved with good intentions

  • of course i kno of cabrini green, im from da chi.. i heard of baldwin hillsz too tho.. but not the other 2. nice job.

  • 65 vill east oak nigga get yo wig split comin through my set town buiz baby iraq niggggggggggga

  • I'm in the South Bronx and quite frankly, this was the worst of the worst at one point. Right now, you have to look at parts of the South, Detroit City, Atlantic City NJ, Newark NJ, Baltimore MD for urban decay. Brownville Bklyn infrastructure isn't bad. You have some bad ass dudes out there but the area is fine. Brownsville has a lot of project bldgs. Just don't wear ya jewels out there or else! Poverty stricken areas represent ALL people of color. Watch education TV stations & you'll see.

  • I've heard about the S. Bronx, but again, I was assigned the locations.

  • Cool, i'm into Urban Decay also.lol.I'm from Chicago and being on the South sides driving past all those projects gave you a bad vibe!It was like being in another world like war-torn Europe. I definately know about the South Bronx!That shit is like an Urban maize like Chicago but the maize is the bigger, same design basically, same mentality.

  • thease arent the most well known poverty areas in the u.s.a only cabrini green rings a bell they shud have put brownsville brooklyn or soundview and marcy projects this shit is just a waste of time.

  • NyCharlem...I was assigned the places to research as part of a project. I'm quite aware that there are other Projects that severely depict the situation really is, but that wasn't part of the assignment.

  • I personally know a plain clothes Chicago police officer, and the projects are part of his beat. He loves it. Criminals should hate them, not the boys in blue - watch for the burgundy chevy caprices if you're up to no good