A Journey Through East Cleveland

Up and down a few east Cleveland's back streets...

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[mistersoul216]

You're right it was. I remember the houses in the latter part of the video when i was growing up. these were some pretty affluent homes.

it's no mystery what happened though. same thing with every other community like east cleveland across the country, CRACK. I saw the transition from middle class to third worldish after crack was introduced to the community! the video is a good documentation b/c i don't think this east cleveland will exist in the next 10 years..

[HominyKisses]

This video breaks my heart. As you said, no one should have to live like that. I was born in East Cleveland in 1958, and it was a beautiful community. So much is gone now that I knew. I can only hope that something can be done to revitalize the neighborhoods, and get people back to work.

[OperatorTime08]

Black people don't have to live like this, they are able to go to college for free. They stay there by their own choosing.

They just want more excuses for a free ride.

[essessessesq]

As an inner-city person who lived in East Cleveland for 15 yrs. AFTER it changed, i can tell you there is just one reason why middle class blacks and whites left...not racism, not crack--CRIME. folks got tired of being beat up and robbed by fatherless thugs. Until the black family is restored

this will not change. Both political parties do NOTHING to rebuild the back family to where it was before welfare began in 1965. And Bill Cosby is right, we inner-city folks did this, whitey didn't.

[Faraway6265]

I started my career working out of E. Cleveland in 1967, it was still predominately white and the majority of the people kept their homes in good condition, then the movement of blacks from the inner city to the outer city turned E Cleveland into a Ghetto, and you cannot blame the white man for what the blacks turned E Cleveland into.

I seen E Cleveland going to the dogs in less than 3 years, yes less than 3 years I was there working for the phone company.

[Byrd968]

@OperatorTime08 Ummm I am white and I live here..... what, you got to be a black person to have a hard life? My husband and I both went to college, so assuming that if you go to college you won't have to live in a hard neighborhood is pure ignorance.

[Byrd968]

We moved to East Cleve back in spring 2010, looking for a way out of here but we are still here.... One thing I'd like to add. It is a lot like your video but 2 years poorer, and in those 2 years most of what you video'ed is gone or in lesser condition. East Cleve is a bad place more so for the corrupt city government that runs it. I feel sympathetic for the families who don't make it out of here.

[usmceflips]

Dont slow in east cleveland or you will DIE!

[pdee49]

Cleveland was once a grand place to live.Look at those once gorgeous homes,destroyed,neighborhoods gone,industry gone.The house I grew up in,bulldozed as is my grandmother's and cousins' homes.Friends I went to school with,their homes are gone also.School I went to....gone!!! And the cancer continues to spread to the east,south and west of Cleveland.Any guesses as to what and who caused this???????

[lookitsapanther]

hey man , are you going to make another video going deeper into east cleveland? also, any positive news for the city in terms of being cleaned up? some of those boarded up buildings looked real rough and you could tell by the graffiti that the gangs were probably selling drugs out of them. i can only hope things will get better for the midwest but when crack is the biggest money maker in your city, things don't look too positive all the time. thanks 4 the vid.

[matteyes1]

@OperatorTime08 You don't really get poverty, do you?

[lilbricks8037]

i'm from chicago i watched this video and it's very sad for cleveland. it's like this on the west side of chicago and start to like that on some of the southside of chicago

[GuyItalian]

@chronicebonics

In cleveland those are 85,000 dollar homes...