NEWARK

Newark, NJ shortly after the riots.
Contrasts of the Black Neighborhoods & the White Neighborhoods.

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[mmfmmf332]

Thanks for the video. What is the name of the song playing? Thanks again.

[Joesavana]

hi @mmfmmf332 , glad you like the video.

i honestly don't know the title of the background music.

years ago, i was searching for music to use, listening to random

music on fm radio while recoding it on tape. this music came on and

i thought it would be suitable for the film.

thanks again.

Joesavana

[Soulthinker2007]

What was the name of that song by Thelonious Monk? My grandparents lived in Newark in those days and it brought memories since I first visited Newark in 1969 when I was 7. Wished there was footage of Hugh Addonizio the mayor.

[Joesavana]

@Soulthinker2007

hi..

i think Hugh Addonizio was mayor during the riots. i remember him speaking at a church

communion breakfast once. he got caught with his hands in the till, no different than many other politicians.

they really threw the book at him and he went away for it.

[bc4151988]

is that 1st ave @ 440

[Joesavana]

hi @bc4151988.

yes, that's First Avenue School.  the school has since been rebuilt and i think is now at the location

of the old coka cola factory.

most of the locations shown are in the central ward and north ward.

Joesavana

[EdM021]

4:38 Notice that in this all-white ghetto, the kids aren't tearing shit up.

[carlmelanson1]

@MVP07106 Truth hurts. Blacks could turn Beverly Hills into a ghetto in less than a year, and yet that neighorhood's been the way it is for over fifty. Explain to me how and why this happens? I see it everywhere.

[Cavin21]

These freaking ghetto ass people are destroying Newark. The only place that is still a safe place is Ironbound part of Newark.

[Soulthinker2007]

Found the Monk song it is Bye Ya. I don't the band's name who played it however.

[1f5sda]

@Joesavana Well said.

[eddie054]

Hate to say it but blacks wreck their own environment

[Soulthinker2007]

Read about Richard Boiardo the inspiration of Tony Soprano. No question he laid low in Livingston during the riots.

[alafia24]

@carlmelanson1 That is such a mean and insensitive thing to say. It is not the natural character of a black man to desecrate anything - the black man had and has been desecrated by the white man for hundreds of years and because of that desecration there exists a kind of symbiotic pathology among both the Back and White race.