America's Oldest Black Neighborhood Is Fighting Racist Infrastructure

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  • 게시일 2021. 07. 06.
  • VICE News heads to the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans to learn more about why hundreds are protesting the proposed move of city hall from downtown to Tremé.
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  • @santanacool2548
    @santanacool2548 2 년 전 +193

    New Orleans Louisiana has always been different from other places I have been too

  • @vassiliaye1244
    @vassiliaye1244 2 년 전 +150

    The same happennned with the Irish neighborhood in Montreal and it’s happening in Harlem

    • @billyt6537
      @billyt6537 2 년 전 +23

      It's been happening in Harlem, I see it everyday here.

    • @Rethanos
      @Rethanos 2 년 전 +10

      Blame the federal reserve

    • @kylemccormack1785
      @kylemccormack1785 2 년 전 +4

      @The Adjudicator LOL yeah great idea, let's just get rid of developers so nothing is ever built again bwahahaha

    • @Rethanos
      @Rethanos 2 년 전 +7

      @The Adjudicator who do you think gives them loans?

    • @billyt6537
      @billyt6537 2 년 전 +3

      @The Adjudicator, There is a long list of people to BLAME. How do you think they Control SYSTEMIC Racism.

  • @cymtastique
    @cymtastique 2 년 전 +142

    The problem is that this is basically the beginning of gentrification.
    When people start to put money into an area by building it up instead of giving the residents good paying jobs and letting the wealth of the area rise naturally as a result, you'll end up with the newer and more expensive buildings slowly encroaching upon the older and less expensive buildings.
    This will gradually push the majority of the residents out due to not having enough money to pay rising property taxes and rent, or because of unscrupulous landlords taking rent but not paying the mortgage causing the house to go into foreclosure to eventually be purchased by someone who will rebuild the property as a $5000/mo condo or something.
    The fight is against gentrification, not really city hall itself.

    • @lazyakers
      @lazyakers 2 년 전 +15

      … or these black folks just don’t like to live in a neighborhood with people who don’t look like them.

    • @dave_riots
      @dave_riots 2 년 전 +14

      @@lazyakers ..Or maybe because these individuals don't have the money to move.

    • @Jjjbbb5678
      @Jjjbbb5678 2 년 전 +12

      If you dont own the house then you do not own the property. You are being allowed to live there by the landlord. Therefor you have no claim to the land area.

    • @aped
      @aped 2 년 전 +3

      Give? Are they even qualified?

    • @lazyakers
      @lazyakers 2 년 전 +4

      @@dave_riots I’ve moved 16 times in my life. So spare me that bullshit. If you can pay rent, you can afford to move.

  • @jamesfrazier4005
    @jamesfrazier4005 2 년 전 +93

    I'm from New Orleans and used to sell tours of the city; you can see the gentrification everywhere, especially in historically black neighborhoods. People wanted to come to this city to see and experience the locals way of life and culture, but that's becoming more and more impossible with airbnb and out of town buyers.

    • @reggiegabriel2545
      @reggiegabriel2545 2 년 전 +11

      So what? The long time residents should of bought up & fixed their own community. (Gentrification) Dont get mad when someone with money comes in & buys a home & fixes it for guests to travel through & bring revenue to the city.

    • @lolcatjunior
      @lolcatjunior 2 년 전 +8

      @@reggiegabriel2545 Cause they raise property taxes and refuse to pay employees properly when they start up their jobs.

    • @DEV3N87
      @DEV3N87 2 년 전

      @@lolcatjunior rest of the country is having the same problem. its not because they are black LMAO

    • @ishrendon6435
      @ishrendon6435 2 년 전 +3

      @@DEV3N87 pretty much my italian neighbor is gone and we no longee have a mostly Italian ran business in my neighborhood nor from my mexican brothers in east LA you see now huge gentrification

    • @qjtvaddict
      @qjtvaddict 2 년 전 +1

      Adjust

  • @brooklynrocks2396
    @brooklynrocks2396 2 년 전 +60

    I hope they win this fight. Its burns me up when the government does things like this. They tear down houses, disrupt neighborhoods, peoples livelihood, history, without a thought to the people who live there. It breaks my heart.

    • @MrLoobu
      @MrLoobu 2 년 전 +2

      Also known as, the opposite of their job title.

    • @MayorMcheese12
      @MayorMcheese12 2 년 전 +4

      It's called change brutha. Can't stay in the past forever time to move forward. Don't like it? Get tf out

    • @genieglasslamp5028
      @genieglasslamp5028 2 년 전 +2

      @@MayorMcheese12
      So of your house or business was torn down and you wernt given any say, you would just roll over and take it?

    • @GoblinStomp
      @GoblinStomp 2 년 전 +1

      @@genieglasslamp5028 are their houses and businesses torn down because they dont own the building or houses? Just because people rent something doesnt mean they own that.

    • @genieglasslamp5028
      @genieglasslamp5028 2 년 전 +2

      @@GoblinStomp
      What do you think imminent domain is. The government can literally just tale your property with no say. It was mentioned in the video.

  • @reginabayer2100
    @reginabayer2100 2 년 전 +18

    I will quote what someone said in reaction to this article on Facebook. If they want a new city hall, they need to build it out in New Orleans East. It has been neglected ever sense Katrina. Police hardly ever come out, crime is awe full, there is nothing for kids to do, no grocery stores or other needed infrastructure. Welcome to the East.

    • @reginabayer2100
      @reginabayer2100 2 년 전 +3

      @make it make sense and there isn’t low income home owners in The East who struggle to make it to a hospital or grocery store, who can’t afford to go to city hall as well. The low income housing is all over the city. It isn’t located in one place. They either need to completely upgrade the current city hall or build a new one and there is plenty of land in the East. I don’t understand how they want a new city hall but can’t afford to have pumps that work, clean out drainage or actually have streets that are fixed. There is also the old military base by the river that was given to the city by the federal government. The city has allowed that place to be stripped, ransacked, and has become a home for the homeless and drug users. Two huge three story buildings and a three story parking garage. That could have been city hall too. Taking a theater that could be used as a cultural center to encourage the same New Orleans culture to future generations would be a better use. There are so many people coming from other places, buying homes as AirBNB’s or rental, driving up housing and rent prices, and thinking they know what New Orleans is because they visited a few times. The people that brought this culture to New Orleans can’t even afford to live here. Their children can’t afford it. Struggling musicians, artists, chefs, performers, etc. can’t afford New Orleans. It will be the death of a culture.

  • @MrShanester117
    @MrShanester117 2 년 전 +32

    The new message is that black people should have their own communities that nobody can mess with. Isn’t that kind of racist?

    • @juliancalero8012
      @juliancalero8012 2 년 전 +9

      no, it's "let us govern ourselves as we know what we want"

    • @bubbles201990
      @bubbles201990 2 년 전 +16

      You see "segregation," and I see "people who get to make their own decisions instead of letting people who don't care about their wellbeing do it for them"
      It's not hard

    • @bubbles201990
      @bubbles201990 2 년 전 +9

      @Melchior Magni this whole point ignores the fact that she's living next to a big ass overpass and her culture is reduced to tourist attractions and it is in no way from her black community members

    • @Neake22
      @Neake22 2 년 전

      Well, does that ever happen? How about that "racism".

    • @bubbles201990
      @bubbles201990 2 년 전 +9

      @Melchior Magni I think reverse racism is funny because it ignores the US's entire history of racial violence. That's literally never going to be the same. The white community doesn't want outsiders coming in and the black community don't want the next worst thing to happen after building a huge overpass over their house. What if next step is buying their homes, destroying them, and placing maybe a park on top of it. Or maybe luxury apartments.

  • @stuartsaint4581
    @stuartsaint4581 2 년 전 +26

    "if we aren't here, what are [the tourists] coming to see?"

    • @beinglocal342
      @beinglocal342 2 년 전 +2

      True words 🔥

    • @DF-ct4fe
      @DF-ct4fe 2 년 전 +6

      No one goes to New Orleans to see the Treme neighborhood.

  • @Jeauxnir
    @Jeauxnir 2 년 전 +14

    .... Can we get a spotlight on that museum situation? I feel like the fact (that they're plopping a $20M museum down when there is a community one) is really shitty and needs more attention.

  • @CommanderWar64
    @CommanderWar64 2 년 전 +28

    I'm actually against the idea of keeping historically white/black/asian/latino areas the way they are; it's a form of accepted segregation. If someone wants to move there and they aren't white/black/asian/latino, all the power to them. The problem is that not all people really have the luxury to move somewhere, with property values so high everywhere else, formerly low income neighborhoods get gentrified so that the people in those areas can't afford to live there anymore, no fault to their own. The solution isn't to keep white people out, it's to solve the housing crisis and eerily related homelessness crisis.

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전 +15

      So you're pro-forcing people out of their homes. Got it 👍

    • @anniehimself
      @anniehimself 2 년 전 +7

      That's not the point. The point is that if they implement policies to uplift these communities, they'd have the money and education to be able to afford to stay in their neighborhoods.

    • @BiigiieCheeese
      @BiigiieCheeese 2 년 전 +8

      @@josephstanhope8054 you read what you wanted to read without ever considering a different point of view. They said keeping a community one set of race only breeds stagnation in ideology and reinforces the idea that racial segregation is the only solution to having a multicultural society. It is clear to me you don't understand the dreams of those who gave you the freedom to speak your mind so freely, but in due time I hope you do.

    • @odemata87
      @odemata87 2 년 전 +7

      @@BiigiieCheeese have you ever heard of redlining?

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전 +3

      @@BiigiieCheeese "One set of race" There is no such thing as race, it's a social construct - i.e., something people made up. Immigration and emigration keep countries from stagnating, not arbitrarily forcing their own citizens out of their homes becauee of their skin color

  • @newthrash1221
    @newthrash1221 2 년 전 +45

    That overpass reminds me of chicano park in SD, a predominantly mexican neighborhood.

  • @themissionproductions2336

    Was that guy in the car, ranting, Samuel L Jackson ?

  • @Mr--_--M
    @Mr--_--M 2 년 전 +45

    6:53 “That history is history”. Peep what he really just said to y’all down in New Orleans👀

  • @sharr630
    @sharr630 2 년 전 +20

    I can't believe it - I was just in NOLA and took a tour of this neighborhood. The fight is REAL.

  • @bigolesackofboogers0690

    No damn way it should cost 1 billion dollars to tear that crap out. 😒🙄

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      30 years ago it cost 1 million to build mile worth off highway overpasses cost 1 million them self's
      that was 30 years ago roads aren't cheap

  • @afrinaut3094
    @afrinaut3094 2 년 전 +46

    Birth place of jazz!

    • @null-1
      @null-1 2 년 전 +2

      @Полковник Кондратьев That'd be me thank you very much.

    • @princejaxisblack8789
      @princejaxisblack8789 2 년 전

      @Полковник Кондратьев nah that would be Columbia or Miami

    • @seanbrummfield448
      @seanbrummfield448 2 년 전

      @Полковник Кондратьев Where's the birthplace of commies though?

    • @sarahashun1180
      @sarahashun1180 2 년 전

      @Полковник Кондратьев 🤔Russia’s the the birth place of Krokodil, which is worst than Crack, so what’s your point.🙄

  • @user-ry3no8mc6z
    @user-ry3no8mc6z 2 년 전 +20

    It's not racist. But it is tremendously dumb to move the city hall from a central part of a city to another.

  • @aped
    @aped 2 년 전 +13

    Lol now they’re blaming highways for their crappy state of neighborhoods.

    • @sierraarreola5297
      @sierraarreola5297 2 년 전 +4

      Who are you talking about who is they

    • @ildesu789
      @ildesu789 2 년 전

      It's literally true.

    • @aped
      @aped 2 년 전 +1

      @@sierraarreola5297 figure it out, it’s not hard.

    • @hickfromfrenchlick8623
      @hickfromfrenchlick8623 2 년 전 +2

      @Jessica Taylor imagine thinking that's an insult.

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      @Jessica Taylor watch the video you will see the people saying that and that is who they are

  • @TheDayt306
    @TheDayt306 2 년 전 +33

    How dare you invest millions in an abandoned building to make this historically disadvantaged neighborhood the headquarters of New Orleans City government!

    • @activistarts7722
      @activistarts7722 2 년 전 +17

      how about invest millions in the actual people in the neighborhood. People need affordable housing not a relocation of city hall.

    • @jazzyj6640
      @jazzyj6640 2 년 전 +7

      Because it’s not about the people, it’s going to be used as a tool for gentrification.

    • @harrisonbannerman7412
      @harrisonbannerman7412 2 년 전 +1

      @@jazzyj6640 gentrification literally means making an area nicer and safer.
      Isn’t that a good thing

    • @TheDayt306
      @TheDayt306 2 년 전 +4

      @@activistarts7722 affordable housing means multi-family units which means the existing housing infrastructure in the neighborhood would need to be replaced. Ie existing homeowners get gentrified. By moving city hall to this neighborhood, all those workers who work at city hall will eat lunch at local businesses, get gas at local gas stations, etc, and become more connected to a neighborhood that hasn't been listened to in the past. How is that a bad thing? New Orleans can't wave a wand and get rid of poverty nor can it stop gentrification in its tracks but it can do smart economic development projects with the limited funds it has.

    • @TheDayt306
      @TheDayt306 2 년 전

      @@jazzyj6640 how is an empty building going to help the people? If the choice is to do nothing and leave a neighborhood uninvested in or to invest with the chance that some will be priced out shouldnt one at least try to help the most people possible? Yes, some may be gentrified but others won't. Others will have more opportunities and resources to accomplish them. To not invest is to leave everyone behind.

  • @fu3kMuhammad
    @fu3kMuhammad 2 년 전 +7

    I think the title is wrong here's the correction America's oldest black neighborhood fighting progress

    • @reggiegabriel2545
      @reggiegabriel2545 2 년 전 +2

      Exactly, these folks believe buying a home & fixing it up to rent to a family or traveling guests is “Gentrification”

  • @marcusramirez4059
    @marcusramirez4059 2 년 전 +19

    Do sad that they have to go through all of this. Sending prayers 🙏 for everything to be recognized and for a great outcome.

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      What? A decent human being in a KRplus comments section? Has hell frozen over? 😂

  • @1987whitez
    @1987whitez 2 년 전 +10

    Those people with the $$$ always done what they want will succeed in this one as well.

  • @alanmc1846
    @alanmc1846 2 년 전 +2

    WTF is the big deal here? They're moving the city Hall to a better location?!.. some people just love arguing!

  • @kathleenorourke9326
    @kathleenorourke9326 2 년 전 +8

    This story is important, and thank you for covering it. Perhaps look into Petersburg, VA and Pocahontas Island-- a historically black town/neighborhood that pre-dates Treme.

    • @will2991
      @will2991 2 년 전

      @make it make sense could just say the reporter, just saying

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      lol history been we don't walk black people living where we live
      now we don't want white people living where we live

  • @TheBerg366
    @TheBerg366 2 년 전 +4

    Why is everything turned into a race problem? Its clearly about wealth and ability to for legal defense (which in America is closely tied to wealth). Such a project is realised with less problems when doing it in a poorer neighbourhood. It's not about race, it's about wealth.

  • @eklectiktoni
    @eklectiktoni 2 년 전 +13

    2:34 I LOVED those shots Vice! The side-by-side of the city in the past vs now - wow!

  • @Budymierdas
    @Budymierdas 2 년 전 +27

    "When my ancestors bought this house almost 70 years ago"
    So... your parents? or... ?

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전 +6

      She specifies who like 2 seconds later dude 🤣

    • @PinstripeJim
      @PinstripeJim 2 년 전 +2

      No, just ancestors of the same ethnicity.

    • @TheFreshSpam
      @TheFreshSpam 2 년 전 +8

      Imagine if someone White said that about a neighbourhood or house

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전 +2

      @@TheFreshSpam I did, and it's basically the same, except weirdos online don't make fun of them for it

    • @PinstripeJim
      @PinstripeJim 2 년 전 +4

      @@TheFreshSpam Exactly. You will never hear a Hispanic or Asian person in the US say this or push for these movements. VICE is falling in line with the racial separation of this nation by reporting on false race-related issues.

  • @murdoch3396
    @murdoch3396 2 년 전 +7

    Look at what happened to Scollay Square in Boston back in the day. Same damn thing all over again. So sad. Culture lost.

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      lol history been we don't walk black people living where we live
      now we don't want white people living where we live
      places always change look at inglewood that use to be white

    • @murdoch3396
      @murdoch3396 2 년 전

      @@joejacko1587 I really don’t care about the race of who’s culture is being lost. It’s sad all around.

  • @gatschroedinger
    @gatschroedinger 2 년 전 +53

    I like how the BLM ad i got before this video said it was sponsored by JP morgan... LOL

  • @user-fd3qq6cj2v
    @user-fd3qq6cj2v 2 년 전 +5

    "dem white folks got all dat money" lmao

  • @hydrolisk6454
    @hydrolisk6454 2 년 전 +1

    I was staying the the treme 2 weeks ago I was wondering what was up with all the city hall signs

  • @catlas_
    @catlas_ 2 년 전 +2

    Says "absolutely" but shakes his head 6:52

  • @DEV3N87
    @DEV3N87 2 년 전 +4

    5:45 "Them white folks got it..."
    So glad racism is alive and well assuming white people just...have money sitting around like that, but i digress.

  • @sisterphyllis4753
    @sisterphyllis4753 2 년 전 +24

    This is great that you are sharing this, making their voices heard. This happens to every Black community in America. Imminent domain is what they claim - development. What I have learned is that those who holds city and state positions (not all) tend to appease corporations than their constituents. It’s sad when people can work all their lives to obtain what suppose to be part of the American dream and someone can just snatch it away, that’s thievery.

    • @humeragondal2135
      @humeragondal2135 2 년 전 +1

      its the corps with their donations to party funds get them in post .... its comes with strings.

    • @organizedchaos4559
      @organizedchaos4559 2 년 전

      Umm what? When building infrastructure you use imminent domain to purchase the cheapest possible land for it? Or maybe your brain is telling you to buying the most expensive possible land to drive up the cost

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      sounds more like those people had the problem with white people moving in lol what a reversal of history

    • @idontknowaboutthat1904
      @idontknowaboutthat1904 년 전

      @@organizedchaos4559 It was often used as a political tool to target Black areas, with malicious intent.

  • @icecreamcake1457
    @icecreamcake1457 2 년 전

    What song are they singing at 7:51?

  • @mrniceguy7168
    @mrniceguy7168 2 년 전 +20

    This is an old tale - homeowners/property owners trying to maximize their wealth at the expensive of people who don’t own property.
    It’s OK now though because they are black homeowners

  • @nokiot9
    @nokiot9 2 년 전 +6

    I didn’t see a shred of modern “racist infrastructure”. The most recent example they had is from what, 1960? It’s an extremely important distinction to make.

  • @Ayreez1
    @Ayreez1 2 년 전 +26

    This is so dumb, it'd make sense if they were demoing existing buildings but they're just revamping an empty building. Why would an empty building in your neighbourhood? Plus having city hall right there would bring even more money into the community.

    • @redswift31
      @redswift31 2 년 전 +2

      Agreed

    • @keithjefferson9863
      @keithjefferson9863 2 년 전 +8

      Maybe its dumb 4 your hood, but we live in these communities, let us decide whats best. Our families go back generations in these communities. Empty houses? Our whole hood is being gentrified. We are being moved out in the name of whiteness...... We know whats up in our communities.you never step one foot in my hood, dont know not one person but u know whats best!!!! Im sure your city has its own problems 4 you to judge.

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      "Why would an empty building in your neighborhood?" Lmao that isn't a complete sentence dude what are you trying to say? 🤣

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전 +5

      @@keithjefferson9863 It's amazing how opinionated people can be about issues that don't affect them at all 🤷‍♂️

    • @activistarts7722
      @activistarts7722 2 년 전 +5

      you missed the entire point. This is pushing out the people who made the neighborhood what it is.

  • @upbeatjohndoe8044
    @upbeatjohndoe8044 2 년 전 +1

    When someone says "Absolutely " and shakes their head no, they mean no.

  • @lalouisianecreole4883

    Love love love New Orleans, Queen City of the South
    I recommend to anyone who is interested in the history, anything by Richard Campanella, Tennessee Williams and Lyle Saxon
    Some Core Nola Films would be A streetcar Named Desire, The Mysterious Case Of Benjamin Button & Interview with the Vampire
    There is a really great documentary about treme. As well as a great tv show

  • @memerzd6129
    @memerzd6129 2 년 전 +12

    where is the old vice?

  • @camachopocket2933
    @camachopocket2933 2 년 전 +6

    It’s just so many terrible things going on around the world, but seems like now more than ever it’s more destruction.

  • @skrtskrt7289
    @skrtskrt7289 2 년 전

    right from the start, heard the music and I thought "New Orleans?" and I was right

  • @jamesalderman5387
    @jamesalderman5387 2 년 전

    Only idiots believe that an elevated highway above a neighborhood makes crime go up in the neighborhood. Only idiots would demand that a derelict building be left in ruins rather than refurbished into a City Hall.

  • @robertgrzesiak6767
    @robertgrzesiak6767 2 년 전 +19

    Only Americans can claim development of public space and poor neighborhoods with public infrastructure is oppresive and racist. Without these developments, historically poor or „black” neighborhoods would be significantly poorer. Visit Eastern Europe to see what happens to places without expressways or government investment.

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전 +7

      Yeah, destroying mainstreet to build an expressway right through the community sure helped them out. And building that park by tearing down homes and forcing families out? Why aren't they grateful about that? 🙄

    • @juliancalero8012
      @juliancalero8012 2 년 전

      not like the way it's going down

    • @JoeGatz1
      @JoeGatz1 2 년 전 +1

      @@josephstanhope8054
      That isnt necessarily a race problem though. Appalachia and middle America were effectively destroyed by the US highway system, and those places are 95% white

    • @juliancalero8012
      @juliancalero8012 2 년 전 +1

      @@JoeGatz1 it is as poc communities where targeted with said 'helpful' infrastructure

    • @cstrutherskgs
      @cstrutherskgs 2 년 전

      @@juliancalero8012 did you read Joe’s comment?

  • @Arbiter8114
    @Arbiter8114 2 년 전 +18

    Imagine having it so good in America that you have nothing better to do other then protest a building because it offends you......

    • @frances124
      @frances124 2 년 전 +4

      True. Misplaced priorities. Americans have enough to eat and so to avoid ennui they look for meaning in meaningless causes.

    • @Arbiter8114
      @Arbiter8114 2 년 전

      @Animosity Jones why so they can violently attack me because I don’t care what they’re complaining about

    • @pieterandjuanchronicles9849
      @pieterandjuanchronicles9849 2 년 전

      @Animosity Jones The New Orleans has it 100 times better than Africa so check your privilege bud

    • @pieterandjuanchronicles9849
      @pieterandjuanchronicles9849 2 년 전

      @Jessica Taylor No

    • @Arbiter8114
      @Arbiter8114 2 년 전

      @Jessica Taylor because what they’re protesting is ridiculous

  • @theD0PEST
    @theD0PEST 2 년 전

    Sad to see this happening in my hometown

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 2 년 전 +2

    no child policy for those below poverty and one child policy for those below median income.

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      yea try to stop people from fucking thats not going to end well inequality is a dangerous game if you tried the add breading rights to it
      well eat the rich would be nice thing compared as to what was going to happen
      well I say we all enter the thunderdome last 2000 people get to leave and start the human race over again

  • @nazzme6181
    @nazzme6181 2 년 전 +3

    Why is it, that the pale-faces always liked lands that belonged to natives to keep them comfortable!!!! They'll take it a little slice at a time!!!!💝

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전 +1

      black people aren't natives and fair skin faces

  • @Misesian86
    @Misesian86 2 년 전 +8

    It’s unfortunate what happened there, but it’s a dying neighborhood. There isn’t opportunity there, crime, boarded up buildings, it’s not what it used to be. This clinging to the past gets you nowhere. So what if it gets developed, new buildings, new business, the residents are a different demographic; times change.
    Tearing out the expressway? Why would you even think that’s a reasonable request? It’s too important of a highway to remove it now.
    There was a lot more than race at work when building the interstate system. They even made sure to place the roads and exits to service communities of politicians and their buddies, that affected more than just black communities.
    It’s good they’re proud of their history, but they’re letting that history hold them back from progress. That neighborhood and New Orleans in general has little to offer.

    • @Misesian86
      @Misesian86 2 년 전 +1

      The current governor has little to do with it. The original interstate system began in the 50’s. It’s always been about who knows who. You had to be the right kind of white community to benefit from it. You make it sound like White people are some mythical creature, in possession of enormous amounts of wealth. This country is 76% white. Based on the national statistics around poverty, health, education, etc, that means a lot of white folks are suffering too. I think people that by into this stuff don’t get out much.
      Eminent Domain is another element here. There is a high profile Supreme Court case, involving a white woman, that established this doctrine. The government steals from everyone.
      You can also thank government for giving power to banks to keep the practice of redlining alive. Not on purpose though. Most of these decisions are automated with very little human involvement in evaluating an individual’s situation. As a result, it’s biased against traditionally disadvantaged groups. The algorithms learn bias without it being intentional. These banks don’t care though. They get so much money from the government, there’s no need to satisfy the consumer.
      These critical race arguments are purely emotional. The problem and solution is very simple, fix the economics, stop concentrating government power.
      Of course natural disasters haven’t helped this particular situation much either. After that disaster, why would you want to come back?

    • @Misesian86
      @Misesian86 2 년 전 +1

      Fast Giblets if you view things only as oppressed and oppressor, as most people do, you’ll never fix it. The elite and powerful will continue to use that ignorance against you.

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      @Fast Giblets so they could move to a white neighborhood and benefit
      oh wait never they don't even have to do that the white neighborhood is being moved to them
      well problem solved its not since white economic activity is always benefits here area they won't have to worry about it living there

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 년 전

      @Fast Giblets how much do you think kids cost to raise a kid to 18 please tell me does that bracket figure in one house hold incomes or two house hold incomes
      by the time slavery ended here in America the Moorish kingdoms still had 1.5 million white slaves do you see white people over there trying to make excuses for something that happened over 170 years ago
      oh yea you care about those indigenous people you can move any time you want yet you still living here on there stolen blood land so you are just as responsible as i am

  • @jayn9559
    @jayn9559 2 년 전 +1

    The government of Louisiana, said similar answer back after Katrina

  • @z0ttel89
    @z0ttel89 2 년 전 +6

    What that woman is saying at ~ 2:06 is EXACTLY what white nationalists all over Europe have been saying in response to unregulated immigration
    by foreigners (mostly muslims who despise western culture and want to bring Sharia Law with them).
    She is 100% correct with what she's saying. When you let other people kick aside the local culture, then that culture will die sooner or later...
    and then what? What have you gained? What are people coming to see after the local culture has been destroyed?
    People are travelling to Paris every day because they think of it in romanticized terms, like in the movies in the 50s and 60s ....
    but that is not the Paris of today anymore. The Paris of today is an absolute sh|thole due to unregulated immigration and by now, french culture,
    and I mean ACTUAL french culture, is dying more and more, every day.

    • @cdaprinz999
      @cdaprinz999 2 년 전

      The 9th crusade is upon us brother in Canada our churches are burnt with Impunity our time will come

  • @Detective_Police
    @Detective_Police 2 년 전 +5

    Where is about Asian report on hate crime?

    • @T2uyu
      @T2uyu 2 년 전 +5

      too bad us asian are too submissive, no attention or awareness raised lol

    • @findmeifyoucan
      @findmeifyoucan 2 년 전 +4

      It doesn't fit the BLM narrative so it won't be discussed.

    • @youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263
      @youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 2 년 전

      Well most of them are wealthier despite being in a racist country😂

  • @nuck-
    @nuck- 2 년 전 +14

    So much misguided passion. If only they just foccussed on bettering themselves intead of being stuck on the chip on their shoulders.

    • @findmeifyoucan
      @findmeifyoucan 2 년 전 +11

      EXACTLY... Where are the other minorities that are also oppressed? Oh right, busy working.

    • @lanardfletcher1422
      @lanardfletcher1422 2 년 전

      @@findmeifyoucan And who might these minorities be?? Lol

  • @stephmayo817
    @stephmayo817 2 년 전

    Did Ramsey Green just go over his question and instead tell them whatever their issue isn't the gvt's. Spoken like a true politician

  • @itsnoirr7455
    @itsnoirr7455 2 년 전 +3

    Since when is city hall racist

  • @FATHOLLYWOODB123
    @FATHOLLYWOODB123 2 년 전 +6

    VICE has never been to the trailer park I see 🤣

  • @Huy-G-Le
    @Huy-G-Le 2 년 전 +21

    Is it just me, or America in the past look better than the future?

    • @princejaxisblack8789
      @princejaxisblack8789 2 년 전 +5

      Yeah it did because we had world-class architecture and infrastructure, now all the poor and war-torn countries that looked up to us like in Western Europe and Japan have speed raced past us

    • @Huy-G-Le
      @Huy-G-Le 2 년 전

      @@princejaxisblack8789 remember Detroit in the Old day?

    • @shaddythewiz3836
      @shaddythewiz3836 2 년 전

      @@Huy-G-Le it's because of how our cities are built honestly. with cities relying on cars is not a good strategy and destroyed our cities. if u look at all those other countries they don't have car dependent societies as us. u can see the same in Canada tho in recent years the country has been taking measures to change that. Yes a car dependent society is our culture but it is only good for a small amount of people and hurting our cities.

    • @therealGuerrilla
      @therealGuerrilla 2 년 전 +2

      Nah remember slavery then Jim crow and all that? Not sure what past you're referring to.

    • @sgtmuffinbadger6147
      @sgtmuffinbadger6147 2 년 전

      @@therealGuerrilla what a reach

  • @donovank.6684
    @donovank.6684 2 년 전 +1

    If you see racist comments, don't waste your time engaging them, just report them.

  • @idontknowaboutthat1904

    Architecture and urban planning is speech conveying a message. Washington DC is laid out with angles and monuments which hold hidden meanings, cities and their important infrastructure are laid out not only for efficiency, but beauty and to please those who have a voice; but at the expense of those considered unworthy of one. Racism speaks loud and clear, if you understand it's language.

  • @AsifAkhtar20
    @AsifAkhtar20 2 년 전 +14

    Infrastructure is racist?
    Whats next, racist air?

    • @lunaticairi3047
      @lunaticairi3047 2 년 전 +4

      That's all that's left, so.. yes.

    • @ad72644
      @ad72644 2 년 전 +1

      @@lunaticairi3047 so splitting up black neighbourhoods isn’t racist?

    • @ad72644
      @ad72644 2 년 전 +1

      Splitting up black neighbourhoods is racist

    • @AsifAkhtar20
      @AsifAkhtar20 2 년 전 +6

      @@ad72644 do you know what's even more racist? Entire BLM bs

    • @roxarecool
      @roxarecool 2 년 전

      @@ad72644 Provide evidence that race was the motivation.

  • @heynow9863
    @heynow9863 2 년 전 +8

    Where my great grandmother raised 16 kids? Could you be anymore irresponsible.

    • @kennykinnee6688
      @kennykinnee6688 2 년 전

      You mean the mother and father of those kids

    • @bsaforlife
      @bsaforlife 2 년 전

      @Political Mind no most people never had more than 8 kids in America outside of some catholic white families and black people

  • @superdude7459
    @superdude7459 2 년 전

    A bully trying to flex their power and looking over
    People who have more
    Compassion In their pinky
    finger than the bullies do in
    their whole heart.

  • @deelee4639
    @deelee4639 2 년 전 +1

    We gotta stop saying white folks got the money cause there's just as many poor white coal miners -- not to mention a black capitalists will sell you out for a buck, not all skin folk is kin folk. We gotta start saying them rich folks keeping all the resources for themselves

  • @jhon__1940
    @jhon__1940 2 년 전 +9

    No wonder why infrastructure development in the US is so slow.

  • @fabrizio483
    @fabrizio483 2 년 전 +9

    Racist Infrastructure? 🤔 🤔 🤔

  • @greyfells2829
    @greyfells2829 2 년 전

    Love the music, my kind of protest

  • @greyfells2829
    @greyfells2829 2 년 전

    People need to pay attention to local politics, if we're always fixing mistakes after we've made them, we're still making the mistakes. Still wasting time and money, and for those old folk every year counts. I empathize with seeing your neighborhood change, but that's one of the problems of city living. Most residents don't care, most people have little connection to where they live. Renters aren't true community members.

  • @NickyTballer
    @NickyTballer 2 년 전 +3

    As a New Orleans resident it is disingenuous to frame this story in a white vs black perspective. That doesn't advance the conversation and only seeds division. The mayor is African American and the plurality of the city is African American. The city has some of the worst infrastructure in the U.S. and that's aside from Katrina. It has been plagued by govt fraud and bureaucratic waste. It is, however, it the most cultured and unique cities in the U.S. hands down. It has a vibe and spirit like no other. The beautiful black culture, history, and pride of the city are what brought me here from California. The people of New Orleans are one-of-a-kind.

  • @BosnianBEAST-ky9xv
    @BosnianBEAST-ky9xv 2 년 전 +8

    Vice was better a couple years ago

  • @Kush_Co
    @Kush_Co 2 년 전 +1

    Hope the people there get what they want and deserve!

  • @nullvid
    @nullvid 2 년 전

    I've lived here by entire life, it's like no other city

  • @afrinaut3094
    @afrinaut3094 2 년 전 +10

    This is a prime example of highway displacement. Robert Moses did this allot in Chicago & across America. Destroying African American neighborhoods for high ways cutting right through. Its also important to note that America's suburbs were originally built for Whites, but excluding African Americans & Native Americans. Redlined districts were areas that were seen as improper to invest in, because the majority population in those areas were African American. Architects & city planners like Robert Moses, wanted to connect suburbs to greenlined areas, beaches & other desirable locations, so highways & expressways intentionally trampled right though Black neighborhoods (successful or otherwise) in order to "knock-out-two-birds-with-one-stone", further damage BlackAmerican generational wealth & increase White Americans opportunities (often with little care or knowledge to what was being done to historic AfricanAmerican communities).

    • @kylemccormack1785
      @kylemccormack1785 2 년 전

      Nonsense, of course.

    • @juliancalero8012
      @juliancalero8012 2 년 전 +1

      @@kylemccormack1785 please tell me you're a bot

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      @@kylemccormack1785 Q) What do you call someone who spends their weekdays writing racist things on the internet? A) A pathetic loser!

    • @kylemccormack1785
      @kylemccormack1785 2 년 전

      @@josephstanhope8054 Feel free to point out the racism. Lmfao trite child....

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      @@kylemccormack1785 Said the sad sack with no job 😂

  • @polishspy3088
    @polishspy3088 2 년 전 +17

    0:30 not a cult.

    • @tacet4094
      @tacet4094 2 년 전 +1

      bro thats what i was thinking

    • @lanardfletcher1422
      @lanardfletcher1422 2 년 전 +1

      If THATS a cult, then so is every protest/demonstration that EVER happened....and high school pep rallies. Lol

    • @mar.v8083
      @mar.v8083 2 년 전

      I guess church should be called that as well

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      @@mar.v8083 That one actually should, ever see "Jesus Camp"? 🥶

    • @omnibusification
      @omnibusification 2 년 전

      so creepy everytime they do this. god damn sheep

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess 11 개월 전 +1

    Seattle. Now that’s a story of both racism and gentrification. And colonialism.

  • @maman89
    @maman89 2 년 전

    wtf is that highway ?

  • @HARRY1964FLA
    @HARRY1964FLA 2 년 전 +3

    Is Eatonville in Fla. not the oldest. Not as big a party as New Orleans.

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전 +2

      Eatonville was founded in the late 1800's, Treme in the early 1800's 👍

  • @lolap8185
    @lolap8185 2 년 전 +3

    They put hallways through out all our black communities in America this is sad ..

  • @baker1714
    @baker1714 2 년 전 +1

    How come its barley a problem now?

  • @ChadAfricaUnite
    @ChadAfricaUnite 2 년 전

    Eatonville Fl is the first established!

  • @ivanbregar1646
    @ivanbregar1646 2 년 전 +4

    Who owns Vice?

    • @lazyakers
      @lazyakers 2 년 전 +1

      According to Wikipedia: TPG Capital, A&E, Shane smith, the Walt Disney Co., soros fund management and James Murdoch

  • @ozairakhtarcom
    @ozairakhtarcom 2 년 전 +6

    USA should focus on its own development now, that includes:
    100% Free Healthcare
    100% Free Education
    100% Free Internal Security

    • @matthewcreigh6624
      @matthewcreigh6624 2 년 전

      @@Alexander03312 I mean, they didn't mention how they'd raise funds and basically every developed nation has all of these things.
      I think you may actually be the one who failed economics...
      (I'm assuming they mean free at point of use)

  • @Juliet42110
    @Juliet42110 2 년 전 +1

    Use the Voodoo dr. to put a spell on those Air B'nBs.

  • @gregsonnenberg2765
    @gregsonnenberg2765 2 년 전 +2

    Do people go to New Orleans to see 👀 black people 🤔 ??

  • @trustme2001
    @trustme2001 2 년 전 +28

    Look at all of those out of work people.

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      Tbh whenever I see a racist dude on the internet my first thought is - this dude jealous because his weenie teenie

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      @Animosity Jones His klansman sense is tingling

  • @RAIKQU
    @RAIKQU 2 년 전 +28

    can we stop calling everything racist

    • @devonfreeman617
      @devonfreeman617 2 년 전 +2

      Well when you look at the evidence provided…

    • @RAIKQU
      @RAIKQU 2 년 전 +5

      @@devonfreeman617 i think it sucks but i dont think it's racist

    • @shemekalg
      @shemekalg 2 년 전 +2

      Sure, as soon as everything stops being racist!

    • @devonfreeman617
      @devonfreeman617 2 년 전

      Y’all want the title to be “…Historically Racist infrastructure…” bc that’s what the ppl in that part of OUR country is fighting. Y’all shouldn’t let an actual word bother y’all so much.

    • @lanardfletcher1422
      @lanardfletcher1422 2 년 전

      I mean they're not moving it to Lakewood or the Garden District where there is next to NO black people sooo......ijs

  • @dudeguy818
    @dudeguy818 년 전 +2

    1/3 of free black people owned black people as slaves in New Orleans during slavery

  • @sharstarg2414
    @sharstarg2414 2 년 전

    Thank you Vice👍🏽

  • @lapinchechismosa
    @lapinchechismosa 2 년 전 +6

    America always knocking down Black Main Street, Black Wall Street, etc

    • @kennykinnee6688
      @kennykinnee6688 2 년 전 +4

      Stop thinking you can claim streets or anything else for your color .... especially if you are constantly whining about being abused or victims

    • @lapinchechismosa
      @lapinchechismosa 2 년 전 +2

      @@kennykinnee6688 you’re WHITE🤡💀

    • @lapinchechismosa
      @lapinchechismosa 2 년 전 +2

      Know your place, colonizer

    • @lapinchechismosa
      @lapinchechismosa 2 년 전 +1

      @@kennykinnee6688 you are literally“whining” tho 🤡

    • @josephstanhope8054
      @josephstanhope8054 2 년 전

      @@lapinchechismosa If he had self-awareness, he wouldn't have posted that in the first place! 🤣

  • @DF-ct4fe
    @DF-ct4fe 2 년 전 +4

    Let's be honest; no one goes to New Orleans to visit the Treme neighborhood, they go to see the french quarter. Also, is this video promoting re-segregating neighborhoods?

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess 11 개월 전

    Hope they win the fight. ❤

  • @Kartracer95
    @Kartracer95 년 전 +1

    I would suggest these good people stop living in the past.

  • @naww4891
    @naww4891 2 년 전 +5

    Comments so funny. Y'all showing your true colors by just refusing to even listen to what these folks are saying. If you listened they are explaining why this is messed up. Y'all are bugging. How does moving City Hall when they asked for the building to be repaired not against what the community wanted. Have y'all seen the current City Hall? What is around it? Nothing! Y'all in the comments probably ain't even seen some of these spaces, but got opinions on how they living.

    • @MIddleJaman
      @MIddleJaman 2 년 전

      They're*

    • @naww4891
      @naww4891 2 년 전

      @@MIddleJaman lol you think you correcting me, but I said what I said and my grammar is actually correct.

    • @MIddleJaman
      @MIddleJaman 2 년 전

      @@naww4891 "got opinions on how they're* living"

  • @abduthepio6637
    @abduthepio6637 2 년 전 +10

    Oh ffs

  • @gallonofpcp7954
    @gallonofpcp7954 2 년 전

    I get building the highway was not a good thing to do. But to waste a BILLION dollars to tear it down is absurd. They need to invest in flood mitigation and hurricane preparations. This whole thing is just ridiculous what's done is done the local government today needs to build protection against hurricanes first before another Katrina.

    • @gallonofpcp7954
      @gallonofpcp7954 2 년 전

      ​@make it make sense I've driven it several times, granted not in the rain. I don't think it's bad enough to be labeled a safety hazard. Water infrastructure should come first for the foreseeable future. The levies may be better now but I know for a fact the flood mitigation, and water mains need serious improvement. It's a complex issue I agree. it's just my opinion.
      For the record I too would be upset if a highway went right through my neighborhood too.

  • @joeb134
    @joeb134 2 년 전 +1

    Even protest in New Orleans is la party lol

  • @organizedchaos4559
    @organizedchaos4559 2 년 전 +5

    There’s nothing necessarily racist about gentrification

  • @noncompliant209cali
    @noncompliant209cali 2 년 전 +12

    Next up: protesting racist pigeons

    • @israelcortez2485
      @israelcortez2485 2 년 전 +1

      Dont forget about racist comments

    • @Lucas-cgdjr28
      @Lucas-cgdjr28 2 년 전

      lol

    • @noncompliant209cali
      @noncompliant209cali 2 년 전 +3

      @@israelcortez2485 how is this a racist comment? I mean people are literally calling everything racist except actually racism. Like teaching black holes are racist but not calling someone a racist for saying all white people are born racist and bad. People will do anything but take responsibility for their own failures. And it is a failure, saying white people are such a danger to them and yet hundreds are killed every year by their own race. If their lives matter so much take some responsibility and do something instead of using an entire race as a Boogeyman to ignore the fact that your own race is the one killing each other

  • @TheRealFollower
    @TheRealFollower 2 년 전

    If it does move their property value will go up.

  • @karenhargis9824
    @karenhargis9824 2 년 전

    This is sad...