Ali Siddiq: Food Deserts

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  • čas přidán 28. 07. 2014
  • Texas League of Young Voters Education Fund presents “Vote For Your DAYUM Self" Comedy Tour featuring Ali Siddiq.
    www.TexasYoungVoters.org l @txyoungvoters

Komentáře • 133

  • @stefangonzalez471
    @stefangonzalez471 Před 7 lety +271

    Man was in prison and look at him now, droppin knowledge. I admire this dude.

  • @originalRAS
    @originalRAS Před 9 lety +270

    He droppin knowledge on this

  • @sethballew6184
    @sethballew6184 Před 7 lety +142

    so glad I've found Ali comedy,he needs his own show

  • @chakakhan9700
    @chakakhan9700 Před 7 lety +109

    didn't realize how much I liked this guy until I saw this video oh yeah I enjoyed his humor makes me laugh but this video makes me like HIM as a person

  • @nejolo9563
    @nejolo9563 Před 6 lety +34

    I just became aware of this guy. This is the type of person, comedian I would support. I wish more would be like him. Wish him much success.

  • @TeamCat1128
    @TeamCat1128 Před 3 lety +3

    YES!!! Why is it so few people see and understand how this vicious cycle actually works? It’s nice to see someone speaking about it in this format.

  • @Mz_JazJaz
    @Mz_JazJaz Před 9 lety +49

    Just wrote a paper on food deserts...he speaking the truth

  • @claudioccornejo
    @claudioccornejo Před 5 lety +47

    I came to laugh... He dropped knowledge...
    Still though
    Mexican got on boots

  • @philipvonberg
    @philipvonberg Před 8 lety +60

    It's finally 2016 and I'm seriously considering voting this year. Ali Siddiq speaks from the heart and paints a perfect picture of the lack of choice in many underprivileged communities in our cities across America. Basically, what I'm saying is Ali Saddiq 2016! Continue to keep it trill good sir!

    • @yourgirlkate6849
      @yourgirlkate6849 Před 8 lety +3

      +Philip Von Berg took the words from out my mouth

    • @LambeauLeeeper
      @LambeauLeeeper Před 7 lety

      Philip Von Berg bet he voted for the trash obummer who didnt fix shit in their hoods

  • @LetsBeClear87
    @LetsBeClear87 Před 7 lety +68

    We need to put kindergardens in nursing homes and have the kids grow produce for the old people. They're both just living in the moment. Theyre patient. Its natural. Can we get on this ?

    • @juliareed9823
      @juliareed9823 Před 6 lety +15

      LetsBeClear We have this in Austria. Kindergarten within an old folks home. It’s brilliant and works really well.

    • @AceDramaBeats
      @AceDramaBeats Před 2 lety +1

      Sounds like a great idea!

  • @cjok8367
    @cjok8367 Před 7 lety +51

    he speaks the truth AND he's funny as #%!!

  • @colleenosborne1432
    @colleenosborne1432 Před 8 lety +17

    Intelligent & Hilarious...🙏BLESSED✌️

  • @ConLLee
    @ConLLee Před 4 lety +2

    Ali and Dave both have this wisdom that is crazy. I hate the word "woke" but they are standing definitions of that word

  • @JC-ev2ns
    @JC-ev2ns Před 6 lety +23

    This is less comedy and more just real talk. Wake up people

  • @inmydarkesthour2278
    @inmydarkesthour2278 Před 5 lety +2

    This is the kind of man I have been searching for! Or friend! Not enough people think like him....

  • @georgiabyrd6785
    @georgiabyrd6785 Před 6 lety +3

    Good for you Ali, you are hilarious and incredibly aware. So much DOES go down in hospitals and homes for the elderly.
    I'm an RN manager at a very nice facility, with a company that's been around since the 1800's and has a solid reputation.. I'm about to get fired (just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't happen) for reporting elder abuse at this facility that the entire staff - up to the administration - was complicit in. Abuse happens A LOT. You defined that dynamic perfectly.......

  • @Gwen-joyful-light
    @Gwen-joyful-light Před rokem +1

    He's so right, I refuse to put my mom I. A nursing home she gonna live out her life right here with me, she's treated like the queen that she is too ❤️

  • @Bk1_sk
    @Bk1_sk Před 7 lety +2

    speaking the truth .. I seen so many fast food restaurants. . more than I have seen grocery stores

  • @layna-heyhey
    @layna-heyhey Před 5 lety +3

    It's weird. In the neighborhood in Philly in which I live, there's grocery stores reachable by many. However the closest things are beer stores, hair braiding salons, houses turned into children day cares, and Chinese takeout jawns.
    Every single block has one or the other. So while the ShopRite, or Fresh Grocery is a 10-15 min walk away, the crappier options are boom, right next door.
    I say it's weird, because it seems like a very small bubble, or something closed off.

    • @thinblacknoodles
      @thinblacknoodles Před 5 lety

      I grew up in Philadelphia and lived in Brooklyn for many years and same shit SW Philadelphia

  • @Borg_Borg
    @Borg_Borg Před 7 lety +20

    #TRUTH

  • @zthomasga
    @zthomasga Před 5 lety +2

    Really enjoyed this. Didnt realize how much knowledge he speaks until this video. Wise man.

  • @respecthewoman
    @respecthewoman Před 4 lety +2

    Much Respect! We need to teach our youth to be more respectful of our elders and to look out for them. This was the situation years ago, now people have no respect, others shun getting older, with all sorts of wrinkle cremes as if its a disease or something. We better hope we get older the way things are going now.

  • @xlane26
    @xlane26 Před 9 lety +7

    Truth, yet very funny.

  • @christinagomez5079
    @christinagomez5079 Před 4 lety +1

    He's speaking truth about criminal activity being visited upon the suburbs and some woman is laughing.

  • @TT-kp3cz
    @TT-kp3cz Před 2 měsíci

    Preach Brother, Preach!

  • @williesawyerii73
    @williesawyerii73 Před 7 lety +1

    @Ali Saddiq, thank you for this one. It is a must share!

  • @DeboSpot
    @DeboSpot Před rokem

    I agree his comedy is on hit!!!😂

  • @C.kirk1287
    @C.kirk1287 Před 8 lety +5

    very funny and intellectually gifted that's talent I LOVE his comedy

  • @Caperhere
    @Caperhere Před 2 lety +2

    Some places have community gardens. They provide fresh vegetables, bring people together, and instill a sense of pride in children. Also, Covid revealed about half of Americans are in need of vitamin D3. That’s important in every system in your body. It is cheap.

  • @lisaarmstrong5461
    @lisaarmstrong5461 Před 5 lety +1

    Amen Ali Siddiq need to get a TED talk video

  • @mashiaowens1049
    @mashiaowens1049 Před rokem

    He is speaking the truth. Facts

  • @sliedogg
    @sliedogg Před 3 lety

    Vote! Thank you!

  • @prepost696
    @prepost696 Před 5 lety +1

    He honestly does speak the truth. Privileged community have some of the nicest stores restaurants and mini malls. When in the lower part community it's crap. Of course our lower privileged is going to your community.

  • @jplug90
    @jplug90 Před 6 lety +4

    TRUUUTTHHHH!! 😧😭

  • @EC-ol8nz
    @EC-ol8nz Před rokem +1

    I miss Representative Mickey Leland. He really cared about Houston✌🏿😢👍🏿
    If u elect that person, all they can do is One areas only for grocery stores. Or if they are smart start pop-up farmers market every week end but also allow craft vendors and food trucks. It works. If neighborhood rough have squads on the lot each end.

  • @Ballinbmac
    @Ballinbmac Před 7 lety +1

    Damn this was some real shit

  • @keydaniels
    @keydaniels Před 5 lety +1

    I love this guy!

  • @rararabia19
    @rararabia19 Před 6 lety +2

    damn he's so right!

  • @aenigmatica8
    @aenigmatica8 Před 5 lety +1

    Wow you are speaking the truth Ali.

  • @smmusicplus96
    @smmusicplus96 Před 6 lety +14

    Came here to laugh. I got enlightened instead.

  • @CLLife
    @CLLife Před 4 lety +1

    This shit so deep

  • @abelardogreen
    @abelardogreen Před 2 lety

    A just society promotes and protects the most vulnerable among us

  • @plumpnfit
    @plumpnfit Před 8 lety +5

    lol, she fell in love

  • @chocolategirl443
    @chocolategirl443 Před 2 lety

    I almost thought Ali was D. L. Hughley for a minute because of his intellectual comments

  • @godllizaa
    @godllizaa Před 5 lety

    I love him sm

  • @bharris9425
    @bharris9425 Před rokem

    This is an old video but somehow popped up.yes elderly do get literally beat in nursing homes.many yrs ago i was a cna at the old sping branch hospital.we had one old lady who had dementia and was just very combative.she would dig her nails into your skin with some unbelievable strength!! I would just get other staff to come help me restrain her.basically tie her down.one night me and another cna, an african woman, not an african american woman was helping me.She was always so helpful and pleasant to everyone.as we were helping, the elderly lady starting to thow fists and she dug her nails into the african lady.this was nothing new.she had done it to all of us.that african lady grabbed that old womans arm with one hand n swung a very very very hard punch on that old womans shoulder and again on her upper arm and her thighs about 3 times.with ALOT OF FORCE.the eldery lady started crying.i stood frozen.i didnt know what to do.i was 19 and a baby cna....i left the room and never did report it.i was scared.im 43 now and think back on that sometimes.god bless anybody in a nursing home.i resigned 2 wks later.i watched pts dying and would hold their hand or stroke their hair.say a prayer.most nurses wouldnt even come in the room untill the monitor flatlined.i would close their eyes n try to make the bed and pillow and their hair look decent for when the family arrived.ironically when family arrived, the nurses were so sympathetic and caring.it was a total shi* show of human indignity

  • @kfox5301
    @kfox5301 Před 5 lety +1

    He's speaking truth here but neither of the two main parties give a damn about poor people or attempting to improve their lives. He's a republican and that's beneficial to him because he has money, living behind a gated community now but that's only because he found a way out of an impoverished cycle that the government put in place to begin with since the 14th amendment. He has a talent that took him somewhere, you can never hate on him for that but if he were a regular former convict, depending on where he lived he might not have even had the right to vote until recently.

  • @bunuelo791
    @bunuelo791 Před 5 lety

    You the man bro

  • @sirdouglas2010
    @sirdouglas2010 Před 7 lety +4

    amen

  • @ANGELSLVME
    @ANGELSLVME Před 4 lety

    Knowledge !!!!!Mic drop🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

  • @yesyam2093
    @yesyam2093 Před 5 lety +1

    Not jokes you could hear that forced laugh. Real spill

  • @Lifegoesonbrahh
    @Lifegoesonbrahh Před 5 lety +1

    you vote with your dollar, there is so many fast food places because people choose to buy the shit as opposed to going to the grocery store.

  • @leejackson2438
    @leejackson2438 Před 9 lety

    yesssss!

  • @TheMABExperience
    @TheMABExperience Před 6 lety

    #BigFacts! 👂🏾💯💪🏾

  • @pgalatioto
    @pgalatioto Před 7 lety

    So true

  • @livelearnlovable
    @livelearnlovable Před 7 lety +10

    This was in Houston??

    • @afrothunda6348
      @afrothunda6348 Před 7 lety +5

      My head snapped up when he said off 288! I can literally throw a rock at 288 from where I live.

    • @pinkangel-36
      @pinkangel-36 Před 3 lety

      @@afrothunda6348 Yep and he still live here in Houston to this day. It's Sept 23, 2020!

  • @92kartelzbak
    @92kartelzbak Před 7 lety

    anyone knows the beat playing at the end ???? plz

  • @Mustangblack187
    @Mustangblack187 Před 6 lety

    Real talk.. Fam 🤔

  • @3333ferret
    @3333ferret Před rokem

    That is right

  • @LNSMITH-iq6ye
    @LNSMITH-iq6ye Před 4 lety

    Been saying this for years ✌

  • @djrahdj
    @djrahdj Před 7 lety

    u need to do a comeback mate!

  • @joshuasnore3600
    @joshuasnore3600 Před 5 lety

    ::Preach::

  • @KJ-et2cg
    @KJ-et2cg Před 5 lety

    Someone MUST know what beat is used in the credits!!! Share the knowledge, people!!

  • @uhurus2
    @uhurus2 Před 9 lety +1

    tell them the truth!!!!!!!!!

  • @tozikatozika
    @tozikatozika Před 3 lety

    Please share the beat at the end of the show 🙏🏼

  • @jwyse1132
    @jwyse1132 Před 4 lety

    Ali speaking facts

  • @Gwen-joyful-light
    @Gwen-joyful-light Před rokem

    🥰

  • @mwoo252
    @mwoo252 Před 5 lety

    Don’t forget Arab/Indian stores everywhere

  • @richardlopez2932
    @richardlopez2932 Před 3 lety

    Apathy erodes without exception.

  • @bwill207
    @bwill207 Před 7 lety +1

    Voting is cool and all, but ... Politicians don't build grocery stores, or liquor stores for that matter. Free markets do. If that one store in town is selling out it's produce section every day, you can bet more will show up in town soon, no voting needed.

  • @patriciacrawford2583
    @patriciacrawford2583 Před měsícem

    It’s because we are old and this is a disposable society so just dispose of the old people cause the young is what the future of America

  • @settrender
    @settrender Před 5 lety +3

    Use me as the “Mexican got on boots” button

  • @davidtowers1877
    @davidtowers1877 Před 4 lety

    Truuuuu
    🤔👍👍👍

  • @PlanetJigobotTV
    @PlanetJigobotTV Před 4 lety

    Let's talk about it

  • @jameslane2402
    @jameslane2402 Před 5 lety

    That's right. Blame the victims for their own predicament. There is no onslaught from white supremacy.

  • @arutledge73
    @arutledge73 Před 4 lety +2

    Love Ali. But here is the actual problem. If you spend your money at a grocery store, the grocery store opens more locations. Spend your money at McDonalds, more McDonalds will open up. Representatives don't have any business deciding which business succeeds and which isn't allowed. The was a time that government said who was welcome and who wasn't. That shouldn't happen again. The people are only helpless when they expect someone to do it for them.

  • @Phoenix-ug1ru
    @Phoenix-ug1ru Před 6 lety

    when the credits feel like they are longer than the sketch :\

  • @joshuathompson3094
    @joshuathompson3094 Před 5 lety

    Mexican got on boots

  • @kevinmaclean6607
    @kevinmaclean6607 Před 4 lety

    Wish Colin Kaepernick would watch this.

  • @jblaze7052
    @jblaze7052 Před 2 lety

    This isn't about voting. The government doesn't control what stores are in what cities, economics does that. If u want does in your city, you can't rob them. And whatever there's a market for, it will be sold. So whatever stores are in your neighborhood is a reflection of the demand in your neighborhood.

  • @ARX360
    @ARX360 Před 4 lety

    Mexicans got on boots.

  • @No.Jumper.OffWhite
    @No.Jumper.OffWhite Před 4 lety

    This also sound's like Detroit MI. Pretty sad honestly 😢

  • @xlady7772
    @xlady7772 Před 5 lety

    And it's only getting worse smh more liquor stores than produce stands

  • @claytonmarkin7863
    @claytonmarkin7863 Před 6 lety +1

    The government doesn't build grocery stores. Food deserts are huge problem, but you can't just cry government every time something sucks. Bad neighborhoods have liquor stores and pawn shops because those are the only places that are equipped to handle being robbed and worked over all the time. Safeway doesn't build a store in these areas because it would get robbed and generally destroyed. I get the problem, but I don't get the solution. What is the state going to do?

    • @tmanepic
      @tmanepic Před 5 lety +2

      It's the government's responsibility to promote the welfare of its citizens. Governments are responsible for urban planning, public transit, and districting where certain businesses can be located. In addition, if a community is lacking an essential service such as grocery stores, local governments can set tax incentives to promote those businesses to move in to the area. I recommend you do a little research into the power and affect the government has on your life and most importantly, participate in all elections because they affect you DIRECTLY! I can't emphasize that enough.

  • @jaymillymills
    @jaymillymills Před 7 lety

    I thought ex cons could not vote? Is that only from state to state?

    • @jb-sh2bk
      @jb-sh2bk Před 7 lety

      in most states felons can't vote. however in Vermont and Maine felons can vote( even while in jail).... I'm sure it's just a coincidence, that those are 2 of the most "whitest" states

  • @No.Jumper.OffWhite
    @No.Jumper.OffWhite Před 4 lety

    They don't want real ones like him in the Major's. That's why they let dudes like Steve Harvey and Kevin Hart ect. Run off with his stand up acts SMH. It's on a whole nother level y'all hear me.

  • @thequarantinechronicleswit9963

    NEW ALI SIDDIQ czcams.com/video/VYxiOuoCPO0/video.html

  • @architecture.w
    @architecture.w Před 6 lety +1

    Starting a business is more important than voting.

  • @purplegirl8036
    @purplegirl8036 Před 4 lety

    man all the successful people are coming out of the jail and strip clubs now. Im in the wrong industry lol. jk jk

  • @randallmarsh2672
    @randallmarsh2672 Před 4 lety

    Anybody here that know who the white panthers are?... Know your history fools

  • @halfvolley11
    @halfvolley11 Před 9 lety +4

    he has a Muslim name. Is he a Muslim?

    • @halfvolley11
      @halfvolley11 Před 9 lety +4

      The real luminous one Lol, I am a Muslim myself. That is why I am proud of him.

    • @firewing6
      @firewing6 Před 9 lety +7

      halfvolley11 I believe he is because he said he couldnt eat the chicken in prison because it wasn't halal. Allahu Allam

    • @ziannarose
      @ziannarose Před 8 lety +2

      +halfvolley11 yes he's Muslim.

    • @TheFaro2011
      @TheFaro2011 Před 7 lety

      halfvolley11 you can tell from the way he thinks he is

    • @ddll6709
      @ddll6709 Před 7 lety

      @halfvolley11, how does the way someone thinks with regards to secular matters tells their religion?

  • @sheranlanger247
    @sheranlanger247 Před 4 lety +4

    I'm a Brit who spends half the year in the States and I cannot bear to watch your TV because all it is is ads for prescription medications. We don't have that in Europe periodt. Also, everytime I'm in the US my blood sugar creeps up because you put sugar in EVERYTHING. I will drive for miles to find bread without added sugar, the sweet stuff tastes terrible to me. I have to read every ingredient on everything I buy to avoid *added* sugar. Your labels nearly all have added sugar. It's no wonder you're all sick with diabetes. I love your country, but I don't love how unhealthy you all are willing to be.

    • @lifemusic1980
      @lifemusic1980 Před 3 lety +1

      The shitty food keeps everyone lethargic and apathetic as well. All from design.

  • @Viedhoe
    @Viedhoe Před rokem

    Not too many funnies for 2 and a half minutes

  • @SilG.123
    @SilG.123 Před 2 lety

    Jesus is the only way.

  • @rageatm4life
    @rageatm4life Před 8 lety +4

    well that wasn't comedy

    • @cramb
      @cramb Před 7 lety +19

      thats some real shit for yo punc ass

  • @TrillHipHop
    @TrillHipHop Před 6 lety +1

    This is comedy?

    • @El1society
      @El1society Před 6 lety +1

      Trill this was just a slice of education. Watch other videos of his and he does make really good jokes

  • @Nnubbs
    @Nnubbs Před 7 lety

    No it's bc people steal shit from the grocery store