NBC News July 1970 Cabrini Housing Project
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- From the July 31 1970 NBC News broadcast anchored by Chet Huntley & David Brinkley (The Huntley Brinkley Report), a story on problems in Chicago's Cabrini Housing Project (aka Cabrini-Green).
Its amazing that the man in the video talks about how bad Cabrini was becoming in 1970. Little did he know that its best days had already past and the next 40 yrears would leave a terrible legacy.
Cabrini-Green closed on December 9, 2010, as the final resident was moved out of the complex's last standing building. Most of the buildings have been razed and the entire neighborhood is being redeveloped into a combination of high-rise buildings and row houses, with the stated goal of creating a mixed-income neighborhood, with some units reserved for public housing tenants.
Wow # 9 is number of death too
Thanks for sharing that information.
What is not mentioned, and is of crucial importance--Watson is describing a childhood when the African-American middle class and blue collar still lived in the area. Once the racial housing covenants were struck down, this educated and skilled segment of the community moved to the high-priced suburbs. What was left behind were the unskilled migrants who followed the middle class during the Great Migration, and their equally unskilled descendants.
@JacksSonKenny My fathers mother was black, his father Puerto Rican. My grandmother had 10 kids and would make them be home at 3pm to do there homework and there feet couldnt touch the floor without finishing there homework. They had to be home at 6pm or my grandmother would come looking for them and then Dicipline them right by taking away all there playtime. They all grew up to be nurses, paralegals,engineers, or chefs.
TL Nino Thank GOD For Grandmothers 😊😊
I cant believe that they were saying this stuff in America 42 years ago!! If you've known what the problem is for so long then wtf hasn't anyone fixed it yet!?
Everybody knows the problem is fatherless homes, and everybody knows that the Democrat party created this by offering welfare benefits to women and dependent children (all in the name of helping, of course), but instead created generational dependency.
Obama knew it when he was community-organizing at Altgeld Gardens where there are now people living who have never held a job in their entire lives, but have been completely dependent on that government check; where there are children brought up in homes where a father has never been present.
Now, you tell me, why would the party wish to "fix" this when they basically own the votes of these people, forever?
@500thou facts 'bruh.' welfare state destroyed the black home -- look at marriage rates before and after welfare/civil rights. it destroyed a lot of white homes, too. and it was intentionally designed to be that way, by people that aren't friends to blacks or whites.
No child has ever been "fatherless". Lack of responsibility or just plain old not giving a fuck YES.
Well said.
Spoken like a true cuck.
Notice this is 1970, wow!
one of the best news anchors
50 years ago wow
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Cabrini Green projects serve as the exteriors for Good Times?
Yep, "the Reds".
Yes
@bhayes06 yes It served at as the back drop for "Good Times" and "Cooley High"
+Navillus 55 you said a mouth full. . to the truth. .
excellent comments. ..I agree to your comments...
My dad went in Cabrini green in the early 80’s he had a friend that lived there and some gangsters were shooting dice on the high rise project staircase and were bumping twista yes twista the rapper you know today twista has been a rapper in Chicago since the early 80’s but back to the story the gangsters rose up and swarmed my dad and said where tf you from we ain’t never seen you over here before they asked my dad was colors was he banging luckily his friend came in time or my dad would have gotten killed just for being in those dangerous projects Cabrini green was in it’s really dangerous prime in the 80’s my dad also went into Robert Taylor homes as well
I’m from Chicago and twista is my cousin and yes twista been rapping as long as I can remember.I was in kindergarten when I found out he was a rapper and that was in 1987,He used to go by the name Tongue Twista.But yes Chicago was horrible! I eventually left like 20 years ago.
Twista was born in 1973 …. He’d been like 6-8 years old in the early 80s
@AccessDenied55 There was alot of b s going on behind the scenes that people didnt know about
Yes, it's Chet Huntley
This must be the last day of the Huntley/Brinkley Report, where Chet Huntley retired that day, and the name was changed to NBC Nightly News the next day.
I just had the same thought as I watched it.
Anthony Watkins does claim Cabrini as his home. It was in the early 70's that professionals that grew up in Cabrini-Green went back to Jenner school on a Career day, that we found out Tony's mom would not move out even though he requested her to do so. He could pay where ever she wanted to stay, she chose to stay there in the row houses.
"Was class president twice" 😂
@AccessDenied55 yeah right. they also have an incredible collection of stolen hub caps
great eye. You are correct sir!
@newscaster 13 You are correct, sir. (Or ma'am.)
two cops were killed at cabrini back in 70 they should have shown a tribute to them.they had to patrol there
@spcjen Cabrini Green wasnt a town it was a low income housing project in Chicago
@parkman35 So sad. Thanks for informing us.
These people are super quick to tell you how the kids are without fathers but failed to mention that in order to get affordable homes, the fathers were not allowed to live with the families.
You're misrepresenting information. Fathers who had jobs, and therefore income, wouldn't include themselves on income verification to increase direct payments to the mother. However, these men usually lived there anyway. Absent fathers were just that, unemployed and uninterested in their family.
@azumanation cont'd...and for the next 30yrs that community went on a downward spiral due to it becoming a low income housing project that would not accept a two couple family to exist for if they had it would disqualify the couple from receiving low income & AFDC. so this was the beginning of the end for Cabrini & many other low income communities across the nation.
7/31/1970
If im correct i found this guy by searching his name on Google and he dosent claim Cabrini Green as home town.
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No - and I can remember inner city New Orleans in the 50's and 60's. There were still 2 parent homes. Fathers were still present at home. Now, there is not only no responsibility; if there are 2 parents there is not as much funding. The government is as guilty of slavery as any slave trader has ever been. Throwing money at this will not help. Everybody has to feel that they are worthwhile and how to do that living like this? Dependent for every aspect of life? No; when will people say "NO!!!"
Because you CAN'T fix it. You can pour millions on top of millions on top of millions of dollars into these shit-holes and it will NEVER be fixed. These areas are never-ending money pits and it will never be enough as far as the residents of these areas are concerned. You can tear down the buildings and put up new ones are put the tenants back into them and you will end up w/ the same problem within 10 years - a run down hell hole. You just cannot help some people and it is a waste to even try.
Then 7 years later people have tried and failed to repurpose the area
But a new, uneducated population see this comment and think "no, it'll be different because we're smarter" only to have a recurring cycle of giving up and trying the same thing, blaming politics, the people who live there or both
robatsea2009, was Chet the one wearing glasses?????..I guess so since I never saw David wearing glassescan you tell me if that was Chet wearing glasses????..yes bhayes06 the Cabrini Green projects were the exteriors for Good Times I recognized that almost immediately
Its 2012 and nothing has changed! No progression at all,in my lifetime,I have never seen real progress in america,and I'm afraid I might not ever see it at this rate,
Especially shocking is that the presidency of Barack Obama brought about zero change for Chicago's poor Blacks. Er...well...not exactly true. People are MORE divided by race now than ever.
@@Pamsmith59 Lol 2012 Chicago was much safer than 1970s Chicago. But now In 2018 Chicago is almost as bad as 1970s Chicago...
@@kakashi101able the 70's was the worst decade of Chicago crimes especially the early 70's when Chicago was averaging over 800 homicides a year due to the gang problem the city had and leaders like Jeff Fort pushing his Stones and Hoover pushing his Disciples to declare war against the police. Gang members back then were targeting police officers and shoot them at will. The projects like Caprini Greens were full blown war zones back in the 70's. The early 90's was bad due to huge demand for crack cocaine.
@@aboriginalbrotha9947 the 90s were worse than the 70s in the black communities in Chicago. They were averaging over 800 homicides a year too. But the community was worse overall.
yes
@Drogyne That's correct I grew up in the Cabrini Green housing projects from the 70's to the early 80's. & what people don't know is that Cabrini Green originally started out as a working class mixed community in the 40's. from Chicago ave. to Orleans st. was black & from Orleans to division ave. was Italian. by the end of the 50's all of the Italians moved out of what was called Cabrini Green Homes. then by the 60's all of the middle classed blacks moved out of Cabrini to the suburbs
So we should give them money or help?
+Wayne Harris Hello Wayne, Helping the young men and boys through the many community organizations in the city. Kind of like being a Big Brother and showing them how good life can be. Most of these kids have never been to the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Morton Arboretum, a real basketball or baseball game. Just spending time with them and helping them with advice. Showing them that you care... Diane
Wayne Harris don't matter just help the world
@bhayes06 yes
JJ did you steal that?. no mamma ,I find thing!....
It would have saved millions of tax dollars.
It wasnt black snipers that killed those cops..It was CANDYMAN!!!
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Anthony Watkins does claim Cabrini as his home. It was in the early 70's that professionals that grew up in Cabrini-Green went back to Jenner school on a Career day, that we found out Tony's mom would not move out even though he requested her to do so. He could pay where ever she wanted to stay, she chose to stay there in the row houses.
Did he have a sister? I think his mom worked at Jenner (I could be mistaken, grew up around them in the 70's). If his sister is the young lady I'm thinking of, she was very intelligent herself and eventually attended Lane and college but it was obvious to us that education and value was stressed in their home from the start and we saw the results. My family lived in the red high rise bldgs and they became in my opinion worse than the row houses, but I got to see many positive families and individuals throughout Cabrini. Remember the ballplaying rivalries which I still cherish to this day and also think their dad lived at home but died - everyone please do not think that there were no fathers around, we saw and envied many that stuck with and supported their families, guess the authorities may have frowned upon them - unfortunately ours did not, and it was a shame because we didn't deserve that struggle (wife's family lived there as well!) Sorry to have learned what happened with the R Admiral though!