# Blight in Black Neighborhoods: Description or Blame

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2092062724880572490
- Source account: [@forbiddenmerch](https://x.com/forbiddenmerch)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:09
- Published: 2026-08-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame) What is known about Black neighborhoods?

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=3) Blight, graffitis, grandma's pillow thrown outside, mattress waiting on the street, trash bins everywhere, broken cars line up the streets.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=14) You wanna say that you haven't seen... When they say Detroit and Baltimore, what do you think they are describing?

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=18) Boarded houses with graffitis on it, people with bandanas in street corners selling dope to their own kind.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=27) I am not condemning it. I'm describing what is.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=30) Right. Yes, and I've been to Detroit. I've seen it.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=33) Um, but you're-- It's as if you're saying it and you're like, it's, you're blaming a certain group of people- No blaming, describing ... also pointing the finger- No ... that the reason why this is happening is because this particular community resides there, and this is why it's happening.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=52) That is not bla- That's not blaming.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=55) That's just describing. You're pointing the finger. You're basically saying these- No, I'm not pointing the finger. Yeah, I'm pointing- You're basically saying- I say by name, and if you wanna prove me, you live in Bridgeport.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=63) You live in Milford. Mm-hmm. You started in Bridgeport.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=65) Yes. Even your high school, which was a private school, the other public schools, the bathrooms are trashed up. Wash hand basins are broken.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=72) We graffiting our own walls. People have to come from other count- other towns to help us pick trash on the streets. We throw trash everywhere. I see them eating Dunkin' Donuts.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=82) The music is booming. He winds up, he throws it out.

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=85) So therefore, because this is all happening in our communities, in minority communities, but- Multiply it by a hundred, and that would be the whole country ... so I've seen other c- I've seen other migrant communities, and they're clean.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=100) Like which one? The Middle Eastern. Exactly. We're talking about Blacks.

[1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=107) The Middle Eastern- In particular, you're saying- Asians. Yes, if you've seen- ... Black people don't have the ca- capacity to be clean, to- Don't say they don't have the capacity to be clean.

[1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=115) I'm saying blighting is a culture. You feel comfortable. It doesn't conflict with your brain.

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=120) That's why you live in it. And it's not just Blacks, Hispanics- Huh, those are Blacks- ... Latino ... light-skinned Black.

[2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BOlsL2NlaRkr/en/blight-in-black-neighborhoods-description-or-blame?t=127) So-