Discussion on Blight in Black Neighborhoods

What is known about Black neighborhoods?

Blight, graffitis, grandma's pillow thrown

outside, mattress waiting on the street, trash

bins everywhere, broken cars line up the streets.

You wanna say that you haven't seen...

When they say Detroit and Baltimore, what do you think they are describing?

Boarded houses with graffitis on it, people with

bandanas in street corners selling dope to their own kind.

I am not condemning it. I'm describing what is.

Right. Yes, and I've been to Detroit. I've seen it.

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.

That is not bla- That's not blaming.

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.

You live in Milford.

Mm-hmm.

You started in Bridgeport.

Yes.

Even your high school, which was a private school,

the other public schools, the

bathrooms are trashed up. Wash hand basins are broken.

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.

The music is booming. He winds up, he throws it out.

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.

Like which one?

The Middle Eastern.

Exactly. We're talking about Blacks.

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.

I'm saying blighting is a culture.

You feel comfortable. It doesn't conflict with your brain.

That's why you live in it.

And it's not just Blacks, Hispanics-

Huh, those are Blacks-

... Latino

... light-skinned Black.

So-