IF YOU LIVED IN MECCA YOU WOULD VALUE THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION OF AFRICANS IN AMERICA AND AFRICANS FROM THE MOTHERLAND HOW CULTURALLY EVERYTHING WAS THERE FOR YOU IN MART 125 THE GREATEST OF BLACKNESS
The sad part about it is, they don’t do things like this bc they hate us, but to satisfy that demonic internal energy. They’re tormented so tormented folk despise the peace of others, and they don’t even realize they’re the cause of their own misery! Accountability is a foreign concept for some people!
Waaay back in the 90's when I lived on West 141st street and I was doing drugs (been clean since 2007 ) and didn't have no food in the house me and my girlfriend used to go up to the Mart 125 and get a free plate of food from the Morris Jamaican restaurant. Big ups to Maurice @18:16 Yeah the Mart is the TRUTH!
Mart 125 Is HARLEM UNIVERSITY., And The main THING I LEARNED In The Mart, Is That WHAT US JOHNNY COME-LATELY CALL HARLEM, OUR RADICAL ELDERS CALLED SENECA., SENECA, AS A RICE GROWING COMMUNITY GOES BACK TO 1624, AND UNTIL CENTRAL PARK WAS APROVED, WE COULD NOT BE REMOVED THE RICE FIELDS OF SENECA DISAPEARED AFTER 1868!
What doesn't kill you, makes you nothing but stronger that's always been exactly what I live by, not a single thing more that's the only way to build a African American male.
I never forget back in the early 2000’s one of my coworkers said she just bought a condo in Northern Manhattan in a brand new constructed building and i asked another coworker from New York - “ Where is Northern Manhattan- he said thats what there calling Harlem now that its being gentrified”. I just shook my head.
Hi when Black people will start to work as a hole you stop having the pink people try to take what you work very hard for. But 97% are just lost and dead, it is very hard to talk to the dead these days.
Most of the White folks I seen,met in Harlem seems ok,nice and freindly.My mother and moved to Harlem 1995 of August ans saw the gentrification changes coming
Miss Blackstar Music Video use to see late DJ Kay Slay stop by and drop off his Straught Stuntin Magazines,RIP to him.Miss his Drama King Thursday radio shows on Hot 97 putting out new unsigned artists to get their shine
I remember when a lot of the old heads I knew were up in arms about rezoning. None of us really paid attention because we were young & dumb. Focused on other things like clubbing and chasing women. Which... In our slight defense, that's what young people normally care about. There was also an element of not really understanding what our elders were talking about as well. Everything them older cats were worried about came to fruition though unfortunately. They saw this isht coming from jump. One thing you notice now is this focus on rising crime stats to their pre-pandemic levels, which were themselves historically low. Mainly because the NYPD's racist police unions had their egos bruised after the George Floyd uprisings of 2020. They tried petty work slowdowns (again) which always backfire, so next came the crime stat propaganda which local media never gives any pushback on. Meanwhile, during the Bloomberg era when there were regular shootouts in my Bronx neighborhood, I would scour all three major newspapers and the evening news with nothing to be found. Why? Because the city was busy trying to market NYC as "the safest big city in the country" as they were gentrifying this place to hell and pushing our people out. Mayor Eric Adams himself ran a campaign of fear mongering over rising crime, and then immediately walked back those statements once he took office by saying crime reporting was overexaggerated by the media even though he was instrumental in creating this climate of fear where every crime, no matter how big or small, is front page news. Something that was always a constant on the fascist shitrag _New York Post,_ but other outlets would follow suit. This focus on crime, besides historically being bigoted, goes hand in hand with gentrification though. People really need to be more cognizant of that imho.
To see Dr Jeffries and Ms Camille brought back so many memories. Even though I’m from the south (just lightskin) everyone mistaken me for Puertorican, I had some of the best days back then. I hung out with so many different races of ppl. Harlem, New York used to be the best city to live in. I never felt scared or worried about anything happening to me when I lived there. And I stayed out all night so many times coming home early in the am. What a time
Thats because you are Puerto Rican, JOKES, 😂..im down south, my auntie and my girl cuz both look like they could be latina..and they are on two different sides of the family.
That’s people problems they afraid to move on the ones with a big plan for the future look the change will come those old shops and buildings will be wiped out and the new upgrade units will be there
This is where I discovered Senegalese food! I love Senegalese food! You had black people from everywhere here and I loved it I truly miss it. I don’t even think it’s even opened since they closed it. All these many years closed. Shameful.
I remember this like it was yesterday. I was with HUDC from 1988 to 1995, then HCDC for a couple of years after the Pataki wave. A project manager in the Development Dept. Worked closely with the development directors. I am grateful for my time there. Loved the Mart. This documentary is good to see. Thank you.
This is so sad I remember all the history about this our people as shown himself to be weak in the situation you have your what where all your rap entertainers they have money they mean to say they couldn't come together and buy up that this place we are damn shame and we should be ashamed of ourself and this is why nobody and I mean nobody respects us nobody respect our elderly nobody respect our young everybody will continue keep killing us and planning new ways to destroy us because we destroy ourselves we are f****** insane and out of our minds we get into interracial marriages and love and love and love by when it comes to each other we hate and hate and hate we have a cursive people and I don't know why not all of us but some of us this shouldn't have never happened the more is still there this place this store is still there nobody's not destroyed disturbing it why because they want to see if black people got the guts to open this place and we have Sean ourself that not have the guts to open it where all our people have money we have people that have wealth I wish I had wealth to do this to open this place you mean to tell me 50 cent Jay z couldn't give a couple of grand to open this place we are a f****** shame and everybody know it what's up by yourself and we want to know why cops won't stop shooting down our sons and daughters in the street like dogs well look at yourself nobody respects you cuz you don't respect your community and you don't respect yourself you have no values you quick to sell out to each other you quick your woman you'll see your men are quick to be an interracial marriages and give love to people who hate you and hate each other what is wrong you out of your damn minds your ancestors turn over and in grave
