America's Collapse: The Slums Of Michigan 

Why do you ignore segregation?

@@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 cuz it was 75 years ago lol

Check any MAGA-NUT, gang member, policeman, prison guard in any city and you will find 30 to 200 weapons of various types with thousands of rounds of ammo waiting for the moment to go crazy! Our USA has been lost to these gun-nuts and will never be the same again. OMG! Military weapons in a city is not fair to the unarmed everyday citizen going to work or school. England, Australia, Japan and Canada made them illegal. You can still have a real hunting rifle and or shotgun in these countries but no high capacity rapid firing military weapons! Common Sense!

@@CBPunisher1900 yet it’s still America’s most segregated city next to Detroit. 60 years, not 75. I have plenty of neighbors who remember segregation. You don’t, in your trailer park

Great series Nick, I hope you make it to the southwest deserts soon.

Yeh😅😅

Most of 'em had nowhere to go!!!!!

@@pauloconnor2980 Unfortunately, they're just comfortable remaining in their situation, whereby they resist any change and will threaten anyone who comes in from outside as well. Therefore, the ignorance that persist in that community recycles over and over each year/decade with no hope for a brighter future. In short, they're waiting for someone to do something for them, because they lack the initiative on any level to do that for themselves... and that is a total shame. At some point, human beings have to take accountability for their own actions if they want things to get better.

And in the case of The Speed-Freaks, both states are true...

I was literally going to make the exact same post. They've been up all night, jacked up on drugs, hanging out. No need to go to bed, they don't need to get up to go to work.

Right. Like it’s an abandoned house we’ve seen them before keep going 😂

Windows up. Doors locked. Certain neighborhoods never even enter.

Meth fire houses! Yeah stay in the vehicle minimum.

He should stop and ask for directions to Popeye's Chicken

@@metalmike570 LoL

Benton Harbor is as dangerous as anywhere here in Michigan.

And muskegon heights

Pontiac and Flint feels more accurate - Detroit has a lot of nice pockets now a days. I personally see a ton of economy in the tri county area, been a Michigander my whole life, wouldn’t trade it for the world. If we can play a game of politics that actually makes sense and inspire people to be better and honest and have morals, thats really the only hope I see. Too much evil going round

@@DavidSaltsman-qs2pe I agree. I love MI. Beautiful Great Lakes, 4 seasons, we have a nice state.

The rest of use are at work😂

I think your observation is spot-on (people out and about). “Boujee” isn’t a word. Try “bourgeois” on for size. It’s the right sentiment, just a ghetto version of the word.

Try to experience some nature if you're not outside that much

All wage slaves get to do is work ..I mean we wish we could enjoy being outside having free time .

And no Job Applications were filled out..

@@ricksmith4736 that too

But a lot of Jordans were harmed though 😂😂😂

@@ricksmith4736 there are no jobs now

​@@alexg9727there were jobs. Nick showed us a plant that was in that town. They don't want to work. We need more Venezuelans in this country to work. Americans have become lazy and decadent.

Lmao hope they read the comments

They can't read😂​@@damonmelendez856

I am all but certain a place like this has nothing but top-notch administrators and several plausible plans of action. I am just a sure that your actions were not only warranted but will certainly have a measurable positive effect... Oh wait, never mind.

@@reubenj.cogburn8546 lmao

@@reubenj.cogburn8546 Top notch *democrat administrators

Glad to hear you've done well for yourself.For whatever reason, some of the people here lack that kind of determination. It must be difficult to feel incentivised in a community like that; it would probably be frowned upon by others anyway.

I grew up in St Joe. I left Michigan in 1990 and have only returned for a couple HS reunions. BH was a dump, and I see things have not changed.

What year was it when you went to the Army? Just curious how long this town has been like this. Thank you for your service

🤣🤣day made imagining you convincing your wife people like to exagerrate🤣🤣 What exactly happened and how much more expensive was the next place you stayed at? sounds like you were waiting for 4am than waking up at that time.

@@johnokumu9069 we skipped the events next day and just went home. We were both up at 4am because we didn’t sleep very good and said: “you want to get outta here?” We left because we heard non stop police sirens, people were just hanging around the hotel and parking lot, the elevator smelled like urine, and we didn’t feel safe.

Wasn't nothing going to happen to u trust me we only harm our own here blk on blk crime that's the way it is and always have been sad to say 😢

​@@thebigguy5590Which hotel, I'm curious?

Bro it ain’t that bad. I’ve lived in BH/StJoe my whole life other than the 15 years I was active duty. It’s not as bad as you are making it. Especially all the hotels in BH. They are all brand new over by the theater.

needed to see this comment

Or hope and change

1,000 points of light?

Or Morning in America

Meanwhile 4 hours north you can’t buy Jack unless it’s 10,000 an acre.

@@user-wy1dl2me2pyes, we can?

A dark future indeed

More & more of USA will look like this. Especially if Biden gets his way. Who literally said on video that he wants an unrelenting stream of mass migration.

This is late to flourish , heavy industry's..fancy stuff , flexible fabricating , now rust belt , many areas are fine , lean ...some are too remote and often too specialized , ..nothings replaced manufacturing , ...jobs , housing foodstamps ,beer stamps , medical....it's ripe for socialism ..like Sweden perhaps...you found a .. pirate s camp ..lawless ...hopeless ...ready for risk. Double or nuttin

I'm very sad to say yes, but it all depends on Wwho you wote for. Stay Strong - Hello from Sweden👍

The future ?? More like reality, the now ! The future is gunna be a whole lot worse . These towns are gunna be bypassed eventually... well imho

Agree.

It's March, nothing is green yet

Thats normal in Michigan Sourve: live in MetroDetroit area

Not a disaster tour guide. You don't understand America.

He should have said, look here, this is a meth fire house.

The shopping mall (Orchards Mall) opened in 1979, the first year I lived in St. Joe. It was a nice mall and provided decent shopping for the area. It's been closed for a few years now.

@@ES-mc3cc So sad...makes my heart break...but St. Joe is beautiful

A lot of places in 🇺🇸 are like that now😮‍💨.

Like Detroit Michigan to East side where I was born and raised. It was beautiful an epic. Beautiful libraries beautiful businesses and buildings architect. A lot of great things in Detroit in the 60s that no longer stands. I had two huge families that grew up with me over on the east side of Detroit Michigan most of our houses are gone it's back to farmland. I live in a 1950 house in the suburbs very safe middle-class neighborhood beautiful homes beautiful landscaping with a lot of curb appeal. The house I grew up in in Detroit was built in the 50s but after we left crack came to town. Our house down there was built in 1942 it was completely destroyed and demolished in 1971 and when we left it it was still a nice house intact. Street I grew up on East lawn Street Jay geils made their first record beautiful movie theater the next block over the Cinderella ballroom. 2600 seats. With balconies. Jay geils first record full House. The movie theater the Cinderella ballroom that I attended when I was a small kid 50 cent Saturday matinees. Is long gone. It was at coplin and Jefferson Eastside Detroit. That movie theater was beautiful. Like the Fox theater in downtown Detroit. As well as my elementary school what's humongous two city blocks big. 2800 kids attended at school which is long gone now. I'm a licensed gun carrier. And when I travel to Detroit now I carry two guns for my own protection.

​@@kristinamikkelsoncasanova6287this is what happens are you allow crooked Democrat politicians to take over such a great city as Detroit Michigan corruption from the top all the way down. They were even stealing the kids schools supplies to maintain Detroit schools from the warehouse. They built two prisons in Detroit behind one of the prisons was a crack house selling crack 24/7 any other one had a drive-thru service. You would think the prison was in front of it this could never happen but it did. In the Michigan department of corrections prison bureau didn't help closing that crack house down being so close to the prison you could throw a tennis ball over the fence full of drugs as well as cell phones

In the 80s Reagan got most those black parents addicted to crack and sent away to prisons. The CIA contra affair along with the proliferation of private prisons and penal harm ideology was similar in nature to the Holocaust. But without the gas chamber of course. They just let men murder each other in overcrowded prisons instead.

Seems like all these towns have the same story. Some company becomes the city's dominant employer, then eventually decides to move out in search of cheaper labor or bigger tax breaks. Jobs disappear, tax base dwindles, services diminish and it's tough to stop the rot. Long ago, this country decided corporations should be allowed to chase profits with no consideration given to community or societal well-being.

Not anymore they are spreading like crazy they are all ghetto with no respect

@@mcmanwichLBJ WELFARE

Black neighborhoods are dangerous now.

That should be a rally cry.

I learned this when I was 13 year old working in my first restaurant at $3.35 an hour. I'm almost 53 now and it was a small, but important lesson I learned early on.

Phoenix avatar ❤

@@vadermasktruth in 1983 $3.35 had the purchasing power of $10.51 in 2024.

You are, or were once, a waitress. I was too

Cops just don't give escorts to every random joe , who do you think you are ?

All of america is

lol. Police escort? Funded by who???

I always think the same thing when I see these. Blows my mind to creep so slow like that. I thought it was universally known you don't do that. It's asking for it.

⁠@@foodforthots29exactly. You dont do that. It it was a crowded street on the West side of Detroit hed be carjacked in 30 seconds

Post-apocalyptic zombie movie...

@@stlawstlaw7585 Fallout 5: Michigan

it already is one, if you have to spend your life watching it.

Called AFRICA

That's an excellent idea which they do here in Detroit Michigan especially on the east side it looks like something out of a mad Max movie. You should see some of these houses that people live in no running water electricity being stolen with the jumper cables using jumper cables as the wiring bypassing the electric meter. Detroit water authority shuts off the water going to the residence but these guys you would think straight out of a MacGyver weekly program. They have water keys to turn the water back on and they charge you. That's why Detroit water authority in the governor here wants everybody in the surrounding communities to be hooked up do the Detroit water authority and everybody they're asking to pay $2 more on their water bills so detroiters that say they can't pay their water bills we are forced to pay them for them. Being born and raised in Detroit Michigan I still say FH*K DETROIT. EVERYTHING IS DISPOSABLE DOWN THERE. A man can they tear up a house in a matter of a few weeks. As well as they'll just moved themselves right in and take over a rental house like it's theirs.that's why the Detroit Land Bank sells houses in Detroit and property on the internet and most of the property owners don't even live in this country. They send property Management companies come in and higher outside independent contractors to do them houses but as fast as you're redoing the house you leave for the night the next day they done stole the hot water tank the furnace the toilet even the kitchen sink. I've seen people Park their cars in front of their houses in Detroit with a big tree in front by the porch and they actually chain their vehicles to the tree in front of their homes 2 ft from the porch. And these guys that are professional car thieves they can use a laptop and reprogram a key in a matter of minutes and steal your brand new car or truck. Downtown Detroit area is beautiful in certain neighborhoods in Detroit are nice they have private security. 24/7 but mostly through the night. As well as you have gated condos security guards at the gate. The majority of Detroit is still highly dangerous. I guess it's true when the black old wise man told me not long ago killing is their business business is good. So many unclaimed bodies in the Detroit morgue they have now three huge semi-trailer refrigerator trucks to store the overflow of dead bodies.

Yes I remember it being called that as well.. must be a great source of pride for them..

Benton Harbor has been given multi-millions in support to grow and succeed over the years. I'm not allowed to tell you why nothing has changed on youtube, but you can figure it out.

@@NegativeRU-vid Pre-welfare, black families were intact, and black communities, as opposed to ghettos, were a thing...

@@NegativeRU-vidsame reason they dump billions over the years into Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee...

Yup. Sixty years ago, when I was a teen, it was common knowledge that Benton Harbor was demographically-challenged.

Still is

@@NickJohnson The factory closed.

Wasn't Jean Klock park and gulf course upgraded for whirlpool elites?

It still is!! There’s Whirlpool buildings and factories all over St. Joe and BH! They just built a huge building in St. Joe! Everytime I turn around Whirlpool is putting up another building.

@@dirkcook1912 Their website doesn't actually list any manufacturing plants in St. Joe or Benton Harbor. Good to know they're building them again.

This is America. The minority’s are provided all the opportunities and help that they need to be successful… Much more so than the the tax payers who support them. They chose to live in squalor. Historically ruining every place they live

Stuff like this just feels more real, more familiar. It's also interesting to see how nature reclaims what we abandon.

If a person is in that poor situation, it’s sheer will and determination to get away from that, yes, it can be done

they just don't CARE

It is crazy to see! If you look at most places that are in poverty you will see the same behavior. Imagine trying to drive down roads with HUGE potholes that the city WILL NOT FIX! Imagine the police force being HEAVILY understaffed because funding was cut! Imagine your job suddenly laying you off and closing, leaving you with a mortgage that you can no longer afford. Imagine all the big companies suddenly leaving and disrupting the entire economy almost instantly! When this happens, hope gets lost and so does will to simply clean up. It’s difficult to be PROUD of a place you are barely surviving in!

A ‘keeeeed’ or a kid

Because you can't get 15-year-old black males to go back to second grade. And second grade wouldn't want them either.

You actually have to work at not learning to read in this country.

Teachers, schools get reprimanded for failure so everything is falsified

Reading is ray-cist, according to democrats.

👏

Lmao good grief. At least you learned a lesson early in life.

We had the same thing happen when we played in Beecher, which is just outside of Flint.

@@Truth_Spoken yeah Flint ugh. I live near Muskegon Heights now. Another dumpster fire.

Perhaps no heat...warm in the sun...walk round all night ,sleep in the warm daze

@@user-ie1tz5rm8x could be

Sounds about right actually

Uggh!

Forbes just called Omaha as the best city to move to in 2024, Omaha got #1 with a perfect 100 score. The second city is Raleigh ,NC with a distant score Of 83. Omaha is run by a MAGA Mayor Jean Stothert since 2013 and the Nebraska Gov is MAGA too. Our mayor backs the blue and has increased the pay of police. Trust me, we are not moved in the wrong people to move into Omaha, Omaha has plenty of filters to only let family oriented people in.

Yessir little dicky I mean little Nicky stay strapped.also please put me on your life insurance 😂

And health insurance.

So be a part of the problem lol and BH is “ghetto” 🤣

10:52 kinda sounded like a gun shot huh?

But we have billions to send to other countries every frickin year while so many of us here live in squalor

Not every place in the US is like this. I would say most of the US is doing just fine, but like everywhere else, its got its underdeveloped places. You’re just seeing all the bad and none of the good so it seems like most of the US is trash.

@@Emmy-J EXACTLY!!!!

Yes, you're right. It's shocking

Yep. Even the once prosperous small city that I live in is slowly crumbling to the ground.

Probably the dealer

No different than hellcats in trash mobile parks

@@twizzy585ful and the only thing higher than the drug user is the APR on the hellcat lol

That’s super common. They drive a really expensive car and live in a $2000 house. Bet they wash their car every Saturday night too.

Priorities 😂😂 are the rims spinning

What's spooky is a lot more young people are growing up like that nowadays even in the 🤍 community, it's no longer just a "🤎/🖤 thing".I'm a young 🤍 person in my early 30's & I was raised by a loving homemaker from birth to 18...So I 👀 a lot more social issues in our gen vs the older gens through my own lense, it makes it kinda hard to find healthy folks to know from my own gen😮‍💨.

two incomes, both work, and both have extra PT job?? You are not middle-class, you are an exploited wage laborer. And this is the problem of Americans, they are hopelessly blinded by the American dream while they toil day and night

@@checkmaify Well I don’t disagree. We have to work a lot to maintain a good life for our kids (live in a good neighborhood, have good vehicles, pay for good school, clothes, pay for expensive groceries, pay for all the sports the kids do, pay for anything we do for fun, trips etc). Inflation/prices have been high the last few years because of all the “free” money the federal government sent out during Covid. Middle class compared to all the people we know in our lives, but if you really base it on the richest people in America vs the guy living on the street, we are not in the middle. No one is exploiting us though. We both have good jobs that we chose, where we work from home. The PT shifts are at a family pizzeria business.

@@checkmaify It takes a lot to keep up with a good life for 3 kids. Inflation/prices are high the last few years thanks to the “free” money sent out during Covid. We aren’t exploited though. We were intentional in choosing our current employers, like what we do, and both work from home. The PT shifts are at our family’s pizzeria business. We choose to do a lot of extra stuff like pay for sports, preschool, new SUV lease every 3 years, memberships at gyms/zoo/Sesame Place/swim club, renovate our house etc. Edit: wife taking 3 kids to trampoline park today is $48 plus any games and drinks/snacks. Everything is expensive.

@@checkmaify I don’t disagree with your sentiment though. How do the non-Americans who are doing it better live?

I've traveled quite a bit and out of my own bubble and yes, you can find the bad part of almost every mid sized American city. Bottom feeders like this guy know they can get hits by pointing out "ruin porn". I can tell he also supports politicians who vote a certain way, and create these conditions because they don't really serve voters, they serve the monied interests that fund their campaigns.

Not lucky it's skill

All this upbeat news is making me think even St Joseph might not be our usual sunset stop on the return trip to Indiana after Lake Michigan beach hoping.

Go a little north to South Haven to get your eyes accustomed to beauty again.

Or someone looking for to buy drugs

He didn’t put hisself in danger he just scary as hell stop falling for his agenda to make city look bad with showing the whole city it’s good and parts to every city

Hisself 😂😂😂

@@MrDevinp74 Yeah, I'm sure Benton Harbor and all those black dudes throwing gang signs and riding around on bikes staring at him driving by are REALLY just misunderstood, and that it's really a beautiful town. ;)

First class content? You gotta be joking. More like the crappiest video ever of a dude with nothing better to do than be a POS and sh$$ talk a city he’s been to once.

​@@mellowmoods8393What planet are you on that people minding their business riding bicycles are dangerous lol 😂😂😂

Agreed, it’s even more troublesome when the people elected to be president aren’t the ones truly running things. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors.

No, these people do it to themselves

@@helloimclaudio You are right

This is the kind of confusion that results from near total ignorance of "genetic ancestry groups".

Zhutube censorship is on full steam. Yes, you're right. Except all of these Benton Harlem residents seem to share common traits that seem to correlate strongly with poor outcomes.

He’s the dealer

He was trying to flag down Nick to sell him some crack

@@damonmelendez856 😂😂😂

People aren’t friendly in Michigan.

One of many.

Say Lot's Prayers for our Friend Sinbad he's in a bad way right now🥰💙🙏🏻🙏🏻🫶

Earnie Hudson is also from Benton Harbor.

Met him once at the old Walgreens on Napier and pipestone late one Christmas morning.

Both Earnie and Sinbad made it out! Also both served in the military.

Oh wow I didn't know that! So many legends from Michigan.

Me too

No doubt, that's the scary part

Yea I’m from there I moved 6 years ago.

Real reasons and free will. Disney isn't even Disney anymore, haven't you heard??

I'm still here, went to pennfield HS I don't run on the north side or anywhere around Battle Creek Central . I haven't looked up crime statistics, but the homeless population is growing. The City police and the County Sheriff's are not playing around here.

Grand Wagoneer L, it will set you back $94,445. At the top of the Grand Wagoneer's six trim levels is the Grand Wagoneer L Series III Obsidian at $115,640

That is EXACTLY what I said. You don’t drive a $90,000+ car as a white man in a majority black neighborhood in one of the poorest places in the state. That’s just foolish. I live on the East side of Flint so I know bad neighborhoods.

Jeeps SUCK

This stellantis fiat is nowhere close to a Lambo lol. Unless you mean they are now both not American 😂

Hell take a closer look they live like sewer rats but they b driving 300s and land rovers...

Perhaps Dearborn?

we need ghetto mappy to chime in.

@@rvk8991Nappy

Mappy is the man, err I mean the map! Lol😂

@@MasterMalrubius lmao I see what you did there

Mappy with a big gold M pendant on a chain!

main Heathkit factory was in St Joe

@@jerrymiller8313 Since the location of Heath was the only thing I knew about BH, this video was shockingly different from what I had in mind. No talented engineer would want to live here.

I built two stereos from Heathkit in 1967-69. Great products. Quality sound. The manuals taught you all you needed. I'm in TN. I still have the catalogs.

@@jerrymiller8313 That is true - the factory was in St. Joe. They had a Benton Harbor post office substation inside the plant. That is why the manuals, packing boxes had "Heath Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan" printed on them.

Blame his rental place, they screwed him lol

Yes. They car jack high end jeeps in Chicago on a Daley basis. Nick needs a Toyota Prius with hubcaps and an Uber sticker.