I grew up in Central Park and 5 Points west. Everybody's just folks trying to get by. There are no roving bands of psychopaths or whatever. You just gotta live where you find yourself. I've had people in these "bad" neighborhoods show me incredible acts of kindness and selflessness.
So unfair how Birmingham Alabama gets a bad rap, I’ve lived here all my life and feel it is one of the safest place on the planet. People just don’t get it unless they live here
I grew up in Green acres, went to central park elementary, green acres middle and graduated from J-O. Things happen everywhere! I love where I'm from. Our neighborhoods aren't bad, we just have a few bad people in those areas and it makes everyone look like a monster. I am who I am because of where I grew up! I proudly say I'm from those areas! #IloveBirmingham
That's gangs that make it dangerous. Don't get in their way. Ensley used to be a great place to go listen to some awesome blues, play pool. And get a few beers. Now you cannot travel thru it. Its a shame. We used to park on Pike road and walk up to Lomb. We would gather about 20 people on the walk, and we would sing , dance, and have a great time. We didn't know each other! We would have new friends by the end of the night. ❤❤❤❤❤ I'm glad I grew up in a time when Birmingham was great!
Getting in the way ain't the only problem, They're wanting to have shit "Their Way" is what's really going on. There's NOTHIN' Real around US anymore................ NOTHIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I been here 6 yrs... And been all over the city for different reasons.... For the most part disrespect is the most common killer and isn't taken lighty
I’ve worked around Birmingham since I got out of high school. I worked night shift at a truck shop on Powell Ave. This was late 90’s. People would walk in the shop and steal things when nobody was looking occasionally but I never got robbed,assaulted or anything. I even went into some pool halls where some ladies was frying chicken wings and I was the only white boy around. Went with a buddy of mine named James Shackleford. He was a real OG and big and tall. I always felt safe and I knew he wouldn’t take me anywhere he thought we might get into trouble but sometimes he did ask me if I had my gun with me. I’d say yeah and he’d say we wer good then lol. You could tell he commanded respect on the streets but he also treats people right. I loved that man. I’ve work in Bessemer,run a pawn shop in Midfield and met some good customers there. You did hear gunshots almost every night after dark but you get used to it. I always carried a gun and watched my back. The major,powers good people though. They weren’t trying to mess with anybody. A few customers offered me about where not to stop for gas after the sun went down and I appreciated that. Birmingham can be dangerous but it’s not a bad place. Lots of good people. My family lived in Pratt City in the old days.
That's not what he said. Noone said bad things never happen to good people he was just basically saying don't go to face the devil if you not ready to fight for your life. I done security all over Birmingham, Finely Ensley to bessemer. If you talk to people with respect you get respect mostly but not always. Just saying always be aware of who is around you at all times be safe
@@kimosborne4299 Hmm... IF YOU LOOK FOR TROUBLE YOU'LL FIND TROUBLE. And in B'ham if you don't look for trouble - you'll still find trouble.. U been drug tested lately? Where did U come up with that blather?
I'm good on drug test how about you . Sounds like you just wanting to fight o cry me a river if you don't believe it is your own fault people deal with things like this every day and for many reasons don't do harm to others. Not gonna preach to you just tell you god bless you maybe it will get better for you and your family
@@kimosborne4299 Fun fact: (cut & paste) BIRMINGHAM, AL - Although Birmingham is trying to shed the image of a city with high crime and poverty, a recent study shows that the Magic City has a long way to go, as Birmingham ranked fourth among cities considered to be the most unsafe in the country.Dec 1, 2020 Yeah - just for people looking for trouble? All I said was you don't have to be "looking for trouble" to get murdered there. Not to knock BPD- they were very good.
Yes that is a fact it is no doubt dangerous two years ago it was 2 on same list year before that number 1. If you are not active in trying to figure out problems check out see what is going on in city hall neighborhood watch groups report crimes if you see them happen they have things in communities to help you need to maybe try that. I know it want take away the pain at all but it be doing something that could help the next person.
I lived in West End & even to graduated from West End High... I can truly say I had best years growing up there... In speaking of the generations after me that live there.... My opinion it's the people who, how they raise them, the situation, envoirment they're in & how they recieve that's mention before... I still have a few good friends who stay in West End... Wouldn't trade`em for two wooden nickels, as my Nanny would say... Good ppl....
I used to stay not far off from Dennison in "W.E.".......It was pretty quiet where I was. The only "Noise" I used to hear ( Every other night 🌃) Is a bunch of yodeling, barkin, and a whole lot of "Moaning" "Ooooh' Sh*t you're All In Dis Heeere!" When she screamed out Those words,......If y'all would've seen Tha' look on mi' face, Believe me................. Y'all be jus' as weak as I was. Headaches-n-Body-aches, especially shortness of breath LAUGHIN' Ya' ass off.............. That's West End That I once knew Back in 89' And I'm from Bessemer at Dat'...........(J.B.C BAY'BEH)
Driving these main roads is not alarming. I think it is unfair to call these areas dangerous. Yes, shootings happen in the neighborhoods from time to time. It is not normally dangerous to drive through, though. I love Birmingham. My parents lived off of 3rd Ave, closer to Midfield, when I was born. It's actually part of state hwy 11. I now live off of 11 further north. Hwy 11, 1st Ave N, 3rd Ave, Bessemer Super Highway are all the same strip of road. My employer's central location is on 3rd, as well as my husband's. I am apparently tied to it. I often drive it from west to east through the city to appreciate the ties. I have broken down on Lomb Ave. I frequently drive through Ensley. Every now and then we visit Wylam. We drive through West End to see where my parents grew up. There is a church where we have attended mass in the area. My mom worked at Princeton. My grandparents are buried at Elmwood. My grandmother grew up in an Italian community in the area. Birmingham is so thick with history. I love it. Families are living normal lives in these communities, and we can't forget that.
My friends sister took a wrong turn into Ensley and a guy stepped into the street in front of her vehicle pointing a pistol at her. She quickly turned around and left.
Birmingham, Alabama is like many Southern towns..It is both beautiful and ugly. Blues and great food and a big divide between the haves and have nots and not much in between.
I grew up in north Birmingham and not until I got older and moved away did I realize that it was " dangerous" till this day when people ask me where I'm from ima still say bham
SHEEYYIIIIT!!! I live in Bessemer,...... IT got it's reputation during "Operation Maverick" Back in 96' It ain't always the city,........ It's these ig'nant assed people, Especially these new millennials nowadays.
26:53 I grew up in the neighborhood (Belview Heights) across from the light. I lived there in the 80s through the early 2000s. Sure we had some knuckleheads in the neighborhood, but it was still a fun place to grow up.
Your videos are so informative and lets one see a close up view of how other places look. I really hope you come on up to Harlem and Spanish Harlem in Manhattan/NYC🙂
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Yes, you’d make great vids out of the visit; You and Katie will be eating AND enjoying the food so much, you two would come up every year or two🤣 For hen with your commentary, especially when you break out in your miscellaneous songs 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you crack me up when you break out singing🤣🤣
Back in the 90s these places were bad,but now its the center point huffman areas and of course downtown ensley where the bar sence is theres people getting popped there every weekend
I used to date a shorty that lived in Eastlake... Heard gunshots damn near every night... But is was the same way in ft Wayne Indiana as well... They wild out there too... A church got shot up in ft Wayne when I stayed out there...
The Hood: when the cars look a thousand times better than the building they live in. This was the area I first looked at when I started researching BHam. I was like naaaah. I like the East end better.
Living in Birmingham Alabama, is worse than slavery, look at all the old buildings and houses, it looks just like slavery, no money no future,that place is dead, one of the worst places - in the United States.
Well well my city and state back on the map again but I still live here really love beautifully Birmingham Alabama home of the civil rights movement people offen forget about that 🤨🤔🙏✊💯
Tell me where are the most safest place to live. Every city and state has issues. You just don't hear about because it's only talked about amongst neighbors because it will bring down the property value.
I stay down the street from Bostons it is alot of shooting around here but its not like u can't walk to the store after dark I do it all the time I do have my strap but no body just trys ppl around here
Birmingham was once a beautiful city with gorgeous homes. And there are still a few noteworthy places. However, the city just seems to have old dark damp feel to it. There seems to be a quick cash or liquor store on every corner. They keep calling it the comeback city but i see very little evidence of that happening. The people aren't racists like the news wants to portray. That ship sailed back in the Sixties. The residents get along exceptionally well and support one another, so that's where her real beauty lies.
So true about that ship sailing in the 60s. It has been dredged up for political reasons we all understand. Birmingham was wretchedly racist b4 we were forced to change, but change we did for the most part. There is a lot of love and care between the races in these old area.. coming from an older white woman in East Lake. But the gun issue still needs to be dealt with. I'm radically against gun control, but some how the illegal guns on our streets must be cleaned up. I listen to gunfire almost every night.
Is Kentucky fried chicken still on 20st west down the street from the brickyard projects I remember when I used to walk there from my grandmother house on Ave I 17 st in ensley Birmingham Alabama I am from La CA my family is the Bowie's
To all my people who's seeking wisdom and information oof world situations unbiased tune in to this station in Bham it's 105.5 listen carefully and open-minded.
I love my state and other days I don’t but crime is everywhere in ever state , I don’t see the point in making videos like this . We aren’t perfect but I’m just saying .
You know I see your only highlighting black areas but a lot of pple in those areas i saw you pass are very neighborhood oriented. The areas are quiet and pple maintain their areas. You csn b n Vestavia/ Hoover and the likes where your more susceptible to crime. A lot of pple are taking ownership in those areas you drove and not accepting the same destructive young pple.
those black areas were poor before i moved to Alabama, whatever is going on there is exterior to me. I don't discriminate I go to ALL places. most youtubers refuse to even go to those places. I dont make up the crime stats, thats what it is. it is what it is, i just show it.. how it got to be like that, not my concern I am a youtuber not a politician. my job is to show what is interesting. i try to judge people by their values not thier looks.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Well it should be your concern, my concern and any other Birmingham citizen whether you were raised here or moved. I'm not native to the area but i do have concern. You being a youtuber doesn't devoid you if that. Furthermore, my initial response never suggested you had a racist bone in your body. I don't know you. But I know the facts if what I see you presenting and that's what I was responding to. Your personality or personal views aren't on display in the videos do there would b no need for any response of mine to try and characterize you. The truth of the matter is, we all have a responsibility and just because u ride around with a camera and take on a title of a "youtuber", should encourage you to actually give a dang! Then you can be an even better youtuber by showing contrast!
Hell no man! Smh No parts of Birmingham remind me of NW Miami that's for sure. Smh The only city that remind me of NW Miami is California that's it but Birmingham no.
Is there zero commentary or context in this video? I grew up in Bham, recognize some of these places--- there needs to be more than a dash cam video of someone driving around in silence. 🙁
I grew up in Birmingham, but had the Gid given sense to get the hell out of that crime Ridden city and moved to Florida. It used to be a nice place until "THEY" took over and made it it what it is today.
I live in West End. I feel very disrespected that you label my area as a dangerous area to be in after dark. It's a matter of opinion and perception. What I saw from wasting and hour of my life watching your video was people going and coming like any other area of town. I saw cars parked at residents where people were inside minding their own business. The exact same amount of crime reported in the areas you visited are the same amounts of crime in Vestavia, Homewood, and Mountainbrook if not more. The only difference is those crimes aren't reported on tell-lie-vision. Usually when there's crime in my community it's because one person has a vendetta again another person. However, in other areas of the city if one person has a unique problem with another he goes in and kills everyone in the school, work place etc. in broad day light. You really made yourself look stupid reporting on something you don't facts to back up. You represent a large number of people that think their shit don't stink but guess what?
He's talking about the whole bham area. That includes Bessemer. Not all but Alot of violent crime is concentrated in that are for some reason. Been to west end many times. Just a typical hood 2 me like eastlake.. shit goes on everywhere. 🤷 I honestly can't believe this guy's not talking about Montgomery or mobile
Is this just driving around 😳???? Other videos along the same realm people walk around they talk to the people you have got to be scared and this is the wrong outlet for you maybe go be a videoagrapher or something 🤔 I'm 5 mins in ND I could've did this just drove around my next thing is wonder why you never got pulled over after all you were driving as if something is wrong with you 😏
@@anthonyglover9059 Sheeyiid', They tried to start a "Rally" faking Like it's a Square Dance show. THIS happened 32 yrs ago. People were riding Horses throughout the Park, Horseshit dumped everywhere without a Damn given. One of'em had on a Klan-Robe. All 3 of'em at that. One had on a red robe, A black one, AND a Green One. Now why they wanna let Tha' cat outta the bag like that for? Not knowing Bessemer is full of FOOH'S what in store for Dem', GUESS WHAT??! The cops were the 1st to arrive on the scene. Less than 30mins later, 3 Communities (Jonesboro, Northside and Southside) swarmed in Like Asian Hornets......... THEIR ASSES WERE WELL HANDED OVER, MOLLY-HOPPED All over the Park. 32 years later......... And Still Waitin'.
