Heart of Delaware (Wilmington, Delaware Documentary) 

Wow I live here too. Never knew this was coming out. Kudos to the creators. I was raised over West side in the hood, made it out, got a doctorate and I write books and still in Wilmington. If you have just someone who believe in you and you believe in yourself, everyone can be successful. You have to want to make positive changes. The girl rapping said she’s wants better for the city, but she rapping about selling drugs and killing. Don’t get me wrong music is music, but change starts from within. My grand mom always told me, “ you will change once you get tired.” There are jobs in Wilmington that will hire those with charges or whatever, ppl just gotta apply. The thing is it’s not fast money that they used to so most may quit cause it’s not their norm. I’d rather make money honestly then to have to split it with someone else. Just my opinion.

Grew up my entire childhood in Wilmington on 22nd and Market. Only Asian kid in the neighborhood. Mom used to own a liquor store. She probably got robbed 5-6 times during the 12 years she ran that store at gunpoint. Thing is, this documentary is right in one way. Back when I grew up, I got beat up at times, went through a lot of racist bullsh*t. But it only made me stronger as I grew up and made a lot of great black friends there who stuck up for me thick and thin. Nowadays, I just recently went back and it’s just total chaos and disregard for the fellow man. Its not just ignorance like it was back in the day; it’s straight up disrespect and violence. So sad to see my hood the way it is now

I lived in philly and Delaware... I was safer in philly 😐 don’t nobody wanna walk around Wilmington that’s a fact

I was raised a country boy from Maryland..i stay in Wilmington area to work in Delaware...i ride the DART buses last few years an i got to know the city and its people pretty well. I feel the population is just tryin to survive,and they do what they have to do,as any person would. I feel for this city,lot of history here,and good people. They only make the news when something bad happens but i see plenty of good here. Much respect those in Wilmington.

DE born and raised. Spent a better part of my life growing up in the salvation army shelter. Mom was on smack. I learned from an early age how to steal, pan handle, and spot a drug deal. I'm now 22, in Colorado working a full time job and possibly have a kid on the way. This city and my mom inspired me to do better.

dis sound like every small to medium size city in the US... it's not about the town(s) it's about us as a people...

There was a question asked, something along the lines of, "what's different now from 10 years ago?" Answer: the city has been flooded with pharmaceuticals so therefore the minds of the up & coming generation has been weakened IMMENSELY! in addition to the lack of parental guidance. I was born in the 70's & during the stages of growing up we had struggles & sometimes a lack of parental guidance in some homes but the difference is, we weren't handicapped by drugs. (Street or pharmaceutical) It just wasn't on our radar. PERIOD So now we have a bunch of immature, ignorant, & SCARED youngins running around with guns in their hands & shooting with their with eyes WIDE SHUT! When "WE" come together the change will be drastic & swift. All for the better of OUR people. Oh yeah, & "they" only control what you let them CONTROL. WAKE UP & PULL UP PEOPLE!

It’s cause most the people who live in Wilmington don’t work here. The people that work here don’t live in the city

Only watchin dis cuz I live in Wilmington de

I’m from Wilmington and my whole family lives there. I’ve lost too many cousins to violence and drugs

Glad someone made a documentary on this I lost a family member to gun violence over nothing in Wilmington. We need to stop the hate and love one another because at the end of the day we are all we got.

I’ve lived in Delaware my whole life. Grew up in a nice small town... now I live in suburbs -Newark (university town) BUT i have lived in Wilmington.... in homeless shelters. Down on my luck for about a year after i got sober. Sober 3 years now!! But yeah i was Walking through those neighborhoods. A lot. It was culture shock. Its sad around there. Poverty everywhere Drugs everywhere Definitely tough and rough. But i will tell you what: i am a white girl and i never felt unsafe. In fact, Black people made sure i was alright before any white person in that city ever did. For the most part, The black community takes care of each other. They give even when they have nothing....Because they know what its like to have LESS than nothing, so they give you a plate if you’re hungry... give you a place to sleep for a night or two even if its just a dirty carpet in their living room with no blanket or pillow. You give respect and you’ll get respect ..I HAVE BEEN THERE. Hungry with that plate of food and on that carpet instead of sleeping god knows where...White people don’t have that neighborhood mentality. I could not walk into the white neighborhood i grew up in and been helped like that. Im mainly writing this to say thanks. Thank you Wilmington for getting me through when i needed you, there are Some real good people up in Northside.

I live in Delaware. It is not advisable to be in Wilmington at night. Even in daytime it’s a place that you have to be alert.

So many cities like this across America. If you think about it the music we listen to is also the same across America and so is the condition of our people. So if we wanna attempt to make a change we should start with the music first. What do you think?

Saw Wilmington, DE and clicked.. I'm born and raised in the city and I love my city but it truly is sad what it's come to

Thanks for this. The artists you showcased have real talent. I moved here not long ago and my first week here I was walking around exploring and was harassed/bullied and told "you shouldn't be wearing those sneakers around here". It's crazy that you can be in a chill place and then walk a couple blocks over and feel very unsafe. That's a shame

The brother at the beginning sang his ass off!

It's not the hood, it's the people in it . I'm from riverside . Lived there for 13 years and I turned out wonderful . It was the way my mother raised me. Everyone has to start somewhere in life . It doesn't mean that you have to act like it. Never ashamed of where I'm from . Just stay positive and have faith .

Salute and respect for stayinh positive in this documentary. For real. Our state is going down a bad path and I appreciate you bringing this stuff to light. Much respect. -Nick Boots

I’ve lived in Wilmington all 18 years of my life and it’s a bad place in some parts but it’s still home and it’s beautiful if you know where to look

I remember being able to walk through downtown Wilmington at night without issues...then it grew dark...

I really appreciate y'all trying to encourage the young folks to stop the violence because it makes no sense to see young Black men shooting one another down in cold blood. Thank you, please keep uplifting our community.😍

Didn’t know this was coming out, but as someone that lives around these areas and schools in Wilmington I’m happy that it came out. Kudos.

Thank you for standing up and speaking up !!! 💙💙

To many birds chirping in Delaware

i love how positive these brothas are

Damn I’m from Brooklyn and was thinking bout moving over there but damn smh. Gotta find somewhere else 😭

Im from Florida I went to Delaware didn't seem like that kind of state but at same time every place has a ghetto or hood this is America

I didn’t know Delaware rock like dat! Salute from Jersey!

Start given felons 2nd chances and jobs then they wouldn't have to do wrong to survive they have to live and survive for yourself and their families what do you expect they won't give them a chance to work smh

Damn ol boy singing at the beginning was breaking it down

I’m from Wilmington de and it’s sad to see that it’s dying out, I’m from north east river side and it was so bad I couldn’t go outside, it’s been bad in Wilmington and I wish it gets better, I’m in west side now

As sad and hopeless as this video seems, there’s still a lot of hope in the eyes of some of the main characters,especially the brother with the baseball cap on..God bless y’all man...

Someone I knew was killed in Rodney Square saving a woman and her baby. It's just such a shame that such a small city is wrought with so much violence. I've lived here my whole life and I dream and dream of the day I leave this place forever. Heroine and drugs are gripping the communities, police are incapable of responding to city calls without bias, and our homeless and veterans have no real substantial assistance. Delaware/Wilmington just sucks. The Riverfront is also blowing money out its ass building new apartment complexes when three blocks from it you have Wilmington's impoverished and assisted living residents. Seriously, don't get politics but I can see this state is fu*king up hard...

she said “ IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A COMMUNITY “ WTF??

I live in Wilmington and I'm 11 I'm not aloud outside

Wilmington Is a bit sketchy however I've lived there for 6 years after living in Detroit. Detroit is wayyyyyyyy worse 😔😞😞

When I lived in Wilmington, I came up with a few solid ideas to bring about positive change for children and adults in the city. ,They usually fell on deaf ears - or my teacher salary meant I didn't have the means to get it going. That's usually where the conversation ended. I plan to learn more about funding and to be more persistent in the near future, because it's too important not to at least try.

This my city..... 🙏🙏🙏 Love you dearly DELAWARE

I’m from here and I’ve seen all this growing up over east side 9th & Bennett

Wilmington is the only city I’ve seen to actively have trucks drive through and have logging trucks go through

Intro was hard

I need everyone to talk about how to fix these issues please and thank you

I used to in Dover DE almost 19 years ago and I loved it. I go back and visit and all the time. But to live there I suppose a lot of things could of change. Just like my hometown did where I live now sadly to say.

In 2020, nothing has changed. I have been in DE for 15 years (Mostly in Newark). I clearly see we got issues but what would make our area safer and better for residents?

I went to an awesome school in Wilmington called Sarah Pyle Academy(not what sounds like ) ,that school helped me out in a hard time in life ,there are alot ,and I mean alot of good people in Wilmington that just wanna live, the drugs are the problem ,not the majority of the people.

i live in Wilmington but more outside of the city and this is accurate, i have family that lives in the city, you cant even sit outside anymore without hearing gunshots

Loved it, now do Chester Pa. I worked there for 10 years as a paramedic. Now I work in Wilmington De as an officer.

It's really simple, Wilmington doesn't have jobs, so the young work the black market. The current mayor's answer is gentrification, and push people out into the suburbs. We need real leaders, and to take responsibility for our own damn community.

Would've like to hear to from the younger people who they kept talking about. I'm glad they addressed the issue, but getting a different perspective/experience from those who aren't 30+ I think would be beneficial than everyone saying pretty much the same thing, "It's bad here" "The killing needs to stop" "Kids have no respect". I really didn't see any concrete solution other than "We gotta come together and love", and then what, how do you do that? Encouragement is great, but opportunity is greater, hence the opportunity to do the easy thing which is the wrong thing. There are many things that are wrong with the black community in general, however, there are things that everyone can do to make a difference. These parents need to be a strong force in their children's lives, the ones who made it out need to reach back, a push towards education and the arts, a like-minded community that supports one another and looks out for one another. I could go on and on...

great post. i love my city.

Damn i wish i knew y’all was doing this, but i shared on The book ,i love my city and state good people here in Delaware but glad i moved out the city

Wilmington and the entire state of Delaware has enormous potential for greatness. It can do better.

when the delaware police stop giving tickets instead of fighting crime the crime rate will continue to rise...

I work there and it has been getting bad lately. Two murders down the street from my office just in the past 3 months

wilmington,de respect💪🏾💪🏾 thanks for giving a lil inside. always wondered what it was like in deleware. i dont hear much about de coming from ny. but ya stay strong. black love

Dude on intro from westside he be on 7th and Washington

YOU NEED TO COME TO BRIDGEPORT,CT. 💯 i will show you were its at

This is one of them small communities with bare talent 🔥

Bro you killed that shit that shit could bring tears (LATE NITE 302)FACTS-KM"

I’m not familiar with Delaware however, most of my family from NYC moved there

I remember the exact moment Wilmington died as a city. It was maybe 15 years ago or so when a young mother from the suburbs was murdered outside of a bar in Wilmington. I think she was robbed and killed over something like $20. As soon as it became known that Wilmington wasn’t safe, people from outside the city stopped coming. Bars and restaurants started closing and entire neighborhoods went under. It’s sad what has happened to that city. If the government can’t make that city safe then it has no future. Wilmington needs people from the suburbs to come in and spend money and they are not going to until crime is under control except for maybe one week a year with the Italian Festival.

I'm from Sussex County born and raised in Delaware my Mom use to work in Wilmington and said it's a bad city. And that was like five years ago but my home boy just moved up there for job and I know a couple of people that work up that way. I think it's all about how you move around the city and if you're staying out the way.

Beautiful sweet heart…real talk!

Do one on Newark NJ... I'm from there. Murder ridiculous! A real documentary and accurate

I live down at the beach in Delaware. Stuff cool and chill down here but I know not to go to Wilmington.

I lived in Banyard Village.. How bad it that now there?

Guess there’s a Wilmington in every State!!! Michael Jordan from Wilmington, NC...I have a late night route to Wilmington every night 3rd shift!! Our Wilmington is on the coast and shyt is lovely in NC!!

302

Newark!!

I was born in Wilmington on west side and their was bridge with basketball courts under it and they shoot under their all the time

That person that drew that big painting on the building came to My old school and taught us painting tricks.

I mean I'm from Wilmington born and raised it ain't that baaaad. Shootings down this year. It could be worse. But if Yu wit da shits u might get shot tho frfr

Wilmington smdh so sad, imo. glad alot of my family are in lovely safe nj low crime suburban nj which is on DELAWARE BORDERLINE, south jersey that is. and rest of us in NORTHERN NJ(15 min. from nyc) safer and my girl in orange shirt, STAY STRONG sista ... My mom blk, she BORN in WILMINGTON,DE, then took us to CHICAGO worse! but then again not really, then dad being from chicago/nj we were all in the hoods like killington.. But we are thank god still all alive, with 2 brothers who serve prison time in nj chicago and james t vaughn before. Woman in .47: Yes mamita you are right PROTECT your suburban kid daughter too, i love what you sayin because it is so real. so true. and the man at beginning i get chills u r so talented ma brother @.47? #REAL period. Nuff said. Stay safe ma sisters and brotha's. adios. #LovmyBlkHispanicBrownPeople #STAYSAFE in Murdertown/Killington aka Wilmington DE, NJ,PA,MD ,CHI-TOWN all over.

I use to visit from Richmond VA and that's some real shit ol girl said bout cow town! Ya keep ya heads up!

Im born and raised in wilmington , i will always love my city .

I liked what the guy who said there's no more love toward one another..hes so rright..no respect towards the elderly..this summons the mind lock that many people are into.I do my best not to fall in this category..My heart goes to him and anyone who is woke and realizes this.❤

Much respect to the 302

This seems like an area ripe for gentrification. Isn't this sort of near downtown Wilmington? Unless it's already started? I'm from Philly and haven't been deep in Wilmington in about 20 years, so I don't know if it's already underway.

Same. Grew up in Wilmington Delaware.

My bro sc in there

I used to live here and it wasn’t as bad as everyone made it out to be. When I was 14-15, I would walk around by myself and just walk up to the store and what not.....

I just moved to Delaware 3 months ago I didn’t know it had hoods like that. I’m from south side Jamaica New York can’t be worst then there.

I went thur boring ass dover delware never knew about this 😂

Wilmington! Respect!

Hellaware's Finest

Yes u guys can sing .. U deff got soul!!!

I remember I had to go to school in Wilmington. Had to go there all the way from Newark cause of public school integration. It was actually my favorite school.

lolol i live in Delaware..

Cash Ave. Stand up! 302 we gotta do better! Reo Solid Goldy!

Hey Good brother I like the Documentary on Wilmington ... Opens our Communities Eyes for a Better Movement and Positive Outlooks for our Kids future . Bless . Big Up Respect ...... On the Flip side im shooting a movie here in Wilmington and if you dont mind i want to use some of this film in my Movie ..... Ask SC he knows Me well Westside to all the Sides ..! Let Pull em all UP ..! Respect

We all need to learn to love each other and stick together❤ and make it out

unsolved mysteries loll

Man we gotta do better! There is more than hood life!

I wanna buy all these people a beer I work in the city of Wilmington and its shame seeing the way it's going it's good to know theres people that do want to make a change

These people r real and very intellegent. I hear u ...Much respect. 🙏🙏🙏

They got us , right where they want us..it's going to take hundreds of years if not thousands to undo what's been done to us.

I've lived in Delaware my whole life (still live in DE actually) and I can honestly say I have never been in the bad/dangerous part of Wilmington. I've been to the city of Wilmington probably thousands of times, yet never the really dangerous parts of it...I hear a lot about it but the city as a whole is nice and has a lot of history to it

Live in DE. whats up everybody hilltop, westside, eastside, browntown, northside!!

Great documentary