Student resurfaces 1976 doc on racism in Rosedale, Queens 

These people are still around. Now they say “I don’t see color, I’m not racist”

OH MY GOD!! I grew up in Jamica, Hollis, Queens and never experienced this my parents did a great job sheltering us from discrimination. Only as an adult and now have I experienced racism and discrimination. Thank You, for posting this .

I grew up in Rosedale and I remember this! It's a Recurring nightmare I've lived for years. It got worst in Rosedale. More black families purchased homes but dynamite blew up the home before they moved in.

This is my home town. My grandparents were the first black family to buy there in 1967. We have pictures of the cross they burned on our lawn.

He looks like he walked out of a 70s movie.

Nobody rediscovered this. This has been floating around for many years now. I have shared it multiple times over the past ten years on social media.

I cried when those kids were talking . They didn't deserve that at all .

I'm sure I attended school with some of those kids in the footage(Springfield Gardens HS 72 graduate). Lived in Sprinfield Gardens and the adjacent town (Laurelton) used to be similarly racist but started opening up to blacks hence the white flight to Rosedale where racism was even more pervasive. I knew blacks werent welcome there but at the time didn't realize it was that intense! Most of the white kids played it off well.Not many fights ,no n-word we all got along in different club activities,sports etc. My 4 years in HS was quite enjoyable and I wouldn't trade it for the world.At the end of the day literally and figuratively the whites headed east and the blacks west.

How did you guys miss the other house that was firebombed? You know it was more than 1.... let's not forget the McDonald's on Francis Lewis Blvd, at the time I lived in 251-09 Francis Lewis Blvd. the Reverend who moved into me next door ( 251-15 Francis Lewis ) was Black in a largely white area in 1975 - I lived next to them, I was a little kid, I remember the whole night well, Jerry ( Jerome ) McDonald was my best friend at the time, the only black kid I knew till 1978. I live in Las Vegas till 1991... But there were the Race Riots in the 80s too in Brookville Park and let's not forget Howard Beach.

My uncle came here from England in the 1970s too. He bought a house in Brooklyn in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. They didn't want him there but he didn't leave.

I was bused to school there in 80-81. It was a battlefield, and I still remember the names of my bullies.

I remember this well , I was 16 ....definitely remember an angry mob of white ppl, angry because a black family dared to move in.... I remember some of these people worked at the various air freight companies off 147 ave. They even did a cross few cross burnings...Brookville park was a place you were chased out of and or had bottles thrown at you just for being there. A guy I knew who lived near Craft ave we worked together and he HATED black people and always had something nasty to say..... until he wound up in jail for many years and when he came out not of his buddies were left, he had nothing, He met a beautiful woman from Jamaica W.I. and they fell in love...got married and have 3 really nice kids. He called me after many years and asked me to forgive him for all he said to me in the past and that he was just trying to fit in when he said them. I can say it did hurt and I wanted to hurt him... 43 years later we are still friends....and we do talk about the past since there is no use in pretending it didnt happen. He is a better person in so many ways.....I will give all that credit to his lovely wife.

Oh my God, I actually thought Sola (I hope I spelled that right) was from the 70s with his beard and how he was dressed.

💔 heart brakeing!!

I grew up in Rosedale in the 70s (72-79) went to public school there (PS195)

Where are those people some of them have passed away I wonder how they feel seeing this video

• Total 25,063 Ethnicity • Black 79.9% • Hispanic 9.3% • White 5.3% • Asian 2.2% • Other 3.5% Economics • Median income $58,396

Everybody all butt hurt shit this was over 40 years ago damn, and what makes people think that these folks are not alive today, it was 1976 not 1876 act with sense people.

Whatever happened to the racist guy with the mustache named Joey Ewald in the film?

I watched the entire documentary more than once Those people are mostly still alive

I have questions to be answered ☝🏾The children in this video that were taught to hate people of color what are they like today ? are they the same ones who work in the schools and the banks to make it hard for black people to be successful?

Were is Joey now?

Rosedale u wanna ply ok lets ply

That dude looks like ben Carson lol

How come sola wants to dress like he played a part in this old video

Sola Olosunde... Nigerians making good moves just make me proud of Nigeria... Regardless

ADOS....

i can see where the trump voters coming from...

Now it is a garbage area

Remember when this was a beautiful neighborhood now it is shit

Don’t get it twisted. It’s now a ghetto! It’s similar to Gun Hill Road in the Bronx. Lots of Jamaicans