The election of the first black US president offered hope to millions of African Americans across the country.
But have four years of an Obama presidency seen positive change for black communities in the US’ inner cities?
Fault Lines’ Sebastian Walker spends time with those on the front lines of the failed drug war to understand some fundamental dynamics of race, poverty, incarceration and economic truths in the US in an election year.
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2:09 on my words!!!??? Look at it then??? Look at it now!!!!
It’s because the youth are killing each other!
Rawlings the Mayor was caught stealing funds, gift cards, intended for poor youth. She is a criminal.
My sister saw her first murder on her 6th birthday as we were on our way to a pizza joint to celebrate in Baltimore. The victim, who was stabbed, ended up on our car hood with blood pouring everywhere! Who in their right mind would want to live there!
Criminals need to be in jail or executed, doesn't matter what color their skin is…. drugs are a crime, don't blame the system for you being a criminal…. find a job, work your way out of poverty, crime is a choice, but it's your choice..
This doco is so bipolar – it shows how violent and drug addicted the city is and then suggests it's racist that people are arrested at such high rates?
Interesting how Trump said the exact thing that this doco depicts but he was racist for doing so? whack
Question: flowers on a body symbolically to disguise a stench of actions seen? Upon a cremation was viewed a painted face luciferian colored style…yet a casket blocks a fragrance and a disguise…a so called leaving and let be what had been done rot slow stave off a wound resonative with a bacteria attack onto my body, don't confuse me with what has been seen…aromafy around an area instead to pleasantly present a meeting area keep stench free was there daily actions suggesting a type of environment to be resting and visited like a hospice with drugs so toxic is a question….. Depopulate
I was born and raised in Baltimore, and I am an eyewitness to the level of the depravity that 60+ years of complete and total Dimocratic Rule have inevitably brought about. In my 51 years, I have witnessed no less than 14 Homicides, and in those same 51 years I’ve never, EVER seen a so-called “White Supremacist” even though, according to all Leftists, “White Men” are the #1 threat to public safety..
Also, Ed Burns didn’t write “The Wire”, he HELPED David Simon write “The Wire”, I know this to be true because I lived on Pratt and Monroe while David was doing his research to write “The Corner”, which came out before “The Wire”. I know Dave Simon, as well as his wife, Laura Lippman. I knew Donnie before he died, I knew Deandre, I was born and raised in 21223, so I know a shitload more about the topic than Al-Jazeerah’s propaganda..
THIS is one of the most informative vids on how the b.s. war on drugs was really a war on blacks. Ronnie Reagan… one of the WORST presidents to ever grace the white house… remember ALWAYS… his wife was a drug addict too… to save face he broke out a war that became a REAL war…in his own country. That "Caste" system is accurate. GREAT VID… thanks for exposing RR for being what he was… STUPID.
Drugs, Guns, Poverty, Gov't Interference, No Education, No Guidance & No Hope are the main factors no matter where you Live….the Gov't Institution remains the same which means the situation on the street remains the same.
I'm glad I got out in 1994
They get rid of the urban decay and rebuild the vacant house and make them livable and affordable and It would be a great city to live
A lot of issues here that make a very deep and complex problem. But I think the one thing to focus on is parenting.
The reason why there are so many of us black folks in prison is because, the white racists supermists Republican President Ronald Regan changed the laws that put more of us black folks in prison. All of those laws need to be changed.
Mayor Rawlings Blake 🔑
PRIOR TO OBAMA IT WAS A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL FOR BLACK MEN
I love The Wire.
The boy at the end 😢
That ride getting old 😢