@@jrobinson8825 I said We, black people as a collective and statistically that is true. As you say Drug addiction is a choice and if you believe in god its a choice you should not choose. If men have free will why do the 10 commandments exist and leviticus but let me stop there because as a people we love the "free will " get out of jail card...

Stupid comment

Preach

Facts! No one has any morals or values these days!!!

Sell out

Thanks for telling us your story. It was very enlightening.

I'm sorry for your shitty start and middle but only you can create the perfect ending to your own story.

Jesus bro...Heavy Talk...wish u the best

I hope you can get out of the TL is a horrible place to live or even be. Look into the mayors office of neighborhood services for other housing options. It’s not safe there. I grew up in the city in the 80s and 90s and the drugs and crime was there in Fillmoe, Page street projects, OC projects, the Turkwood, KO , West Side, Hunterspoint, Potrero Hill, Sunnydale and Geneva Towers these neighborhoods were known for gang and drug activities lots of homicides. There’s still a lot of this going on in this same neighborhoods except Geneva Tower which was demolished in the late 90s. Now the drug trade and open drug usage is concentrated to the civic center, mid market and tenderloin area, but even tech workers are using the killer dope on the streets. Drugs are big business and there drug couriers delivering to all kinds of addicts. Sad situation.

I also live by the t.l and man o man, you not lying about how bad it is 😩ITS TERRIBLE

hi what proof do u have that crack was introduced by government?

That's rough 😢, but remember you are responsible for what you do. The worst drugs that cause so much trouble are the legal one's....alcohol/ tobacco & even sugar will ruin your body in the long run. No matter who or what puts things in your kids grasp you need to show them that no matter what people want to say "it's not worth it- the government is responsible "....YOU control what goes on & in their/ your body. Life is hard for all us working class people, but don't let ANYONE tell you this is as good as it gets....that's their mindset. The world has much to offer, but no way can it be your destiny to have all the bad

@@sTraYa249 exactly, it's always everyone else's fault with these people! They refuse to stand up and take responsibility for their own damn actions! My mother and her brothers and sisters were found living as children underneath a bridge,were taken to a children's state home where they were severely abused . Guess what? My mom worked for Dell computers for 30 years, drives a Lexus, and ownes a house AND a condo! SO NO EXCUSES MFS!! NO EXCUSES!!!!!

@detroitos, so sorry to hear that. I was alive in the 80s but I was not around crack. The neighborhood that I grew up in was very peaceful.

The government brought it, and we sold it. To our own people.

A response to the Gary Webb CIA crack connection. "I was in the Miami Herald’s newsroom when the rumble came across that the Mercury News had finally nailed the CIA-cocaine story, proving that the CIA was involved in the cocaine trade and, more significantly, that the agency was responsible for the U.S. crack epidemic. I was astonished - and envious. Until I read Webb’s story. The first thing I looked for was the amount of cocaine that the story said “the CIA’s army” had brought into the country and funneled into the crack trade. It turned out to be relatively small: a ton in 1981, 100 kilos a week by the mid-1980s, nowhere near enough to flood the country with crack." From: Opinion Gary Webb was no journalism hero, despite what ‘Kill the Messenger’ says Jeff Leen

That’s a fact

BM were the ones who spread this cancer to their own communities. Could've told the cartels no. It was more like a poverty thing than a black thing. Whites in trailer parks be doing the same ish & bringing they own down too.

Praise God! Glad you free and still here! 🙏🏽

Living testimony that there is hope for addicts. Praise God.

So proud of your strength thanks for sharing your testimony 🙏🏾💪🏾

💪🏽🙏🏽

When did crack first come out???

They call it Cokeland now

@@thesquad2253 ,,,, and Pepsilephia for Philadelphia.

Because crack doesn't cause physical withdrawal that can kill you and give you seizures like alcohol, benzodiazapines and opiates like Fentanyl. Crack isn't easy to stop but it's a mental urge. What I listed, you have to have medical assistance. Understand that.

@@ezekiel5687 this is 100% correct. If you can't put that pipe down, smoke a joint, call it a day and sleep that shit off then the problem isn't the crack.

🙌wise words flows through the truth...good choice of words my brother we don't see that very often

Honey you can live a good life, I know it’s hard but you can do it. 🙏🏽for your success and blessing.

Keep yo head up bro … you here for a reason stay focused on the positives i promise you can still do your thang 💯

How? Crack is not even a thing anymore?

@@HoneyLove77omg yes tf it is girl🙄

Fentanyl is whole new level of mass fest coming from a former addict I’ve overdosed back to back over 30 times in my life. Crack doesn’t do that and both have a very short half life

way worse now

problem is the whole picture is worse. Dumber ppl, less opportunities, more convenience. At least the crime isnt as bad.

I was right there In the thick of 85th. Looking at cays on here are doing well lol

@@Mikethemenace415 the drugs are horrendous now in the usa

ARE YOU SERIOUS? CRACK IS NOT EVEN A THING ANYMORE!!

It’s actually gotten ALOT better, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

The only difference it’s an epidemic now!

Yep, Oakland is still a hellhole.

Not true wtf

I'm glad youre home and made it through.

Damn 22 years

FJB

It's a disgrace you did that amount of time for a few ounces of crack. Glad you're out now. All the best to you bro.✌️

Dam brotha I’m sorry you had to go through that. I know people that got caught with way more than that and got way less time.

What a horrific thing to do to a human being. Giving a 16 year old an opportunity to make $750K in one year.

@ExtraterrestrialBeing-jc7to, is there proof that the government did this?

No it wasn’t. It was men like you selling it to your own community.

@@8213apice , I've never seen drugs or sold drugs. What are you talking about?

... and today too with fentanyl.

Or DONT forget to be accountable for your actions & listen to content makers who instead of show you how capable you are....would rather make out like you have no control over the choices & decisions you make. The world is YOUR oyster!

@@sTraYa249 since you still real the benefits of slavery/ systemic white supremacy and we Moors still wear the scars, can u be accountable for the actions of your race and help us fight for the reparations we are due? The Japanese got theirs along with Ukraine and everyone else and we literally built amerikkka. I’m glad we are making progress but plz don’t let kkk plot to kill our next MLK because God forbid we have a level playing field to be successful.. The white leaders act like they are afraid to play fair

There’s no trap for them.

@@8213apice u must be a white person who’s been so deeply intertwined into systemic white supremacy you couldn’t see organized poverty and white privileged even if it slapped you in the face. You should KZfaq the documentary title “Hidden Colors”

Traps get set because the trap setter know their pathology

How did you do that? I wanna leave LA

@@lisazinn866 i live in four spots in Asia. I have a condo in Cambodia, a condo in Bangkok Thailand, two houses in the Philippines and one house in Oakland. All i can tell you is do your research on how to immigrate to Cambodia or any country you want to live in. I got fed up with Oakland and all the violence. Now in Cambodia i enjoy my life at almost 70 years old. I am looking for peace, harmony, love, and most of all tranquility in life. NO DRAMA. i take it you don't like L.A. i really don't blame you either.

Well the natives of the land can't just up and move to a different country...this is their homeland

@@Bryce_Hall Just an excuse Bryce you can do whatever you want to do

@@planeman55 how much money usd do you have?

Nothing about it anywhere....

Most definitely. Crack ruined a lot of family’s in the 80’s and we’re still suffering til this day

@@ricorojo81 we are, we never fully recovered from this 💔

I was born in 86 as well in highland hospital 😂

Worse now. Oakland flooded with meth and PTSD militants. Yelling across streets and attacking randoms

@@51OAKLANDER510 Oakland in the 80's to early 90's was worse during the beginning of the crack epidemic

Good for you my friend. Not everyboody is child of a cop and a nurse, some of us are living with 20$ for the whole month, beaten up by familly, and their parents working 12/24 hours, so dont consider your self genius or saint, consider him just LUCKY. Ps: I ALSO never tried anything more than weed and alcohol, not bcs i am a genius or a good man, just cause i am lucky and i didnt

Right that Part they need to shut the hell up... 😏​@@NikolaosSbokos

​@@NikolaosSbokos Exactly. Many addicts start life growing up in perfect homes, with loving family, have happy healthy childhoods. Have everything they need to be successful in life ... BUT they end up being influenced by a really good friend to just try it once with them. Then they decide to try it again a few weeks later. Then they say "it's OK, I'm only doing it on the weekends"... Then they use it on a weekdays and convince themselves that it's not going to affect their job or grades at school that much so they can do it whenever they want to. Eventually they start missing work or school days because they ran out of dope and can't function without it. Sometimes dealers run out of supply or got busted so now tracking down a new bag is priority #1 and spending their entire day searching and trying not to get burned is where a lot of the time goes. Also money usually becomes an issue because going to work is a problem or their parent's would get suspicious if you keep asking for money everyday. SO time to start start lying and stealing from family members and friends and maybe also start shoplifting then graduate to stealing mail along with other people's identity's. Another good friend can teach exactly what to do as well as getting some magnetic ink and printing business checks. Iykyk. All this shit happens so quick in the throws of addiction. Morals and standards go completely out the window. That drug becomes your life blood. Some people end up there stuck for life homeless or in a tent on a sidewalk. Thank the Lord after 30 wasted years. I finally cut ties with that life. So LUCKY (Blessed) to still be alive. Methadone made it easier for me to stop because didn't gave to experience the pain of heroin/opiate withdrawls. Then after I got on a high enough dose that I felt amazing, I began working on getting off Meth. I thought it was going to be so hard but through prayer and the Lord keeping me strong and take away the desire to use it. I just stuck to it literally ... minute by minute, hour by hour and day by day. When I reached day 4 ... I was so dang proud of myself coming that far, I just wanted to see if I could goanother day, then another and another. I reached out to former users that were now clean for support. One of those people I used to smoke meth with but now he is a program director at a drug rehab. Literally the last person I ever thought would succed in life. He was in his mid 40's when he finally quit and his whole life changed! He became a peer counselor at the same inpatient facility he was admitted to! Worked his way up to director from there. The best drug counselors are ones who have walked in the addicts shoes and beat the dope game. I'm slowy coming off of the methadone at my own pace and I don't care how long it takes this stuff saved me. MMT is amazing. TLDR: Drug addicts come from all walks of life, backgrounds, upbringings. Even the worst addict can you'd never imagine clean become something amazing

Do u remember the time when criminals and people who aren't even considered criminals weren't shooting police at record numbers. Damn times have changed

@@dudemusstinkmeyer9843no we don't remember . Sorry 🤷🏾‍♂️

Busting into houses with 38 revolvers and 12 ga shotguns with satin jackets with dad jeans.Good old days of the 80s.

@@cameronking3551 Lol, I like watching old old episodes of COPS from when I was a kid. The ones where they do drug busts. Both as a dealer, and a buyer... They are so obvious it's hilarious.

@@cameronking3551 lol t shirt tucked into their pants and shorts

B Town

Owner of the infamous Camp Sweeney

People still go to jail for drugs. It just depends on what state you live in cuz the people in those states voted for decriminalization of drugs & defunding the police. If you part of a protected class like transgender people or a certain skin color, you really don't get in any trouble at all. If you a straight, white man, they gonna lock you up & throw away the key. I ain't exactly white & even I've noticed there's a war on the white man. It ain't right to discriminate against anybody.

You just putted weed and fenta on the same category or i am to high to understand?? 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 Bro go take a hit,weed its not what they told you like, BUT, it needs responsible consuption thats true...

@NikolaosSbokos LOL...no, i didn't and it sounds like you're high right now and / or illiterate

@NikolaosSbokos no, i didn't. learn how to read (and spell)

Being able to read and spell doesn't fully compensate for lack of mental competency broski. You seem to lack a basic fundamental aspect, which maybe I shouldn't elucidate for you. Over pg 13 content homeboy

Keep pray to the same man who’s ship brought us here.

How about they get off their brainless asses and start reforming themselfs and stop bending God's ear due to their asshead choices land being enabled by dopes like you.

Amen

@@RockSolidProhuh?

Same people who say this are against birth control, social services and abrtn 😂

@mamat1213 Not SAME, SOME people and that doesn't matter. You're responsible for whether you have kids or not. Blaming politicians doesn't help.

I think it’s a product of lack of opportunity. When there are no legal jobs and no opportunity, even the best of people turn to romance as a means of escape.

@Akeem86 used to feel the same way but i've learned that excuses don't help anyone. there's so much opportunity in the US even in poor areas compared to other countries. we have food, shelter, reliable water and electricity, free internet and libraries, educational scholarships, job training. i know because i've worked in providing these services to poor areas most of my life. that's why so many people come here with nothing and make a living. people can leverage the services here if they want to. saying OK to able bodied people on welfare b/c of "lack of opportunity" just keeps people in poverty

@@teeconsigliano7631 but if they didn't have the kids you wouldn't get the house lol

Sad to say probably dead or in jail heartbreaking maybe some made it out

Still is

@@KimOnKZfaq415naw brotha not epa at all . Oakland yeah but epa is super safe now

if it was that easy, there would be no drug addiction. NOONE wants to be an addict

These are same people who made a point of putting drugs in the black neighborhoods,

@@JordanWilliams-ix2td don’t smoke crack

@@neverhungryagain2187 and like i said if it was that easy addiction wouldn't be a thing, NOONE wants to be an addict

@@JordanWilliams-ix2td if a person doesn’t want to be an addict, why would they start smoking crack?

Same here

80s hair was messing with the ozone

Crazy!

Government man

Watch story of freeway rick Ross

i know that, bro.@@foobart8746

I didn't even mention all the drug dealers who ended up getting killed. I once heard a lady say that they were finding dead drug dealers all over L.A.

The conditions were way more complicated than that. Did the white people who fell victim to the opioid epidemic have fathers? How many fathers became addicts or hustlers themselves

You may be the dumbest human that has taken a breath of air

The craziest stuff i was doing on eleven is secret delivery food and watching porn (also i was anxius if the police watching th pc and i got arrested 😂😂) HOW THEY SMOKE CRACK ON 11,EVEN IN THE GHETTO, I dont know i am from balkan, we also do bulshit from young age, but JESUS CHRIST, CRAC ON 11?I was struggling to have a plug for pokemon and yu ghi oh cards, not for ❄️❄️❄️🤨😮🤨😮😮😮

It’s so sad 😞 I had a cousin who started smoking weed at 7, no adults watching

Hardly anything is actually new. Especially words

You must be a Hebrew Israelite full of hate for any other race outside of yours right?.

"Envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." Proverbs 3:21 12 tribes gotta take accountability for ur own actions, the Bible says Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Exactly!

They have missy

You’re a cornball that’s all you got out of this documentary?

He still trash

Oakland police was never defended. They actually got an increase and crime hasn’t gone down.

Same lifestyle different drugs. Meth, fentanyl, black ice and heroin are the norm today. Tents and RVs ex grey hound buses turned into meth labs around every corner. Whites came in and changed the drug of choice and added mental illness with military mindset causing a culture war and ended with what oakland is right now.

The old school black women of that era took good care of their daughters hair, this was just before the weave epidemic.

@@enolamsamoht you know, just because you wear weave doesn't mean you don't have hair. Back in the day ALOT of BW wore wigs and weave my grandmother did she was born 1938 and did Diana Ross eyc etc. It's called a protective style...

​@@enolamsamohtyes but they had natural waves and it was long as if they were mixed but all of them weren't

I love the 80s.

Los ceros