Stay strong

Give thks God as going good for u

I completely relate....great doc, I'm an English Teacher from El Salvador but grew up in Los Angeles

The War on Drugs is WORSE than the Drugs themselves. That's an MD speaking. Your Dad didn't have access to clean needles. And also, if Dope were legal (at least for addicts over Eighteen) all the drug-related crime would END, and the Hoods would get Better. ...AND, do you Know how HIV came to America?? Many folks know it was through Haiti, from Africa. There was, however, a "Haitian Amplification Event, in around 1971-72. One of Papa Docs thugs ran a plasma donation center in Port-au-Prince, named "Hemo-Caribbean." Poor Haitians were paid five bucks/day to donate. There were articles that year, in both the NYT and a Marxist rag dissing on "The Vampires." Now, Normally, donating plasma is very safe, BUT those Bastards rarely changed out the needles and tubing(!!) You wanna talk about "Wildfire" spread?!? Seven hundred people/day donated there, on multiple machines. The practice was stopped, probably because we began to have Hepatitis B tests, and that plasma must have failed. AND, a LOT of that plasma was shipped to NYC, where it ended jp in the veins of Hemophiliacs. Inevitably, a small percentage of those Men (women don't get the disease) would have been Gay, junkies or Both. The incubation period before you get AIDS is about eight-ten years; much shorter for Older patients. In 1978, there was a vaccine trial for Hepatitis B (which has the exact same risk factors; Anal Sex and exposure to blood products. Those people were regularly tested, to make sure the vaccine worked-which it DID. Their blood slides were saved. In 1978 (after ALL those years of bathhouses, leather bars, and needle-sharing) the HIV positivity rate was only about five percent. By 1983??...SIXTY percent. This is due to the fact that HIV is most contagious the first month after you acquire it, and again when you start getting sick years later. If you just have swollen lymph nodes, night sweats, and Kaposi Sarcoma, you still feel healthy enough for Sex, and, certainly, are healthy enough to shoot up drugs. I should mention that the HIV test became available in early 1985, but, again, the slides were saved. While the Hepatitis B vaccine was a Good thing in and of itself, but, it also meant that Gay and Drug-injecting people would no longer GET Hepatitis B, and we therefore didn't have a De Facto test for Hepatitis C or HIV. MANY Junkies donated plasma, and could not longer be screened out (until the HIV test came in 1985. The Hepatitis C test didn't come until years after that.) The next logical question IS...how did the disease initially spread in Africa?? Well, they think a hunter butchered a chimp and cut himself. When Africa was controlled by Colonists, they were inoculating many people against Sleeping Sickness, and other diseases. That was GOOD, except...you Guessed it...they used the same needles and syringes over and over again. Similar practices persist in Subsaharan African hospitals to this day, with IV needles and tubing being reused. This is Also how Ebola spread...it does NOT spread through the Air. There is some heterosexual spread, too, particularly when underage girls are raped, and when women who are female "circumcised" have sex. Tropical diseases like Chancroid, when untreated, can also cause two-way spread of HIV. The Haitian government denies this theory, saying that NO cases of AIDS were traced to Hemo-Caribbean. They also point out that most of the cases were/are in males. I think that's BULL. Haitians are so sick and weak to begin with-most carry latent Tuberculosis-that untreated HIV killed them in only five years. A few dozen Haitian patients dying of Diarrhea (which AIDS patients get) Pneumonia and TB could have gone unnoticed. IMHO, they need to dig up some corpses from the Seventies and drill their teeth, to check their Dental pulp DNA. Plague DNA survived Six Hundred years, and THAT is what finally settled the cause of The Black Death; they examined skeletons from mass grave sites in the Fourteenth Century. The prevailing theory was that American Homosexuals picked the disease up from sexual tourism with Haitian males. Haiti did have gay tourism in the 1970s, but they probably mostly stayed with their own racial group. They were Wild in those years, (Heck-a Lot of straights were, Too) but they could not have caused such an extensive pandemic on their own. ..and, here in AMERICA?? The head of the Blood Bank in Washington, DC claimed, as late as 1983, that AIDS was only spread ONE WAY, and that our blood was perfectly safe. He (correctly at the time) pointed out that recipients of blood products didn't have AIDS...the full-blown syndrome. This was soon proven to be Incorrect, and many victims died needlessly.

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Omg i know. My heart could not these poor babies and their puppies.

Same here omg just hearing that laughter amongst what’s going on outside them walls

nope dey became cracck addicks

these Kids are nearly 60 now...

Yeah, that was was pretty tough to watch 😭

He's speaking Truth for real

Ppl have a honest conversation today 😑

100%

*honest journalism.

What else was there to do back then?

​@@goodmorningsundaymorning4533 seriously. With no ridiculous censoring.

Yup back in 1953 he started getting high he would of been 81 years old today

The Heroin epidemic was REAL. It was designed to destroy the black community further after the civil rights movement of the 60s. The war on drugs was a war to eradicate our people inclusively to not allow our comeuppance in American society. Take away jobs, manufacturing companies, and vocational training for young men and you get this.

I started at 12 1967

Unfortunately that's not uncommon. Drugs dont discriminate age or race.💯👊🏾

@@petierican6079 that's so sad 🙏

Word I was lucky my parents didn’t play that drug stuff my pops was a big time gambler in NYC from Alabama mom and pops he had a job we lived good in a nice house in Queens but he said when he went into gambling spots they had all kinds of drugs on the table they say take what you want he said he never did and he was nice with cars working on them so he had a lot of respect no problems son. 7 of us including me big family.

True deep

Same here. My family has lived in Harlem since the 70s, but their good decision to stay out of the drug life and be good parents allowed things to be good for the kids.

...agreed. I saw multiple neighbors in our building Uptown NYC turn into zombies and monsters off that shit! Good people, who just became a slave to it. Destroyed their looks, family life, and friendships & finances. One guy who used to babysit us eventually end up TERRIFYING my mother. Not too long after that, our family moved. Scary shit!

@@jackharlowgan5280 damn bro. That’s pretty much how it was in every ghetto in America during that time. That ish destroyed people for generations.

I AGREE

💜d the children’s laughter 2🙏

Geraldo has changed a lot over the years.. He's not the same guy hew as back then

Yes

Well said.

You just completely left out MLK ....

Sad

@@blast4me754 you completely downgraded Malcolms legacy with this comment.

Wow, that’s a different perspective. They’re not thinking about how it will affect the community when they’re taking out our leaders.

People can hate Koch all they want, but he was elected right on time.

@@Batony I actually liked Koch and I agree. He was very personable and brought hope back to NY. He made Guilliani's job of bringing NY all the way back a whole lot easier imo.

He's SEE EYE 👁️ A don't get it twisted or bent

You're praising Ed Koch? Come on, now.😑 Ironically, Donald Trump was one of the people who brought major investors and real estate to the city....as it edged towards bankruptcy. Even Koch admitted this. He began with the hotel by Grand Central Station...then, onto Trump Tower. Meanwhile, Giuliani was actually prosecuting the mafia---a few years later. By 1989, my immediate family was (mentally, emotionally) DONE. By February, 1990 (second month into Mayor Dinkins' term) we moved south. Although I lived in Jersey City, since 2019....I still worked in NYC. But, due to the legalized discrimination of the poison mandates/ injections ....I'm saying "DEUCES", to Jersey and NYC....for good. Mayor Warren Wilhelm takes the cake as far as destroying NYC (in a 10-year period, while enriching he and his wife). Eric Adams is the new David Dinkins....and I'm leaving, the NYC/NJ area, again (like February, 1990). *Deja vu* . But, this time....for good. My family has Stockholm Syndrome (like many New Yorkers. Especially the Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers). History repeats itself.

Harlem is bad now

That's because the Department of Education hadn't been created yet (1979).

They're dressed way better too.

No IG, no Snapchat, no b.s. social media, and no Netflix. People read books and newspapers back then, so their speech was somewhat more articulate as a result.

Listen to how eloquently Geraldo has written this episode. His commentary is often poetic. Fifteen years later he was hosting that crap talk show, instigating and breaking up fights, shouting at people. American culture coarsened dramatically in the 90s.

I was taking the same

May The Most High in all His Devinity, keep you, cover you, and bless you. Keep going, one day at a time. 🙏❤️✨

I Am Praying for you 🙏 ❤️ Stay clean

You.will.win.

GOD bless you in JESUS name. Pray to to JESUS and ask him to make you free of any addiction. AMEN

They didn’t know their environment was in despair. That was their normal.

Growing up in the ghetto was fun. Much more fun than growing up in a rich neighborhood

@@bryanlane5945 nah

Man I hope they survived and did ok in life.

Amd their bed right up against peeling paint

Money talks

Geraldo was a street kid. He absolutely grew up knowing how to handle himself. Saddest part as a society we are not much better off now brotha.

@@jarroddavid8352 You think Geraldo paid for these street interviews? That would’ve been a huge breach of journalistic ethics - which mattered back then - a firing offense and major scandal in those days. These people spoke to him because they trusted him, and he didn’t come off as Mr. White America. And he didn’t insult or judge them in the final report. He never did. He simply told it as it was. We could use a lot more of that today.

@@AFaceintheCrowd01 correct. Would've been hundreds of unfortunates trying to get on tv if he was paying

Was this before the Aids?

Omg Thank God

That was actually a good story. ❤️

@@mariaager1924 awwww thank you very much, you're amazing and have a beautiful day 🤗

The CIA allowed the Mafia operating in the south of France to bring the heroin into the country. It's known as the French Connection. It just kept getting worse from after WW2 up through the 1970s.

Harlem is being gentrified in the 21st century did you know?

Because they weren't any good, I had the worst childhood, in Louisiana, and then in New York, and I never did that shit, much less used drugs, my mother (Brazilian) said that if I used drugs, I would be beaten until my ass was white.

So explain it.

@@Reggie-The-Dog you can find videos about Harlem gentrification on KZfaq.just search google.

I get get soo sick of people going around yelling everyone is selling their soul crap ...What does this even mean and is there video footage of someone selling their soul ???

@@blast4me754 It means that it was before Geraldo sold out his integrity for tabloid journalism.

He was never a real journalist. Always a joke. Always JUNK.

@@missshannon9790 He's a glorified tabloid reporter.

@@blast4me754 sell your soul for fame.. do some research on how the Illuminati works enlighten yourself to the evil world

I look at EVERYONE who supported the Paid n Full movie are idiots now

@@steppababynupe - you truly see the light. That's my same mindset, why do we glorify the Hollywood version of drug use & distribution, but out of touch with the reality and trauma... These people interviewed speaking so freely with no shame, how can a country such as ours allow communities to fall & crumble ? How can man take advantage of his brother & sister in such ways that take life? My family has been effected by the plague of drugs Thank God times have improved in Harlem, Bronx, other boros 🙏🕊️🌻

@@barryjohnson409 facts. I was brainwashed from hiphop. Until i became a grown man and began to THINK on my own. No more social media, television, completely separated from the matrix

@@steppababynupe metoo!!!! god bless ou people

@@barryjohnson409 You must not pass 110th or 125th btwn Lexington, Madison, and Park. There are junkies by the dozen on any given day

Systematic Racism in NYC… 🙏🏿 I’m a survivor

@@aliciaisfree systemic*

it was so sweet

Yep. Analog for life!

Video camera quality

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Straight facts! Beat him up with that mic.. he is sooooo euro!! Frfr

Geraldo is from Brownsville I think.

@@daltonhanleyjr4142 I grew up in Brownsville before my family literally fled to the Long Island suburbs in '83. Brownsville was 10x's worse than Harlem. It still is. Ask anybody.

Code switching at it's finest

Wow that's crazy

Is it different now?

He had enough sense to literally remain above the madness below

We grow up fast in NYC. Especially in that era

not really many people were into that in NYC in the 70's

Looky what Majestic Dark Horse said...

I wonder what happened to him or where he is today

I agree. As far as I’m concerned this is historical footage & I’m glad it still exists.

Is that feeling of hopelessness, that leaves them to Turn to drugs. Just like Baltimore & that show the wire. Very depressing lifestyle. 😫😣

4 Sure.

Terrible

i wonder if he is still alive he would be 82 yrs old today 😢 or did he ever get clean

Yeah, they got no support. Just like folks today.

WOW I know what you mean. I was nine at the time living on 143rd street between 7th and 8th avenue. I was the happiest kid in the world when we moved to Queens that December. I can't believe that guy said he used 40 to 70 dollars a day in his addiction. Our rent in Harlem was 98 dollars a month.

@@debraj8665 Damn!

Yeah looks like Disney land now damn near

103rd st...Douglass Projects...I was born In 1980

I was 9 nine years old..my uncle bless his soul was a victim of that plague..103 and manhattan ave..1976..my young mind..a bunch of Zombies up and down that hill..functional af tho just like my unc..he died with me just remembering what that drug did to me and him..came from camp one yr..wasnt at all sad that he went away..my young me couldnt handle verbal abuse he put on me and grandma..took yrs to find out.. out of 4 bros..he was the absolute smartest..most passionate..crown jewel..creative..clever as fk ..2nd youngest..i.forgive you so much Unc..hope seeing your best film of you up there..Gp still here at 102 yrs old..misses you everyday..Mr Ortiz thanks..im sorry..you opened that can bro..just wanna thank you..hope your family survived whatever it was back then..by way i was building 55 Douglass..100 St..miss them days..Manigualt was such a legend..the Real G.o.a.t

He’s half Puerto Rican🇵🇷

Or the Italians back then.

80's

Do you recognize any of these people?

Not in the 90s in NYC..Today yeah but not in the 90s..Present day most of the blocks are cleaned and renovated but still got more to go..

Certain parts of Uptown in the 70's were worse than 3rd world conditions.... How a country as economically prosperous could allow conditions as abysmal as this to fester is nothing short of criminal and evil.. The so called greatest economic, political and scientifically advanced nation in the world at the time having people live like this in its greatest city where Wall Street is just miles away in Midtown is mind blowing.

Facts.

He wonders why gotti wanted too kill him

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@@jfontanez1838 Maybe cause Gotti was a criminal? What criminal likes journalists? lmao

Agree!! VLAD NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH..

I see you family.

Who put a needle in her arm at 8 years old..That's crazy

Thank God that your mom got clean. Blessing to her . God bless

$ boss players

That was that Era, the gringo always got a remedy for the indigenous.... Gun's aren't made here & cocaine cocaina isn't grown here.... So how out of all places does Afghanistan heroin get to America in bulk daily.

Facts me too

It goes back to the Industrial Revolution with the gangs especially on the East Coast but yeah even in the 1920s, 30s, & 40s you had people smoking reefer and wearing zoot suits with their own slang. They have documentaries on youth gangs from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s on youtube still.

I rather be born in the 1940s than the late 90s I missed alot

It was a decade of grifters getting rich on the sacrifices of those who fought to liberate Europe from Fascism. The veterans of that war did well for themselves but now they're a dying breed. There are no Generals alive today that can say they've won a war but instead they're getting rich off war.

Facts they act like they generation was so perfect.lol

And you warm mine 😍😍😍😍

The Disco era was peaking

Truth Indeed

Wow

Punk Rock and Disco, as well

Right?! Smh 😂

Geraldo gained their trust.... not every reporter has that gift.

Code swtiched

Shuck and jive

Geraldo is half Boricua🇵🇷and Jewish. He got both in him

SO FAR I HAVEN'T HEARD THE N WORD, INTERESTING....

I wouldn't be to sure he doesn't have a habit or is on methadone and that was a t.v show they can't curse I'm from n.y and trust me curses and the nword were always on deck

How much was 5 grand in 1975?

5000 dollar's same as today🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤨🤨🤨

@@katherinejones7975 wrong....5000 in 1975 is like 10,000 in today's buying power...it's called inflation

I was 4 and lived in a better neighborhood, but back then there were junkies everywhere. Used to see them on my way to school everyday also the following year. I was obvious to them though, was used to it.

Dang I was born 79 so the only addiction I was aware of was the crack epidemic that took hold of Brownsville Brooklyn.. Total devastation hopelessness desperation and recklessness. The relationship between supplier and addict underpinned by reward and risk was crazy.. Looking back now but hip hop was a growing needed distraction.

You right 116th and 8 th avenue so many junkies

Yes,Sad but true

Ikr, west Virginia has a rep...

what's your point?

@Keltic Ride that’s an ironic reply to my comment

Yeah WV and Southern Ohio are shot out.....junkies everywhere smh

@@ThatGuyEclipz330 yeah I been to West Virginia and that was the first time I've felt fear .The whole part of town I was at seemed filled with meth heads.People walking around with no teeth in their mouth.

If you like this, then I recommend 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s

I was born in 98 and I talk just like this

I was born in 98’ but everything about the 70s is fascinating to me.. nyc drug lords, the sneakers, the fashion, the city, the mom and pop aspect of neighborhoods, etc. born 30 years too late.

@@mauricioreal7384 watch 80 blocks from Tiffany’s

ME TOO!

Oh yes,Time flew on by.

Fact

No one told you to use or sell the drugs

@@8213apice your ignorance is painful.

@@8213apice True but they do the devil's work luring people into sin and self-destruction

This is the harsh and painful Truth!

He changed his name to Mike Tyson he flew pigeons also

Word I’m like what 😂😂😂😂

Cold blooded

🤣🤣

Right, and she really think he would do the same for her. Low self-esteem at its finest.

Yeah Philly is pretty bad

True but me and some others are trying to change this sorry reality.

Philly is awful!! But ther is no herion anymore its all fentanyl and trank. Just whatever the chineese send over is what ya get. The dope now days has no legs gotta constantly look to fix!

@@robc_zombie so sad..

I'm from NY Philly always been crazy they smoke a lot of dust 2

Same 😹😹

1970's Fuckboy

Sometimes

Maria Bautista: yeah, that was funny as hell! In other words,sheeeeeeeeit,!

Facts!

me too, but 9 times out of 10...their lives turned out just as bad if not worse! Sad as hell.

they probably didnt and most of them are probably dead

@@Materva-hv6sz their most definitely dead

How much a bag of Heroin then

I wonder what ever happened to those dogs...

Chester is that you ?

@@bpthegreatt na that’s the homosexual pedophile check him out

I thought the same thing. The Heroin was perhaps “ safer” back in 1975?

Truth

I'm pretty sure Getaldo gives them a few bucks so they can score some drugs after the interview. 👈

He’s even crazier for rubbing on people track marks

Cuz its fake

@@TheForeignNationalBornNatural facts they real dope heads who are clean they just post up somewhere pretending they still out there gettin it.

He pay them he taking advantage of poor helpless failed black men great stuff Babylon fire bun you

CIA need to be brought to account for deliberately trying to destroy every African american and Hispanic neighbourhood !!!🤬

💯 exactly,the govt. We're the one who introduced them to us. they were trying to kill us off.😡😞

Truth Indeed

I'd like too see some videos from you

Kyla Benson They probably died from overdose on those mean streets of NYC back in the 70's ... It's hard to recovered from that sh it. Or they probably got their self killed for robbing people.

@@ziggyzeke6256 people DO recover.🙏🏽

@@joealmeida4603 True ...

Few and far between. Worked in Harlem at a methadone clinic in late 90’s and not many stayed in treatment. Sad

@@byiza9484 sadly, I KNOW that, too. No debate here. Thank God 4 MY recovery...interesting piece here on “The Harlem I once knew-& loved!”🙏🏽

I died 😂 she’s delusional. He staticky you admitted he didn’t love her.

He probably beat her up after the interview.