The need to vote Republican

Hatcher. Richard Hatcher. I grew up in Hammond, was in High School when he got elected in '68. Was a big deal. Was also the beginning of its decline. My older brother was a cop there for ten years. It soured him. He eventually packed up and moved to rural Alabama. 🤷‍♂️

@@johnholliday5874 I grew up in Calumet city, lived on State line for most of my youth. Spent a lot of time hanging out at Goldblatts as a kid. Damn, the trouble I got into back then.

Honestly they should all just move somewhere else that actually has prospects. Without investment into the area you are literally pissing into the wind.

Hatcher wasn’t a bad mayor, he was simply black. When he was elected the opposition started stacking the decks. Businesses started to leave, and the city started to decline. He was one of the first Black mayors in civil rights era America...and the rest is American history.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE your comment. People are way too ignorant. All thqt tells me about them is they are afraid.

Well said. I'd like to say something. "Educate instead of incarcerate". The bottom line is that in restoring cities like Gary "Security" comes first because people can't thrive in fear. Deregulate commercial properties and businesses which means "Jobs" can come easier which is the second step. Then we will have "Nice neighborhoods" which third. In that order. It's really that simple but we can't seem to get past the first step in some places.

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I can feel your pain, I know how it hurt to see the home you grew up and grew to love died naturally because of economic issues and bad politics. Let's be honest, anywhere in the world where they religiously followed The West policies of democracy and capitalism are struggling to survive unlike the countries that decided to follow their own way of governance. China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and some of the middle east, they are enjoying good economy and equal opportunities but the Country that decided to follow the West campaign are now struggling despite having vast of wealth. Democracy and capitalism were designed to only favors a few thieves and corrupt politicians and their personal interest. How can the U.S who are capable of waging the war with half of the world and wins, failed to give enough security in its own backyard?! Can any gang be able to infest and the government headquarter in Washington DC and survive a day?

Don’t give up man

You probably came off as a conman doing some scam.

Luv what you are doing. What you are doing is infastructure work. It saddens me that so many structures that could be refurbished just sit. Yet developers in big cities continuously get large sums of money to build new structures. We need a movement and initiative, something to revitalize the old. Maybe a gofundme Gary, Indiana. Politicians are so out of touch with reality. They posture and advocate for absurdity. They are window dressers.

@@Belrivers Literally. They literally window dressed the city for the Miss America Pageant. Laughable.

@Mauri Mela Exactly right, and our four worst Presidents, Old man Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama were identical in pursuing the shallow ideas of a new world order leading us to the gates of hell

My Mom Mrs Alberta Collins taught ,7th and 8th grader at Edison

Part of the globalist agenda is to pit race against race, gender against gender, Democrat against Republican, etc., so we don't work together to stop their insane plot to implement the New World Order.

Urban sprawl (white flight )left Gary Indiana in Ruins! Now called the Rust Belt.

Yes it was a beautiful town. I was born at Mercy in 1955. We always went to shop and movies on Broadway and 5th Ave also. I used to get Italian beef at the Tivoli tap on 5th and polk or Fillmore.

@@hellno6386 what the fuck

Stfu

xX OldSchoolJules Xx i was a truck driver and i passed through the city and it was so desolate

It will NEVER come back! This video was 7 year's ago, it's only continuing to DECLINE! believe me I live in the area!

This was a very interesting video. It seems to me that private industry established the town of Gary to a provide a place for its workers to live, so it fulfilled a need. The idea of town government building convention centers, museums, and airports to save the town won't work, because these places will not fulfill any specific needs, and the government has no money to build them, due to lack of revenue! Gary really needs to attract private manufacturers that will produce tangible goods, and more importantly, good paying jobs, and then the revitalization will follow. It also seems to me that a museum / concert hall honoring Michael Jackson and his family is an awesome idea, but town government cannot and should not finance it alone. The Jackson family should step up and provide major funding along with private donors. Then the town could offer low tax incentives to help get it established. It will also take a lot of citizen initiative and small businesses, like urban the gardening initiative, which could produce food to be sold at farmers markets, and the guy from PA helping to rehabilitate both prisoners and the community, one house and a few lives at a time. In these kinds of ways, needs would be fulfilled, and the community could exist again.

Exactly the problem

Yes, I agree, but that won't happen. They will decide for us and pick the winners. Gary doesn't have a chance. 😞

Mark Kotulich The Jackson Family can't even get themselves together! And, no matter where Michael Jackson was born, his talent still would have made him successful!

Mark Kotulich agreed!!! I can’t understand how/why the jacksons are not all over this, 9 children god knows how many grandchildren, not one of them have stepped up?? It’s odd!!

Oh how i wish i couldve walked down Broadway back in the day in all its glory. Ive heard many stories of it being on par with Chicago, Nyc, etc .Its a goddamn ghost town now and I feel stuck. Its hard to get out with little money. Coming up with a way to make the money to get out of the city is also not easy .

I hate Middletown, always a dreary place!

Gary's steel industry survived the economic downturns. Gary Works remains the largest steel mill in North America and one of the largest in the world. That's not to say the downturn in the industry didn't hurt Gary's steel industry, but we fared better than many other areas. USS actually closed down operations in other areas and consolidated them in Gary, so things could have been much worse. Racial politics, on both sides, is what destroyed Gary.

Yup monopsonies are very dangerous to communities.

I was born in Gary in 1971, then moved to Pa a few yrs later. This is so sad. my folks can remember hearing gunshots back in the 70s while thay were in bed. My moms entire family is from the Gary/Hammond area.I still remember the smell from the steel mill in the air in Hammond!! This documentary just breaks my heart!!! they should seize the Clintons money and fix up Gary!!!! lol

Those books and trophies 🏆 tho such a sad waste 😔

Lol, right 😂

@Solomon Dario we could care less

IF YOU CAN CARE LESS THAT MEANS YOU CARE! I swear SO many people get that wrong -.- the phrase is "I couldn't care less".

@@dalley3124 thank you!

@@dalley3124 I could care more.

@Solomon Dario You cared enough to put your rude comment on here. Lemme guess...you live in a better off city and have lived a shallow life and have no compassion or empathy for people in any situation cause you have never suffered and have never been hungry or needed for anything..and not because you did something without help from your family. Shame on you!!

wcfl10 Yes, and it brought tears to my eyes to see a once magnificent city turned into a pile of crumbling decay! Seeing that Church, the Palace Theater, the Schools just wasting away with no hope of ever being restored! It's just one of hundreds more once great AMERICAN CITIES destroyed, never to return to their glorious past!

How was life?

He’s black. Who is going to stop them

Definitely Democrats

@@tomaslopez2940 For sure

Democrats destroy anything they try to manage ! Just look at Vietnam

@@billa7565 And Afghanistan.

Wow I’d never brag about it yuck

Facts whites fled Gary and built their cities and town to teach blacks in Gary who was superior whites were to teach Blake folks a real lesson inpower.

Those of you who are reading these comments Don t be offended by the behavior of white flight.this is what actually happened ye shall know the truth and the truth will make u free.

And as long as Americans continue to consume shit they dont need that's manufacturered over seas...It will never change

Nationalize your critical industries and let both the working man and society get a fair share of profits.

Amen

Are you joking? You must be. This would be a moderately impressive high school history project. It is, however, lacking in professionalism or any knack for storytelling. Gary deserves a good doc. This isn’t it.

Yep!! Lmmfao.... I had to edit this comment. "That chapter" guy's name is Mike (not Mark) lol sorry... But yeah,, Mike brought me here about tirty minutes ago!!😂😂

I think so ive been going on such a deep rabit hole its hard to keep track

Yep. I stopped "kickin the tires and got into it." And by into it, I mean a Gary Indiana rabbit hole.

@thebirdee hell yeah!! Mike ROCKS!!😁👍👍

Yeah! Mike just hit 1 million subscribers! So happy for him 👍

Yep, and then you have people like Trump who blame it all on democrats, while he creates his following and stabs them in the back by doing the same thing. Both parties have been doing this for 40 years, ever since Reagan. It's called neoliberalism.

That sounds like the Gary i knew !

The convention center is a good front for Democrat machine graft.

You have to wonder how out of touch some of these politicians are. Of course if you're spending other peoples money, they probably figure it's a good idea.

Mark Villano keep in mind racist white people created those black communities. Communities like this all across america, compliments of the white man. Then you got the nerve to complain.

That is just cargo cult mentality copycat of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbao . It was also industrial shithole, but got famous because it plainly took action to change. Just affirmation was strong thing. OFC cargo cult - so far no other place on earth managed to copy Bilbao's success by just copying their footsteps - there needs to be understanding of underlying process, not just monkey see monkey do.

@amanda miller I forgot south Chicago and south Los Angeles... also St. Louis.

Blaming the decline of the steel industry the reason of Gary's troubles is a sorry excuse, Gary Indiana started going downhill when U.S Steel, Inland Steel, Youngstown and Bethlehem Steel were at their peak in steel production. Gary residents just do not want to face the facts, Richard Hatcher's administration destroyed the city of Gary, millions of dollars have been pumped into that city to revive it and all that money has been wasted

Security first. Jobs second. Nice neighborhood third. In that order.

Its because blacks became an issue due to the civil rights act, the fact that Gary became desegregated drove whites out in droves

The problem isn't black or white. The problem is qualifications and why the person wins. From the documentary it's pretty clear that in Gary existed racism and classism. The question is: Was Hatcher qualified to be a mayor and run it all or was he just an activist against racism and classism. Unfortunately people don't seem to realize that it's the same racism that causes an ideologue activist to win as it is that continues to elect a clearly unqualified and failed politician back into office. Gay was a clear victim of liberal activism to this day and globalism. Hatcher may have been unqualified to run the office but Tarriff free globalism stole any opportunity to recover. On top of this are high taxes to pay for hair brained liberal schemes to bring the city back. I mean seriously! WHO with a 1/2 of a functioning brain cell could be conned into believing that an urban garden will bring the city back? A row of carrots a season sure as shit won't replace 1000s of year round industry jobs and local spinoff manufacturing. However, maybe if they grow enough carrots they'll open their eyes to clearly see how ignorant they are.

The American Dream was sold to China by bribed US politicians > Free Trade with a Communist Nation where people work for less than 5 US Dollars a day . If Trump is unsuccessful accomplishing FAIR Trade agreements with China and other similar ultra low wage Nations , America will have two classes of people . Rich and Poor . Similar to what you see in most Third world Nations.

i feel you, are you still living in Gary?

@@philspaces7213 no but I visit the beach and family from time to time

@@angelb.johnson1485 i assume you had to move to carry on with life :job kids and so on. you made the best move for yourself, which many people have done and the consequence of this is a dead town. love it for what it was, cherish the good memories and enjoy what is left (the beach and so on)

@@philspaces7213 yea my mom moved us when I was like 12 so before high school we left and went to Indy. But I agree it's just sad tho.

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+Boo Radley Your right. It was smoky and scary. I drove through there many times when traveling to and from Chicago. It scared the shit out of me. I always made sure I had enough gas and a good spare tire when I passed through that city. Dark Ugly And foreboding..

That's a huge chunk of it. Take some of those building and restore them (that takes a huge chunk of change to do right). Would be a good place to ooen up and sell to movie production.... sell as in promote.

@@woodliceworm4565 I just call it mother earth.

Gary died years ago.

Bunny Mad I hear you! Bad grammar and punctuation drive me mad, too. However, we must accept the nationwide failure of our public education system which began in the late 60s to explain that. Every once in awhile there's public exposure and cautionary tales that we have become a nation of semiliterate people and public school systems scream more money and we've been letting them get away with it for decades. The problem is the quality of the teachers and administrators. When in the 70s and 80s I started receiving misspelled notes or bulletins or whatever, with bad grammar and punctuation from my children's schools and teachers I pulled them out of public schools. The problem is like Gary, Indiana; too huge to fix. I think the man rehabbing houses and providing training for folks is a good thing. I didn't exactly grasp his extremely vague explanation about how he is financing all that. There was a whiff of snake oil about him. My question is how are the people who will ultimately live in these houses pay the monthly rent or mortgages when there are no jobs to be had? I heard him refer to this investor and reselling to another investor, but investors expect an ultimate pay off and I don't see much hope of that.

Yeah, they get rich in politics when they are in for a long time. Someday laws will be made to stop this. A lot of people belong in prison for corruption and theft.

sam jones if you stop putting blacks in power we can all benefit

good riddance. Gary wouldve been alot better off with that racist, corrupt piece of trash.

@@garyoakham9723 thats a little over the top racist there buddy

Interesting point...

At 14:00 my grandma used to live in those townhouses. Great memory.

Who cares enough America to rebuild America s diamond in therough let's do a telethon all in favor sayaye

Youngstown Ohio Is JUST LIKE GARY And NO BETTER.....

I moved away from "the Region" many years ago. When I go up that way it all smells like crap.

Frozen Godzilla Colman Young told the people of Detroit the same thing and all the whites immediately split in the late 1970s.

@@jakesmith3230 Yup, racism at its finest

Yes, black people can be and are racist. They had a vision of Gary becoming a black "utopia". Guess it didnt work out

The old saying, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" holds true.

There are 'company towns' like this all over the US, large and small. If the comapny leaves, the town is toast.

Yuck

@Jonas Pell if you're a meth monster, yes

You moving to Indiana?

Thats weird lol im from gary and wanting to move to illinois. Gary is making a comeback soon because theres some big industries that are starting back up and people are back to getting jobs.

@@ecstasy88 Why would you want to move to Illinois?

@@jordangish6579 Very good question Illinois is dead man walking