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You didn't go into their community

The First Rainbow Coalition

You didn't go into their community, they don't come into your community. ♪ ♪ And that's...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

You didn't go into their community, they don't come into your community. ♪ ♪ And that's the way it was in uptown because it was Southern white. - ♪ This old world that's so hard to understand♪ - Well, the uptown area was a slum. It was, you know, a ghetto. - ♪ You love so ♪ ♪ But it's wonderful to know
when you leave ♪ [solemn orchestral music] ♪ ♪ - A series of articles came out classifying us as a very dangerous populatio. We were incestuous, we were violent, ignorant racists. And that was the first time I'd ever been called white trash was when I came to Chicago. ♪ ♪ Initially we had gotten together a street gang, young guys who were hustling like anybody. You cannot get a job. I had to go in
and literally sell blood just to survive

Full Transcript

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You didn't go into their community,

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they don't come into your community.

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♪ ♪

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And that's the way it was in uptown

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because it was Southern white.

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- ♪ This old world that's so hard to understand♪

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- Well, the uptown area was a slum.

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It was, you know, a ghetto.

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- ♪ You love so ♪

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♪ But it's wonderful to know when you leave ♪

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[solemn orchestral music]

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♪ ♪

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- A series of articles came out

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classifying us as a very dangerous populatio.

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We were incestuous,

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we were violent, ignorant racists.

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And that was the first time

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I'd ever been called white trash

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was when I came to Chicago.

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♪ ♪

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Initially we had gotten together a street gang,

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young guys who were hustling like anybody.

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You cannot get a job.

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I had to go in and literally sell blood

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just to survive.

Duration

60 seconds

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35

Timestamp in Movie

00:06:13

Uploaded

Jun 17, 2025

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Production

Nantes Media, LLC,ITVS,Black Public Media,Latino Public Broadcasting

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Movie Summary

Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America’s most segregated cities. A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those who lived it.