Henry Hampton Quotes
We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
Hampton, Henry. Interview by Nathan Cobb. "The Man Behind 'Eyes on the Prize'." The Boston Globe, 21 Jan. 1987.
This quotation explains why so many of the Southern poor so actively supported the racist Slavery system even though they could not afford slaves and received no direct benefit from slavery or the discrimination against free Blacks. The poor were not at the bottom of the totem pole, and therefore had a dignity and social status, that the poor in a racially integrated society never possessed.
After the Meltdown of 2008 at the end of the George W. Bush administration, the Great Recession shut many of the traditional American opportunities, and even in 2013 when this quotation was written opportunities for the poor were much fewer than at most other times in American history.
Illegal school racial segregation is no more, but the schools are still racially segregated. The concept of neighborhood schools makes the school population dependent on the residential population in any given area. And housing segregation is the rule in most of America—come caused illegally, but much the result of economic clustering of housing, customs, and ethnic communities. Therefore schools are still racially segregated except in those areas where housing is racially integrated.
Describing the post WWII real estate and housing boom.
Henry Eugene Hampton Jr. was an American filmmaker. He was the son of surgeon Henry Hampton Sr. and Julia Veva Hampton. Henry was raised on Laclede Station Rd. in Richmond Heights, Mo, a suburb adjacent to the western edge of the city of St. Louis. Henry lived on the eastern edge of an all black working class community. A native of Richmond Heights, Mo. Hampton would later move to Boston - to a large property at 88 Lambert Avenue in Roxbury where he founded his film production company Blackside, Inc., in 1968. It became one of the largest minority-owned non-theatrical film production companies in the U.S. during the mid-1970s and until his death in the late 1990s. Hampton and his company produced over 80 programs including documentaries, television spots, and other media productions.
