GOOD Magazine: Skid Row Part 2: Kids

oigooner Says:

Apr 13, 2009 - Egypt? Hahaha fucking bums.

oigooner Says:

Apr 13, 2009 - This video is also pro-black. Typical.

opalfruities Says:

Apr 14, 2009 - does anyone know the song at thevery beginning with the GOOD title????

darthsun666 Says:

Apr 27, 2009 - i know franklin and his family. knew them for over a year, and its good he wants to do better. i am in college now! i decided that there is something better out there, out of the impovished world. in a situation like that when it comes to kids usually two things occur , they either stay or they do better. sometimes even becomming humanitarians

bloccbully Says:

Apr 30, 2009 - franklin is strong, he is a MAN! He's smart. if i was him i would have picked up the pipe.....but franklin didnt. i hope his skills and talent take him to directing hollywood films. he'd make all the money in the world and never suffer a day in his life again. Franklin i'll pray for you my brother. much love, much respect.

wesjoe311 Says:

May 6, 2009 - franklin's belief is there is no hope for those people. well, with an attitude like that, he's right. i've been homeless. that was my motivation to get a job: to get off the streets. it can be done. if these people aren't motivated by this to stop doing drugs, get a job and move on, nothing will motivate them. so, i guess franklin is right.

creegal Says:

Aug 7, 2009 - I am First Nations and from the age of 2, grew up in Vancouver's Skid Row. I lost 3 sisters there and many cousins and friends. I understand poverty! I have a Master's of Fine Arts degree and haven't let the stigma hold me back.

DartmouthAlum96 Says:

Aug 13, 2009 - At least the narrator hits it at 6:00. He says, "The tragedy is that they were ever there to begin with." This is totally true. When are we going to wake up in this country, eschew all of our middle-class guilt, and start mandating licenses for people who want to breed. Franklin's mother had him and his siblings living in a hell hole on skid row, and she is not an anomoly in our society. Abortions should be mandated by law for people like Franklin's mother.

wackydan74 Says:

Aug 22, 2009 - People should be sterilized at birth. When they want to have a child in latter years as husband and wife and they can show a proven work history with steady income returns and no serious criminal record (rape, murder, etc) then they should have the sterilization process reversed. Problem solved.

97jackman Says:

Nov 26, 2009 - i lived there man it was hard to be therei am now in a small apartment but here is my story i grew up there i went to school untill 5 grd then i quit 2 yrs later isaw a police officer standing by his car i went to him ask for help because my dad died i was there with my mom she was watching our stuff the police officer came to break up a fight a guy died anyways i ask him to help me he took me to a shelter i raised enough money to get a small apartment herei got a personal helper to teach me

tryss Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - "i ain't tryin to turn this into a race issue, but every mothafucka down here is black" racism's a bitch, but it's true and you gotta be realistic about it. black or not, we gotta help them.

tryss Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - this film sends shivers and goosebumps

tryss Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - how is franklin now? keep us updated

darthsun666 Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - from what i hear, he works for tyra banks, but that was a year a go on youtube i heard that. go to tyra banks and homeless on the search engine, and you should be able to find him! however, like i said i havent seen him in awhile, when i saw him he was a normal dorky ten or eleven year old, somewhere around my brothers age! and i know that he had three sisters and a brother and his mom, and that his dad was in prison.

darthsun666 Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - yup thats the point of the movie, yet the sad part is we created skid row! By people acting inhuman and treating people like last weeks garbage, and placing humans in those conditions we created it! Its sad that america has 80 percent of the worlds resources,and yet only one percent of americans own it! why do they need so much of it? And i believe if you have that much money than you give to charities and do something nice! but we must all put our part into it though!

darthsun666 Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - a lot of them are black, but not everyone there is! I lived there, and i am white! Actually blacks started entering there by the dozens after the crack epidemic! Most before that were insane drunken whites! then crack become huge, and many ended up there, and the nut houses shut down and they were dumped there, and when prisoners in la get out, many are dropped there, and sometimes prisoners have no where to go! yes america still treats many blacks wrong!

darthsun666 Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - true! People need to motivate themselves, no matter how much one tries to help them, if they are not motivated to change, or do something different then they cannot get out!

tryss Says:

Nov 29, 2009 - cool, good to hear he's in good condition

atlucas7 Says:

Jan 6, 2010 - thats right!

HELPTHEHOMELESS32 Says:

Jan 13, 2010 - yet they keep letting them create new lives... when will the government learn to sterilize the weaker and less intelligent of the species? WHEN?!?!?!

mathias7777777777777 Says:

Jan 25, 2010 - Dude they are not less intelligent, are you an Orgaki or something?

mathias7777777777777 Says:

Jan 25, 2010 - that's a sad case...

BlackwaterPark217 Says:

Feb 25, 2010 - When will the government learn to take care of it's own before aiding other countries? Why can't people with millions of dollars help these poor people? If I was a millionaire, I would give each person there enough money to start their life back up.

a4d2d0 Says:

Mar 1, 2010 - @HELPTHEHOMELESS32 sterilize you fool

MrInstertName Says:

Mar 9, 2010 - hey i understand, but i have to disagree you the reason why you think the gov shouldnt give money to other nations, but if we didnt, the world would be like "wtf why isnt America helping that country?" also i dont agree that millionaires should give their money to a almost homeless cause. How do you think those people in skid row got there? They werent good with money and the fucked themselves and their kids who fucked their kids, and so on and so forth