The Two Faces Of Miami
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It's the playground of the rich and famous. The city that most embodies the excessiveness of the American dream. Every night in Miami, the beautiful people come out to play. But look beyond the glitz and glamour, the opulent parties and notorious nightlife. A few streets away, the walls are pock marked with bullet holes. Welcome to the hidden side of Miami. This is the place to be, boasts a Canadian businessman. He moved to Miami because the only way to have success in life is "going where the action is". Here, beauty, glamour and money are the keys that open wide every door. "Within five years, this place is going to be like New York," states one resident. Spending every afternoon by the pool is all part of the Miami lifestyle. For the rich and beautiful, there is one cop for every four inhabitants. The wealthy barricade themselves behind walled communities, watched over by the best security systems available. In communities like Indian Creek, there have only been three minor crimes in the last ten years. "Still, you are never secure enough," states a local policeman. Even the lifts require fingerprint recognition. It's a world away from the district of Opa Locka, the most dangerous neighbourhood in the city. Here, police struggle to cope with at least five murder cases every week. "There are a lot of shootings on this corner," states a police officer, pointing at a wall pock marked with bullet holes. On average one child dies every other week. In the past ten years, real estate prices in Miami have increased sevenfold, creating a genuine housing crisis. Sickened by the growing gulf between rich and poor, groups of activists have started occupying abandoned homes. Unlike squatters, these activists clean the houses and then hand them over to rough sleepers. Max, the organiser of such a move, insists, "Housing is a human right." But no matter how noble his intentions, the police are not impressed. He ends up spending the night in jail. As inequality increases, the victims of gang violence are becoming younger and younger. The body of a 14-year-old boy is found in a trash can. Its the last straw, especially for the black community. It triggers an unprecedented demonstration across town. "Where are the leaders?" shouts an angry woman, demanding that the violence end. When the murderers are finally caught, they turn out to be the same age as their victim. It was a drug deal gone wrong. Miami, the city of the young and beautiful, is fast becoming one of the most dangerous places in America.
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Do you at Journeyman Pictures ever find anything positive about the areas you report about?
Do you even try?
I guess since you Brits love exotic America, and since part of your attraction to it are the bad things that you give you all the same kind of thrills that one gets at a horror movie, covering and demonizing Miami was too great a temptation to pass up. -
This video attempts to adress the "who" "what" "when" and "where" for the financial/class and racial disparity in Miami.....however the "how" and "why" are COMPLETELY ignored...
poor journalism and slanted, bias, and mostly inaccurate at best -
Miami is not that bad i have a lot of rich Venezuelan friends there like me😃
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thats Opa Locka In the beginning LoL
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What about central Miami? Eighth Street?
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it is all about CAPITALISM
RICH and POOR
the American dream inside peoples mind... -
What a dump.
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Miami is not bad I live in Miami same part and it's not bad the make it seem like it is but it's really not
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this is so fucked because just like in the country of Haiti, there is unjust negligence amongst and against black people
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1.WHEN YOUR IDENTITY HAS BEEN SUPPLANTED BY A LIE, THAT IS IS NOT CORRECTED, YOU GET THESE THIS MONSTROUS SITUATIONS,
American
AMER'ICAN, adjective Pertaining to America.
2.AMER'ICAN, noun A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.
The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. - Washington
3.THE COPPER COLOR RACES THAT THE DEFINITION SPEAK OF FROM NORTH SOUTH CENTRAL AND ALL ADJOINING ISLANDS IS AAFROM AMERICAN, LATINOS, NO ONE BUT THE EUROPIONS, ISA AN IMMIGRANT, WE WERE ALREADY HERE, THIS NONSENSE THAT WE ALL CAME FROMA FRICA AS SLAVES IS NONSENSE, AFRICA IS A CODE WORD FOR THR WHOLE WORLD... SO WHERE DID THEY TAKE YOU FROM ITS A LIE... HOW DOES THIS HELP, WHEN YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS YOUR LAND, AND ACCEPTED THE TRUTH, YOU WILL STAND UP AGAINST EVERY ABHORRENT OBSTACLE IN YOUR PATH... -
Disgusting town
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Ive cycled through Miami Beach, downtown Miami. and Little Havana and south from there for 4 days, the place is insane. Try cycling through Little Havana sometime, it's cutthroat. The whole area is wild.
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Miami: American Rio.
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What was miami like in the 80s
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DUMBASS PAT
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Lol at these people clamoring for more police protection. They'd be the first in the streets shouting "racism" if/when a cop shoots one of the gangbangers they claim to hate, regardless of the circumstances. To a broader point, the United States is a first world country. Most people are middle and working class. Looking at just the ghetto and the super rich is ridiculous. Almost classist porn. Neither is representative of Floridians in particular or Americans in general. This is like judging Paris by contrasting its poorest banlieue with the 16th arrondissement.
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miami is for dirtbags
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I live in New York
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What is thee "worst" thing we as humans are more or less responsible for?.... is it murder? Is it warfare?
Is it terrorism? Is it genocide? These & more are all terrible , far ranging creations of humankind but it's
Poverty that I think is by far the worst creation. -
I never knew French Canadians look moroccan.
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