Black Harlem Residents Expose Migrants For DOING THIS?

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]I'm tired of being infiltrated on our own land. Right here, another Look, all the foreigners are sitting on 125th Street. They're able to sell their food.

[00:00:09]Their trucks are not being confiscated.

[00:00:12]But, when it comes to us, we're being targeted in our own community.

[00:00:16]>> In the city of Harlem, there is a very popular female chef by the name of Tami Treadwell. She is affectionately called the queen of seafood in Harlem. And she has a truck called Harlem Seafood Soul.

[00:00:32]Now, she typically parks her mobile truck, which is, from what I understand, a $100,000 investment on 125th Street in Harlem. A very, very popular spot.

[00:00:43]Malcolm X used to be out there back in the day. It's one of the busiest streets in Harlem, one of the most notorious streets in New York City. But, recently, she's had her truck towed.

[00:00:56]thought that New York City is the greatest city in the world, then you need to understand that Harlem is the crown jewel of New York City. You can't come up here in our community, in our neighborhood, and take our [ __ ] we are busting our ass for. Don't give us any explanation, and then you don't even want to want to be nice about it. You want to be nasty with it. Exactly. So, what I've done, I've called my contacts in the city.

[00:01:21]The commanding officer of the precinct is coming out here. I just spoke to sanitation's supervisor. Their supervisor. He said he's going to call me back. I don't know where it's going, but we out here fighting for you. Thank you. Let's stand by.

[00:01:40]This woman been feeding people out here for years. She been out here for years, and you going to take her property? And you got the option of letting her drive it to the parking? That's [ __ ] That's [ __ ] What they paying you? It's not worth it.

[00:01:53]I don't care what they paying you. It's not worth it. So, they took her truck, big deal, right? Well, hold on. Stop the show.

[00:02:01]You see, Tammy's truck has a license to sell food.

[00:02:06]But, the truck itself kind of doesn't have a license. Now, let me explain what I mean. New York City has a fixed amount of licenses that they can give each year to big vendor trucks like Tammy.

[00:02:20]And so, that means that you need to rent your license from sometimes a person that already has it, and that may cost 20 or 30 thousand dollars. Now, her truck does very well. Everybody hires her.

[00:02:31]She ain't wanting for some money. But, these licenses are in small supply, and Tammy has been trying to fight the system in New York City so that people can get more licenses to operate her business, which put a target on her back. So, what you saw was the police picking on her truck, taking her truck away. And, you know, probably she's making a lot of money. In Harlem, she can do $1,500 to $3,000 a day in sales.

[00:03:03]She literally has people standing outside for days trying to get her food because that is how good her food is because she's the truth. But, at the same time, her truck is being taken away.

[00:03:19]Guess what?

[00:03:20]>> Okay, hello Harlem. We have to stand up for the queen of soul and her food truck.

[00:03:26]I'm tired of being infiltrated on our own land. Right here, another Look, all the foreigners are sitting on 125th Street. They able to sell their food.

[00:03:35]Their trucks are not being confiscated.

[00:03:37]But, when it come to us, we're being targeted in our own community. Here go another one. Another foreigner in our community. They don't go and take their truck away. But, they came and messed [music] with the sister. This is an issue where we have to make sure we stand up and this has to stop [music] at this particular time. We have to raise our cuz look, another one right here. They all in our community [music] infiltrated us in our community selling things, nobody getting tickets, nobody getting written up, but when it comes to us, we're being targeted.

[00:04:10]Nuts and peanuts.

[00:04:13]Perfume.

[00:04:18]Can't nobody messing [music] with them.

[00:04:20]When I as I go further down, you will see the messages that got their legal fruit.

[00:04:25]>> [music] >> They out here.

[00:04:27]Why the cops not messing with them? They in front of the train station, [music] they on the side, they leaving the the the empty boxes all over our community.

[00:04:36]Why [music] are they not targeting them, but they always targeting us on our lane. So, you have to stand up and start making complaints. I'm tired of these [music] foreigners and they Look, there you go. Another one, another truck.

[00:04:52]And anybody messing with them? [music] So, as you guys saw, the sister was taking everybody around and you saw all of these foreigners out there, all right?

[00:05:03]Some of them were brothers and sisters from the continent of Africa, but according to her, she didn't believe that these people were paying any money at all. Now, Tammy definitely has a food truck license to serve food. Now, whether it comes to, you know, being in particular spots, that's a little bit different. But, you didn't see none of those people out there shutting down these foreigners who are selling their goods and they don't even have a license at all. And again, I want to take it back to what the sister was saying when it came to foreigners. Now, New York City is probably uh the home of Pan-Africanism. I mean, 125th and Linux, that's when you get a lot of the Pan-African ideology, your Marcus Garvey thoughts out there.

[00:05:51]Your Malcolm X's, your new Black Panther Party. Sa Neter YouTube channel was born on 125th.

[00:05:57]So, it's a lot of history.

[00:05:59]But, guess what? When you see African migrants and Hispanics, and they are allowed to sell even though they don't have a license, and then you see Tammy, uh anchor in Harlem. She's been out there for many years. She's a legend in the community. You saw people was willing to stick up for her. And then when you see these folks not doing nothing, just taking up opportunities, it leaves a a bad taste in your mouth.

[00:06:23]And again, when I say this, y'all don't believe me. The last thing that somebody wants to hear when they see a sister from the community being mistreated, and if they happen to see anybody else out there, regardless of race, but especially if that's an African migrant, nobody wants to hear Pan-Africanism. Cuz I can tell you like this from a Hold on, I can tell you like this like I'm blue in the face.

[00:06:50]If they catch your ass selling anything illegally out in Uganda as an American, they're going to shut you down automatically.

[00:06:57]You're not going to be able to come back the next day. They're going to know who you are, and they're going to If they find you, they're probably going to put you underneath the jail.

[00:07:05]But, listen to this. If somebody without a social security number, so somebody who's undocumented, applies for benefits, and they do qualify for benefits, by the way. They call They qualify for full Medicaid, housing, migrant Head Start. That's fully paid child care. Not to mention that if they these people have any kids that are US citizens, meaning that they're born here, then they apply for benefits for their kids, and their kids being US citizens qualify for all the benefits, all the services. So, if you have an undocumented parent, meaning a parent that does not have a social security number, apply for benefits for their children, there's absolutely no way as a worker I can tell if they're making income, if they have any property, if they did taxes, how much money they made. There's just no way.

[00:07:49]We're talking $1,200 per kid plus $275 per person cash food stamps. That doesn't include housing, all the other benefits they get. And here in California, they don't even care, they don't even hide it. Now, this is the Hispanic lady.

[00:08:05]And you've heard that correctly. She said it herself that she used to be a Democrat. She became a Republican after working for the government. And she's talking about all the money if you're undocumented migrant, if you're in places like California, if you're in places like uh New York City. She didn't say New York, but I'm pretty sure it's the same thing. Look at all the money they giving these people. If you have kids that are US citizens, and then you got people who really get out here and work every day. Now, imagine the food truck business is not an easy business.

[00:08:39]You got to be fast, you got to be agile, you putting in your time, you putting in your money. Sometimes you're not going to get sales because hey, NYC, it might be snowing, right? Uh might be raining out there. Ain't as many customers. You know, you got to risk being robbed, risk being a target, all of those things. But that's what Tammy is. She's out there in the business. And Tammy is not uh probably the youngest person in the in in in in the world. She like she could be in her mid-50s, early 60s. So, you like I said, she's overcoming maybe her own health issues sometime to be out there, you know, and then she does a lot of stuff for like Hot 97. Like she's hired all around the city. She got all this business.

[00:09:20]Then the foreigners who supposed to be s- lock in step with the blacks. And again, I understand the foreigners are not trying to stop the black development, but at the same time, they are not there for us. Right? So, let me understand. It's a little bit different when you get black Americans or Caribbeans or folks in the diaspora coming back to Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria.

[00:09:45]See, when we come to places like this, we kind of understand that, look, we're here. We got a higher calling that we felt like in our life to come back and and help the continent um do something, help develop. So, we're going to set some money aside that we can, you know, pay extra salaries, we can develop, we can do things, right? But, unfortunately, migrants, and I understand that when they come to the states, they come to the UK, they're in no position to really do that. But, even when they get in a position to do that, they never do. It looks like they're taking their opportunity from us, which again creates disdain. And this is the same issue that happens in South Africa.

[00:10:24]You're not there for them. So, when I'm a person and I see, you know, my food truck is down or somebody else's food truck is down, but your illegal business able to stay up and mine's can't stay up, that ain't got nothing to do with you. But, instead of me looking at the government, I'm going to be looking at you because you're not affected and you shouldn't even be there.

[00:10:45]It's natural.

[00:10:47]So, I wanted to rock this story out.

[00:10:49]Shout out to the sister Tammy. Keep your head up. You know, I wanted to report on this to get this out there, share this video. Again, this is a sister from the community, so I wanted to go ahead on and show my love to her and let her know that, hey, if I'm ever in Harlem, I'm not even the biggest seafood eater, but I'm definitely going to come down there and get something from you. So, guys, what do you think? Do you think it's unfair how they're treating our sister from the community? Let me know in the comments. We out.