Just get um all together for a week's stay at the crappiest east Harlem motel you can find. Then they'll have a greater appreciation for where they are now.
I got a great hotel in south side Chicago that I had the pleasure of spending a night in back in '90. Noisy red neon sign right outside the window, no A/C in July, fights in the alley, sirens all night. It was awesome......to leave.
I gave the older (black) cabby the address and he looked back at me over his glasses and said "You wanna go here?" Ha, should have known....