Greatest US Cities for Black People, according to The Coli?

[FrontoBama]

Carolina cities have distinct BLACK hoods where we are doing well..

At this point being in North Carolina gives you a domestic face card . I flew into El Paso yesterday and will be here two months, while waiting for the company van with a girl from Orlando, when I told her I live in NC she was like "I wanna move there so bad". This happened when I was in Idaho too; happened when I was in Upstate NY and was around many New Yorkers with NC as one of their top southern destinations; in California NC isn't as big a destination as Texas but you run into this sentiment about NC every once in awhile...

Black people are excited to get to NC from other places and when you in other states people get excited to talk about NC with you...

Yeah that’s understandable. It’s deliberately overrepresented on TheColi for political reasons, but NC is undoubtedly huge in NY along with VA and Maryland so there’s definitely an affinity. Similar to Mississippi>Chicago, except we also have native born emancipated Black New Yorkers.

 

[Blessings]

New York.

Largest continuous Black community (SE Queens and Central/North Brooklyn contain 3x ATL Black population in the same space.)

Largest overall Black population (Diversity neega)

Active political representation at every level (city councilmen to governors) Blacks have held every senior office in the state. (shoutout to Hakeem Jeffries).

Deepest Black militant presence and history in the North. The first civil rights march was in New York.

Functional Black dating scene where most Blacks marry other Blacks.

Public School System getting better but still kills Philly or Chicago.

Access to all major cities on the E/C

Top-Tier public university system (cuny) and state (suny)

Met Museum holds the overwhelming majority of stolen African (Benin Bronzes & Egypt) artifacts in America

Job opportunities at all levels and trades for Blacks, unions mandate it and firms love it for photo ops.

Superior Northern education. So many on this site don’t know even American history it hurts.

Incredible amount of social services, nearly 1 million people live rent free in the city.

building codes and city gov (much lower incidence of lead poisoning like Chicago or what’s going on in Jackson/Flint)

Global face card that grants you all kind of exclusives (Come check out my dispensary my New York friend!)

HARLEM USA

tired

/thread

 

[get these nets]

DC and Atlanta is home to some of the most richest Black neighborhoods in the country.

Most richest?

Come on, ese.

*just jokes

 

[murksiderock]

Most richest?

Come on, ese.

*just jokes

What's your opinion on the topic brother, and what are your reasons why?

 

[get these nets]

What's your opinion on the topic brother, and what are your reasons why?

I've never resided outside of the Northeast corridor . Only people who could give valid answers are those who have lived in multiple regions of the country.

 

[Asicz]

#DMV gotta be top 10 even @Stuntone had to comeback...

 

[Canada Goose]

NYC.... if you have an good job. Being broke in NYC sucks. Could be blue or white collar doesn't matter black ppl doing well in both.



Honorable Mentions:

Richmond VA
North Carolina (the whole state) seems like every Black person is doing well in NC Yes I know there's Black ppl struggling in every state I'm talking about perception

 

[Supper]

The national black poverty rate is around 20%, the highest of any race nationally, and I'll be very direct.

2020 5 yr estimate - 22.1%

2021 1 yr estimate - 21.8%

Also, I think something needs to be said specifically about income/wealthy stratification and inequality.

As in the negative effects of black poverty are intensified the more the non-black rate of poverty rate is less than it and/or non black wealth exceeds black wealth in a given location. That means the more black folk are UNIQUELY vulnerable to economic exploitation, economic soft targets per say, by wealthier/less impoverished non blacks in their immediate vicinity the more you get- abundance of non-blacks owning businesses in the hood, gentrification, environmental racism, over policing, mass incarceration etc of the local black community. Not to mention the psychological effects it has on the black communities collective sense of self worth and esteem.







I actually plan on doing an entire thread in a similar vein as your census black pop thread on it. Been fkn with the data.census site a lot lately. Still tryna get the hang of it and finesse it the way it need it + working on javascript programming to tap into the apis more efficiently so I can format it how i want.

 

[UpAndComing]

Any place that has at least has a 10% black population, low cost of living, and lots of job opportunities should be a great place for Black people

Climbing the economic ladder should be the biggest priority when moving to a city than anything else IMO

 

[REdefinition]

I'd say a strong black population which for me would be somewhere around 20% percent and up. Low crime. Strong and diverse job market, and black political representation.

Homeowernship is also a factor I don't think is getting enough attention here. I can't imagine living somewhere making a good income, working hard, and still not being able to partake in one of the top wealth building vehicles. This is what lowers big cities like NYC and LA to me.

 

[nicole89]

Charlotte is cool but once you go into suburbs, such as Gastonia and Concord, it is very redneckish. Raleigh is a bedroom community. There is not much to do there and there is racism there. I would move to Charlotte or Triad area as a black person. I been almost all over NC working, so I am familiar with most of NC.

 

[Supper]

I'd say a strong black population which for me would be somewhere around 20% percent and up. Low crime. Strong and diverse job market, and black political representation.

Homeowernship is also a factor I don't think is getting enough attention here. I can't imagine living somewhere making a good income, working hard, and still not being able to partake in one of the top wealth building vehicles. This is what lowers big cities like NYC and LA to me.

@Texas2step peep.




Edit: I wanna be able to crunch data like breh here. I know he's probably drawing the data from.....


S2502: DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS FOR OCCUPIED HOUSING UNITS

But i don't how he's easily going from the two data sets from 2019 and 2021 acs and finding the difference in them from the black label row stat without manually clicking back and forth and subtracting the owner-occupided housing stat for each city.

 

[1thouwow]

The 757

 

[How Sway?]

North Carolina the entire state

Atlanta

Maryland/the DMV

Houston metro

Dallas metro.


That's it. Everywhere else either doesn't stand out or flat out sucks.

 

[jerzboy]

Honestly and not being biased… NYC or NJ..I say this in the sense of the cultural aspect and you get the best of both worlds, meaning rich and poor black folks… I’ve been around the United States and I will say there is nothing like being black and being from either of these areas. People will say LA, but I’ve lived there and my friends of all races agree that “LA is the home of generic black and white people, with sprinkled in Central Americans”…