What cities have potential to be the next black mecca?

[mamba]

Yeah I think so. You got whole areas where a good bit of the people work at the airport. The whole south side got a large amount of airport employees. Blue collar in Clayco and white collar in Fayette Co. You hit up night spots down south during the week and they have Airport employees night and stuff like that. Some brehs getting rich out there too. The construction and concessions contracts are insane, white folks hate that shyt cuz it's basically brehs juicing each other in, doing the same shyt they always do to us. My pops knows a family that owns just a few sandwich stands in HJIA, and their millionaires a few times over. And we talking just some basic snacks and sodas, if you got a restaurant out there you eating like crazy. You got a built in captive audience 18-20 hours out the day regardless if your food or service is piss poor.

Those brehs are making a killing in the concessions game.

 

[mamba]

Dallas

Houston >>> Dallas as a potential Black Mecca in Texas.

Not sure how many times I have to reiterate this point:

Old Dallas cacs with long money aren't letting a Black Mecca rise under their watch. Old cac money will continue to rule Dallas economically and politically and shape things, socially.

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

Houston >>> Dallas as a potential Black Mecca in Texas.

Not sure how many times I have to reiterate this point:

Old Dallas cacs with long money aren't letting a Black Mecca rise under their watch. Old cac money will continue to rule Dallas economically and politically and shape things, socially.

What makes Houston special?

 

[mamba]

What makes Houston special?

More HBCUs

Not as CAC-dominated politically, economically and socially.

Black people actually have a hand in shaping Houston's culture and have shared it with the world. Which is consistent with what Black folks from other Black Meccas have done.

What, specifically, has Dallas' Black population shared with the rest of the Black world, culturally?

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

More HBCUs

Not as CAC-dominated politically, economically and socially.

Black people actually have a hand in shaping Houston's culture.

but hbcu alumns are relocating to Dallas as well. I Guess it depends. I rather move to Dallas and settle. Not start a family but settle. Houston seems like a party city.

 

[BigMan]

More HBCUs

Not as CAC-dominated politically, economically and socially.

Black people actually have a hand in shaping Houston's culture and have shared it with the world. Which is consistent with what Black folks from other Black Meccas have done.

What, specifically, has Dallas' Black population shared with the rest of the Black world, culturally?

Good point

I can't name one cultural output Black Dallas has given us except the Goddess Badu

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

Good point

I can't name one cultural output Black Dallas has given us except the Goddess Badu

Switching areas, black people are moving to Albuquerque NM as well

 

[mamba]

but hbcu alumns are relocating to Dallas as well. I Guess it depends. I rather move to Dallas and settle. Not start a family but settle. Houston seems like a party city.

HBCU alums relocate to a lot of cities.

But, when you actually have HBCUs in your city, that makes a big difference. Dallas only has one tiny HBCU.

Nothing wrong with moving to Dallas to settle. It's a great place for that.

But, this thread is talking about future Black Meccas.

Despite Dallas' large Black population, it'll never be a Black Mecca. It's a power base for old cac money.

nikkas aren't wrestling control from them anytime soon. Those old cacs pass that wealth and power to their kids who get schooled in the order of things at the HWCU that is better known as SMU.

 

[BigMan]

Switching areas, black people are moving to Albuquerque NM as well

Lol why

 

[mamba]

Good point

I can't name one cultural output Black Dallas has given us except the Goddess Badu

Exactly. That's because Black people aren't shaping the culture of Dallas as a whole to cultivate talent to share with the rest of Black America.

Which is baffling because there are more than a million Black people in the Dallas area.

But, those numbers mean nothing because CACs dominate the economic, political and social landscape of Dallas.

 

[Spade]

didnt know that..I always Houston held that title.
Is there a lot of empty lots and buildings in North Memphis?

It can't because Houston isn't in the Southeast.

 

[staticshock]

It can't because Houston isn't in the Southeast.

Birmingham has more of a medical rep in the SE with UAB and their medical schools

 

[Spade]

Simple geography.

Texas/Oklahoma is not the Southeast. It's only subregion of the entire South.

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

Lol why

Im not sure. It's nice, I can tell you that

 

[JamilALAmin]

This is 100% true. Most brehs on the southside work at the airport or in warehouses. You see them everywhere walking, driving or on the bus with those bright ass green safety shirts. Clayco has so much potential man...nikkas just wanna be on that ratchet shyt down here.

And in Fayette County is where most of the pilots for Delta and other airlines stay. Its like they had a meeting and all decided to move to Peachtree City. When I worked at Subway a few years back, the boss and owner was a Japanese-American dude who is a pilot. He bought it from this black lady and he slowly let go of all of us and hired his friend's kids and another pilot. He straight up told me before I left for the military that he was going to make some big changes because there was no diversity in the restaurant. All the workers were black, but most of the customers were white.

It was fukked up but at the end of the day it's his spot. And that made me think..this dude is a pilot, but as a side hustle he owns a Subway. Why cant more of us be on some shyt like that?




What kind of place is this? Im surprised they let him open it after Strip failed in Atlantic Station. That was my spot man

Its called Chicken + Beer, food is actually good breh. It's a magnet for baddies going OT or OT baddies on a layover.
And I didnt know he owned Strip in AS, that was my spot back in the day breh. It makes sense tho from the caliber of women I saw in C+B. You already know how some of them females are, they dont care if the food isnt good or the service bad. If a famous breh owns it, they pulling up. Strip used to be so lit when AS first opened, the women in there used to be so bad. I remember some nights it was like you wouldn't see a chick less than a 6 in there. I did some damage at that upstairs bar.