What cities have potential to be the next black mecca?
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Tribal Outkast
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Charlotte could be a black Mecca to me. Man this is the first place I've lived in where I can easily find a black business to suit almost anything I need... if there was a black owned grocery store they cypher would be complete
Charlotte does have weekends where shyt be poppin! Don't get it twisted lol. The entertainment scene is straight to me. We get little concerts popping up here all the time, club scene decent but it ain't my thing though. I just hope it stays just like it is now(I know that ain't happening lol) It's crazy how much Charlotte has grown in just the two years that I've lived here.
BmoreGorilla
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Y'all keep naming cities with less than
500,000 people or ones that ain't even majority black
500,000 people or ones that ain't even majority black
Possibly..Jackson, MS
I know I know
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BUT they recently elected a young black mayor who doesn't seem afraid to try new things. If I'm not mistaken, Jackson is already predominantly black. It has an HBCU. And lastly, Mississippi has some of the most fertile soil on the planet.
I know I know
...BUT they recently elected a young black mayor who doesn't seem afraid to try new things. If I'm not mistaken, Jackson is already predominantly black. It has an HBCU. And lastly, Mississippi has some of the most fertile soil on the planet.
Possibly..Jackson, MS
I know I know
BUT they recently elected a young black mayor who doesn't seem afraid to try new things. If I'm not mistaken, Jackson is already predominantly black. It has an HBCU. And lastly, Mississippi has some of the most fertile soil on the planet.
That's Chokwe's son.
If he's anything like his dad, he should be a real one.
Houston?
Right... that's wasup
Atlanta, Macon and Savannah all have the demographics for Black people to control city governments
It's just a matter of people with vision to pull it off in both the private and public sectors.
Atlanta Vision: business hub, education hub, entertainment hub.
A lot of that is already happening in Atlanta. A bunch of universities and colleges pumping out Black grads. A lot of Black entrepreneurs. A lot ot Black people making moves on the entertainment tip.
Macon Vision: Black-owned semi-pro teams, vineyards, distribution centers, music venues, annual festivals, etc.
The Tubman Museum is already located there. Biggest Black musuem in the Southeast.
Why not start a Black music museum in Macon! Maybe a Black sports musuem?
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Savannah Vision: Black-owned hotels & conference centers, Black-owned tourist spots, etc.
A lot of shyt is ripe for the taking in Savannah.
And there could be Black-owned transportation companies to get people from city to city.
Macon and Savannah are also not flush with other minority groups at this time. So, Black people can really stake claim and dominate shyt with the resources pouring in from Atlanta, Jacksonville, etc.
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That's a great idea
Google Sweet Auburn/Old 4th Ward. That's the same hood that birthed MLK, same hood where WEB Dubois came up with the talented 10th mantra, same hood where the first Black owned insurance company was, multiple Black owned businesses and the center of Black commerce in the south after the civil war. Black folks been getting money in ATL for over 120 years now. shyt ain't nothing new. It's just the rest of the country been taking notice the last decade or so.I think Detroit and Baltimore are the only big cities with majority black populationY'all keep naming cities with less than
500,000 people or ones that ain't even majority black
If y'all South nikkas don't jump in this ASAP
Birmingham? Mobile?
Son these are cottages compared to the major cities in America, Boston would sooner be a "Mecca"
Mobile heavy on the
tip, but its not that bad. And dont sleep on Bham or the Gump, Bham damn near all Black inside the city limits and even got a few Black suburbs. Bessemer by itself probably got just as many American Blacks as Dorchestor or Mattapan in Boston, and Bessemer isnt even inside Bham really. And your clearly aint never been there, plenty of Black folks there getting money. People like to call Charlotte mini ATL, but real shyt Bham is closer to a smaller ATL in terms of Black people working in positions of power or owning their own businesses, its brehs all over Bham. And Black nightlife actually isn't that bad in Alabama. I threw parties in Tuscaloosa and the Gump in my younger days, and I used to kick it Bham and even Huntsville a few times back then too. I enjoyed myself, and I'm from a city that is top 3 easily when it comes to Black nightlife. And not no juke joint shyt either, I was actaully kinda shocked at the quality of night spots I went to over there, and this was years ago. I'm sure its even better now. Alabama is full of soul, to even compare it to a white ass city like Boston is an insult breh. Seriously.
Ive been debating making some moves in Chattanooga for a minute now, thats another city that will surprise the shyt out of you.Charlotte already is a center of Black excellence, but the Cacs up there are obsessed with not turning into another Atlanta from everything to traffic to being viewed as a Black city. And the latter reason I think is why they will always attempt to have they foot on brehs necks up there, it probably wont work, but its just another hassle you gotta deal with. That shyt like building a transit line to the richest part of the city first, and throwing the rough parts of town on the back burner is case in point what I'm talking about. Pulling stunts like that shows that even tho they trying to make moves and grow, they also trying to isolate the brehs and not let them participate in the growth, ie- not get any money. That attitude in Charlotte is why Ive been saying for years that in 20 years that city will have some of the roughest hoods in the country. Charlotte got plenty of brehs eating in corporate, but there is no middle ground for brehs who cant get those jobs, and eventually those brehs will turn to crime. Its starting to hit now, they looking at the corporate brehs and the athletes riding foreign and they want that shyt too. Charlotte will continue to have brehs eating, but I really think you wont want to see any parts of them areas in between Beatties Ford and Statesville in a decade or so
Prince Mongo
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We're the majority or a significant population of most big cities in America, but we aren't wanted anywhere?