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Atlanta is by a mile, but NYC and DC are no slouch. All of the cities have black people of various income levels. From very upscale and upper class blacks, to lower class blacks. I find that these 3 cities have the largest diversity of black people too. You have black punks, metal heads, hip hop, nerds, gamers, etc in these 3 cities.
I know this poll is off beat when Memphis numbers are the lowest on this Poll ranking smh,,lol,, especially when it has the largest percentage of Black's than just about every metro area in the US and is the only Metro in the US with a population of over 1,000,000 where blacks are the majority. I'm not saying Memphis is the capital of black America because honestly I don't believe in one but where a poll ranks a Seattle higher than Memphis on this index, that show a lot of people know very little about Memphis.
That poster is Asian and has routinely displayed his prejudices with black Americans. He refuses to check himself, that's why he can make so crass a statement and not even blink. Trust, this isn't the first time he's given a false narrative about us, and usually will respond in defiance when confronted. It'd be a waste of time to think you can educate that guy on any depth of being black in America, he has all the answers already...
I know this poll is off beat when Memphis numbers are the lowest on this Poll ranking smh,,lol,, especially when it has the largest percentage of Black's than just about every metro area in the US and is the only Metro in the US with a population of over 1,000,000 where blacks are the majority. I'm not saying Memphis is the capital of black America because honestly I don't believe in one but where a poll ranks a Seattle higher than Memphis on this index, that show a lot of people know very little about Memphis.
Yes Memphis definitely is up there but it's too small of a city compared to DC/Atlanta to be the capital of black america. Like you say pound for pound Memphis is the blackest metropolitan area in the US besides Jackson, MS. Memphis nor Jackson or Detroit for that matter have the black affluence that DC or Atlanta have.
Yes Memphis definitely is up there but it's too small of a city compared to DC/Atlanta to be the capital of black america. Like you say pound for pound Memphis is the blackest metropolitan area in the US besides Jackson, MS. Memphis nor Jackson or Detroit for that matter have the black affluence that DC or Atlanta have.
I get what u r getting at but I have to disagree,,, don't think Memphis is to small to be compared having over a million in its metro area if I would say I believed in a capital of black america but unfortunately I dont.
I get what u r getting at but I have to disagree,,, don't think Memphis is to small to be compared having over a million in its metro area if I would say I believed in a capital of black america but unfortunately I dont.
In this case, I do think that raw numbers mean something. Even so, Memphis would be categorized more as a 'legacy' capital for its history and and the culture that sprang from that as opposed to a current-day capital that attracts large numbers of Black people, especially college-educated/professional Blacks, and also has notable Black history, institutions, etc. For smaller metros that would have a case, I'd probably put Raleigh/Durham first. There's some notable Black history there with Shaw University being the oldest HBCU in the Southeast (and there are two others in the region), Raleigh electing the first Black mayor of a metropolitan Southern city, Durham's Black Wall Street, etc. and a nice chunk of the Black population is college-educated and upwardly mobile. The region doesn't have the glitz and glam of Atlanta or DC, even on a smaller scale, but it performs pretty solidly when it comes to the basics.
no miami, boston, montréal options shows that this poll is only about african-american affluence and not about being black in general (including west-indians, cap-verdeans, african-americans, afro-latinés, afro-brazilians, ...).
no miami, boston, montréal options shows that this poll is only about african-american affluence and not about being black in general (including west-indians, cap-verdeans, african-americans, afro-latinés, afro-brazilians, ...).
Miami and Boston deserved spots on the poll (and we're talking about U.S. cities here so no Montreal), but I'd say non-AA Blacks are certainly represented here by NYC, DC, Houston, Atlanta, etc.
Obviously a city doesn’t have to be majority black to be the black capital. But at least in the Western portions of DC and increasingly other parts of SE north of the Anacostia, I feel like it’s got way more white tourist than African American tourist. West of Capitol street, it’s hard to imagine DC as the capital of Black America.
Also. With such rapid increase of the white population and decreasing of the black population and the gentrification turning former AA dominated neighborhoods by wide margins to white neighborhoods by a white margin, what does that say about DC being a “black capital”?
Atlanta, at least under my impression, doesn’t seem to have such a problem with black people being priced out, being geographically isolated by physical barrier (Eg, Anacostia River). Maybe ATL does have that same problem, but it’s not My (uneducated) opinion that it does.
My perception of DC has been shaped of the last year of living here. What it used to be - I don’t know. Spending most of my time in SW (north of the Anacostia), Navy Yard, Eastern Market/Capitol Hill and pretty much everything west of Capitol and NoMa. It seems predominately white. Especially compared to ATL. I realize obviously I spend my time in the “whiter” areas. But, sadly, those are the safer, nicer areas with the most amenities.
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