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Like I said a few posts back. How can you claim the Mecca of anything when the richest, most educated, most influential, most powerful blacks are 10 hours north of Atlanta. Howard University is called the Mecca for a reason. Look at it this way. NeNe Leaks and Condi Rice probably have similar wealth. NeNe may be more popular among the masses but Condi has more power and influence. That's the difference between Atlanta and DC.
The most basic definition of a "mecca" is "a place regarded as a center for a specified group, activity, or interest" (Mirriam-Webster) or "a place that attracts people of a particular group or with a particular interest" (Oxford). Since we're talking about Black America as a whole here and not just the richest, most educated, most influential Blacks (and it should be recognized that DC has plenty of "ordinary" Blacks too), it can legitimately be argued that the city that more resembles a cross-section of Black America is more of a mecca in the strictest sense. And when you consider the second definition in particular, no other city has been as successful at actually attracting Blacks (for relocation purposes) in the past four decades or so as Atlanta so it does excel on that point.
You'll have to explain it, and please don't be vague.
And another thing! How can you be the "Capital of Black America" when you don't even acknowledge or celebrate Emancipation Day? That's a holiday in DC.
And another thing! How can you be the "Capital of Black America" when you don't even acknowledge or celebrate Emancipation Day? That's a holiday in DC.
Hush. With the gentrification in DC DC isn't chocolate city anymore, its vanilla city. All the black DC culture has just about been removed especially Go Go. You should worry about that more than whats going on in other cities
Hush. With the gentrification in DC DC isn't chocolate city anymore, its vanilla city. All the black DC culture has just about been removed especially Go Go. You should worry about that more than whats going on in other cities
Stop, the DC area is still very much chocolate and go-go is alive and well. In Maryland, the black percentage is over 30%, those are deep south numbers. Black DC, just like Atlanta has moved to the burbs... PG is chocolate county, for now.
i feel like the last few pages of arguments can be boiled down to: atlanta is the prom queen and washington, d.c. would be the valedictorian ?
Lmao. Yup. ATL is the prom queen and all lights, stars and attention are on her the main populous to see.
DC is the crowning - valedictorian cleaning up shop with the statistics and great accolades to prove it.
And another thing! How can you be the "Capital of Black America" when you don't even acknowledge or celebrate Emancipation Day? That's a holiday in DC.
You're deflecting, please explain your previous post.
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