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Thanks for that Carolina Blue....Proves what I've been saying all along.....Segragated...Not my idea of "best experience".... Having high amount of Black doesn't mean a thing when they have to live in Segragated communites as is very well known in the South....Seems like you're the one living under the Rock!
Way to cherry pick.
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In spite of those facts, Birmingham boasts the lowest black/white home loan rejection ratio among the top 10 and has the highest percentage of African American homeowners, 58%. Survey respondents indicated above average satisfaction with cost of living and housing. Indeed, the city's cost of living index is well below the national average.
Having high amount of Black doesn't mean a thing when they have to live in Segragated communites as is very well known in the South
"HAVE to live in segregated communities"? You really think Jim Crow is still in effect down here, don't you? The fact of the matter is that in many Southern cities, middle-class neighborhoods are more or less integrated. For Blacks who are moving South and choose to move into predominantly Black neighborhoods, trust me, they ain't livin' in the hood.
No black radio at all.....I may need to rethink this.
It may sound trival, but consider it a measuring stick to what the city has to offer. Think about it. A city that big with no black radio station?? F%&# outta hear!!! Where they do that!?! LOL!
It may sound trival, but consider it a measuring stick to what the city has to offer. Think about it. A city that big with no black radio station?? F%&# outta hear!!! Where they do that!?! LOL!
I know right! If I were to leave Atlanta for Pitt, I would very likely start burning CD's a month or so in advance.
Look at Wiz...This is Pittsburgh thru and thru..Look at a rapper who shows how blacks and whites come together to Rep their city......Is it this way in Birmingham??? or in the South for that matter.
Show me that offical data....As far I know you pulled that data out your A$$....
What do you have to say about these numbers?
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The statistical story in the Pittsburgh area is even bleaker, according to University of Pittsburgh studies. Seventy percent of black children live with no father. Up to 50 percent of the black males in Pittsburgh Public schools do not graduate.
Because young black males can't be divorced from their communities, the harsh socioeconomic realities that many blacks in Pittsburgh face figure in the story of young men.
University of Pittsburgh studies show that black Americans in this city are worse off than in 70 comparable cities across the nation: up to 46 percent of black children here live in poverty, and 70 percent live with no father.
In Pittsburgh, 70 percent of black families earn less than $25,000 a year. Unemployment for black Pittsburghers -- 9.4 percent -- is nearly triple the rate for white adults, according to studies from Pitt's Center for Social and Urban Research.
It may sound trival, but consider it a measuring stick to what the city has to offer. Think about it. A city that big with no black radio station?? F%&# outta hear!!! Where they do that!?! LOL!
Glad a Radio station somes up a whole culture to you...Way to Cherry Pick!....
WAMO was sorely mis-managed...and they DIDN'T Play anything that couldn't be heard on one of the Top 40 stations so they didn't command a specific audiance, blacks were switching between WAMO B94 and Kiss all playing the same thing....B94 and Kiss advertised the same events as WAMO...
Losing WAMO was no great tragedy here....We can still get all the Latest Rap and R&B and its repeated just as much as it was on WAMO.
Anyways who still listens to Broadcast Radio? that's sooooo 90's....again Pittsburgh is just ahead of what is a dying form of Entertainment....Don't worry folks in Bham will catch up....
Its all about Satellite, Ipod's, You Tube and Internet Streaming - Get with the times Bham...
A story that can be repeated around the country...Its in every big city...Not just Pittsburgh...Nor did I ever say Pittsburgh was a great black mecca....What I did say is I would like proof that Bham affords Blacks a better life than all the other major cities with stories similar to Pittsburgh. But there's also a strong middle class in the Burgh in which blacks are afforded...
Show me the stats of Bham Blacks in proverty vs Whites, and Unemployment of Blacks vs Whites are you saying its reversed Blacks earn more and are more skillfully employed in Bham that Whites are I would like to see that.
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