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What hurts Boston to most black Americans is that it doesn't really have a large black population in its metro. There are mid sized cities in the South that has more than Boston. Not to mention, a great many of Boston black population is foreign.
In the end, while I stand by my point that there should be more than one leader, it's going to come back to Atlanta, DC, and NYC with Chicago an outside shot.
People may forget how big the Boston metro area is as well. So, that could play a part in that.
Raleigh, Norfolk, Richmond, New Orleans, Memphis, Charlotte, Orlando. That's a pretty nice sized number of Southern mid sized cities/metros that have more than Boston.
The person could come from anywhere. Location does not equal or guarantee mindset/abilities/strengths/etc. We do not rise up from a particular spot on the globe and that location identifies and constrains us.
We are made up of living matter (genes, DNA, tissues, and so forth), not man-made stuff (dirt, concrete, roads, houses, neighborhoods). The question seems to suggest the latter.
Oh I never said it was a bad thing. It's just different.
you started your post with what hurts boston ... which prompted me to reply.
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Raleigh, Norfolk, Richmond, New Orleans, Memphis, Charlotte, Orlando. That's a pretty nice sized number of Southern mid sized cities/metros that have more than Boston.
you started your post with what hurts boston ... which prompted me to reply.
arent these big cities ?
I mentioned hurt in relation to the size of its black population compared to ther cities of its peers. Boston has about 300k Blacks. That's below Houston, Dallas, LA, Philadelphia, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, and Miami, all of which are over 1 million blacks. I never intended to say the makeup tho is what hurts Boston.
As far as those other cities. They are mid sized. Big but not like Boston and not even close in influence.
I mentioned hurt in relation to the size of its black population compared to ther cities of its peers. Boston has about 300k Blacks. That's below Houston, Dallas, LA, Philadelphia, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, and Miami, all of which are over 1 million blacks. I never intended to say the makeup tho is what hurts Boston.
sorry, i misunderstood. i agree.
i think this category is not something boston is in the running for (maybe i could make a stretch for education)... my sleeper would be chicago.
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As far as those other cities. They are mid sized. Big but not like Boston and not even close in influence.
The person could come from anywhere. Location does not equal or guarantee mindset/abilities/strengths/etc. We do not rise up from a particular spot on the globe and that location identifies and constrains us.
We are made up of living matter (genes, DNA, tissues, and so forth), not man-made stuff (dirt, concrete, roads, houses, neighborhoods). The question seems to suggest the latter.
Basically and if you look back in history, many leaders came from small towns and cities in multiple regions or even from the Caribbean.
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at the beginning of this thread i thought about chicago: barrack obama, jesse jackson, common, chance, ...
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