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for every person that moves more ppl move in. our population isn't declining. ny has never been known for ONE group; we are a multicultural city and have always held the title as most diverse city in this country.
so we don't live in a majority black city. and? if you don't want to live here then move. if you are a quitter and easily give up then this city isn't for you.
those of us that want to improve this city will stay behind and do what we need to do. when i get enough money i def plan to give back any way i can. i would love to start a business and hire from my own community.
my own gf, who is from the south, suggested that we bail on ny and move to atl like those ppl in the article. she's hell bent on atl like every other black southerner outside of atl. i told her that we could skype but i'm not giving up on ny.
f that.
I like your attitude! More people need to embrace the place they love and supports them.
NY State still has more Black people than any other state and is 10th in Black percentage. I say to Black folks in NYC that want to leave, look at Upstate NY, as our cities are diverse and even the smaller cities have good sized Black percentages with increasing diversity as well. Even Syracuse has quite a Black folks in key positions in the area. So, you can find your niche as a Black person in NY State.
Last edited by ckhthankgod; 06-23-2011 at 08:25 AM..
NY State still has more Black people than any other state and is 10th in Black percentage. I say to Black folks in NYC that want to leave, look at Upstate NY, as our cities are diverse and even the smaller cities have good sized Black percentages with increasing diversity as well. Even Syracuse has quite a Black folks in key positions in the area. So, you can find your niche as a Black person in NY State.
Board of Education | The Syracuse City School District (http://www.syracusecityschools.com/?q=board - broken link)
CNY Vision (http://www.cnyvision.com/articles/sharon_contreras.htm - broken link) (look at 3rd paragraph)
I'm leaving more out and you can find Black folks in key positions in other Upstate metros like Buffalo, Rochester and Ithaca, among others too. So, there are examples up here as well.
The nation's African-American population continued its southward migration over the past decade, shifting a large part of the black middle class from northern states to faster-growing economies of the South.Among 25 big U.S. metro areas with the largest growth in African-American population between 2000 and 2009, 16 were in the South—including Atlanta and Dallas—according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Among the big losers were cities in the North and West, including Detroit, Los Angeles and Cleveland.
The biggest gainer was Atlanta, a magnet for black professionals. Its metro area added about 500,000 African-Americans between the 2000 and 2009 period, and more than twice the next-largest numeric gainer, Dallas, according to an analysis of Census data by William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Over the same period, the share of Atlanta's 25-and-over black population that had college degrees increased to 24.6% in 2009 from 21.5% in 2000.
Humph....My hometown (Dayton) is on the cities being left by African Americans...and I'm one of them! We actually called the NCR relocation from Dayton to Atlanta a "black" move. LOL
The South is not my home. I was born and raised on the West Coast.
True, but your grandparents or great-grandparents are probably from the South.
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