Cities with richest African American history and culture (job, live, better)
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NYC is too big and diverse to be associated with any one ethnicity. There are literally people from all over this planet residing in New York.
As far as "soulful," I can't say that any city is that. It comes down to the individual, and I DON'T think race has anything to do with it.
Soulful for me has to do with history.Many time negative.Pain.Death,prejudice,love,hate..All these thing make a place soulful.Salt Lake City is NOT soulful.Casper,Wyoming?NO.Savannah?YES.
So in that regard NYC definatley is soulful.They found an African burial ground with over 400 skeletal remains with tombstones dating back to 1790
They were all slaves dude. They did not migrate from Africa to the West Indies. They where imported on slaves ships just like the blacks who were from Georgia or Alabama. All of the people in or from the West Indies with any African decent are descendants of slaves.
So. Missing. The. Point.
This is all the evidence you need to see how different the two cultures are.
Do they play cricket in the U.S. like that? I bet this is more of a Euro thing then a "West Indies" thing.
it is. not all west indians are into cricket.
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Originally Posted by sweetchas
Im a southern black female living in nyc and i always get this question are you west indian lol im like no im from the south. I have no ties to the west indies, but from what i've observed the cultures are different. I have much more in common (culturally)with a white person from the south then a west indian in nyc simply based on the environment,food etc. Also if my parents we're from the south and i moved to nyc when i was younger then i could relate to the west indian culture and southern culture.
*rambling* lol
thats because you're from the south. if you were from nyc you would think differently.
southerners seem to want to stick to other southerners when it comes to interacting with ppl...more so than us labeling you guys and you feeling like you have to stick with other southerners because you don't feel welcome.
New Orleans. Not necessarily a glamorous history, but quite significant nonetheless. The city is 67% black according to the 2000 census. Definitely wouldn't think any northern cities.
Definitely New Orleans and other cities along the Mississippi River such as Memphis and St. Louis. As far as Northern cities, I think that Chicago and Detroit would qualify since so many AAs from the Mississippi Delta region migrated there looking for employment in the post-Civil War era. And NYC would have to be included thanks to the Harlem Renaissance.
I suppose that as far as New Orleans goes, it's debatable as to whether their history was 'glamorous', but certainly under the Creole culture blacks tended to fare better there than in many other American cities:
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