Which city on the West Coast has the strongest Black presence (rates, Boston)

[ajams22]

Originally Posted by tspoon91

Are you kidding me. Oakland is 10x more prevalent and popular in the AfricanAmerican communities than L.A. los angeles is a giant slow paced suburb with very little insignificant African American culture. L.A. is nothing without hollywood but a suburb eith a beach. And as for socal vs norcal i lived in both. Oakland is way blacker and the bay area is way better than l.a. in every category almost. SF is a real city and L.a. is not. L.A. has a hand in mainstream media thus giving it more fame than it deserves. It's more famous in usa than it is abroad. sf is much more treasured by the world and much higher rankings than L.A. on almost every category on every magazine and website. So stop deceiving yourself. Oakland is blacker and more important and introduced the black panther party, and the bay area is a real city that is much more intelligent, productive, beloved, bold, progressive, higher quality of life, more culture, and more beautiful than anywhere in socal. L.A. is a glorified Sacramento and built the same. Not a real city just a suburband slow paced and country

You're sure pushing a lot of opinion as fact.

[Turnerbro]

Oakland for sure.

[BMI]

Oakland for the win Alex.

[Thoreau424]

From census data, it looks like the area SW and S of Los Angeles (north of Inglewood, stretching to Compton).

Oakland looks small in comparison.

Is this a perception issue? Do blacks seem oddly placed in Oakland, but not in the other areas?

[ccm123]

Oakland

[tspoon91]

Originally Posted by ajams22

You're sure pushing a lot of opinion as fact.

Well numbers support most of it and award winning magazines support it as well. LA has a density of 8k people per square mile while SF has 19k per square mile

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by tspoon91

L.A. is a glorified Sacramento and built the same. Not a real city just a suburband slow paced and country

You know nothing of either Los Angeles nor Sacramento.

Sacramento has always had a distinct urban grid that is very walkable.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by botticelli

In what world Phoenix and Las Vegas are on the west coast?? Even Sacramento is hardly on the west coast, being 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

Sacramento is very much a West Coast city, just as much as Portland is a West Coast city.

Sacramento and Portland are 75-85 miles from the Ocean.

You take a boat to San Francisco Bay on the Sacramento River from Sacramento.

[BrooklynJo]

Oakland started something that the FBI destroyed and that was the Black Panthers!

[tspoon91]

Originally Posted by BrooklynJo

Oakland started something that the FBI destroyed and that was the Black Panthers!

After 20 something years of putting a grip on the steering wheel of the country