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My household of 4 is 100% black. I guess that means my house is more of a black cultural hub and center than all of New York City
Once again it seems that you are making more out of this thread than there really needs to be. People are going off on tangents when the premise of the thread is simple. Presence.
In which West Coast city are Blacks most present. LA has the most but its clear that Blacks are more visible overall in Oakland.
In which West Coast city are Blacks most present. LA has the most but its clear that Blacks are more visible overall in Oakland.
Its not a matter of opinion.
So the nearly 1 million blacks in the Los Angeles area are invisible? The Crenshaw District doesn't exist?
As long as the criteria is not clearly defined all we can have are opinions. As long as we are comparing one city to another that 1/10 its size we will be speculating. Nothing wrong with that. But lets call it what it is.
Uhhh, Los Angeles by a few miles. What a question. Any question that has "capital" and "West Coast" in it will will automatically be Los Angeles except maybe technology.
The LA area still has more than 1 million black people for now, while Oakland has only 100k and fast declining. Not to mention the gangster/West Coast rap style started in LA.
And very few black neighborhoods. South LA was black back in the 90s when G Funk started, now it's overrun with Mexicans, black LA rappers still have a presence in the industry but go to Compton or Watts now and they're majority Mexican neighborhoods
Oakland on the other hand going by 2010 stats is still majority black, black people have much more presence and influence, and it's where Huey P. Newton's Black Panthers started.
Now in the areas of Los Angeles where Blacks are dominant, those areas are far more Black than similar areas in Oakland, which tend to be a bit more diverse.
I can't believe you put Seattle on that list. As much as I like Seattle, I feel I'm the only black person in the whole damn city. I was downtown Seattle last night, and I swear I ran across maybe 4 black people.
I can't believe you put Seattle on that list. As much as I like Seattle, I feel I'm the only black person in the whole damn city. I was downtown Seattle last night, and I swear I ran across maybe 4 black people.
I see what you mean but Seattle does have the strongest black presence in the entire Pacific Northwest.
I can't believe you put Seattle on that list. As much as I like Seattle, I feel I'm the only black person in the whole damn city. I was downtown Seattle last night, and I swear I ran across maybe 4 black people.
Seattle is 7.7 percent Black. It isn't THAT surprising.
So the nearly 1 million blacks in the Los Angeles area are invisible? The Crenshaw District doesn't exist?
Yes, but LA has 469 square miles of land---and Blacks are NOT as evenly distributed around that massive land mass as they are in Oakland, which is far smaller.
That is the point. Blacks are more prevalent around more of Oakland(From Downtown to the Flatlands from border to border, even in much of the hills) than they are around the whole of Los Angeles.
I see what you mean but Seattle does have the strongest black presence in the entire Pacific Northwest.
Actually, Tacoma(in terms of cities of 100,000+ people) has the largest Black presence in the Pacific Northwest. Suburbs such as Lakewood, Spanaway, Federal Way, Tukwila, Kent, and Renton also have sizeable Black presences. Renton was the one time home of Ken Griffey Jr.
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