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Homewood is a neighborhood in the far eastern part of the city of Pittsburgh. It is 99% black with a population around 10,000. The rest mentioned are eastern suburbs. Braddock has 3,000 - 66% black, Rankin 2,300 - 70% black, and Homestead 3,500 and 51% black, according to Wikipedia. The percentages of blacks assigned to these suburbs seems too low.
Thank you! And I agree, the "white" people must NEVER step outside their doors in those neighborhoods, cause I never see any.
Also, I know they might be technically "suburbs", we we both know they are NOT very suburban in any way.
I can't stand when people make comments on places they never been to like that guy who tried proving me wrong. They "cyber travel" and think they know what's up......
Last edited by worldwanderer; 11-21-2009 at 05:52 PM..
Uhh.. I just looked up Homewood, it has a couple hundred people and is 2% black. The rest were all around 2,000 people and no more than 60% black.. so I think you are exaggerating a tad much here.
Um, wouldn't the appropriate response be to clarify the response for me so I can understand your point?
What is appropriate though, really? This thread really isn't. Sometimes things feel like a lost cause.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make in my other post was that racial statistics are a terrible way to judge the diversity of a place and you have to take into account diversity in things like religion, political ideology, and specifically (as it relates to this thread) ethnicity.
Most Eastern Europeans (including many Russians) obviously belong to the "Caucasian" race, but they are ethnically different from other Caucasians, such as Turks, Swedes, Spaniards, Italians, Argentinians, Britons, Australians, Canadians, Caucasian-Americans, etc. That's my point. African-Americans are going to be different from Ghanaians, Somalians, South Africans, Haitians, Dominicans, etc. All East Asians aren't the same. They could be Thai, Hmong, Han Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, etc. And so forth.
That said, you can't really force diversity... It's almost ridiculous sometimes. I'm from a mixed racial/ethnic background (and a small hometown that's about 85% non-Hispanic white) and I don't really understand why people make such a big deal about it. Like what is so wrong about Portland being so white? It's not like they're enforcing a whites-only immigration policy or something crazy. Most Portlanders are very open to more diversity in their city and metro area. If it were more diverse it'd add a lot more dynamism to the city, but it is what it is, and on the other hand it used to be 100% white (30 years ago Metro Portland/Vancouver was 92% white). And furthermore, Portland is still a very diverse place in many ways, and heads above gigantic swaths of the planet in terms of racial and ethnic diversity.
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During the African American migration out of the South in the 1920s, Oregon didn't draw blacks mainly because it was "off the map, too remote, too far from black population centers," Millner says. Seattle, settled later than Portland, had less overtly racist views and offered more maritime jobs. California was closer, offered railroad jobs and had better weather.
Is life that bad for blacks in portland and other cities that are mostly white? I've lived in one of the blackest metros (memphis) and the quality of life for everyone sucked.
You never hear blacks in Harlem saying "We really need some more white people around here!", in fact you mainly hear the exact opposite with locals vocally opposing gentrification. Yet the PC brigade hears "Mostly White" and assumes that there is something fundementally wrong with that.
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No--we just move out of the hood to be closer to white folks instead!
I really enjoyed reading the blogs about the article. I loved the post describing st louis as being non progressive along with baltimore. Fyi both st louis and baltimore have some of the benefits as portland and seatle. That's a whole other debate.
I believe that people are going to move to a city where they can live out their ideal. Just because white kids want to go to cities like portland doesn't make them racist anymore than the black kid wanting to move to dc or atlanta.
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