Need some advice for black professionals thinking about moving to Dallas

[Redlionjr]

Originally Posted by Burnley

How do you feel in Alief as a black man? If you ever visited that part of Houston

Never felt targeted or profile due to the color of my skin in Alief mostly because there’s tons of people that look like me there. Only time I felt unsafe there is when I’m cutting through some apartment complexes at nighttime. I think you know what I mean.

[biafra4life]

It’s a weird dynamic here.
There is a large black middle class professional community in Dallas, even in the northern suburbs. Loads of them. I know this because I also live in Collin County and run into them all the time, plus I attend One Community church which might be the largest black church in Collin County with a membership that runs into the thousands and several satellite churches. Having served at the church, I can tell you with certainty that the church draws primarily from affluent, black professionals mostly that live in Collin County. I used to joke with the pastor that he is now the T.D. Jakes of the north. He never laughs at that. Speaking of the Potters House, it too has a satellite in Collin County which would suggest a substantial black population.

And yet, these numbers somehow do not correlate to a vibrant community and social scene the way Atlanta and Houston have. The African Americans especially in Collin County just seem to blend into the background here. For whatever reason, we don’t seem to support enough of our own to where there is a critical mass (the one big exception being churches) The people are here. The money is there, but the desire and will sadly are not. So it does look like Dallas is not diverse, but that is not true.