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Originally Posted by polo89
Yeah, I don't know how anyone can confidently exclude Miami from the top 3. Where Miami lacks in Continental African diaspora, it makes up for in Afro-Latino population. Cities with large diverse continental African populations(Atlanta, DC, Houston) usually lack a large Afro Latino population. Neighborhoods like Little Havana, and Alapattah have large droves of Black Latinos. And Miami/South Florida STILL has a large African-American community. Overall, when you have large numbers of Blacks from Anglophone, and Hispanophone, I don't see how you're not included. Surprisingly Miami actually is home to over 2000 Nigerians, mostly concentrated in Northwest Miami Dade(Opa Locka in particular).
In terms of across the board diversity, I would still say DC's edges out Miami due to the numerous African nations represented here. Obviously Miami has a larger number of Caribbean people from those almost neighboring islands close to it, but DC represents the same island nations (in smaller numbers than Miami) yet with so many different African immigrants from ALL across that continent.
Both cities have South Americans represented as well.
But then it sounds as if you're making a few generalizations, here, which isn't the point I'm trying to make at all.
Yeah, I may have been trigger happy. I just get upset when people try to downplay diversity amongst us Black folks. Americans always have this strange notion that all Black people fit into some box and we're all one big happy family no matter what. We're as diverse as any other group.
The whole "Why do we need to know?" about Black diversity thing gets old because it implies "What does it matter if a Black community is diverse?".
I think it matters a lot! I can certainly sense a difference between the black communities in Minneapolis-St. Paul vs. Cleveland. In Cleveland, it seems that 99% of all black folks are culturally similar, which is to say they're multi-generational Americans. In Minneapolis, it seems that at least 25% of the population literally comes from Africa, from places like Somalia, Ethiopia and Liberia. They speak different languages, wear different clothes and eat different food.
In terms of across the board diversity, I would still say DC's edges out Miami due to the numerous African nations represented here. Obviously Miami has a larger number of Caribbean people from those almost neighboring islands close to it, but DC represents the same island nations (in smaller numbers than Miami) yet with so many different African immigrants from ALL across that continent.
Both cities have South Americans represented as well.
It does. There's well over 150,000 of them here in the DMV, and more than 10,000 to 15,000 of them are in DC itself. A lot of them here in PG County and Montgomery County too, particularly those of the Igbo ethnicity.
5 year old article but still a rather interesting piece on the Ethiopian experience in the DC area and their relationship with us in the native African American community.
In terms of across the board diversity, I would still say DC's edges out Miami due to the numerous African nations represented here. Obviously Miami has a larger number of Caribbean people from those almost neighboring islands close to it, but DC represents the same island nations (in smaller numbers than Miami) yet with so many different African immigrants from ALL across that continent.
You could make the same argument for Miami: DC has a larger number of Africans, but Miami represents the same African nations (in smaller numbers) yet with so many different West Indian immigrants from all stretches of the region.
The obvious difference between Miami and DC is that far fewer people in the former are of native stock. NYC, Miami and to a lesser extent Boston are the only U.S. cities that have a particularly strong immigrant flair in their respective Black communities.
That Jamaican percentage in South Florida should not be taken as 100% Black either...should be a significant minority of European, Asian and Mixed Jamaicans in that particular group
It shouldn't be taken as 10% non-Black either. My family is of Jewish-Jamaican extraction, but the Jewish population has always been incredibly tiny there. Even more so in Barbados. It is true, however, that people of European ancestry in the Caribbean are more likely to relocate to South Florida than they are to NYC or Toronto.
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