Houston vs. Dallas (Fort Worth, Commerce, Atlanta: sunshine, specials, policies)

[marcopolo2000]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

Speaking of universities, SMU is currently expanding.

"Over the past few years, SMU’s campus has expanded south of Mockingbird Lane and east of Central Expressway, growing the Dallas campus to 237 acres"

Founders Day Weekend - SMU

Campus Map https://locker.smu.edu/OrgSpace/BusF..._1997-2015.pdf

I like SMU's campus. Its easily the best in DFW.

[dallasboi]

Originally Posted by marcopolo2000

I know

I make good money too...to not have a degree.(working on that).

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by marcopolo2000

I like SMU's campus. Its easily the best in DFW.

Yep, this expansion will make it even better.

[Exult.Q36]

Originally Posted by marcopolo2000

No,Its sad that you can't follow the discussion. I never stated that Dallas had no educated Black natives. I stated clearly that the Black middle class in Dallas relies heavily on transplants because the natives don't have the numbers of the other cities cited in the article. Was I wrong? Is Ron Kirk wrong?

You are wrong....That really wasn't the point Ron Kirk was trying to make...You spinned that mans words...

Kirk says he wasn’t the city’s first black mayor, but it’s fifth. Consider, he says, Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor of Atlanta. He was born in Dallas. Then came Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles, born in Calvert, Texas. There was also the charismatic Willie Brown, the first black mayor of San Francisco. He was born in East Texas. And Emanuel Cleaver, the first black mayor of Kansas City. He was born in Waxahachie.

“Talent goes where it’s going to flourish,” Kirk says. “If you don’t embrace and nurture your local talent, it will leave.”

There are those who have left and come home again. They are among a growing group of young black professionals who grew up on the city’s southern side, went off to first-rate colleges, and have returned to buy homes, work, and raise families in Dallas.

[Exult.Q36]

Paul Quinn College Raised a Quarter Million Dollars for Its Football Field Farm Last Night.


Chefs gathered along the sidelines of the Paul Quinn farm last night to serve food for the Community Cooks event. Over 400 guests attended, which was twice as many compared to last year's inaugural feast, and college officials said the dinner raised over $250,000 for the farm.

Paul Quinn College sits in an urban food desert. The nearest full service grocery store is over six miles away. In just two years this garden has produced several thousand pounds of organic herbs and veggies for the community through charity, the campus cafeteria and a few Dallas restaurants restaurants. More importantly, many young "Quinnites" work on the farm through the campus work-study program, learning about gardening, fresh food and simply how good it feels to get your hands dirty every now and then.
Last night many students worked side-by-side with chefs plating food and explaining dishes to guests. Then as the sun started to descend past the trees, the students lined up and filled their plates with some of the best cuisine Dallas has to offer.
It all came together beautifully. The kids were classy and grateful, as were the chefs. They all made Paul Quinn proud last night.


Paul Quinn College Raised a Quarter Million Dollars for Its Football Field Farm Last Night - Dallas Restaurants and Dining - City of Ate

[Carlito Brigante]

Originally Posted by marcopolo2000

Get over it. No one said that Dallas does not have professional Blacks. The facts are, however, that its native middle class is no where near as large as Houston's, DC's, or Atlanta's and thats due in large part to a historical lack of education options for Black Dallasites. This plays a part in how Dallas is perceived by many Black professionals nationwide. Only a homer would take that as an insult or an attack. YOUR OWN FORMER MAYOR basically said the same thing.

See, you are just a HOUSTON HOMER who is nitpicking to try to make your city look superior; who really gives a damn whether the Black professionals in a place are homegrown or transplants as long as they are there (which they are in DFW) and they are making positive contributions to the community?!? I guarantee you most of Atlanta's professional Blacks were and are transplants, whether they have several local HBCUs or not, and nobody complained about them being from other places when they were building Atlanta up and helping it boom in the late 90s and early 2000s. If anything, a city like Atlanta that was built mostly by a boom of professional transplants only serves to inspire more professionals, black or otherwise, to relocate to that area because it's proven that people from the outside who have the education and ambition can succeed and do well there. So don't worry about Dallas. It will be just fine when it comes to Black professionals; it has plenty to offer us and more and more are moving to Dallas everyday. You just worry about Houston and the Black "ghetto element" that it is starting to attract more and more of.

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by ShaunJuan

See, you are just a HOUSTON HOMER who is nitpicking to try to make your city look superior; who really gives a damn whether the Black professionals in a place are homegrown or transplants as long as they are there (which they are in DFW) and they are making positive contributions to the community?!? I guarantee you most of Atlanta's professional Blacks were and are transplants, whether they have several local HBCUs or not, and nobody complained about them being from other places when they were building Atlanta up and helping it boom in the late 90s and early 2000s. If anything, a city like Atlanta that was built mostly by a boom of professional transplants only serves to inspire more professionals, black or otherwise, to relocate to that area because it's proven that people from the outside who have the education and ambition can succeed and do well there. So don't worry about Dallas. It will be just fine when it comes to Black professionals; it has plenty to offer us and more and more are moving to Dallas everyday. You just worry about Houston and the Black "ghetto element" that is starting to attract more and more of.

How do you know that black ATLiens are leaving for Houston and DFW?

[Carlito Brigante]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

How do you know that blacks are moving from Atlanta to Houston? I've not seen any reports.

"Reports" don't replace real life experience. I spend plenty of time in Atlanta and even in places like Memphis that are majority Black but have HUGE uneducated Black populations. Too many of the latter who used to move to Atlanta to "get crunk" and many unprofessional, low class Atlantans with the same mentality now have Houston on their radar as the "next Atlanta," while many of the Educated Black professionals who are fleeing Atlanta because of all the ghetto folks and oversaturation have Dallas on their radar as a more desirable and practical place to live, work and raise a family and that is less like what they are running away from in Atlanta.

[Carlito Brigante]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

How do you know that black ATLiens are leaving for Houston and DFW?

Moreover, Texas is just a huge state with a low cost of living and plenty of land and opportunity. ATL has become over saturated, so more and more Black people from ATL and more and more who WOULD have moved to ATL five years ago are choosing Texas as the new hotspot for Blacks now, and since Houston and DFW are the two largest metros with the most to offer, that's where they are heading. I'm just telling you from experience as a person who has not relocated to Texas yet and who is on the outside NEAR Atlanta, and which types of Atlantans and Black people in general are going to which area, reports be damned. You may not want to listen now, but in the next few years you will notice when Houston's Black community starts looking like Hurricane Katrina hit all over again. Except this time, the lower class Black transplants won't leave in droves after a year or two. They'll only increase in numbers and set Houston's Black community back. And you know will happen then? All you snobbish, HBCU, "homegrown" Houston Black professionals who look down on Dallas's Black community and constantly try to bash Dallas to make Houston look so much better will be high tailing it up I-45 with all your belongings and your families packed trying to get in where you fit in in Dallas's Black professional community that you claim is so lacking and non-existent.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by ShaunJuan

Moreover, Texas is just a huge state with a low cost of living and plenty of land and opportunity. ATL has become over saturated, so more and more Black people from ATL and more and more who WOULD have moved to ATL five years ago are choosing Texas as the new hotspot for Blacks now, and since Houston and DFW are the two largest metros with the most to offer, that's where they are heading. I'm just telling you from experience as a person who has not relocated to Texas yet and who is on the outside NEAR Atlanta, and which types of Atlantans and Black people in general are going to which area, reports be damned. You may not want to listen now, but in the next few years you will notice when Houston's Black community starts looking like Hurricane Katrina hit all over again. Except this time, the lower class Black transplants won't leave in droves after a year or two. They'll only increase in numbers and set Houston's Black community back. And you know will happen then? All you snobbish, HBCU, "homegrown" Houston Black professionals who look down on Dallas's Black community and constantly try to bash Dallas to make Houston look so much better will be high tailing it up I-45 with all your belongings and your families packed trying to get in where you fit in in Dallas's Black professional community.

You sound pretty mad.