Why do black folk tend to live in cities?

Daylight63 said:
Really I struggle to understand why the MAGA movement has trouble getting more black voters.
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Lets fix that: Really I struggle to understand sarcasm.

I enjoy pulling the strings of these leftist racists. 😜
BTW, I meant to ask you, Midnight63, which of those 2 beverages do you prefer?
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Daylight63 said:
Gentrification is real. I'll freely admit to loving "gentrified" neighborhoods (one of my favorite stores that sells synthesizers in the nearby megacity is in an actively gentrified area that I love going to)...but I also know that my "comfort and happiness" means a lot of people of meager means were forced out and are having a harder time because of my need for everything to look like what I want.
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People, understandably, complain about under investment in certain areas. However when money is put into those areas it tends to make the area more desirable, which leads to gentrification.

I understand the desire for money to be put in certain place and have property values not increase and the demographics not to change, but it generally doesn’t work that way.
 
cawacko said:
People, understandably, complain about under investment in certain areas. However when money is put into those areas it tends to make the area more desirable, which leads to gentrification.

I understand the desire for money to put in certain place and have property vakues not increase and the demographics not to change, but it generally doesn’t work that way.
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Agreed. Capitalism can be a very harsh taskmaster.
 
Goyboy said:
Lets fix that: Really I struggle to understand sarcasm.
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Oh, that was sarcasm? I am skeptical.

Goyboy said:
I enjoy pulling the strings of these leftist racists. 😜
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I suspect you also greatly enjoy presenting long discourses on why you should be able to say the N-word because it's in rap songs and Chris Rock once did a bit about it.


BTW, I meant to ask you, Midnight63, which of those 2 beverages do you prefer?
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I really dislike alcohol...it tastes bad to me. Now, maybe a malt liquor would be more to my tastes. But my drug of choice is weed edibles.
 
Daylight63 said:
Something to think about is: how comfortable would YOU be if you were asked to live in the middle of a society where there was almost no one like you and historically the very people surrounding you actually didn't ever like you.
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I did. I lived in New Orleans for six years. It was imperative to get along with blacks.
But you’re assuming Jim Crow racism . I guess that still exists but I just haven’t seen that, ever.
The North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain is very republican and overwhelmingly white but there’s a significant number of blacks living in that parish that are members of golf clubs, e.g., and well accepted.
Same here in anchorage.
But we’re one of the most diverse cities in America and most are from somewhere else. Racism is basically nonexistent here.
I just don’t see racism towards blacks where I’ve lived but maybe you see it in your community.
Do you?


 
anonymoose said:
I did. I lived in New Orleans for six years. It was imperative to get along with blacks.
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I spent 4 years in the Big Easy as well. But I'm a goddamn Yankee and I'm very heat intolerant so it was a tough one for me. But one of the things that the wife and I realized was that in many situations we were finally the minority and it was kinda cool to experience it. But then we also lived over in Metairie so we could escape to the 'burbs and back into our white cocoon.

anonymoose said:
The North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain is very republican and overwhelmingly white
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Yuppers. That was where David Duke hung out back in the day as I recall.

anonymoose said:
but there’s a significant number of blacks living in that parish that are members of golf clubs, e.g., and well accepted.
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No doubt. And N'awlins definitely had some black wealth as well.

anonymoose said:
Same here in anchorage.
But we’re one of the most diverse cities in America and most are from somewhere else. Racism is basically nonexistent here.
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I actually really disagree with the Left these days in our collective inability to see what things have gone RIGHT with race relations over the years. Sure there's a LOT of racist shit still happening but we ARE making progress. And if we dont' stop to appreciate things like your description of Anchorage, then we really lose the ability to continue our forward momentum. People will start feeling like "What's the point?"

anonymoose said:
I just don’t see racism towards blacks where I’ve lived but maybe you see it in your community.
Do you?
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Unfortuantely yeah. Our town has a few ultra rabid very public racists who have done some nasty stuff around town. Vandalized property, gotten into fights with people. But then the state I live in has a REALLY bad history of racism. As in it was originally founded to be a white utopia in the 19th century and for a long time it was illegal to be black in the state. Here even 150 years later we still have a problem with race. NOT AS BAD, obviously but still it could be a lot better.

(BTW: I visited ANchorage for a conference years ago. I loved that place. It was hella cool!)
 
Daylight63 said:
Oh, that was sarcasm? I am skeptical.



I suspect you also greatly enjoy presenting long discourses on why you should be able to say the N-word because it's in rap songs and Chris Rock once did a bit about it.




I really dislike alcohol...it tastes bad to me. Now, maybe a malt liquor would be more to my tastes. But my drug of choice is weed edibles.
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I do not use the N word.
 
Daylight63 said:
I spent 4 years in the Big Easy as well. But I'm a goddamn Yankee and I'm very heat intolerant so it was a tough one for me. But one of the things that the wife and I realized was that in many situations we were finally the minority and it was kinda cool to experience it. But then we also lived over in Metairie so we could escape to the 'burbs and back into our white cocoon.
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Ha! That’s where I grew up.
I rarely go back but mt sister still lives there. It’s changed a lot.
Lotta Messicans apparently.

Unfortuantely yeah. Our town has a few ultra rabid very public racists who have done some nasty stuff around town. Vandalized property, gotten into fights with people.
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That’s too bad.

But then the state I live in has a REALLY bad history of racism. As in it was originally founded to be a white utopia in the 19th century and for a long time it was illegal to be black in the state. Here even 150 years later we still have a problem with race. NOT AS BAD, obviously but still it could be a lot better.
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So you live in Oregon. The eastern part has some scary looking toothless hillbillies.
I’d avoid that if I were black. I’d avoid it if I were white.

(BTW: I visited ANchorage for a conference years ago. I loved that place. It was hella cool!)
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Love it here. Prettiest city for scenery I’ve seen anywhere. And I’ve lived in the Rockies.
Ketchikan, AK is beautiful too but it’s not much of a city. 15,000 souls.
 
anonymoose said:
This is not meant to be rayciss, just curiosity.
Cities tend to be dirty, crime ridden , violent cesspools with overcrowded traffic.
I’m hoping to get insight from any African descendants that may lurk here.
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As opposed to the non-black folk that live there? The non-black folk who built and inhabited them for a century or so before the laws changed? The same dirty, crime ridden , violent cesspools with overcrowded traffic cities that have been around since being portrayed in all those Dead End Kids and Bowery Boys and all the other gangster movies of the 30's and 50's?

Do you even bother to, oh I don't know, THINK to look things up yourself before your fingers hit the keys? Jeez!
 
anonymoose said:
I did. I lived in New Orleans for six years. It was imperative to get along with blacks.
But you’re assuming Jim Crow racism . I guess that still exists but I just haven’t seen that, ever.
The North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain is very republican and overwhelmingly white but there’s a significant number of blacks living in that parish that are members of golf clubs, e.g., and well accepted.
Same here in anchorage.
But we’re one of the most diverse cities in America and most are from somewhere else. Racism is basically nonexistent here.
I just don’t see racism towards blacks where I’ve lived but maybe you see it in your community.
Do you?
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A whitey who says they don't see racism
 
Any claim that blacks dont do rural is false....18% of blacks say they live rural....which is about the same as the general population.

www.pewresearch.org

3. Place and community

Black Americans live in different types of communities across the country. For about half of Black adults (52%), the location where they currently live is
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Hawkeye10 said:
Any claim that blacks dont do rural is false....18% of blacks say they live rural....which is about the same as the general population.
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I think it is no surprise that you would fail to understand that the OP's question does in no way mean that black people don't live in the country. It takes a special kind of stupid to draw that conclusion from the question.
 
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