The Top Ten Best Cities For African Americans
Black Enterprise, the leading magazine for African American business, has come out with their annual survey of the top American cities for African Americans. The criteria for measuring the cities includes median household income, percentage of households earning more than $100,000, percentage of businesses owned, percentage of college graduates. unemployment rates, home loan rejections, and homeowner rates.
What is most interesting on this list is what cities are not on the list. New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Chicago all failed to make the list even though they have huge African American populations and all pride themselves on their progressive policies. But the opportunities for blacks according to this list is in the south. Growing up in New York and living in Atlanta, you can see the difference.
New York was all about telling everyone how they were focused on helping minorities, but in every place I lived, blacks and whites never lived together. In every street or apartment complex in Atlanta that I have lived in blacks and whites lived together. While things are not perfect in Atlanta, the ethos of the city to busy to hate is evident from our day to day life and obviously the results of this survey.
The Top Ten Best Cities For African Americans
- Washington DC
- Atlanta, GA
- Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Houston, TX
- Nashville, TN
- Dallas, TX
- Charlotte, NC
- Indianapolis, IN
- Columbus, OH
- Jackson, FL
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Comment by Jim Duncan on 4 August 2007:
How bizarre. Just last month Raleigh-Durham was noted to be one of the worst places to get a loan. Statistics are funny.
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Comment by J.S. Peyton on 10 August 2007:
I live in Washington, D.C. and I’m glad to see it listed as the best city for African-Americans. Washington, D.C. does have some neighborhoods that are predominantly white or black, yet I’ve never lived in a more integrated city. It’s like you said: everyone here is too busy to hate. I’ve lived here for five years (grew up on St. Louis) and of all the places I’ve traveled, there’s no place else I’d rather live.
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Comment by trajjic on 21 September 2008:
I see Los Angeles is not on the list and I see why. It’s one of the worst cities for blacks to live in. It’s hard to find housing out here or get a loan here if your black. I see why a lot of my classmates who graduated from crenshaw high school now live in the south I’m moving to Atlanta I hate L.A. I’m going to buy a T shirt and put that on it too I Hate Hell A.