Ehh, it’s easy to miss a black presence in LA. California in general, the majority of the black population isn’t doing well, so unless you’re in a lower socioeconomic class, it’s quite easy to not see or be in black spaces. And then a good half or more of educated/upwardly mobile blacks tend to associate with “others” and date out. DMV (and east coast blacks in general) have a much stronger, bigger middle class and even upper middle class. You can associate with a deep black community at all socioeconomic levels out here. Cali is missing that.
despite LA having a big black population numbers wise, when just out and about, I don’t see it because of how disperses it is. I gotta be linking with people from there who are going to a black event to really see us. Of course I could go to the hood, but why?
I don't disagree with your overall point but the area I outlined, the black population isn't dispersed. It's a couple hundred thousand black folk in a compact area roughly the geography of DC. It is NOT hard to find black events or become connected to the Black Angeleno experience if you are in stated region...
California, and other western states by extension, are missing the stronger and more extensive black cultural experience simply by proxy of the United States being settled from east to west. While we know California had a role in slavery, it was neither a slave state nor along the slave routes. Cali is also on the opposite coast from the Caribbean where black folks were also enslaved and eventually emigrated from, and when they came here we all know they don't start with California, they hit the coast that's closer to them...
California's fragmented black community isn't a Black California creation, and I think to too many people Black Californians are somehow responsible for not having an equivalent range of depth and diversity in the black experience that you find from Texas and points east of there. It's a stupid and silly notion that is easy to poke holes in, and it's commendable that California established the strength of black culture it does have given its geography and the history of other people in Cali territory both before and after the introduction of African descendants...
Anyone looking for an Eastern experience is missing the mark, though I do feel like elements of a solid black experience are found throughout the state...
Haven;t spent time in LA but I will say that DC's Black areas had a Wakanda like atmosphere, You go in the Hoods in DC and 10 or 15 years you'd see No Non Black People maybe you'd see the odd white cop but if you stayed in the hoods It was being in Nairobi. 20 years ago you wouldn't see white people that weren't cops after 6pm in weekends downtown. DC's segregation was on a another level.
This is similar to when I lived in LA, I never saw white people. Everyone was black or Mexican, and at the time I lived and went to school in South Central, it was much blacker than it is now...
This is true. Charlotte, DC, Atlanta, have black visibility on every socioeconomic level. Miami is more like California in regards to having black people only in the lower socioeconomic classes. The rest of Florida is a tiny bit more balanced and like the rest of the south in regard to having a black middle class. But even California cities seem to be overtaking Miami in terms of black percentage. Which is honestly shocking to me.
Lol bruh, Miami's black decline has been noted for years, I've never been but I heard about it probably close to a decade ago. It's long turned into a rich man's playground for foreigners, black native Miamians been fleeing...
If only Detroit wasn't so cold. I would feast on Detroit real estate 
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