murksiderock
Superstar
To my non-West Coast brothers and sisters on here:
Alota cats on here look at West cities from the wrong angle. You can't expect the cities to have the level of black influence you're used to in the South (where Black America's foundation is at and derived from), and the North (which were developed long before Western areas and had intrinsic ties and migration with the South earlier, just by virtue of being geographically closer to the South and being "discovered" earlier)...
The common sentiment here is that West cities should have an equal amount of black identity as elsewhere in the US, and while that's true in some cases, most of the time it's a false equivalence. Yall gotta stop that shyt...
San Diego still has over 90,000 black people in the city limits. That's enough to fill up most football stadiums and then some, so saying it's a "small" community has to be kept in context. If it's anything like other California cities, which I'd assume it is, you can go to places in Southeast and see more blacks than non blacks, even if as a whole the city is integrated and blacks are small in percentage...
I know this is true for sure of Sac, Oakland, and LA, where you can go certain places and see so many black people you'd question if the official percentages was accurate...
The same is true of other West cities, particularly Phoenix, Vegas, Denver, and Seattle...
Lastly, just sticking with Oakland and LA as examples, and saying SD "may" be the same, there is a stronger black presence in those cities than there is in many Northern cities. Pittsburgh is 23% black, Boston is 22% black, and neither feel as black as Oakland or LA, which should speak to you a little about all of these cities. So on and so forth...
Black people are still moving to other West cities, we're just leaving California. But we've made an indelible legacy and imprint statewide in California, and California will start attracting blacks again en masse when the insane real estate/COL bubble of the present day bursts. Very few places in North America can offer as well rounded a lived experience in Cali and the major factor keeping black people out of Cali isn't that there "isn't enough black people", but rather that they can't afford to live there comfortably...
When that changes--->and it will, nothing lasts forever---->blacks will head back just like we did during the Migrations...
Alota cats on here look at West cities from the wrong angle. You can't expect the cities to have the level of black influence you're used to in the South (where Black America's foundation is at and derived from), and the North (which were developed long before Western areas and had intrinsic ties and migration with the South earlier, just by virtue of being geographically closer to the South and being "discovered" earlier)...
The common sentiment here is that West cities should have an equal amount of black identity as elsewhere in the US, and while that's true in some cases, most of the time it's a false equivalence. Yall gotta stop that shyt...
San Diego still has over 90,000 black people in the city limits. That's enough to fill up most football stadiums and then some, so saying it's a "small" community has to be kept in context. If it's anything like other California cities, which I'd assume it is, you can go to places in Southeast and see more blacks than non blacks, even if as a whole the city is integrated and blacks are small in percentage...
I know this is true for sure of Sac, Oakland, and LA, where you can go certain places and see so many black people you'd question if the official percentages was accurate...
The same is true of other West cities, particularly Phoenix, Vegas, Denver, and Seattle...
Lastly, just sticking with Oakland and LA as examples, and saying SD "may" be the same, there is a stronger black presence in those cities than there is in many Northern cities. Pittsburgh is 23% black, Boston is 22% black, and neither feel as black as Oakland or LA, which should speak to you a little about all of these cities. So on and so forth...
Black people are still moving to other West cities, we're just leaving California. But we've made an indelible legacy and imprint statewide in California, and California will start attracting blacks again en masse when the insane real estate/COL bubble of the present day bursts. Very few places in North America can offer as well rounded a lived experience in Cali and the major factor keeping black people out of Cali isn't that there "isn't enough black people", but rather that they can't afford to live there comfortably...
When that changes--->and it will, nothing lasts forever---->blacks will head back just like we did during the Migrations...
there was also an “outdoor” mall...not an outlet but an actual mall...it was like 2-3 floors w/ no main roof...shyt was cool
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