Why are black neighborhoods always bad usually? Are there any decent Black neighborhood in America?

Question

Just trying to figure this out. I was born in the Caribbean, Grew up in NY, now living in the South. And it's like anytime you hear about a black school or black neighborhood, you usually hear of violence and burglary. Why is this?

And doesn't this make African Americans ashamed of their people? Just wondering this.

Answer 1

There is still racism against Blacks so in order to make us look bad, they only portray the negatives. But not every Black neighborhood is bad. Ever heard of Saint Albans, New York? Many famous people lived there such as James Brown. I lived there...it's a middle class Black neighborhood. It's like the suburbs with nice houses with land. It's rarely in the news.

Here's a list of famous people who have lived there at some point in their lives:

Count Basie (1904-1984), jazz pianist.[8]

Bad News Allen, 1976 bronze medalist (Olympic Judo) and pro-wrestler

Brook Benton

James Brown (musician)

Bob Cousy

W. E. B. DuBois

Roy Campanella[9]

John Coltrane

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis saxophonist

Mercer Ellington

Anna Lee Tingle Fisher, M. D. - astronaut

Ella Fitzgerald

Milt Hinton

Lena Horne (1917-), singer.[8]

LL Cool J

Bill Kenny of the The Ink Spots [10]

James McBride

Illinois Jacquet

Francis Lewis ?

Joe Louis, boxer

Will Poole - football player

Jackie Robinson Major League Baseball

Al Roker, meteorologist

Babe Ruth, baseball player

Eileen Southern, musicologist

William Grant Still, classical composer

Fats Waller, jazz pianist

Clarence Williams, jazz pianist and composer

Lester Young, jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist

Answer 2

I am from Maryland and there are a lot of black middle class neighborhoods around.  Atlanta also has lots of wealthy black neighborhoods with little to no violence.  Also Harlem in the 1920's was full of poets and thinkers, all black neighborhood.  

Answer 3

Slavery, Indonev.  It's about time ignorance ceases and we conduct ourselves the way our great, great ancestors did when they ruled the world with honor and dignity.

Answer 4

it does make me ashamed  my people can be so i cant eeven think of a word to describe it