it is time to finish our black and white series with the blackest cities in the United States
we actually might do countries but I'm not sure yet on that one we might have to eliminate Africa
and Scandinavia because it's like One's Gonna be completely white almost the other one's gonna be
almost completely black let me know what you think in the comment section below anyway I'm gonna give
you the same intros I did for the other videos so we're all on the same page I normally avoid
race related videos but I had a bunch of requests for these I wasn't comfortable with the subject
and I didn't want to create videos where the comment section would look like some kind of
Clan rally and I didn't want people crying that I was being racist just because I was talking about
someone's race or talking about race in general it's not racist to talk about race how you talk
about race can be considered racist anyway I had a long back and forth with one of my subscribers
who happens to be a black gentleman and he had a good point he said I shouldn't worry about
what people are saying in the comment section he said if you're any kind of minority in this
country you already know who's out there on the internet then he quoted something I said
in a video he said you could make a video about lime Jello and someone would make it about race
or politics which the politics one is 100 True when we had that conversation it made sense to
me so a couple months back I made the most Asian States followed by the most Hispanic
States I'd kind of struggled with whether I should do the black and white thing but I
finally decided it was time so today we're looking at the cities in the U.S with the
highest percentage of black or African-American residents got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 New Orleans Louisiana this one might surprise people that haven't spent a lot of time
in New Orleans I haven't spent a bunch of time in New Orleans but I was surprised at this one
not that it's on the list that it wasn't higher on the list the black community in New Orleans
is strong and they've got a long history in The Big Easy I mean the incredible food and
the music that has come out of New Orleans is 99 of the time from the black community the City of
New Orleans has about 383 000 residents with the entire metro area having about 1.2 million when
we did the blackest States video I brought up all the musicians that had come out of uh
Louisiana mostly New Orleans that's where a lot of them came from one group or group of people I
forgot to say was the Neville Brothers extremely talented family there you know everyone focuses
on Memphis when it comes to different types of music and stuff like that in Nashville in
this part of the country I think New Orleans is as important if not more important to music and music
musical history as those two 57.02 percent of New Orleans population is black or African-American
number nine Wilmington Delaware Wilmington Delaware is its own City and it's a major
city but it's also part of the Philadelphia Camden metro area which if you talk to most
people they'll just say it's part of the Philadelphia metro area most people like
to forget Camden exists but yeah Wilmington is a pretty historic City Wilmington Delaware was
built on the site of Fort Christina which was the first Swedish settlement in North America
during the American Revolutionary War only one small battle was fought in Delaware but British
troops occupied Wilmington shortly after the nearby Battle of Brandywine on September 11
1777. I almost said 1977 right there and I'm sure that would have confused a lot of you
because everybody knows the only battle that was going on in 1977 was the battle to free
the American public from the Disco craze in polyester Wilmington these days isn't
the greatest City but statistically they're kind of moving in the right direction crime's
gone down a little bit over the last few years the poverty rate has dropped people are employ
Lloyd you know not giant numbers they haven't made a complete turnaround but they're heading
in the right direction 58.26 percent of Wilmington Delaware's population is black or African-American
number eight Augusta Georgia Augusta is on the east side of Georgia at the South Carolina border
on the Savannah River if you're into golf you already know where this place is it is
home to the Augusta National Golf course I like Augusta it's been a handful of years since I've
been there the stats don't look great but it's still a beautiful Town met a girl there named
hammy I said do you mean Sammy did you say Sammy shall know hammy with an H I was like how'd that
happen she said she was funny when she was a like a baby or you know young and uh the
nickname kind of stuck that's unfortunate Augusta Georgia's population is 201 000 residents their
entire metro area has about 611 000 and 58.61 of the population is black or African-American
number seven Baltimore Maryland this one doesn't surprise me at all what is surprising about
Baltimore is they've kind of started to turn it around this place has been dangerous and
ugly for a long time and a lot of tech companies have been moving there in the
last couple years this is giving better jobs to the local community now the violent crime
rate would go down a little bit they'd be on the road to recovery Baltimore Maryland is
just Northeast of Washington DC in case you don't know Baltimore is where the great Cab
Calloway grew up he was born in Rochester New York but moved here when he was like 10 years
old and was raised in Baltimore Baltimore for all its problems has some amazingly beautiful
Parts the city of Baltimore has a population of 576 000 residents with the entire metro area
having just under 3 million residents and 60.42 of that population is black or African-American
number six Montgomery Alabama this one should be no shocker this was the flash point for the
civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s side note education is important everyone
and here in the United States we have so many people that are lacking in education when we
did the black Estates video I had someone email me about how could I forget that Martin Luther
King was assassinated in Montgomery Alabama now if you're going to take the time out to email
something when you want to check your resources you know just check and make sure you're right
I sent him a few links that confirmed that Martin Luther King was sadly assassinated on the balcony
of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee but Montgomery Alabama is a very important city when
it comes to the U.S history Montgomery Alabama has a population of just over 200 000 with a
metro area that's just under 400 000 and of that population 61.91 is black or African-American
number five Memphis Tennessee all right now we get to look at the actual place Martin Luther
King took his last breath now I mentioned this uh when I've talked about Memphis before but I
think it's very interesting James Earl Ray the man who assassinated Dr King came out
later on live which he spent his life in prison came out and said it really wasn't him he was
just basically the Fall Guy well he'd had some conversations with the King family and other
people and he kind of told a story and towards the end there they were saying he didn't do it
and this started all kinds conspiracies I mean whenever someone's assassinated there's always
going to be conspiracies but this just fueled the conspiracy train Memphis is another city
that is known for its music and Black Culture Memphis has a population of 633 000 with the
entire metro area having about 1.3 million of that 63.34 are black or African-American
number four Birmingham Alabama another historic Southern City Birmingham you know as a YouTuber
you get some pretty interesting emails and comments one gentleman from the UK wanted
to know why we named a city in the United States after Birmingham and the UK because the one in the
UK sucks he actually used some other weird word I never heard before I'm not sure if it's a uh curse
word obscene or what so I'm just not going to use it anyway so he said Birmingham in the UK sucks
and it just shows how stupid Americans are that they would do that I had to inform him this didn't
happen last week the town's been there since the 1800s he responded with maybe you could pick a
better name than he put in parentheses doubt it I responded with maybe you could find a dentist
and in parentheses I put do you have them there Birmingham Alabama has a population of 200 000
residents their metro area has 1.1 million and of that 69.82 percent are black or African-American
number three Gary Indiana Gary Indiana was a really great place to live back in the 1950s
well maybe not but at least they had a lot of jobs and people were making money like so many
other Rust Belt cities this one kind of fell to the Wayside all the good jobs left and the middle
class kind of bailed out Gary Indiana is really in the Chicago metro area and it's almost like it's
part of Chicago not even part of the good side of Chicago it's part of the south side of Chicago but
at least they got a Hard Rock Casino Gary Indiana has been losing people since the 1950s in the
1960s census they actually gained 33 percent and in 1970 they lost 1.6 and that was the last time
they lost under double digits since then they've been losing 13 23 11 21 13 the good news is it's a
very inexpensive place to live you'd think they'd put a little more effort into turning this town
around it's right there on the lake so that's a plus you're not in Chicago that's another plus
Gary Indiana has a popular regulation of sixty nine thousand now at their peak in the late 1950s
they had 179 000 they've lost 110 people now if a city loses population for one or two census
that's really bad most cities can turn it around by then Gary's got their own agenda of that 69
000 people still living in Gary Indiana 78.47 are black or African-American
number two Detroit Michigan we've talked about Detroit so many times before they're a lot like
Gary Indiana when the automobile industry and a lot of manufacturing jobs left and went overseas
the Rust Belt cities died and Detroit Gary are perfect examples of that Cleveland's another
one they didn't make the list on a positive note in the last handful of years Detroit's
turned their downtown around a little bit it looks a lot better than it did let's say
15 years ago now they need to spread that out to the suburbs a little bit or at least
just the neighborhoods around downtown Detroit Detroit has a population of 632
000 residents with the entire metro area being about 4.3 million of that 80.38 of
Detroit Michigan's population is black or African-American all right before we get to
number one don't forget we have another Channel called on this day there's a link down below we'd
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and number one Jackson Mississippi yes that Jewel of the South I'm totally kidding nobody's ever
called it a jewel of the South I feel bad about making fun of them because they just had some
serious flooding and did some serious damage to that City now Jackson's a city that has
seen better times from what I have learned about this city it wouldn't take much for them to turn
it around they need to bring in a good employer or three which could be handled with great tax
incentives maybe even free land get more jobs in the Jackson area and crack down on the crime those
are really the only problems they have there it's not like they have blizzards or anything like that
it gets hot during the summer and they got your typical Southern humidity then also that kind
of sucks but it's not like they get blizzards or snowstorms they've seen a few hurricanes but
it doesn't happen all the time there's a lot of pluses when it comes to Jackson Mississippi it's
just nobody's working towards making anything happen I don't blame the people for that I
blame the politicians one hundred percent Jackson Mississippi has a population of 153
000 residents with the entire metro area only being 576 000. so it's not like if
they're going to turn this city around they're not trying to turn it around for
2 million people you know of Jackson's 153 000 residents 80.45 are black or African-American
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information about it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other