Boston's black exodus

By adamg on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 7:34pm

Baratunde points to the recent loss of WILD-FM as yet another example of why Boston will keep losing and scaring off young blacks:

... [I]n Boston, the black folk are all stashed away down in Roxbury and Dorchester. Out of sight and out of mind. There's no black nightclubs in the main areas of Boston. No substantial black political power. Never even had a black mayor.

And now we lost a radio station. Tell me this. How do you lose an "urban" format station in America 2006??? Hip Hop is the hottest selling thing since guillotines during the French Revolution, yet it lost to Classic Rock??

This is weak, yall. A city that can't keep its young people is destined to fail. A city that can't keep its young black people is just sad.

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Comments

Let's assume the guy's premise is valid.

By Dave on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 8:08pm.

Boston is going to scare away all the "hip hop" fans.

How can we accelerate this process?

I don't like hip hop, but I

By georgia on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 8:38pm.

I don't like hip hop, but I like a homogenized group of radio stations even less.

How do we get rid of

By Bobo on Fri, 09/08/2006 - 7:56am.

How do we get rid of ignorant folks like Dave? Maybe the gay pied piper will come through and you can follow him.. Floormat!

I'm completely aware of "hip-hop" and don't like the noise. That's not ignorance; it's good taste. I am, however, ignorant about what a sentence consisting solely of the word "floormat" is supposed to indicate. It must be some lingo from the Pants Too Big People.

If you don't like a musical

By Ron Newman on Sat, 09/09/2006 - 5:32pm.

If you don't like a musical genre, don't listen to it. I'm not a fan of most current-day country & western music, but that doesn't mean I'd be happy if Boston lost its only C&W station.