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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Black America's new diversity
By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY

BOSTON — The children stepping off school buses in the Dorchester section of this city are black. The owners of the grocery stores, nail salons and cafes are black. So are most of the customers.

But blacks in Dorchester are as varied as the aromas wafting from the Jamaican and Cape Verdean restaurants along Bowdoin Street. In the hip Restaurante Cesaria, diners chat in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verde Creole, Jamaican English, English with an American twang, English with a British accent. The musicians who entertain diners come from Angola, Nigeria, Senegal and the West Indies.

HOLLA BOS! (Especially to my fellow West Indians in Dorchester.)

Dang, I miss home.