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I grew up in Houston and I love it. It is a GREAT place. There are tons of African Americans doing their respective things and it has been that way for a while. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in the 1940's my grandfather was able to start a steel foundry making manhole covers and got a contract with the city even way back then!
I love Htown. I am in law school in DC now and DC SUCKS!!!!! There are no highways- the streets are filthy- the cops are idiots and its too dang cold!
Also the schools in DC are HORRIBLE. Houston ISD won the broadband award for urban education. I don't have much to say about Rod Paige, but there is a reason he is Sec. of Education now. Our magnet schools rock! I went to both private schools and magnet public schools and I can honestly say my education NEVER skipped a beat.
Houston is a great place to raise African American children. You can live IN THE CITY without living in a slum and your kids can be raised around other succeeding African American children/families. This is important to me as I HATE suburbs and believe in re-investing in my OWN community and want my kids to be raised around PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE THEM! I want them to see successfuly Black folk in their daily walk and I know I had that opportunity growing up in my neighborhood in Htown INSIDE of the LOOP!
Also, the TX public colleges are great! I went to TAMU in engineering, but I won't hate on UT. Both schools are nationally ranked in numerous areas.
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