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The Ancestors Are Here
Held Friday, January 17, 2025
over the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend.
Held Friday, January 17, 2025
over the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend.
As a department under Dallas City Hall, the Office on Equity and Inclusion (OEI) is charged with reporting on indicators about the demographics of the city of Dallas that are used to understand, target and track equity within communities. The report provides very discouraging collected data for Afro-Americans residing in the Dallas area. But all this can be solved with American Freedmen Reparations.
The OEI report suggests that the city of Dallas is approximately 1.3million citizens and the 9th largest city in the United States. However, to understand the culture of Dallas, Texas is to know that millions of North Texans migrate in and around Dallas... settling in its vast suburbs and traveling in and out of the city for work and commerce.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex expands over 9,000 square/miles; larger than a few states; and hosts over 8million souls. All cities and neighborhoods within DFW can relate to data in the 2023/2024 OEI reports.
As with the entire state of Texas, Hispanic Peoples are the majority of the DFW population. What are labeled "Black" (Afro-Americans) makes up at least 16% of souls in DFW; and as much as 14% of all Texans. The DFW percentage is very comparative to the Houston-Woodlands-Sugarland metroplex with a little less than 17% labeled "Black" over a sustainably larger population. Even though data is not being collected properly; the Houston areas are home to more Afro-migrants than the DFW... such that North Texas is more concentrated by American Freedmen than any other large city in Texas.
In comparison to the top 5-largest cities by population across the United States; the percentage of Afro-Americans in Dallas would have it hosting the second (2nd) largest concentration of Afros by population density:
29% - Chicago Afro-Americans by population and 3rd largest city.
24% - Dallas Afro-Americans by population and 9th largest city.
22% - Houston Afro-Americans by population and 4th largest city.
20% - New York City Afro-Americans by population and largest city.
9% - Los Angeles Afro-Americans by population and 2nd largest city.
7% - Phoenix Afro-Americans by population and 5th largest city.
This data shared by DataUS.io gives significance to opening an Office on Freedmen Affairs in the Dallas area.
Median household income for those labeled "White" is more than twice that of Afro-Americans in Dallas. And hourly wages are significantly less than other demographics.
There are a multiple of scenarios that keep these disparities in place to include:
lower access to high income employment.
lack of community industry.
systemic dysfunctional family practices.
Although income can be a good measurement of community wealth for Freedmen; homeownership provides more data on economic empowerment for Afro-Americans.
Unfortunately, homeownership for Afro-American residents within the City of Dallas is less than half of what are labeled "White" residents and a little more than half of Asian and Hispanic people.
All the above disparities can and will be solved by American Freedmen Reparations.
ask volunteers with the council how!
All the above disparities can and will be solved by American Freedmen Reparations.
ask volunteers with the council how!
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