Quote: (01-01-2013 11:52 PM)Sonsowey Wrote:
I am confused by saying Cali doesn't have black women.
When I was there I saw many.
I went to a free concert series in their stadium, and the crowd was mostly black. I stayed with a black friend and his family there. They had many black neighbors, and many mixed ones as well.
Are you guys riding Mio at all? Are you checking out the areas near the Universities?
Even in chipichape there were plenty of cute black girls around. My friend there chilled with a very mixed race group of friends, maybe half black or mixed.
Colombia has the 3rd largest Afro population in the Americas, after Brazil and the USA. You guys are definitely missing something.
For instance, here are two short videos about the music festival I went to:
http://vimeo.com/33816000
http://vimeo.com/14395542
Statistics show Cali has over 1 million afro-colombians:
Cali, con cerca de 1.100.000 afrodescedientes, es la segunda ciudad en Latinoamérica, después de Salvador de Bahía, en Brasil, donde se concentra el mayor número de personas de esta población.
Según la Secretaría de Desarrollo y Bienestar Social local, en el Valle del Cauca está el 27% de todos los afrodescendientes del país y en Cali representan el 52% de la población total de la ciudad.
Estas cifras se recuerdan hoy, Día de la Afrocolombianidad, por parte de numerosas organizaciones y líderes que destacan el papel de este grupo poblacional en la vida de la ciudad.
De acuerdo con la Administración local, en la capital del Valle del Cauca este sector tiene una fuerte presencia en las comunas 7, 14, 15, 16 y 21, ubicadas al oriente de la ciudad y en zonas cercanas al río Cauca.
“Existe un porcentaje muy bajo de personas de esta raza en estratos socio económicos altos”, señala Clara Inés Ossa, investigadora de asuntos étnicos de la Universidad Javeriana.
http://accolombia.com/noticias/panorama-...erica.html
El 36 por ciento de la comunidad afrocolombiana que habita en Cali se encuentra sobre la línea de pobreza. Los caleños no pertenecientes a esta comunidad, son menos pobres (31 por ciento).
http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/nac...es-de-cali
Are you all pricing yourself out of the black community? Blacks are poor in Cali, as they are in all the Americas. Are you just avoiding common places to the extent that you don't even notice half of the city?
It is fairly easy to miss half the city because there is no reason to go there.....but you are right..... Cali has the largest black pop. of any large city in Colombia.