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The Best City for Blacks

George W. Bush's Texas is a terrible place for blacks, at least if you believed the anti-Bush hype during last year's campaign. Most famously, Paul Begala observed: "You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart--it's red." Well, guess which city Black Enterprise magazine has just named "the nation's best city for African-Americans to live, work and play"? You've got it--Houston. Dallas finished in eighth place; New York and Los Angeles didn't even make the top 10.

-- Anonymous, June 06, 2001