Baltimore is a nice city. The Downtown area is good. There are historic places to visit and there are nice natural places to see along the harbor. The only problem is that to take the light rail from the Amtrak station to the Downtown area, you have to go through affirmative action neighborhoods that you see on the news now. Also, if you want to take the subway, the transfer point is in the same area. But the subway goes to white areas in the outlying neighborhoods where you the only kosher restaurants are. The more densely populated areas are affirmative action. The white areas feel like the suburbs. I don't know the transition because you enter the subway underground and the Jewish area is near the subway station that's above ground. I was the only white to travel to the Jewish areas on the subway. It's not like New York where everyone takes the subway. I guess because the white areas where the subway goes to seem suburban so the local people can drive better than in New York.
Baltimore is what it is because of the Downtown tourist area and the history. The affirmative action neighborhoods are just blight to the city in general, even if the affirmative action people are a majority now. New York is a larger city so even the dense urban areas are more diverse and not completely affirmative action. If you were to compare the Jewish area in Baltimore to New York, you would compare it to the Five Towns in Long Island. It seems like it's a different city when you go to the Jewish area.
I guess the blacks want Baltimore to become like Newark. Newark's Downtown area is what keeps it alive. But Newark is a smaller city and is better known for being in the NYC metropolitan area. Baltimore is a major city so if blacks want it to be like Newark, it will end up like Detroit.