Why hipsters don't live in black areas.

A few thoughts:

Compared to Mexican or hispanic areas (the hipster locales of choice, Mexican more than hispanic areas like Puerto Rican areas where the hispanics know English), the cheap restaurants in poorer black areas tend to be fast food, not taquerias, and the black areas get tagged as "unsafe" though the black areas adjacent to the currently cool, a little too-expensive parts of town seem to have the same level of crime as the hispanic areas.

Also, since most hipsters don't know Spanish, they are able to have this self-image of being more diverse and more in touch than the average white person (and hipsters are almost all white), but they don't actually have to interact with the people who allow them this international persona when they are the background at taquerias and bars and supermarkets. Interacting with black people would probably just be too awkward, since that gets into how race and class are intimately connected for non-immigrant Americans, and that's too much for hipsters to deal with honestly.

Though, yuppies who are all about the money just move into black areas, it seems like, and have no qualms about having money and redeveloping and pricing the older residents out. The hipsters know they should be ashamed, and so don't go there...

Also also, maybe immigrants have a higher turn-over rate, and so there's not a sense of disrupting perceptible community like you have with black people, who you can communicate with? This one Colombian grad student I know who lives in the big Mexican neighborhood says he hears Mexicans bitch all the time about the hipsters moving in, though the hipsters of course don't know this since they don't speak Spanish.