While the Queen City welcomes more than 100 new arrivals daily, not all find Charlotte to be a forever home. White, at age 71, has set her sights on La Paz, Mexico. And despite being a Black woman in a city some have called a “Black Mecca,” White said she never quite found her “tribe” in Charlotte. At Middle C Jazz, White said, she found the sort of haven she sought when she first came to Charlotte. (Photo courtesy of Cree White)In Charlotte, White said, she observed a starker racial divide — a feature common in the United States as a whole and in the South, specifically.