Gun shots on 14th street tonight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

ThIS +1,000. Residents in gentrifying DC neighborhoods should be taking Bowser & their council membersto task. What programs does Bowser offer to keep young kids off the streets during the year. There is no reason why 12 year olds should be shooting and robbing people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our streets and communities weren't flooded with guns. There is blood on the hands of every republican in this country.

The Republicans have to move on the gun debate. But at the end of the day, the most important factor by far in explaining disparities in all manner of life outcomes (poverty, unemployment, crime, education) is whether you were born out-of-wedlock. And we all know the statistics are not pretty. Until the Democrats are willing to have a conversation about this, the gunfire will continue.

Agree. There is a obvious correlation between high out-of-wedlock birthrates and poverty, and in turn crime. Until Democrats are willing to acknowledge that, instead of pointing fingers at "Republicans," things will never get better.

And the blood isn't on the hands of every Republican in this country. Your hate is showing. The blood is on the hands of the lowlife(s) who did the shooting. (And before you come out with the racist accusation, I have no clue as to whether the shooter(s) were black or white.)

England and Canada don’t have these gun deaths . GOP = Guns. GOP is trying to allow 18-20 yr olds to buy Guns, which will only lead to more gun deaths and suicides. GOP = slowly destroying our country.

No instead they deal with bombs and knives. This has nothing to do with one specific political party. It has everything to do with addressing needs & opportunities for those who are poor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

It’s not so much the gentrification. It’s the fact that the gentrifiers mostly refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood schools which would have the biggest impact on improving AA test scores, outcomes, etc. Instead they flee for charters or privates and walk by the BLM signs on their stoops every day. They are guilty of the worst form of systematic racism, but they are totally clueless about it.

Honest question- do you work in DCPS? I do. Yes it’d be great for more kids to attend Dcps. However this past year had (hopefully) taught us that public schools CANnOT be the workshops for fixing everything society cannot. Does public education play a large role- you bet! Is it a cure for wealth and racism inequality, not in and of itself.

I don’t work in DCPS. I just have a lot of friends who are are raising families in Logan. They tell me how much they “love” their neighborhoods and raising their kids “in the city”. But not one of them send their kids to DCPS. They are total hypocrites and they love to make fun of the Ward 3 parents at every turn. They are the worst kind of racists.

So you have kids and are sending them to the (non-Ward 3) neighborhood school? Are they in middle or high school yet?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

ThIS +1,000. Residents in gentrifying DC neighborhoods should be taking Bowser & their council membersto task. What programs does Bowser offer to keep young kids off the streets during the year. There is no reason why 12 year olds should be shooting and robbing people.

Are you fking kidding? You’re laying the blame for shootings on people who buy houses in the city?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

ThIS +1,000. Residents in gentrifying DC neighborhoods should be taking Bowser & their council membersto task. What programs does Bowser offer to keep young kids off the streets during the year. There is no reason why 12 year olds should be shooting and robbing people.

Are you fking kidding? You’re laying the blame for shootings on people who buy houses in the city?

There are tons, tons, of programs. Can Muriel herself and the city council require that parents give a fk about their kids and are ensuring they actually go to class? Schools are open. Even before the pandemic truancy was a major issue. Stop laying the blame on external forces. Maybe people should a) move to somewhere affordable. 2) if they choose to stay and accept subsidized housing that they stop shooting people or if they have kids, that they ensure their kids go to class and are not out on the streets.

[Anonymous]

Is the city required to always provide programs? They seem to offer programs and have done for years and that doesn’t solve much. Crime continues to happen and a common thing to point to is “there aren’t any programs! Where are the programs?”. Instead of programs, what if people just stopped shooting each other first?

Or Couldn’t the city just encourage gentrification, so poor families move and the source of crime and envy kind of moves where it can afford to be? Like why subsidize something that clearly causes crime?

[Anonymous]

There are tons, tons, of programs. Can Muriel herself and the city council require that parents give a fk about their kids and are ensuring they actually go to class? Schools are open. Even before the pandemic truancy was a major issue. Stop laying the blame on external forces. Maybe people should a) move to somewhere affordable. 2) if they choose to stay and accept subsidized housing that they stop shooting people or if they have kids, that they ensure their kids go to class and are not out on the streets.

This x1,000,000
The culture of NO personal accountability leads to the perpetuation of multi-generational poverty every single bit as much as systemic racism. Both can be true at the same time. But DC politicians are only willing to talk about the latter and not the former.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

ThIS +1,000. Residents in gentrifying DC neighborhoods should be taking Bowser & their council membersto task. What programs does Bowser offer to keep young kids off the streets during the year. There is no reason why 12 year olds should be shooting and robbing people.

Ugh. Why does DC have so many people who blame others for the misdeeds of their children? There is no reason why parents should be birthing children who end up shooting and robbing people when they are 12, or 15, or 21.

[Anonymous]

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There are tons, tons, of programs. Can Muriel herself and the city council require that parents give a fk about their kids and are ensuring they actually go to class? Schools are open. Even before the pandemic truancy was a major issue. Stop laying the blame on external forces. Maybe people should a) move to somewhere affordable. 2) if they choose to stay and accept subsidized housing that they stop shooting people or if they have kids, that they ensure their kids go to class and are not out on the streets.

This x1,000,000
The culture of NO personal accountability leads to the perpetuation of multi-generational poverty every single bit as much as systemic racism. Both can be true at the same time. But DC politicians are only willing to talk about the latter and not the former.

Indeed. While we have far too go to address racism we have also already come very far. Time for the personal accountability part to come as far as well. I would surmise that if it did, we would have an easier time going even farther in dealing with racism.

[Anonymous]

Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

If that contributes to white flight, that’s also racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

If that contributes to white flight, that’s also racist.

I can only assume you are being facetious. I’m not putting my kids’ health and safety for fear somebody call me racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There are tons, tons, of programs. Can Muriel herself and the city council require that parents give a fk about their kids and are ensuring they actually go to class? Schools are open. Even before the pandemic truancy was a major issue. Stop laying the blame on external forces. Maybe people should a) move to somewhere affordable. 2) if they choose to stay and accept subsidized housing that they stop shooting people or if they have kids, that they ensure their kids go to class and are not out on the streets.

This x1,000,000
The culture of NO personal accountability leads to the perpetuation of multi-generational poverty every single bit as much as systemic racism. Both can be true at the same time. But DC politicians are only willing to talk about the latter and not the former.

+1.

When is Muriel going to speak the entire truth: As long as young black men are being raised in fatherless homes, with 15 - 18 year old uneducated mothers who may have multiple children with other men, and in homes in which substance abuse is rampant, these kids don't have a chance. Their lives are not valued except as a source of increased government benefits. No "programs" are going to fix that. The fact that they have such easy access to guns is a failure on society, I agree, but without value of life and education in the heart of the community, guns are only part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

If that contributes to white flight, that’s also racist.

I can only assume you are being facetious. I’m not putting my kids’ health and safety for fear somebody call me racist.

I’m not. Your follow up comment also perpetuates white supremacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There are tons, tons, of programs. Can Muriel herself and the city council require that parents give a fk about their kids and are ensuring they actually go to class? Schools are open. Even before the pandemic truancy was a major issue. Stop laying the blame on external forces. Maybe people should a) move to somewhere affordable. 2) if they choose to stay and accept subsidized housing that they stop shooting people or if they have kids, that they ensure their kids go to class and are not out on the streets.

This x1,000,000
The culture of NO personal accountability leads to the perpetuation of multi-generational poverty every single bit as much as systemic racism. Both can be true at the same time. But DC politicians are only willing to talk about the latter and not the former.

+1.

When is Muriel going to speak the entire truth: As long as young black men are being raised in fatherless homes, with 15 - 18 year old uneducated mothers who may have multiple children with other men, and in homes in which substance abuse is rampant, these kids don't have a chance. Their lives are not valued except as a source of increased government benefits. No "programs" are going to fix that. The fact that they have such easy access to guns is a failure on society, I agree, but without value of life and education in the heart of the community, guns are only part of the problem.

Agree with this PP ^^^
This is never addressed. Why not?