If you could live anywhere in the DC area...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That would be lovely, if only it were remotely true. The urban core is largely where insecure, mostly white careerists who are afraid to be more than 10 minutes away from their current jobs have gathered. They have no qualms about displacing older, AA residents of the city, nor any reservations about engaging in cut-throat tactics to get their children into "desirable" schools and local charters. In larger numbers, their overwhelming sameness and smugness becomes almost unbearable. They talk a good game when it comes to matters of diversity, but are profoundly uncomfortable among those of lesser means. Their sanitized, Whole Foods version of urban life has redefined what it means to be "cookie-cutter" today.

I'll be even blunter: I don't want to live near you. Period. If my presence displaces you from the street, I think it your movement away is an improvement among all dimensions.

I think of you as no better than some hill-billy racist yokel.

Fuck off, you smug yuppie. The hillbillies didn't end up in the hills because restrictive covenants and Jim Crow laws kept them from living anywhere else for decades. You ought to learn some history.

Nice ability to converse in a reasoned manner.

That black people have historically been oppressed is beyond debate. That the lingering effects, along with continued racism, plague progress also goes without saying.

But none of this should be used to justify your casual racism. You're a bigot, plain-and-simple. You don't like being called a bigot? Well then, don't speak and think like a bigot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That would be lovely, if only it were remotely true. The urban core is largely where insecure, mostly white careerists who are afraid to be more than 10 minutes away from their current jobs have gathered. They have no qualms about displacing older, AA residents of the city, nor any reservations about engaging in cut-throat tactics to get their children into "desirable" schools and local charters. In larger numbers, their overwhelming sameness and smugness becomes almost unbearable. They talk a good game when it comes to matters of diversity, but are profoundly uncomfortable among those of lesser means. Their sanitized, Whole Foods version of urban life has redefined what it means to be "cookie-cutter" today.

I'll be even blunter: I don't want to live near you. Period. If my presence displaces you from the street, I think it your movement away is an improvement among all dimensions.

I think of you as no better than some hill-billy racist yokel.

Fuck off, you smug yuppie. The hillbillies didn't end up in the hills because restrictive covenants and Jim Crow laws kept them from living anywhere else for decades. You ought to learn some history.

Nice ability to converse in a reasoned manner.

That black people have historically been oppressed is beyond debate. That the lingering effects, along with continued racism, plague progress also goes without saying.

But none of this should be used to justify your casual racism. You're a bigot, plain-and-simple. You don't like being called a bigot? Well then, don't speak and think like a bigot.

It only goes without saying by folks like you, because you don't like hearing it. You like it much better when we're shuttled off to Prince George's and Prince William where we are out of sight and you can prattle on about some new food truck or brewery.

[Anonymous]

Huey Newton called. He wants his political militancy back.

The juxtaposition between leaders like Mandela and MLK and the loose, ill-formed tenets underlying your philosophy is stark.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

[Anonymous]

In case you cannot tell, I'm just trolling you now.

I think you're beneath me, not because of the color of your skin but, rather, because of the color of your heart.

[Anonymous]

I think McLean is best

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think McLean is best

WHY? I am wondering what people really think, and if it is accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think McLean is best

WHY? I am wondering what people really think, and if it is accurate.

Big lots, great schools, easy drive to everywhere, pretty houses, nice neighbors, good community.

Wait for the haters, they'll be here soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think McLean is best

WHY? I am wondering what people really think, and if it is accurate.

Big lots, great schools, easy drive to everywhere, pretty houses, nice neighbors, good community.

Wait for the haters, they'll be here soon.

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I see the thread first went off-track when someone took a gratuitous shot at McLean when recommending AU Park. I wonder how tough it would it have been simply to explain why that poster liked AU Park.

[Anonymous]

Spring Valley

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That would be lovely, if only it were remotely true. The urban core is largely where insecure, mostly white careerists who are afraid to be more than 10 minutes away from their current jobs have gathered. They have no qualms about displacing older, AA residents of the city, nor any reservations about engaging in cut-throat tactics to get their children into "desirable" schools and local charters. In larger numbers, their overwhelming sameness and smugness becomes almost unbearable. They talk a good game when it comes to matters of diversity, but are profoundly uncomfortable among those of lesser means. Their sanitized, Whole Foods version of urban life has redefined what it means to be "cookie-cutter" today.

I'll be even blunter: I don't want to live near you. Period. If my presence displaces you from the street, I think it your movement away is an improvement among all dimensions.

I think of you as no better than some hill-billy racist yokel.

Fuck off, you smug yuppie. The hillbillies didn't end up in the hills because restrictive covenants and Jim Crow laws kept them from living anywhere else for decades. You ought to learn some history.

Nice ability to converse in a reasoned manner.

That black people have historically been oppressed is beyond debate. That the lingering effects, along with continued racism, plague progress also goes without saying.

But none of this should be used to justify your casual racism. You're a bigot, plain-and-simple. You don't like being called a bigot? Well then, don't speak and think like a bigot.

It only goes without saying by folks like you, because you don't like hearing it. You like it much better when we're shuttled off to Prince George's and Prince William where we are out of sight and you can prattle on about some new food truck or brewery.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That would be lovely, if only it were remotely true. The urban core is largely where insecure, mostly white careerists who are afraid to be more than 10 minutes away from their current jobs have gathered. They have no qualms about displacing older, AA residents of the city, nor any reservations about engaging in cut-throat tactics to get their children into "desirable" schools and local charters. In larger numbers, their overwhelming sameness and smugness becomes almost unbearable. They talk a good game when it comes to matters of diversity, but are profoundly uncomfortable among those of lesser means. Their sanitized, Whole Foods version of urban life has redefined what it means to be "cookie-cutter" today.

I'll be even blunter: I don't want to live near you. Period. If my presence displaces you from the street, I think it your movement away is an improvement among all dimensions.

I think of you as no better than some hill-billy racist yokel.

Fuck off, you smug yuppie. The hillbillies didn't end up in the hills because restrictive covenants and Jim Crow laws kept them from living anywhere else for decades. You ought to learn some history.

Nice ability to converse in a reasoned manner.

That black people have historically been oppressed is beyond debate. That the lingering effects, along with continued racism, plague progress also goes without saying.

But none of this should be used to justify your casual racism. You're a bigot, plain-and-simple. You don't like being called a bigot? Well then, don't speak and think like a bigot.

It only goes without saying by folks like you, because you don't like hearing it. You like it much better when we're shuttled off to Prince George's and Prince William where we are out of sight and you can prattle on about some new food truck or brewery.

+100

Hey, even bigots have friends!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spring Valley

http://www.epa.gov/reg3hscd/npl/DCD983971136.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That would be lovely, if only it were remotely true. The urban core is largely where insecure, mostly white careerists who are afraid to be more than 10 minutes away from their current jobs have gathered. They have no qualms about displacing older, AA residents of the city, nor any reservations about engaging in cut-throat tactics to get their children into "desirable" schools and local charters. In larger numbers, their overwhelming sameness and smugness becomes almost unbearable. They talk a good game when it comes to matters of diversity, but are profoundly uncomfortable among those of lesser means. Their sanitized, Whole Foods version of urban life has redefined what it means to be "cookie-cutter" today.

I'll be even blunter: I don't want to live near you. Period. If my presence displaces you from the street, I think it your movement away is an improvement among all dimensions.

I think of you as no better than some hill-billy racist yokel.

Fuck off, you smug yuppie. The hillbillies didn't end up in the hills because restrictive covenants and Jim Crow laws kept them from living anywhere else for decades. You ought to learn some history.

Nice ability to converse in a reasoned manner.

That black people have historically been oppressed is beyond debate. That the lingering effects, along with continued racism, plague progress also goes without saying.

But none of this should be used to justify your casual racism. You're a bigot, plain-and-simple. You don't like being called a bigot? Well then, don't speak and think like a bigot.

It only goes without saying by folks like you, because you don't like hearing it. You like it much better when we're shuttled off to Prince George's and Prince William where we are out of sight and you can prattle on about some new food truck or brewery.

+100

Hey, even bigots have friends!

Just Uber your ass to Doi Moi, order a nice stiff drink, and keep patting yourself on the back for your "diverse, urban" lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

I live in Caucasia, so you're barking up the wrong tree.

[Anonymous]

Silver Spring