Loudon County for Black People

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm considering moving my family to Loudon County. Perhaps Leesburg, but also open to other cities. What is this area like for black people? Is there much racism?

Are you brain-dead?
Have you been reading the news?

No Loudoun County at this point in time is stupid they elected Youngkin and you want to move there?

No.
Again, for the people that can't grasp this concept: Loudoun County as a whole is NOT red. Far from it. The western part of the county is very homogenous and conservative, but less populous. The eastern, more populated areas like Ashburn, Brambleton, Cascades, Countryside, Sterling, etc. are far more diverse and liberal-leaning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Glenelg, MD which has many similarities to Loudoun. As a black girl, I had lots of friends and definitely got called the N word. I refused to do that to my kids. It was harder for me than my parents. As a teenager, I just remember the black guys would date the white girls, but the white boys would not date the black girls. In other words, I had no one to date. That really sucked.

I went to Spelman for college and moved to DC when I had a family. I get why families move to these places, but they don't think about the kids and how it will impact them.

+1. This is why I overpay for NW DC. Black DD is very happy at school, however.

[Anonymous]

Our neighborhood is incredibly diverse. A lot of Asians, middle easterners, Hispanics and whites (including recent immigrants from Europe). There isn’t a black person in my neighborhood. No clue why. We’re friendly! We have block parties and our kids play in the culdesacs.

I get that no one wants to be the token black person, but if everyone does that, whole races stay out of certain areas. I actually have a lot of black coworkers in my Loudoun county workplace but they live far away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighborhood is incredibly diverse. A lot of Asians, middle easterners, Hispanics and whites (including recent immigrants from Europe). There isn’t a black person in my neighborhood. No clue why. We’re friendly! We have block parties and our kids play in the culdesacs.

I get that no one wants to be the token black person, but if everyone does that, whole races stay out of certain areas. I actually have a lot of black coworkers in my Loudoun county workplace but they live far away.

Which neighborhood in Loudoun is this? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Leesburg is name for Francis Lightfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He also owned a tobacco plantation and enslaved the people who worked on it. Like some other, better-known founding fathers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lightfoot_Lee

Francis Lightfoot Lee (October 14, 1734 – January 11, 1797) was a Founding Father of the United States and a member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia.[1] As an active protester regarding issues such as the Stamp Act of 1765, Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain. Lee was a delegate to the Virginia Conventions and the Continental Congress. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as a representative of Virginia. In addition to his career in politics, Lee owned a tobacco plantation as well as many slaves.[2] He was a member of the Lee family, a prominent Virginian dynasty.

Yeah, only racists live in cities named for slave owners.

[Anonymous]

You will be a minority. Loudoun/Ashburn is EXTREMELY south asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love reading the DCUM experts pontificate on subjects they know little about, making prejudiced generalizations, all while espousing their liberal ideals of acceptance and inclusion.

I mean, all those white people must obviously be racist, why else would they live somewhere called LEESburg? You sound like nitwits. Get it together.

says an idiot whose entire post is a BS set of generalizations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post is so ridiculous.

+100000
ridiculous!!

[Anonymous]

Black here who lives in Loudoun. It’s fine. Me nor my family feel out of place. We’re in Ashburn. Kids have lots of friends, we have neighbor friends who are diverse. Mainly liberal people but some conservatives, but the conservatives have been nothing but amazing to us.

I will say compared to Alexandria or PG County, we are probably in the minority here. It’s more white and Asian folks here. But it doesn’t bother us. Our motto is, as long as everyone is nice to us, we’re happy.

Reading this thread is hilarious. So much false generalizations and I can tell that the ones saying those things must not have been to Loudoun in a few decades. It’s changed a lot here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will be a minority. Loudoun/Ashburn is EXTREMELY south asian.

not true. There are just more Asians than many other places because they value education and safety. It’s just the bigots who are jealous of the success of this brown minority who get all pissed off that LC has so many successful Asians who raise kids work hard, be respectful, go to college and not break the law.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it’s my son’s friends, but he’s very social and we always have kids here. Today was a turkish kid and a white kid. His close friend group is a Ukrainian, Palestinian , an afghan (who came over as a refugee with only the clothes on his back a few years ago when Biden pulled out) a Somali, Turkish, two jews, 3 random white boys and a random black boy.

I’m Brasilian (Pardo so i don’t look white or black) and I love the diversity of living here. We moved from Arlington and I felt we lived in a bubble there. i also like it here due to the big Brasilian community, makes me less homesick and I have access to comfort foods.

being a foreigner I’ve felt incredibly welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it’s my son’s friends, but he’s very social and we always have kids here. Today was a turkish kid and a white kid. His close friend group is a Ukrainian, Palestinian , an afghan (who came over as a refugee with only the clothes on his back a few years ago when Biden pulled out) a Somali, Turkish, two jews, 3 random white boys and a random black boy.

I’m Brasilian (Pardo so i don’t look white or black) and I love the diversity of living here. We moved from Arlington and I felt we lived in a bubble there. i also like it here due to the big Brasilian community, makes me less homesick and I have access to comfort foods.

being a foreigner I’ve felt incredibly welcome.

Beleza, where's the Brazilian community in Loudoun? I thought the nearest Brazilian community of any size was in New Jersey (near Newark).

[Anonymous]

The Virginia people are so racist. It’s very bad. Just don’t do this. Move to another state where they are not racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Virginia people are so racist. It’s very bad. Just don’t do this. Move to another state where they are not racist.

Yeah - move to Oregon. It just became legal for blacks to livethere about 98 years ago.

That’s right; 1926 they repealed their laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Virginia people are so racist. It’s very bad. Just don’t do this. Move to another state where they are not racist.

The Maryland people are so resentful that the DC suburbs in Maryland are lagging behind. They don’t know what to do about it other than blather on about imaginary racism.