Uniting for the next round of boundary changes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These threads all seem to follow a familiar pattern. Once everyone has exhausted themselves vilifying parents who live in other neighborhoods (“It’s South Fairlington’s fault!! It’s Columbia Heights fault!!” then the hate turns to the school board, then almost inevitably lands on affordable housing. Blaming minorities and the poor for all the things you don’t have is also a familiar thread throughout history and has been used to justify awful, brutal things. It’s nothing new. And so it goes.

Minorities are not to blame for the AH mess. They are just taking what they are given. Blame the CB for creating ghettos.

The ghettos existed before AH came into existance.

Not quite. Barcroft Apartments was until the 1980s singles, and probabaly majority white. I'll double check the census tract for 1980 and 1990. It had been for decades. It was never wealthy but it was never "a ghetto". In fact, Randolph was mostly white in the 1980s. You can see this in school statistics. A lot changed with immigration in the 90s. The narrative is well known, first single men for work, and now, full families. That is why for example, there is so much push to build CAF "family" units.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads all seem to follow a familiar pattern. Once everyone has exhausted themselves vilifying parents who live in other neighborhoods (“It’s South Fairlington’s fault!! It’s Columbia Heights fault!!” then the hate turns to the school board, then almost inevitably lands on affordable housing. Blaming minorities and the poor for all the things you don’t have is also a familiar thread throughout history and has been used to justify awful, brutal things. It’s nothing new. And so it goes.

Minorities are not to blame for the AH mess. They are just taking what they are given. Blame the CB for creating ghettos.

The ghettos existed before AH came into existance.

Not quite. Barcroft Apartments was until the 1980s singles, and probabaly majority white. I'll double check the census tract for 1980 and 1990. It had been for decades. It was never wealthy but it was never "a ghetto". In fact, Randolph was mostly white in the 1980s. You can see this in school statistics. A lot changed with immigration in the 90s. The narrative is well known, first single men for work, and now, full families. That is why for example, there is so much push to build CAF "family" units.

That part of S. Arlington was blue collar white in the 70's and 80's---the way parts of Manassas, Woodbridge and Germantown were in the 90's. There were still lots of immigrants then too---many from Vietnam and Laos, some from Iran and a growing number from Central America. Some lives in the Barcroft apartments, some live in Clarendon or Buckingham, some in other parts of S. Arlington. When it was blue collar white it wasn't wealthy. Are you saying that non-white people make it a ghetto?

[Anonymous]

Stop race baiting it disrupts any opportunity to have a discussion on boundaries, education, AH, etc. or is that your goal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads all seem to follow a familiar pattern. Once everyone has exhausted themselves vilifying parents who live in other neighborhoods (“It’s South Fairlington’s fault!! It’s Columbia Heights fault!!” then the hate turns to the school board, then almost inevitably lands on affordable housing. Blaming minorities and the poor for all the things you don’t have is also a familiar thread throughout history and has been used to justify awful, brutal things. It’s nothing new. And so it goes.

Minorities are not to blame for the AH mess. They are just taking what they are given. Blame the CB for creating ghettos.

The ghettos existed before AH came into existance.

Not quite. Barcroft Apartments was until the 1980s singles, and probabaly majority white. I'll double check the census tract for 1980 and 1990. It had been for decades. It was never wealthy but it was never "a ghetto". In fact, Randolph was mostly white in the 1980s. You can see this in school statistics. A lot changed with immigration in the 90s. The narrative is well known, first single men for work, and now, full families. That is why for example, there is so much push to build CAF "family" units.

That part of S. Arlington was blue collar white in the 70's and 80's---the way parts of Manassas, Woodbridge and Germantown were in the 90's. There were still lots of immigrants then too---many from Vietnam and Laos, some from Iran and a growing number from Central America. Some lives in the Barcroft apartments, some live in Clarendon or Buckingham, some in other parts of S. Arlington. When it was blue collar white it wasn't wealthy. Are you saying that non-white people make it a ghetto?

Of course not. And I didn't call it a ghetto, a PP did.