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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office? [/quote]

Oh, you're new here! We have a long history of being ok with local politicians being completely ape shit criminals, but as long as they're from the neighborhood, it's fine, and in fact a point of pride. We love Marion Berry but kicked out Adrian Fenty, our first white mayor.

In broad strokes, chocolate city is run by locals (read: black). The transient rich people (read: white) end up moving back to Ohio or to Bethesda, Silver Spring, etc. So politicans like Trayon don't get pushed out.

This is changing. I think my kids' generation will have a more diverse city council, since there are many types of kids growing up in DC now-- white, black, rich, poor. In my generation anyone who had any means (no matter your race) fled bc of the crack epedemic and riots. Now there are lots of reasons to stay in DC so people with choice stay here. But these changes are fraught around race, gentrification, education, all those fun things with no good answers. My family came over in the late 1800s and every generation since has  lived in the DC border except my generation, the siblings and cousins born between 1975-1990 or so, due to what DC was going through. However, now we're back on this side of Western Ave w our kids and thriving. My parents neighborhood was Petworth.

I do not seen Trayon losing his spot on the DC Council. Maybe if kojo nnamdi starts calling for it-- he seems to be a good source of shaming that folks will listen to. [/quote]

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