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I find it so fascinating that you allege that structural racism is the cause when DC has had an AA dominated and controlled city government for over 40 years. A city government that in the 1980s under Marion Barry embraced a number of positions (endless city jobs for anyone who wanted one, the youth rehabilitation act, high taxes) that modern white millennial progressives somehow believe have never been tried before. Under those policies, DC became a city of vast income disparities because the middle class (first white, then AA) fled to the suburbs to escape the crime and failing schools.

Are you pretending that redlining never happened in DC? Are you pretending that racism never factored into hiring decisions in the federal government? Are you pretending that unconscious bias never existed in DC?[/quote]

Are you ignorant of the fact that DC has had one of the highest rates of AA homeownership in the country for decades?  Are you ignorant of the fact that the federal government has been one of the largest employers of AA in the region since the 1970s?   Yes, there was redlining.  Prior to the 1960s.  After those covenants were outlawed, black homeownership in DC skyrocketed.  [/quote]

As long as there were some improvements we don't need full equality?  That's a real interesting take, friend.[/quote]

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