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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]The real problem is income segregation. In DC it is all rich white people, all poor brown/black people. It's not like that everywhere. I think here we correlate success to race, but instead it's really success to SES. [/quote]

DC also has plenty of well-educated, high SES black folks. For some reason, they tend to get left out of the conversation frequently. [/quote]

I was just thinking the same thing. We actually have a much larger middle class African-American population than many other cities.[/quote]

+1.  We are high HHI black family in Shepherd Park.  Unfortunately, many high HHI blacks do go private.  It is sad to see so many white WOTP residents fight tooth and nail to get us booted from Deal so Deal would become 100% white.[/quote]

Other (first) Shepherd Park poster here.  I'm not sure the sentiments expressed by some people on DCUM reflect those of all white WOTP residents?  Even if it is reflective of how many feel, not sure it's necessarily a race thing for most people, if that's the implication here.

I can totally see the argument of WOTPers--if I bought a house 5 years ago down the street from, say, Murch, I would expect my kid to have a preference there over some other kid who lives (relatively) far away.  If this expectation suddenly changed, I think it's valid that WOTPers would be upset.

I think the effect of this boundary discussion just pits us all against each other, which isn't helpful.  It's a complicated issue; not sure what the right answer is--I certainly don't have it (sigh).[/quote]

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