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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Annapolis is relevant to the Bowie question, though.  When I lived in Bowie, we went to Annapolis very often, as it was only a 15 min drive, and it was a nice benefit of living in Bowie.

Also, the person talking about crime at the town center might be thinking of period about a decade ago, when there was a rash of crime at the parking lot at the town center (even then it was mostly robbing, not stabbing).  Bowie residents voted to create a Bowie police force, which now heavily polices the town center.

I agree with a PP that a lot of people knocking Bowie are just racist.  [/quote]

Not liking Bowie = Racism?  [/quote]
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most people who knock bowie probably do so because of racist views[/b].[/quote]

+1  I've given up having the debate with people, because I've found that the more I drill down, the more it becomes apparent that the real issue is racism.  Look at all of the posts here that are basically saying that PG property won't increase in value until white people move to PG.  That's pretty sad, especially when we're talking about liberal, educated people -- the very same people who will make jokes about how racist and backwards West Virginia or the South is.

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I am not sure I can make the same leap of logic you can about the racism. Most educated people can agree PG has been held back because of redlining and . Also it is no doubt hard to plant community roots as a place on the up & up when it's primary demographic is one of the most if not the most disenfranchised in the country. That said not wanting to move there and subject one's self and family to all the negativity that such environments entail doesn't make you racist, it makes you realistic and less likely to be an unintended casualty.

I don't pretend to know what's the answers to society's problems are but I do know it isn't the worse idea to avoid the epicenters of where people are complaining about such things as disproportionate policing, predatory banking, commercial redlining, political corruption and systemic school failures just to name a few. It isn't DCUM who is undercutting the narrative of quality in PG, it is every news cycle. Property values matter[/quote]

So, you use your generalizations to paint the entire county with problems that are not endemic to the entire county, but to segments within the county.  So, despite the fact that crime is high in  only the inside-the-beltway communities, the entire county is crime-ridden.  Instead of select schools throughout the county being poor, and some schools actually being good if not great, the entire school system is horrifically bad.  There are good and bad areas of the county.  No one is arguing that, but to paint the entire county as undesirable is just unrealistically biased.  A number of those stories that you've cited are also older.  Many of the protagonists of the political corruption have left office, some in handcuffs (ala the Johnsons) and some voted out.  There is change underway, but everyone seems to want to rely on the stories from years ago and continue to paint the county with labels that it has worked hard to change.

Should we paint all of Montgomery County as crime-ridden because of the crime statistics from Wheaton (which by the way, has 3 times the amount of annual violent crime as Bowie) and Silver Spring (roughly double the amount of violent crime as Bowie annually)?  Should we rate all of Montgomery County by the school ratings of Wheaton and Silver Spring (which average lower than Bowie).  Should Montgomery County be classified as gang-ridden because local activities for MS-13 are based out of Wheaton?

The main thing that all of PG County has in common is that it is majority black across the county.  If you can only see the county as a whole, then you are racist and basing your opinions on your bigotry.[/quote]

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