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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You are confusing indavidgule biases and sociatial bias on a whole. You are confusing the way it morally should be and the way it is. The question isn't how should people look at Bowie, the question is how do people look at Bowie?

Yes MoCo is starting to be judged by it's increasingly minority majority, have you not seen the snark coming out of fairfax and Arlington. Yes MoCo is experiencing a form of white flight which is partially responsible to the explosion of prices in other places. As to people hating on PG and pulling up bull shit statistics that are out of context or just down right lies, so what? It is just them trying to put into words what nobody can say. The majority of people have no intrest of moving to a majority black area and never have in the entire history of the country. We are simply not there yet. And if you use DC as an example the few little inner pockets of PG that are reversing that trend it would be glossing over the reality that it is happening by using economic pressure which installs a faith that the areas will turn whiter because of low general black wealth. Bowie is the opposite with it's high level of black wealth which means it's black majority isn't going anywhere. I have never met a gentrifier that didn't give me a status of their newly beloved areas's "improvement" within 30sec of being told where they live. What do we think improvement means.  Number of new residents vs old. How are hippsters going to push out people who have more money then them?

Places turn white when a richer demographic deems it desirable and starts buying it up, [b]the likelyhood of richer white people targeting Bowie from an already affluent black population is low[/b]. Until then it will continue to be pragmatic and open minded people here and there until race relations improve and it can be judged on it's own merits.[/quote]

Especially if you're a DC worker who wants a short commute. Longer commute and mediocre MS and HS aren't exactly great selling points.

I say this as someone who knows a number of people who live in Bowie and think it's a nice place, if a little dull. But none of the Bowie residents I know commute to DC. They all work somewhere in MD.[/quote]

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