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Have heard Frumin tell this story too. Then laughed about it with an AA colleague who grew up in Ward 8. While white lawyers are more than willing to pay $1M to live in a tiny brick rowhouse in Glover Park, that is NOT the definition of success to a lot of AA professionals who grew up in very similar aged rowhouses scattered across the District. To them success is 5000 brand new square feet of SFH built by Toll Bros. in Upper Marlboro. Like my elderly mom in Georgia, who grew up in old houses with hardwood and radiators. She has been perpetually baffled by my love for old houses---to her the definition of upward mobility was being able to have central heat and wall to wall carpet.

And then the white liberals on Council will say "these poor black urban kids have no hope, no future, no role models" - except they do. DC has produced lots of successful black entrepreneurs and professionals. But like you said, they get out of the city as fast as they can.[/quote]

Yep.  And all those successful black entrepreneurs and professionals are electing black politicians in Prince George's who are very clear-eyed and no-nonsense about locking up violent criminals.  [/quote]

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