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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you expect to perform such a sea change in the city with regards to job accessibility, which is key for the type of economic success and cultural transformation you want to see in COC, without addressing how people can safely travel this city without a car? You single out bike lanes for ridicule when in fact more bike lanes - or more accurately simply closing most streets to vehicles altogether - is the number one thing that would increase access to jobs and reduce crime and violence.

You are totally clueless how to fix this city. [/quote]

I don't get the "job accessibility" argument.  This city is full of jobs, and businesses are hiring Salvadorans who ride in from Falls Church or wherever else yet people try to claim that black kids in DCHA housing can't find a job.  That's bullshit.  The problem isn't lack of jobs, it's that these kids think jobs are for chumps and that instead they are going to make it by trapping, by rapping, they are living in delusional freecar culture and don't understand regular jobs and hustle.  The sea change needs to happen in the community itself.  Figures in that community need to step up and be disruptors, it's not going to happen from some bunch of eggheads pontificating in Council chambers.[/quote]

1) DCHA has strict rules around illegal activity in their dwellings. You have NO idea what it is like to live in one of their properties when the kids with drugs show up. Suffice it to say, the police get those people out quickly, or as quickly as they can. they are not residents and the residents don't want them there.

2) the "eggheads" are providing money to get opportunity to those "trapping and rapping" kids you are complaining about. They need to see that there is a way out other than turning to crime.

3) there are plenty of white people dealing in drugs and guns all over the country. I don't see people like you complaining about them.[/quote]

1. Get on social media, look at where the shootings are and so on, and you will find that many of the neighborhood crews are based in places like Syphax Gardens etc, and have been for years.  Anyone who thinks that's not the case is clueless.

2. The eggheads think they have the answers but don't, they throw money around without coordinating, without really looking at outcomes, and without actually trying to use things that actually worked in other communities.

3. Yeah there are white dirt bags brewing meth and running guns and everything else, but we're talking about DC here.  Failed deflection without a real point.[/quote]

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