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Listen, I get you.  I moved into a predominately AA neighborhood a few years ago and had the same worries.  They were unfounded.  We simply treated our neighbors like any other people and they, in turn, did the same.  We didn't come up with some guilt-ridden "white liberal gentrifier" plan to win them over.  We just were friendly and ourselves.  We interacted with our neighbors and demonstrated interest in getting to know them as opposed to make assumptions.  Now they are sad we are moving.  What the heck do you expect people to tell you, or the OP, for that matter?[/quote]

If I were asking, I'd expect lots of good advice like the type given in a number of replies here.  What I [i]wouldn't[/i] expect would be for people to assume that my my self-awareness (including knowning myself well enough to know my own blind spots) and the thread that it ocassioned is something other than me asking for help to avoid being a complete douche in ways I might not recognize.  That is, why does OP's asking have to be a "gilt-ridden 'white liberal gentrifier' plan to win [people] over?"  Why do we have to ascribe motives when we really don't know who we're even talking to, much less what she's actually like?

That said, I appreciate that you took the time to respond.  (I suspect you're not one of the mean girls, and for that I'm grateful.)  Mine was a rant against the weird machinations evidenced by DCUM group-think and how utterly insane and mean people get over even the most well-intentioned threads.  It wasn't at all to question OP or the good advice given here.  I commend both OP and (most of) the respondents.

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