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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am White and have lived in Columbia Heights for 15+ years and I understand EXACTLY what he is trying to say. When I moved in Columbia Heights, it was generally an undesirable place for Whites to move.  Thus, those of us Whites who lived there were "forced" to be more in tune with the culture and fabric of the neighborhood.  It was not always a picnic but it was a net positive to me.  Now, these areas that were undesirable for Whites a few years aog are now becoming havens for young White professionals.  Good in that they are infusing money into these neighborhoods, bad because most of these folks are not really interested in putting roots down in these neighborhoods, will be moving out of DC in a few years and thus, care bery little about the history and fabric of these neighborhoods.  Milloy makes it about race - I think it is a matter of other things too.  [/quote]

There's plenty of undesirable Whites but they're all of in Frederick, Hagerstown, Martinsburg, Winchester, Front Royal, etc., and I'm not talking the White working class who commutes in 45-90 minutes and works with or more likely for the Yuppie Class. Those folks have it together enough to keep a job, the folks I'm talking about have trouble keeping the $9/hr jobs at Subway and spend much of their time scheming to have their back pain turned into a $800/month check from SSDI. To be fair, sometimes the White working class and White idle class are tied by bonds of blood and the former get their anti-Welfare rhetoric from seeing the White idle class at 'work' and (usually) play.

For some reason the Rust Belt cities have kept their White working class (e.g. parts of Bawlmer City, Carrick and the such in Pittsburgh, parts of Philly, etc.) DC has just exiled their White working class to the exurbs.

I'll also say that it's a universal tendency to overlook the pecadillos of people like you -- this is why some conservative Whites were so quick to seize upon any misdeeds Trayvon, Michael Brown, etc., might have committed, and overlook the Confederate Battle Flag and the "jokes" made by other Whites ... FWIW, I have heard reports from FB friends that some youths were riding around the historically Black neighborhoods of Front royal -- not on any main cruising drags -- with giant Confederate flags attached to their vehicles. I mean come the fuck on, there ain't no regional pride aspect when you're going out of your way to display the CBF in a Black neighborhood, this isn't some middle-aged guy who's got an interest in Civil War history and has a CBF bumper sticker that says "heritage not hate." Of course, this is all unsubstantiated, maybe it's the febrile imagination of my liberal friends in that area, and I guess as long as no actual threats are made nothing can or will be done about it (and even then depending on which policeman investigates, maybe not even then.)

Most of my conservative FB friends shrug or mumble something about this being a free country, yet I doubt they would be so blase about some Black youth going round town and flying the Black Panther flag or even someone going around town with a giant rainbow flag.

Likewise, Courtland Milloy overlooks the pecadillos of "his" people and complains about the Yuppies.

OTOH, I am curious -- why should Whites have to move into higher-crime areas, especially with families, to prove how "real" they are?

With all that said, anyone that lives in Upper Ward 3 and pretends to be keeping it real because they live in DC deserves every bit of mockery they get. [/quote]

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