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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's weird that in a city that's no longer a Chocolate City, the majority of current residents can't

1.  elect a representative mayor for either the majority or who represents the whole city, take your pick

and

2.  one woman, Ms. Cafritz, continues to have so much power.

I guess it's too soon in the evolution of the District to expect this kind of cronyism to fade.  I have to have faith that, with a changing electorate, there will be less of this kind of $tuff
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The city is not majority chocolate city but the school population is...  Which means that the flavor of the present is not having babies.  That also let's you know that the ones that are moving here are not giving up their voting rights in their hometowns.  They move here a novelty and not as becoming a Washingtonian.  It is not cronyism when you're a native and not a nuisance.  Duke Ellington was established on the back bone of black woman married to a white Jewish man, I would tread lightly with your rhetoric.[/quote]

You seem to be conflating DC residency with using DCPS schools at the high school level.  The "flavor of the present" is having babies, is living and buying in DC, and is voting here.  What they are not doing, yet, is using DCPS high schools with the exception of Wilson.  That will change. [b] But the idea that White reintegration of DC is some passing fad is just not consistent with reality.[/b]  [/quote]

They are coming back and staying a bit longer than in the past (i.e. to 4th or 5th grade instead of fleeing immediately after Kindergarten). But none of them are sticking here for Middle School and up. 
They are still leaving in droves for VA, MD, or taking jobs outside the region (usually "back home" in PA, NJ, the Midwest, or NC).

Also to be clear, DC is still strongly a plurality African-American. It's still 49% Af-Am. It would still take another 20-30 years of current growth rates for whites to outnumber blacks. [/quote]

In this instance, it's not about the racial make-up of the city and the voting electorate that keep Duke Ellington's modernization growing.  There are plenty of black folk not happy with the ever expanding budget for this money pit.  There are plenty of predominately AA schools that have not gotten the amount of resources like DE - Orr, Banneker - to name a few. [/quote]

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