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[quote=Anonymous]Part of the confusion here is from the correlation between race and education and income here. This isn’t Baltimore. DC White people are hyper-educated (masters degree or above being normal) and the only poor ones are mentally ill and living in tents or addicted to something or both. Obviously that class also includes some black people (decent numbers in some neighborhoods especially), Asian, Hispanic people and everyone else. But below that there is very little middle. There are Hispanic DC residents, mostly Central Americans, who are also very little educated. Some have high school degrees from home, some from here, very little college, and first generation immigrants often have very limited English. Then there is black and uneducated DC, living mostly in insular communities where high school completion isn’t that common, college completion is rare, poverty is intergenerational and wealth/capital hardly exists at all. Further these two communities were very firmly segregated, and mixing is only occurring as people from the upper class look for affordable housing and poor people experience housing insecurity.

People try to use shorthand to represent these above - which are already shorthand stereotypes that don’t reflect individual experiences.

We should be more careful laying these out but they are things we have to talk about because they are part of school segregation. White families don’t want their kids with black students in DC partly because of racial conflict, partly because of huge gaps in relative educational attainment in background, and class and social differences. They’re all part of it. [/quote]

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