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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted[/quote]

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly.  I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it?  That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it.  FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.[/quote]

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history. [/quote]

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.[/quote]

Sure, but the Chevy Chase Land Company owned more than a thousand acres from Woodley Park out towards the beltway. It would be silly to suggest one section were more or less "innocent" than another, since the whole effort from the creation of the park through at least 1980 or so is the intentional exclusion of black and low income people from the area. And I get that the people who live there now are innocent of intentions of the founders! But "innocent" should not be ignorant and to pretend that's all in the past and people just move there now for "nice houses and good schools" is a corrosive obfuscation. You can't ignore the truth because it's uncomfortable. You can still live there, and like it! It's not as if other places in the city (or anywhere!) are free of problematic history. But the truth is the truth and the community needs to confront it with honesty, and so do the people who move there. [/quote]

What are you talking about? I knew all the stuff you've posted. I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc. [/quote]

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