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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't care what happened in Chevy Chase 100 years ago. Do you know what happened 100 years ago too? WWI and millions of white people killing each other. Do I care about that too? Nope.

Nothing stops black buyers from moving to Chevy Chase. Nothing. It's not Chevy Chase's fault if there aren't enough minorities to satisfy your quotas. Good luck trying to make a moral dilemma out of some people wanting to live in Chevy Chase. [b]They are living their life the way they want to while you are sitting in a front of a screen ranting. [/b]

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Ah, yes, if only I could be as rich and as clueless!  I'll stay in touch with reality, thanks.[/quote]

Leaving aside the obvious falsehood of "100 years ago," you would have to be a pretty stupid person to not care about WWI and WWII though, right? And would you look around and say, well, WWI and WWII don't affect us today? That would be an absurd position. [/quote]

I think the point is that a lot of bad stuff happened in the past but we shouldn’t let it dictate what we do today. There’s a real danger in being so hung up on history that you can’t enjoy the present and focus on the future. It’s fine if you have personal reasons for not wanting to live in Chevy Chase out of acknowledgement of its discriminatory past. But don’t extent that belief to others who don’t view history the way you do. Judging people for wanting to live in Chevy Chase circa 2019 because of what happened 100 years ago when they, and even their parents and grandparents, weren’t even alive, is a childish thing to do. [/quote]

Okay, snowflake. I have some bad news about our parents and grandparents and the history of Chevy Chase and America, but I’m sorry if your feelings are hurt by the obvious and dominant truth about “what’s so great” about CheChe. I hope you can find a way to go on. Maybe reach out to the black family on your block. Oh there isn’t one? Weird. [/quote]

I don’t live in Chevy Chase but you are just being ridiculous here. Let others live where they want to live and you live where you want to live.

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Wow, too bad you weren’t around “100 years ago.” [/quote]

Neither were you. So what are you trying to say?

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I assume that's not a serious question but I meant if only people "100 years ago" (I would point out for example that formal racially restricted covenants weren't banned until 1968 and certainly informal practices persisted long after) had your philosophy of "let others live where they want to live and you live where you want to live," this wouldn't be an issue. But in fact we live in the brick and mortar legacy of a very different philosophy. I'm happy for people to live in Chevy Chase. But if they say what they like about it is the "nice houses and good schools" and pretend the racial history is no longer relevant, I'm obligated but also happy to point out that that's absurd. And that absurdity IS relevant and important to everyone, because the falsehood that America has overcome racism is used politically to advance policies that ignore or compound structural racism. Chevy Chase is full of powerful people and potentially powerful children. The stories we tell about ourselves as a community matter, and the truth is important. [/quote]

You are the one arguing that the racial history is still relevant where I suspect for most residents of CC they would disagree. Are people buying in Chevy Chase because of the ugly racial history (which, let me point out, also affected just about all upscale and even not so upscale pre-war areas of DC including areas that now have sizeable African American populations) or are they buying in Chevy Chase because they like the historic charm, older housing, close proximity to DC, good upkeep and services? And, yes, good schools, which do have plenty of AA and other populations of students of color? Perhaps not as diverse as other high schools but they're not lily-white either. And as voting goes, it's a staunchly Democratic area that also has the bonus of having many international households. Is it possible that Chevy Chase has simply been turned into a symbol and convenient scapegoat for people to vent against? I suspect the latter has a role.

Let's just stick to the premise of letting people live where they want to and not being judgmental about it in 2019. By the way I believe the Supreme Court struck down the racially based clauses in 1948 (I knew the daughter of one of the attorneys involved). [/quote]

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