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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Racial history isn’t unique to ChCh, it was everywhere and about everything. To focus on one neighborhood is short sighted. We should be teaching our kids about rampant racism. Mentioning ChCh is fine but it’s a lot bigger than a small neighborhood.

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][/quote]

So all the neighborhoods that had restrictive covenants in the distant past are bad?  Better tell all the people living in the middle of DC.  Or does that not fit your narrative?  Just focusing on a wealthy neighborhood?  [url]http://www.mappingsegregationdc.org/#maps[/url][/quote]

That's a ridiculous mischaracterization of what I said and clearly made in bad faith. Why bother to type something like that? Who are you trying to persuade? The whole point is that the history of where we live and why matters, being truthful about it is important, and ignoring it or pretending it's no longer relevant is harmful. Obviously, that's not exclusive to a particular neighborhood. We're focused on Chevy Chase in this thread. [/quote]

So what exactly do you want people do? Not buy in Chevy Chase? I don't know what you mean about being truthful? Is there a not so pretty racial history? Sure. And that's said for pretty much the entire country too. Not a single square inch of America (or anywhere in the world) is without some sorry story attached to it in one form or another.

At the end of the day, there's some kind of truth associated with Chevy Chase and it does matter - but to you, not to everyone. And that's all that really matters here. [/quote]

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