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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If anyone wants to get desensitized by the use of the N-word all you have to do is stop into the McDonalds across the street from Blair around 3pm.  One can just sit in a middle table, look around and watch blacks using it, Hispanics using it, Asian's using it, and yes, whites using it.  It's so ingrained in speech patterns that it replaces "umm" and "like" in their normal dialog.[/quote]

I think that McDonalds speaks more about the kids at Blair than ingrained speech patterns.  That McDonald’s actually is what convinced us not to move inbounds for Blair. We were considering Blair and stopped at the location by chance and were sitting in it when school let out.  We decided to compromise on house size and quality and move to BCC and are completely happy with that decision. [/quote]

What a perfect anecdote to describe why neighborhoods are still segregated. Once while house hunting, you ran into people who weren't like you, and you ran screaming for the whiteopia of Bethesda. Oh well, enjoy your mortgage.[/quote]

As did you and many others on this board. Hypocrite. [/quote]

?? I was defending Blair because it's my neighborhood. Nothing the least bit hypocritical about it.[/quote]

I would think that the hypocrisy being pointed out is black people bitch at white people for wanting to live around other white people while black people notriously seek out black neighborhoods too. What really is at issue is the power dynamic at hand because black people lose leverage when they seek out white neighborhoods due to better amenities and overall being nicer causing further resource disparities. If white people flocked to the few nicer black neighborhoods the leverage would flip. Problem is that isn’t what happens, whites typically flock to poorer black neighborhoods causing displacement causing people to perpetually feel behind the 8ball.

All of that said it isn’t a white or black thing as much as a rich vs poor thing even granting that black people have been kept poor. Until the wealth gap is erased the class and achievement gap will not be erased. Basic problem being that there is simply no mechanism in democratic capitalism that will facilitate an institutional wealth transfer needed to make up the 500 year head start white people took from black, Indian and Mexican people (why it was so easy to take should be looked at as well if one would hope to avoid future exploitation). Who on the rich side who controls the power in their right mind would vote for that at scale? There will continue to be policies that prop up some at the individual level and there will always be white poor and neglected individuals who think white privilege is a myth, but nothing that will come close to affecting systemic change at a national scale . But with gerrymandering, money, Republican tax policy for generational wealth transfer and targeted policing of targeted laws the real power structures will remain for the foreseeable future and mostly minority communities will continue to be poor because most minorities are relatively poor.  And poor people typically on average encounter poor results. Always have and always will

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I am pretty sure Hispanics had the head start by about 150 years.   First colony in the U.S. was Spanish Florida.  Half the U.S. is named after the Spanish.  Our American dollar bill symbol is actually taken from the Spanish royal crest.[/quote]

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