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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it's almost like there are no non-white people in any of the communities that will be bused far away.[/quote]

That's a leap.

I am completely sympathetic to anyone concerned about long bus rides, and have said so, though you keep pretending not to notice.

I am not sympathetic to anyone who is demanding MCPS protect their property values. Property values that have benefited and continue to benefit from historical racial discrimination.[/quote]

what about non-white people wanting to protect their property values?[/quote]

They have also benefited financially from segregation. I have never said only White people shouldn't demand the government prop up their wealth that grew because of segregation.[/quote]

There are plenty of families of color on our neighborhood of $1M plus homes.  Are they benefiting from segregation? I’m confused.  [/quote]

Yes. Being a family of color does not mean you cannot benefit from systemic racism, it just means the axes on which you benefit are probably more limited than a white family. [/quote]

Isn’t this … integration? I think you’re picking on the wrong HS here. WJ has lots of Black and Brown families who are very wealthy. I think all this segregation talk assuming the wealthy at WH are white or Asian is super offensive.[/quote]

I'm the PP and I'm not really talking about WJ. I'm talking about the broader racist water in which we all swim every day. Being "of color" does not mean you can't benefit from privilege, particularly if the "color" that you are is not the same group that suffered the historical grievance.

By the same token, being white does not mean you cannot experience hardship. It just means that hardship is very unlikely to be a result of your skin color. [/quote]

Thank you PP. To be clear, WJ has wealthy African American and Latino families. [/quote]

WJ has also middle class African American and Latino families. Some DCC posters here are portraying WJ as some super competitive non-diverse school where one losses connection with real world. That is nonsense. WJ is a diverse school that demographically represents Maryland-Virginia-DC area very well. And it is not very competitive, unfortunately from my perspective. Blair magnet is very competitive. Winston Churchill can be very competitive. WJ is fairly laid back. [/quote]

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