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[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]

Do I benefit from segregation if I started out poor and earned every cent, no inheritances, investing that money into my house in a diverse neighborhood (granted, it was segregated in the past).

Genuinely curious. Just doesn’t make much sense given the diversity here.[/quote]

also "segregation" is being used very loosely.  Are we talking about specific historical policies (redlining) or just generally what happened with housing and the correlation between race and income?[/quote]

I don’t know what we are talking about here.[/quote]

Historical policies that explicitly advantaged White people and disadvantaged Black people are directly linked with:
- The current racial wealth gap, which is enormous
- Where people live today and where multifamily housing is located
- Property values and their ongoing trajectory

Without these policies, while there certainly might still be "rich" and "poor" parts of town, you might have a school system where all the schools have at least 20% FARMS rates with maybe some with rates above 30%. Do you really think your home values would be as high as they are and continue to grow as much as they have? There would be less demand for homes in Bethesda because there wouldn't be schools with so much concentrated poverty.

Yes, everyone who has owned a house in a "W" school district (including WJ) for more than 5 years has directly benefited financially from the history of explicitly racist policies that have led to where we are now, which is that Black families have a quarter of the wealth that White families do (and this gap persists even when you look only at families with similar incomes, because of generational wealth).

And yes, some Black and Asian and Latino families have bought in some of these wealthy areas, and their properties have also benefited from segregation.

That is why I think it would be undeniably immoral for MCPS to include property values as a factor to consider in any of its boundary studies. Thankfully it is not a factor listed in Policy FAA. Proximity is and should be a factor, and FTR, I don't think the long bus rides proposed in option 3 are worth it.

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