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[quote=Anonymous]I'm still trying to figure out why people keep discussing DC in terms of black and white as opposed to socio economics.

To all my white sisters, black folk are not a monolithic group.  I know some of you may have never come across a real, live highly educated, highly paid african-american who's kids test in the 99th percentile and therefore (in your minds) we don't exist; but we do, and may I add, there are more of us than you might imagine (particularly in the DC area).  We are simply invisible to some of you who don't venture much beyond your comfort zone and whose knowledge of black folk is based on what you see on the 6 o'clock news, reality tv and music videos (oh and yeah...the black chick on the register at Safeway with the bad attitude).

Of course DC has many blacks that are on the very low end of the socio economic scale.   There may be some cultural differences in how they present themselves to the outside world, but their problems and issues are really no different than their white or latino or (GASP) asian counterparts of a similar socio economic group.

I'd bet that some of you reading this post would have far more in common with me than a 300 pound, white single mom from Louisiana who shops at Walmart with food stamps.

The reality is, we are moving beyond a race based society to a class based society.  It's not any better, but at least try to keep up with the times.

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