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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely money. I can't imagine someone caring if a black family bought a house next door.

the problem with DC is that the poor are mostly black/brown. Whereas poor whites are more rural. It leads to people thinking that all black people are poor or that all poor people are black. Neither are true.[/quote]

Ugh, that's just more whataboutism. Most of the black/white divide in DC is caused by structural racism.[/quote]

A lot of the money- white and black- is transplants who have nothing to do with structural racism. If DC is really segregated based on money not race, where is the middle class enclave in upper north west? Other cities segregated based on race tend to have middle class or poor white communities in addition to poor black neighborhoods, but DC is all about money  [/quote]

This. One thing striking about visiting Baltimore is seeing all the white poor people, from the merely low-SES to derelicts and good old fashioned bums. Don't see to much of that in DC because of its peculiar nature.[/quote]

Again these weird apple to oranges comparisons. Poor white people in Baltimore are not victims of structural racism like BIPOC in DC. White people in Baltimore are just not able to extract the same amount of unearned privilege as they might elsewhere, so that's why they're poor. Until we have an honest dialog about these things nothing will change.[/quote]

I got brain damage from reading this statement[/quote]

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