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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear people say DC is segregated by race, but West DC where all the rich people live has a black population of 8%, west Los Angeles has a black population of 3% and the Upper eastside of NYC has a black population of 2.5%, the only outlier is Buckhead ATL, which has a black population of 16%, DC private schools have 11- 30% black population depending on the school, Atlanta caps out at 5- 10%, NYC is 5-10%, and Los angeles is 2-13%

I just don't understand how DC is segregated by race and not money[/quote]

47% of DC's population is black; 45% is white. If 47% of DC is black, and only 8% of the people in your neighborhood are black, then yes your neighborhood is segregated by race.[/quote]

You are wrong , the percentage of blacks that make 200K or more a year in DC is 6% of their population, (higher than any other city) , so if 8% of the people that live in Ward 3 are black, it is an out-performance based on income[/quote]

I think you're assuming that only rich people should be able to live in Ward 3, which is, of course, ridiculous.  We should have affordable housing in all wards, but ward 3 fights it.  Which seems to me like structural racism, because they're literally trying to keep poor black and hispanic people out of their neighborhoods and schools. [/quote]

Guess what, the world isn't fair, but poor blacks can just make more money[/quote]

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