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Uh, yeah, that was immediately apparent from your snappish, superior tone.

Please don't lecture us liberal white District residents who've been living in DC  since long before you were applying to Oberlin from your parents' Main Line living room.  You're not trail blazing here.

OPs tone was cringeworthy and, while it is preferable than unrepentant hostility, yes, it smacks of gross noblisse oblige. [/quote]

Since you know me so well, you must then already know these facts:

Yes, I'm white.  My adopted child is not.  My partner and I moved to Shaw more than a decade ago, thinking that'd be a good decision given our intention to adopt an AA child.  It remains a good decision, and our child is happy here.

I grew up dirt poor and was lucky enough to manage a state school in the middle of nowhere.  Who's stereotyping now?

If saying that people don't need to jump down OP's throat for asking a well-intentioned question makes me sound superior, so be it.  If it's just that I write in complete, logical sentences, I'll try to break it down for you a bit next time.

Maybe OP wasn't completely in control of her tone, but I personally read the post completely differently than a number of respondents.

Bottom line, I'm just trying to be human, and asking bitchy people to cut OP some slack  I don't see the problem with that, and I'm really not sure why you do.

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