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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read the whole column and I thought it was spot on. 14th street is literally unrecognizable from what it was even 5 years ago. I do think that U street is still a more multicultural scene than many places in the city, but the change is undeniable. It's not that white people don't have a right to move where they want - it's that it is a loss to the people who have been displaced. Another very important point he makes is that even though there was crime and disrepair before gentrification, that does not mean there wasn't also life and culture and neighborhood. That is what has been lost to some, undeniably. [/quote]

Then he should have said so.  Instead, Milloy can't hide his clearly racist bias where he views non-black residents in DC as being in some zero-sum game in which African-Americans are the loser.  If one took his column and substituted white for black as the aggrieved and black for white as the supposed negative change agents -- and if Milloy were a white columnist -- he would have been told to clean out his desk already.

I guess that now that Marion Barry is dead, someone had to take up the role of crazy old racist uncle in DC.[/quote]

It is what he said. And blacks are the losers here. This is not a colorblind problem. [/quote]

Many have followed the lead of Uncle Courtland and moved to PG.  A number have done quite well in selling their DC properties.[/quote]

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