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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

FYI blacks cannot be racist toward white people. Just about everyone has preferences and prejudices, some are based on actual experience and others based on fear and misinformation, but racism is systemic...[b]racism is institutional where one group has the power to take its prejudices and exercise them upon others with impunit[/b]y. Blacks don't have that power. Sure blacks can dislike whites, but what can they do to subjugate whites as a whole and keep them down and disenfranchised? NOTHING. Our society isn't set up to allow whites to be in such a predicament; our society is set up to prevent whites from being in such a predicament. Our society was set up to keep whites in a permanent position of power and no matter how biased or bigoted blacks may individually the systems and institutions in place explicitly prevent blacks from collectively ascending to a position where they are able to keep whites down. Racism is about power not mere prejudice.

Oh...and I don't give a shit if you disagree - that's my individual prejudice at work but don't worry like I said prejudice doesn't make me all powerful and it doesn't enable me to keep any of you down.[/quote]

In DC government, there used to be a lot of institutional racism against whites, Hispanics and Asians.  That started to change when Mayor Williams came in, but there are still vestiges of it.  [/quote]

Oh do tell I am dying to hear some examples!  
Oh and make sure you don't misconstrue recruiting people from the community for employment and promoting projects in particular communities that need assistance as racism.  The racist systems and institutions in our society are what contributed to the majority of the impoverished, underprivileged, deprived, and disenfranchised people in this city being black - but doing things to help those individuals who don't have shit as opposed to showering people in more advantaged circumstances who by no coincidence are by and large white isn't keeping them down.  [/quote]

SMH.  For decades DC has had a majority black electorate, black mayor, majority black mayoral cabinet, majority black council, majority black department heads in every DC agency, majority black staffing, black representation in Congress and everywhere else - for DECADES this has been the case - yet it's always the whites who still somehow have been constantly getting the blame.  It's "the man" - some kind of mythical white dude in a big leather swivel chair with a pinkie ring and a cigar who somehow is pulling all the puppet strings, but which nobody ever seems to be able to name or provide specifics or details on.  Who is this supposed white puppet master?  I personally think they have the color of this mythical dude wrong...  he's not white - he's red - red like a red herring.[/quote]

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