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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, boatloads of happy middle-class Cap Hill families at Hobson, the neighborhood middle school that's 40% FARMs, 80% OOB, 15% white, and 0% Asian (just like the Hill, right?).

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It's just like the middle-SES Hill.  [/quote]

The Hill, regardless of SES, is nowhere near 85% non-white in 2016.[/quote]

20003 alone is about 27K people and &lt; %10 are school aged children.  There are more seniors than school aged children.  While Hill East is fast gentrifying it's not as whited out as you may think with 3:2 white to black ratio.  You still have multi-generational households, plus neighboring boundaries for Payne, Miner and Tyler.  It's not all dog parks, yoga and bike lanes (thank god!).  Some of us do lament the loss of diversity underway[/quote]

[b]We need to act now to preserve the open air drug markets and corner stores selling blunts and singles!  Life in the Hill isn't the same without the crunch of crack vials under your shoes and junkies defecating in your alley.[/quote]

none of those things makes me cringe as much as seeing sheeple lined up for the latest [insert choice of cronut, barre, studio, crossfit, doggie daycare][/quote]

I can laugh at the man-bun-wearers as much as anyone, but anything is better than crack vials and defecating junkies.[/quote][/b]

Ugh.  Comments like this make me not want to talk to my Hill neighbors.  I can't believe that people who are this clueless choose to live in DC and on the Hill in particular.  [b]But anyway, just for fun, I'll say:  there's more to DC black culture than "crack vials and defecating junkies" and you are a clueless gentrifier. [/b] [/quote]

That chip on your shoulder is distorting your whole world view.  The only person who is conflating DC's black culture with "crack vials and defecating junkies" is you.  Go back and re-read.

1st PP above: sarcastic reference to the Hill's infamous past
2nd PP above: snarky response regarding gentrifiers
3rd PP above: more snark regarding gentrifiers, but assertion that they're preferable to criminal behavior and unsanitary/unsafe neighborhood
YOU: conflating DC's black culture with the aforementioned crack vials, defecating junkies, and by extension open-air drug markets and corner stores specializing in blunts, singles, and other accessories for the indigent crowd[/quote]

different PPs genius[/quote]

I get that genius.  Again - re-read the order of the posts.  The one bitching about her Hill neighbors is the same one who felt the need to "inform" us that DC's black culture is more than crack vials, defecating junkies, etc.

She wrote it directly in reply to 3 different posters lamenting both gentrifiers and criminal behavior.  None of the 3 had anything to say about black culture vis a vis gentrification, drugs, and crime.  Only the bitcher did.  Only she conflated them.

Genius.

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