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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not buying this argument that people have no choice.

In AL they do have a choice where to live, there is no big gap in real estate prices.  You can live in a trailer and go to a very good school.  If you live in a failing school zone you have the option of transferring to any school of your choice.

And we still have the same problem.  The black schools are failing and only black schools.

It's a personal choice.  The government cannot make you make the right choices.[/quote]

DCPS exists as a 80% african american, high-poverty school district because of explicit government policies from the 19th century until the early 1970s. That's the reason regional population patterns are what they are. That's just a fact. High concentration of poverty leads to dysfunction. The fact that we've stopped actively stepping on people's throats within the last few decades is not a convincing argument that "people have a choice where to live". That's just ignorant of history.[/quote]

Do you actually know anything about the history of the District of Columbia?    Here's one Locke you could start:  http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/15999/a-brief-history-of-white-people-in-southeast[/quote]

You have a point presumably?[/quote]

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