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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see anyone in MoCo getting their panties in a knot that Whitman has no kids from Briggs Chaney.  Schools tend to fill from their localities and when parents invest in a school, whether through high taxes of expensive property purchases, sweat equity/volunteering or both, they expect results... not social engineering.

[b]BTW, why is it that South Asians and East Asians never count as "diversity" in majority-Black DC?[/b][/quote]

+ a million.

[b]You probably get more actual diversity with 10 Asians or Latinos than with 100 African Americans[/b].[/quote]

What does statement this even mean?  It sounds a lot like you're assigning a higher value to one group over another.

Also, do you even know any AAs in DC?  There are certainly many DC natives with deep DC roots, and we've gotten to know plenty of these families--but overall AAs in DC are an pretty diverse group.  My kid's predominantly black school has a ton of diversity.  There are kids with East African, West African, Central American, and Caribbean heritage.  In my kid's class of 16 kids this past school year, there were at least four other languages spoken among the black kids.

-a black and Asian parent[/quote]

np:  I understand your point, pp.  I, too, feel like I live in a multi-cultural world.  But [b]I also find it frustrating that some AAs, on DCUM at least, and apparently some local politicians seem to view the city as AA vs. white, where 'white' includes everything but AA.[/b]  [/quote]

PP here.  What forum have you found this to be the case in?  I haven't noticed such sentiments here before, and I haven't found it to be expressed by those I know IRL.  My social circle is probably half highly educated AA families (several of whom are DC natives), and the rest a mix.[/quote]

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