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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is one fact that I find relevant to this conversation: the average household income for white families in DC is nearly $150K while for black families it is under $68K.

https://www.dchealthmatters.org/demographicdata?id=130951&sectionId=936

And I don’t have a source for this, but I would bet a large percentage of black families are DC natives while most white families are transplants. Generations of black kids have seen outsiders come into their city and prosper while they struggle. I think the gentrification argument has some weight.

Also, the halfway-legalization of pot hasn’t helped. I know at least some shootings have occurred around pot pop-up markets where there is a lot of cash and therefore guns. If these markets were in legal storefronts you would hope the potential for violence would be lower.[/quote]

Funny, when I worked extensively with extremely poor DC black youth ( have you?) Very few's radius was off their non-gentrified block. [b][/b]There were DC teenagers who had never, ever been to the National Mall[b]. They did not know, nor give one shit about, "white families moving in" . Try again.[/quote]

How so? Every DC school took kids to the National Mall for field trips. I’m a graduate the DCPS and we went too often. I currently have two kids in the system and of who graduated on 2018 and they’ve been several times as well. I find that statement hard to believe.[/quote]

Most of my students had dropped out of school and read at a 5th /6th grade level. Maybe they skipped the field trips. Downtown DC was not theor "comfort zone". The corner and the carry out were. Thats where the action was, thats where they lived. White people moving in might as well be space aliens.[/quote]

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