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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home. 
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong. 
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you. [/quote]

It’s not so much the gentrification.  It’s the fact that the gentrifiers mostly refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood schools which would have the biggest impact on improving AA test scores, outcomes, etc.   Instead they flee for charters or privates and walk by the BLM signs on their stoops every day.  They are guilty of the worst form of systematic racism, but they are totally clueless about it.  [/quote]
Honest question- do you work in DCPS? I do. Yes it’d be great for more kids to attend Dcps. However this past year had (hopefully) taught us that public schools CANnOT be the workshops for fixing everything society cannot. Does public education play a large role- you bet! Is it a cure for wealth and racism inequality, not in and of itself. [/quote]

I don’t work in DCPS.  I just have a lot of friends who are are raising families in Logan.  They tell me how much they “love” their neighborhoods and raising their kids “in the city”.  But not one of them send their kids to DCPS.  They are total hypocrites and they love to make fun of the Ward 3 parents at every turn.  They are the worst kind of racists.  [/quote]

Gentrification is not about integrating into an existing community. It's about transforming an existing community into something else -- something that ends up tossing out [b]both[/b] the good and bad of what was there before.[/quote]
Whatever gentrification is, it can't be blamed for DC being shooty. That's just silly. [/quote]

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