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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, purported "white" person who doesn't want to be around white people.  You're wrong again.  Ward 3 actually has some decent "skin color" diversity.  Which you would know if you ever left Columbia heights or petworth.

After careful consideration and reviewing dcum closely, I am convinced that the many young, often newer-to-DC posters like the above have never actually spent any time in 20015, 20008 or 20016. [/quote]
PP here. If you're insinuating that I'm not white - I assure you, I'm as white as they come. Mom is a card carrying DAR member.

I spend plenty of time in the 20015, which is where my impressions mostly come from. At brunch and BBQ get-together with our friends (and their neighbors) in AU park, I've been subjected to the echo chamber of how amazing Janney is and what an amazing neighborhood AU park is. I'm happy for you all that you love where you live - there's a lot to be said for that. But when I try to broach the subject that there may actually be a few other acceptable schools in DC, I'm quickly met with doubtful glances. And when I ask about diversity, I'm told the tales of how the IMF and World Bank parents bring all the diversity that's needed. I'm also regaled by stories of the handful of OOB parents and how they don't really "get" the auction, how their kids are often disruptive because of late arrivals by driving "across the city," etc. It's just no an environment I'd like to be in, nor would I want my kids to be subjected to.

I'm sure you're going to tell me that the group of people I've encountered are really not representative of the school, and how everyone's SES and racially diverse and accepting of all skin colors, religions, and paychecks...but I'll give you the same doubtful glance that I get while eating fritatta with those folks.[/quote]

Let me chime in from  another part of 20015 that includes both Ward 3 & 4.  We are a current Lafayette family, live in the neighborhood and everything.  Same conversations, different details.  Same type of insufferable people.[/quote]

Reread.  The question wasn't "Are there insufferable smug people in these zip codes who attend barbecues?"    Of course there are.   [The epicenter of insufferable is actually further south though, in "I tell myself I did everything in DC first!"-land.   Bloomingdale and Logan Circle, CH.  I ride a bike!  I eat local! I live in a rowhouse!]

The above comment was in response to the BBQ-goers earlier statement that upper NW only contains white people.    That is patently way untrue, as any cursory glance at 2010 census data will show. [/quote]

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