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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This argument of "I don't want my kids to live in an all-white neighborhood" is a bit silly. You know you can just teach your kids to be a good person by exemple? Black people are not there as an experience for your child to have. You can afford to buy somewhere else, it doesn't have to be "all-white". My neighborhood here in VA is anything but all-white! There are literally kids from all over the world, what else do you want? I don't blame the gentrifiers for making the most profitable move, because the system is messed up. But don't make silly excuses. And don't expect others to be please by your choice.[/quote]

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Gentrifiers buy where they do because that's the best they can afford. Nothing wrong with that, given the way real estate works here. Just don't try to dress it up and defend what you're doing by saying you are "seeking diversity." Because we all know that if you could afford it, you'd in the mostly all white, super affluent, urban area too.[/quote]

We bought in Columbia Heights in 2004 because we wanted to live in a walkable neighborhood, could afford to live there, and not a comparable place in DuPont or Logan Circle or Adams Morgan.    But, we bought a place that already had been redone, 18 months before, from a young biracial couple who nearly doubled their investment in a year and a half.  So, were we gentrifiers?  We didn't displace anyone, and the proverbial grandmother who grew up there couldn't have afforded the place when it was initially redeveloped, so we didn't deprive anyone.  Didn't send kids to Tubman, but to a diverse public charter school.

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