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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh? Because you're pushing people out of the neighborhood who possibly lived there for generations and can't afford it anymore (rent or property taxes) due to people like you.

Whether this bothers you or not is one thing but it's absolutely true that this is a real thing going on.[/quote]

Right - but the question becomes - as an UMC white family - what should you do? I don't want to live surrounded by all white people. I want my kid to have a diverse friend group, racially, ethnically, and socio-economically. While yes, UMC white people moving into historically black neighborhoods pushes black people out. But the alternative is to move to a white-only area, which seems worse to me.

It seems to me that the system here is clearly racist, but that individual families moving to black neighborhoods (as primary residences) aren't doing anything wrong, and may in fact be doing the best they can to fight racism. What would you propose they do instead? Move to Arlington?[/quote]

Can you teach your kids about racism without displacing black people? No?[/quote]

there aren't being displaced into refugee camps for the love of god, they are moving like all do form time to time.  Nice homes/things held in weak hands will never be held long as is self apparent.  This is why Capitol Hill changes faster than Shepherd Park where the legacy residents have more money and are slower to move out. Still most new sales are pretty white when talking about 1mil and up. It still isn't going to be nearly as diverse in 10 years and beyond.

Time moves on without us all eventually and their kids have the same access to the neighborhood as everybody else going forward. Black by right neighborhoods are as stupid as white by right. No one wants their home to change while they are there but just like it is reprehensible to protest black people moving into an area it is lame to protest when white people moving in. The Arguments are different but the selfish motives and dislike of the other side are very similar. The claims of breaking up the community are almost identical [/quote]

This !!! The whole gentrification argument is just about the losing side trying to brand their plight about how they hate outsiders moving in. It is the same argument most racists make that our area was perfect before you got here. [/quote]

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