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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  What are you proposing? That the house gets offered at a lower price to black buyers only? That the neighbors chip in funds to help a black buyer purchase the property as a way to remedy past wrongs? You haven't put any concrete solution on the table for the problem you identified. [/quote]

I don't have a 'solution' and never pretended I did (hyperbolic overreaction is usually the recourse of people with bad arguments).  But in the midst of the gushing here about how that Bethesda neighborhood is "magical," it's certainly worth noting that particular neighborhood (which used to have restrictive covenants on the deeds) was still devoid of ANY Black residents as recently as 23 months ago.  Which is weird for the 2020's and weird for DMV.   I would have left it there except that some poster(s) pushed back to suggest that point isn't relevant.  It is.  For some people - not just Blacks -- the fact that the entire neighborhood has no Black residents is a significant anomaly and drawback, and relative to other neighborhoods isn't the kind of environment where for example they'd wish to live or raise their kids.   And trying to dismiss that hard data point as irrelevant -- the Black population of that magical neighborhood hasn't changed since it was (quasi-) legally prohibited -- really beggars belief on a DCUM real estate discussion where people will gladly devote page after page of comment to their feelings about say the relative merits of hardwood vs LVP or the perceived ambience of various neighborhood shopping centers.           [/quote]

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