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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The deleted comments are proof that racists are alive and well in Arlington - not surprising that this couple had a bad experience. 
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Curious what you saw, but a Pakistani-American is hardly novel in N Arlington. If anyone had a stereotype, they would assume he was a doctor!

I guess the wife is PR, which have different stereotypes but I really am skeptical they received any racist baiting.

Now a notice of demolition, and cagey answers as to what they are building in its place — that will surely get neighbors riled up and unfriendly.

The owner is subdividing at least, and wants to deflect the anger by claiming racism. [/quote]

Similarly, racist comments are hardly novel in N Arlington.

I'm not surprised at all that this couple received negative comments - before the demo was posted. 
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Interesting. Do you live in Donaldson Run? Because I did and I know quite a few mixed marriage couples that live there and are quite happy. I also think that MMH is very unpopular in N Arlington so I have no doubt that people were asking questions and are pleased with their neighborhood being testing ground for two lots of MMH. But hey it’s a winning strategy pull the race card to shut everybody up.[/quote]

"I have friends who live in Donaldson Run and are happy. This shows that nobody ever says anything racist to anybody there."[/quote]

The fact that they feel welcome is more proof than you have that it’s racist so… please feel free to provide proof that racist incidents are happening in North Arlington.[/quote]

DP.

1. Read the article. 
2. Neighbors in a nearby neighborhood have assumed I’m the nanny. [/quote]

I would love to know what kind of conversation you had with these people where it became apparent that they thought you were the nanny. Do they ask you? Where is the mom? When do you get off work? Like how does it even come up about your relationship to the child.

Also it could be just they thought you looked too young (or too old) to be a mom of that age kid. Ageist yes, but society is okay with that. [/quote]

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