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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with the article being bad.

The one question I have for everyone is if wealthy white parents don’t segregate then why is there such a low number of white kids at Banneker? In all my years of living in DC and reading DCUMs, this is the one school that supports the argument.[/quote]

Glad you brought this up. No doubt some students/families don’t apply to Banneker for various reasons rooted in systemic racism, overt racism, etc. but I do wonder (my kid is many, many years away from high school) if we applied would we be negatively impacting the school. I mean, this is a pretty great school that now serves mostly Black and brown students and if all of us white families started going there, we’d kind of destroy that culture, right? I’d hate to be the white family cashing in on the good thing Black and brown families built.  But I’d be curious what others thought. Maybe I’m over analyzing. [/quote]

I am a native African American Washingtonian and what do you mean if white families went to Banneker they would "Negatively impact the school?"  What are you talking about? When white families moved into a over 80% African American city and bought houses in our communities did they "destroy that culture?"  I am 43 years old and the DC I know had many Middle class African Americans who did move to the suburbs because our communities were not safe due to the Crack epidemic that destroyed our communities. By the the way our communities were targeted and drugs put there on purpose. Do you research! Our families bought these properties for twice the price because banks had discriminatory loan practices. My family was the first family of color to live on 13th street in Petworth and then all the white families fled to the suburbs to get away from people of color.  When gentrification came we sold for lower to leave these communities because they were unsafe. When white families came in everything changed more policing and services. Eventually if the cities demographics continue more families of color will be priced out and Banneker will in fact become majority white. [/quote]

You probably know my friends who stayed through the epidemic.  It was a scary time.  Mom still owns the home and lives in the burbs since her husband passed.  Kids (my friend) all live in the burbs too[/quote]

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