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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone that has lived in DC for more than a decade can tell you the sad fact that the moment a neighborhood stopped having drive by shootings, in came the white people.

The only way for poor black people to live here is in unsafe, grocery food-deserts. It sucks for them.[/quote]

Well there’s a stereotype if I ever read one. Wow! Just wow![/quote]

I get tired of the low expectations of soft bigotry and misinformation. Grocers try to come in and provide healthy food in poor areas, but no one buys it, either because they view it as exotic or different, and even when it’s sold cheaper than organic food in wealthy areas. Look to Yes organic market in Anacostia or the store that took its place. The other issue is the overwhelming amount of shoplifting that comes with being the altruistic grocer to take a chance in underserved areas. At some point, there has to be a focus on self empowerment rather than complaining and demanding “the dc government needs to do something!!!l”. There are tons of Latino grocery stores, why is it those communities are able to put together a grocery store, but there is no sense of empowerment to take intiative and do the same in so called food desert Anacostia? Why is there always such a reliance and no sense of self directed effort to try and rectify the issue. I get that Anacostia ward 7 and 8 will probably gentrify themselves out of the issue in the next two decades, and new grocery stores will come in, but Jesus man.[/quote]

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