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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hunh.  Two days ago some were arguing that the schools problem in DC has absolutely nothing to do with race.  Now it's a self-actualized victimhood suffered ony by AAs.

I read "time to move on" and get a flashback to people stranded on their rooftops in New Orleans.

Good inside perspective at the link below from a (white) former Ward 3 resident who left his profitable tutoring business and moved to Anacostia to be closer to kids with higher needs  If you make it past the story about the girl at the top of her class living in a homeless shelter, you might catch all of his various references to evidence that "the system" has indeed moved on. In fact, every institution that would be rushing to help in other parts of the city, has moved right on to "don't give a shit" in Anacostia.  He's not whining, or shouting, or stamping a righteous foot.  Just talking matter-of-factly about the general lack of concern for daily dire circumstances right here in this city.

http://innercityvisions.blogspot.com

For those interested in the way federal housing policy from less than 100 years ago (1930s) still impacts quality of life factors like education and health disparities today, check out This American Life episode 512: "House Rules" at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/house-rules

Or read the transcript:  http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/transcript[/quote]

Oh, come on.  "Lack of concern" as though somewhere else were getting all the concern.  "Yes, let's do all this stuff for this neighborhood and go out of our way to screw this other neighborhood."  It's fine to do the retrospective on housing policy and recognize that it left scars, but that really isn't how it works these days.  The way it works is back to the most basic principles, like people looking out for themselves and their own environs.  Altruism and lofty ideals on a grander level have never really been the most effective way that things have ever worked anywhere.  How well does planned development on a grand scale work in China?  Massive disaster.  So it falls back to economics.  Nobody's rushing to help in my neighborhood - other than folks who figure they can make a buck at it.  Oldest game in town.  If there's some way to make a buck at helping Anacostia, it'd be the same there.  (And, psst...  some developers have already started figuring that out, but to hear you talk you'd evidently not be aware...)[/quote]

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