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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]The real problem is income segregation. In DC it is all rich white people, all poor brown/black people. It's not like that everywhere. I think here we correlate success to race, but instead it's really success to SES. [/quote]

DC also has plenty of well-educated, high SES black folks. For some reason, they tend to get left out of the conversation frequently. [/quote]

Shhh, they still think it is 1952 and it really is hard to educate miseducated people on DCUM. So, let them continue to believe that all the Black folks in DC are poor.  It helps them to feel better about themselves.  [/quote]

As previously noted, they send their kids to private mostly, so the conversation is mostly about poor black/brown people when talking about DCPS.

That is why the high SES black and brown folks don't tend to be part of the conversation.  But note no one has called us out for betraying our neighborhood schools.  Wilson used to be called "Yale or Jail" and I would rather have my kid safe in private "contributing to diversity" than going for a walkabout at Wilson, thank you kindly.  My kid can discover his ethnic roots in college right now all I care about is his safety.
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