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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I guess I'm one of those upper middle class blacks in the city, and actually, several of my black friends are members of country clubs.  But frankly, my kids go to private school, and in our free time I'd like them to be in a more diverse environment.  Plus, we don't golf.  All our friends who joined clubs are golfers.  We just join a pool for the summer.[/quote]

I'm with you PP.  We also have kid in private, and prefer a more diverse environment in our free time.  I actually haven't found that many DC private school families have interest in joining these clubs.  [/quote]

Our three children have spent 12 plus years in "top 3" private schools and the club we belong to is filled with the parents of their classmates. The other clubs also have tons of private school families.[/quote]

Interesting. I'm a K-12 alum of a "top 3" and none of us belonged to those clubs.  I'm now preparing to send mine to the same school and, again, we know very few families that belong to them.  Most of our friends are in NW - I wonder if many of these families live in MD/VA.[/quote]

My guess is there are less GDS and Sidwell families than Cathedral school families.[/quote]

I think that's right. Given the history of GDS and the Quaker values of Sidwell (at least back in our parent's generation), it would be hard to imagine that very many families who sent their children to those schools would have condoned the blatant discrimination of many of these country clubs in the 60s and 70s.[/quote]

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