Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:58     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:OP is just trolling.


They might just learn something though if they are open to it.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:58     Subject: Re:Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:Did 400 children get murdered in the 90's?

I don't think that number is even close to correct.


From 1989 to 1996 no fewer than 400 people were murdered per year in DC.
One year it was even 500+.

https://ocme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ocme/publication/attachments/APPENDIX%20A%20-%2030%20year.pdf

These were mostly Black men and teenagers. Would the feds have been called in if this many white men and children had been murdered every year, specifically UMC and rich white men and teenagers west of the park.

I think we all know the answer.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:58     Subject: Re:Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? Do you mean if Sidwell students were killed there would be more police presence? what exactly are you asking?


Have no idea how the original post was confusing if you had any historical knowledge of the city. In the 1990s, when DC was recording 300+ and sometimes 400+ murders a year, was it racist to not extend federal support? Do you think federal support would have been extended if rich white kids were being murdered at the same staggering volume?


It is confusing because 1. children were not being murdered at that rate walking home from school 2. What is "federal support"... troops? jobs? addiction counseling? jobs programs?

The question was based on a false premise then used non-specific language like "federal support".

that is why it is confusing.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:56     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:There were never 400+ black kids in any year in the 90s or ever "walking home" from their schools anywhere in the city and "getting murdered."

There were 400+ homicides in DC in each of the years 1989-96, at the height of the crack epidemic. In the worst of those years, 120 victims were children between 5 and 19. The overwhelming majority of those (113) were aged 15-19 and 97 percent were black.

There was a similar explosion of homicides in many other American cities during this time period because of the crack epidemic.

If we're going to have this discussion, we should base it it on the facts. And the question should be: should the federal government have send troops into American cities at the height of the crack epidemic and was it racist not to do so?





We would also have to discuss the disparity in how our country would deal with crack addicts vs. cocaine addicts. One went to jail, the other went to rehab.

That was a racist policy that contributed to the issues in DC.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:55     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
OP is just trolling.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:54     Subject: Re:Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? Do you mean if Sidwell students were killed there would be more police presence? what exactly are you asking?


Have no idea how the original post was confusing if you had any historical knowledge of the city. In the 1990s, when DC was recording 300+ and sometimes 400+ murders a year, was it racist to not extend federal support? Do you think federal support would have been extended if rich white kids were being murdered at the same staggering volume?
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:54     Subject: Re:Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Did 400 children get murdered in the 90's?

I don't think that number is even close to correct.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:54     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
There were never 400+ black kids in any year in the 90s or ever "walking home" from their schools anywhere in the city and "getting murdered."

There were 400+ homicides in DC in each of the years 1989-96, at the height of the crack epidemic. In the worst of those years, 120 victims were children between 5 and 19. The overwhelming majority of those (113) were aged 15-19 and 97 percent were black.

There was a similar explosion of homicides in many other American cities during this time period because of the crack epidemic.

If we're going to have this discussion, we should base it it on the facts. And the question should be: should the federal government have send troops into American cities at the height of the crack epidemic and was it racist not to do so?



Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:53     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There was a state of emergency declared after Katrina.

This was a DC government decision. DC's mayor (and most of her predecessors) is black, so no it's not racially motivated.


The Marines and the Navy Seals would have been pulling people from the water if this happened in Kennebunkport. Please stop gaslighting.


You aren't understanding what I wrote. There wasn't a state of emergency in DC, thus no need to send in the feds.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:49     Subject: Re:Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
What do you mean? Do you mean if Sidwell students were killed there would be more police presence? what exactly are you asking?
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:35     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There was a state of emergency declared after Katrina.

This was a DC government decision. DC's mayor (and most of her predecessors) is black, so no it's not racially motivated.


The Marines and the Navy Seals would have been pulling people from the water if this happened in Kennebunkport. Please stop gaslighting.


https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-press-secretary-federal-emergency-assistance-for-louisiana

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.


Why weren’t the parishes sharing a coastline with the gulf not included?
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:21     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
Anonymous wrote:There was a state of emergency declared after Katrina.

This was a DC government decision. DC's mayor (and most of her predecessors) is black, so no it's not racially motivated.


The Marines and the Navy Seals would have been pulling people from the water if this happened in Kennebunkport. Please stop gaslighting.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:17     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
The lack of interest in seeing order in black neighborhoods is in fact racist.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:16     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
There was a state of emergency declared after Katrina.

This was a DC government decision. DC's mayor (and most of her predecessors) is black, so no it's not racially motivated.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2025 09:12     Subject: Was it Racist to Not Send the Feds Earlier?
If 400+ white kids were getting murdered walking home from Sidwell Friends and through neighborhoods like Spring Valley and Georgetown in the 90s, do you think there would have been the same lack of federal concern?

Like the lack of federal urgency in the wake of Katrina, was the lack of federal support for reducing the murders in DC racially motivated?