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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

The District and Maryland (DM) part of the DMV is diverse. The Virginia (V) part, not so much.

Yawn. Another post where someone from DC or MD tries to school us that diversity can only mean one thing: Black.

Where in that post it says diversity can only mean Black?
Your post says more about yourself.

There's a lot of diversity in NOVA. But it's Asian and Hispanic and Middle Eastern and Indian.

Whenever people complain there isn't enough diversity in NOVA they're really saying there aren't enough black people. They don't care about the rest of the diverse populations that live in NOVA. Even I know this.

Come on. Are there really more than a handful of Latinx families in these neighborhoods in NoVa?

An area with lots of Asian and Arab and white families--but with few Latinx or African American families--I'd describe as just "okay" for diversity. I'd say they have some, but I woouldn't describe it as very diverse if it has very few of the two largest ethnic minority groups in the country.

Apart from Langley, every high school pyramid in FCPS (as well as in APS and ACPS) is at least 10% Hispanic. All are majority-minority school systems. DC and PG are less diverse with their large majorities of one group in most of their schools.

School boundaries are designed to have at least some diversity. Notice that I asked about neighborhoods, not schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t help but think that all the fear I hear on this board can be allayed by people just mixing more, even intermarrying. It’s happening, Which gives me hope. I think people of similar income backgrounds and education get along well regardless of race or even religion. You have a lot more in common with your neighbors than you think. Even your fear of each other is somewhat mutual. Someone has to break the ice, ask the other to the dance. “Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together try to love one another right now.”

My two most recently engaged friends both "intermarried"

He joked that I'm going to have a boring white baby and I said in 100 years people might not even know what a white baby is ha

I've mentioned this before here but in my EOTP DC neighborhood, it seems close to half of the new neighbors moving in are interracial. Within a couple blocks of my home there are several interracial families--a white/black couple, a white/black/Asian couple, two white/Asian couples, a black/Middle Eastern couple, a white/Latina, etc. We are close to areas of Silver Spring and Takoma Park that also have a lot of mixed couples. It's happening.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

The District and Maryland (DM) part of the DMV is diverse. The Virginia (V) part, not so much.

Yawn. Another post where someone from DC or MD tries to school us that diversity can only mean one thing: Black.

Where in that post it says diversity can only mean Black?
Your post says more about yourself.

There's a lot of diversity in NOVA. But it's Asian and Hispanic and Middle Eastern and Indian.

Whenever people complain there isn't enough diversity in NOVA they're really saying there aren't enough black people. They don't care about the rest of the diverse populations that live in NOVA. Even I know this.

Come on. Are there really more than a handful of Latinx families in these neighborhoods in NoVa?

An area with lots of Asian and Arab and white families--but with few Latinx or African American families--I'd describe as just "okay" for diversity. I'd say they have some, but I woouldn't describe it as very diverse if it has very few of the two largest ethnic minority groups in the country.

Apart from Langley, every high school pyramid in FCPS (as well as in APS and ACPS) is at least 10% Hispanic. All are majority-minority school systems. DC and PG are less diverse with their large majorities of one group in most of their schools.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t help but think that all the fear I hear on this board can be allayed by people just mixing more, even intermarrying. It’s happening, Which gives me hope. I think people of similar income backgrounds and education get along well regardless of race or even religion. You have a lot more in common with your neighbors than you think. Even your fear of each other is somewhat mutual. Someone has to break the ice, ask the other to the dance. “Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together try to love one another right now.”

My two most recently engaged friends both "intermarried"

He joked that I'm going to have a boring white baby and I said in 100 years people might not even know what a white baby is ha

Anonymous wrote:There will always be white flight as white people are fickle and scare easy

You racist.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

The District and Maryland (DM) part of the DMV is diverse. The Virginia (V) part, not so much.

Yawn. Another post where someone from DC or MD tries to school us that diversity can only mean one thing: Black.

Where in that post it says diversity can only mean Black?
Your post says more about yourself.

There's a lot of diversity in NOVA. But it's Asian and Hispanic and Middle Eastern and Indian.

Whenever people complain there isn't enough diversity in NOVA they're really saying there aren't enough black people. They don't care about the rest of the diverse populations that live in NOVA. Even I know this.

Come on. Are there really more than a handful of Latinx families in these neighborhoods in NoVa?

An area with lots of Asian and Arab and white families--but with few Latinx or African American families--I'd describe as just "okay" for diversity. I'd say they have some, but I woouldn't describe it as very diverse if it has very few of the two largest ethnic minority groups in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

The District and Maryland (DM) part of the DMV is diverse. The Virginia (V) part, not so much.

Yawn. Another post where someone from DC or MD tries to school us that diversity can only mean one thing: Black.

Where in that post it says diversity can only mean Black?
Your post says more about yourself.

There's a lot of diversity in NOVA. But it's Asian and Hispanic and Middle Eastern and Indian.

Whenever people complain there isn't enough diversity in NOVA they're really saying there aren't enough black people. They don't care about the rest of the diverse populations that live in NOVA. Even I know this.

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We are white and want our kids growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Kids that are unfamiliar, awkward, or hostile with diversity will be at a disadvantage. America's future population will be diverse whether you like it or not.

Say it louder for the folks in the back! I'm glad someone gets it.

That is more true for ethnic diversity if anything. SES-wise, society is becoming more and more segregated, and people with similar aspirations, values and standards will cling together regardless of their color. See McLean for Exhibit 1.

I'm white and I 100% agree and am unashamed to live in such a neighborhood. Our neighborhood is full of successful Asians, Hispanics and Blacks (less so than Asians). White people as a whole are a minority. I have no desire to live in a SES diverse community. No desire to deal with the social problems and resulting bad choices that get people in trouble and no desire for those people to be my kids peers. My kids are likely to go to college, are likely to have professional careers and people from like cloth will be their peers as well. No need to muddy the waters.

Flame away. #noapologies

America's racial problem is actually a masked class problem. My kids' private school classmates are from loaded families, the black kids are just as pampered.

No even. America has both a race AND a class problem. People who discount the race aspect have a strange read on history and even contemporary events.

If America just had a problem w/class then historically white people would not move when black people moved in next door bc arguably those black families could afford to live there.Instead, in the past they intimidated that family and made them move.

Now white people will not move into school districts w/too many asian kids bc they're scared of competition. They don't want too many brown FARM kids, but they don't want too many high achieving yellow kids that make lil Tommy look dumb.

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We are white and want our kids growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Kids that are unfamiliar, awkward, or hostile with diversity will be at a disadvantage. America's future population will be diverse whether you like it or not.

Say it louder for the folks in the back! I'm glad someone gets it.

That is more true for ethnic diversity if anything. SES-wise, society is becoming more and more segregated, and people with similar aspirations, values and standards will cling together regardless of their color. See McLean for Exhibit 1.

I'm white and I 100% agree and am unashamed to live in such a neighborhood. Our neighborhood is full of successful Asians, Hispanics and Blacks (less so than Asians). White people as a whole are a minority. I have no desire to live in a SES diverse community. No desire to deal with the social problems and resulting bad choices that get people in trouble and no desire for those people to be my kids peers. My kids are likely to go to college, are likely to have professional careers and people from like cloth will be their peers as well. No need to muddy the waters.

Flame away. #noapologies

America's racial problem is actually a masked class problem. My kids' private school classmates are from loaded families, the black kids are just as pampered.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

The District and Maryland (DM) part of the DMV is diverse. The Virginia (V) part, not so much.

Yawn. Another post where someone from DC or MD tries to school us that diversity can only mean one thing: Black.

Where in that post it says diversity can only mean Black?
Your post says more about yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

The District and Maryland (DM) part of the DMV is diverse. The Virginia (V) part, not so much.

Yawn. Another post where someone from DC or MD tries to school us that diversity can only mean one thing: Black.

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be white flight as white people are fickle and scare easy

This.

As opposed to __________ people, who _______________.

And [pick your ethnicity] people, who ________________.

And so forth and so on.

Ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be white flight as white people are fickle and scare easy

This.

Racism isn’t cool.

Anonymous wrote:Yep, my kids school in Petworth DC is filled with white 3 and 4 year olds!

Filled isn’t quite the right description

Anonymous wrote:There will always be white flight as white people are fickle and scare easy

This.