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Anonymous wrote:I really don't care what happened in Chevy Chase 100 years ago. Do you know what happened 100 years ago too? WWI and millions of white people killing each other. Do I care about that too? Nope.

Nothing stops black buyers from moving to Chevy Chase. Nothing. It's not Chevy Chase's fault if there aren't enough minorities to satisfy your quotas. Good luck trying to make a moral dilemma out of some people wanting to live in Chevy Chase. They are living their life the way they want to while you are sitting in a front of a screen ranting.

Ah, yes, if only I could be as rich and as clueless! I'll stay in touch with reality, thanks.

Leaving aside the obvious falsehood of "100 years ago," you would have to be a pretty stupid person to not care about WWI and WWII though, right? And would you look around and say, well, WWI and WWII don't affect us today? That would be an absurd position.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

DP, but you asked. Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc.

I don't know of any. I do know there was a large black neighborhood at Fort Reno that was removed and there were also people removed near Lafayette (which is why that big park is there). I understand those aren't in 20815. I don't think the DC line makes any substantive distinction in terms of the history, and certainly the exclusion of people is a larger theme in the story than the removal of people since so much of the land was empty/rural.

Oh good, PP posted the link to the story about Lafayette. If you feel like that has nothing to do with 20815 because it's over the line, that makes no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

DP, but you asked. Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

DP, but you asked. Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc.

I don't know of any. I do know there was a large black neighborhood at Fort Reno that was removed and there were also people removed near Lafayette (which is why that big park is there). I understand those aren't in 20815. I don't think the DC line makes any substantive distinction in terms of the history, and certainly the exclusion of people is a larger theme in the story than the removal of people since so much of the land was empty/rural.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

DP, but you asked. Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc.

I don't know of any. I do know there was a large black neighborhood at Fort Reno that was removed and there were also people removed near Lafayette (which is why that big park is there). I understand those aren't in 20815. I don't think the DC line makes any substantive distinction in terms of the history, and certainly the exclusion of people is a larger theme in the story than the removal of people since so much of the land was empty/rural.

Oh good, PP posted the link to the story about Lafayette. If you feel like that has nothing to do with 20815 because it's over the line, that makes no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

DP, but you asked. Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc.

I don't know of any. I do know there was a large black neighborhood at Fort Reno that was removed and there were also people removed near Lafayette (which is why that big park is there). I understand those aren't in 20815. I don't think the DC line makes any substantive distinction in terms of the history, and certainly the exclusion of people is a larger theme in the story than the removal of people since so much of the land was empty/rural.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

DP, but you asked. Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

DP, but you asked. Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

Sure, but the Chevy Chase Land Company owned more than a thousand acres from Woodley Park out towards the beltway. It would be silly to suggest one section were more or less "innocent" than another, since the whole effort from the creation of the park through at least 1980 or so is the intentional exclusion of black and low income people from the area. And I get that the people who live there now are innocent of intentions of the founders! But "innocent" should not be ignorant and to pretend that's all in the past and people just move there now for "nice houses and good schools" is a corrosive obfuscation. You can't ignore the truth because it's uncomfortable. You can still live there, and like it! It's not as if other places in the city (or anywhere!) are free of problematic history. But the truth is the truth and the community needs to confront it with honesty, and so do the people who move there.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't care what happened in Chevy Chase 100 years ago. Do you know what happened 100 years ago too? WWI and millions of white people killing each other. Do I care about that too? Nope.

Nothing stops black buyers from moving to Chevy Chase. Nothing. It's not Chevy Chase's fault if there aren't enough minorities to satisfy your quotas. Good luck trying to make a moral dilemma out of some people wanting to live in Chevy Chase. They are living their life the way they want to while you are sitting in a front of a screen ranting.

Ah, yes, if only I could be as rich and as clueless! I'll stay in touch with reality, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.

Anonymous wrote:I really don't care what happened in Chevy Chase 100 years ago. Do you know what happened 100 years ago too? WWI and millions of white people killing each other. Do I care about that too? Nope.

Nothing stops black buyers from moving to Chevy Chase. Nothing. It's not Chevy Chase's fault if there aren't enough minorities to satisfy your quotas. Good luck trying to make a moral dilemma out of some people wanting to live in Chevy Chase. They are living their life the way they want to while you are sitting in a front of a screen ranting.

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Anonymous wrote:People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly. I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it? That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it. FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history.