Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Demographics have changed. Mindsets have not changed. That's how you have schools in this city that are performing at a high level (Achievement Prep, DC Prep, KIPP, Banneker, HUMS) and are entirely children of color. Perception in many cases is reality. I know this to be true as my peer group is very white, and many, for whatever lame reason, avoid Banneker (don't tour or apply). I heard the reasons and I've read in this forum one mom saying straight out that she thought her child would be a fish out of water. Okay. Now what?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP, I will make sure I tell my husband that. The last time we were at Politics and Prose, the white woman next to us grabbed her purse when she saw my husband. He looks as innocent and suburban as they come. I guess that was our "victimhood" and we imagined it.

There are plenty of neurotic and anxious people out there who will clutch their purses to themselves whenever ANYONE is near, regardless of color.

Anonymous wrote:PP, I will make sure I tell my husband that. The last time we were at Politics and Prose, the white woman next to us grabbed her purse when she saw my husband. He looks as innocent and suburban as they come. I guess that was our "victimhood" and we imagined it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Gee, I wonder where this came from? Historically and culturally, the worst thing people of color did was give Europeans the benefit of the doubt. Not entirely "invalid, irrelevant or inappropriate."

This^^^

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Gee, I wonder where this came from? Historically and culturally, the worst thing people of color did was give Europeans the benefit of the doubt. Not entirely "invalid, irrelevant or inappropriate."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is Howard University affiliated and there are people who think that is just a step above UDC. Consider this, Banneker is located across the street from Howard and SWW is located on the campus of George Washington and there's more credence to one than another. You can guess which one. Those who have graduated from HUMS and are attending DCPS schools are doing extremely well.

And this is such a wrong perception, it's really shameful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Talk about painting a segment of AAs with a brush of whatever...the demographics of DC are always changing. So what?

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

What does this diatribe have to do with HUMS?

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me some of the posters here are living in the past.

Now here's the real history lesson - prior to the Jim Crow laws, DC was truly segregated, and was 60 to 70 percent white. By the 1970s and 1980s, that reversed to being over 70% AA. But now, a few decades later, it's back to under 50% AA.

In the last several decades, there has been a steady influx of non-AA residents coming in, and some AA have moved to surrounding communities. Ask the typical non-AA where he or she is from and you will find that most of them are not from around here. Most are likely to be from all walks of life, from every part of the US, as well as from Europe, Asia and Latin America. But that's not unique to non-AA - my office is majority AA but on learning where they come from you are more likely to hear something like NYC, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Chicago, Trinidad, Massachusetts or Ghana than you will hear DC.

A lot has changed in these recent decades, yet there is that small segment of people with multi-generational history in the city and a culture of victimhood, who are still stuck in the past, some of whom will gladly paint all non-AA with the brush of whatever historic and institutional racism and segregation of DC, even though most non-AA in DC are strangers both to DC and to each other and do not have that history.

It's invalid, irrelevant and inappropriate.