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That’s always been one of the fly areas in DC and what people were complaining about with gentrification.


Yes you had the Farms but there’s a ton of little communities filled with solidly middle class Black people with houses.

I lived in a Brownstone in Brooklyn in DC I had a house with a yard.

I get in about 5 miles a day of walking/jogging and do my best to check out spots near me.
A lot of the more suburban/SFH areas around SE can be quite nice indeed.
  • Nobody hanging out.
  • Low Drama
"A Black Man Heaven" (c) Outkast

Don't ask me about the school system though.

SE DC reminds me of the nice parts of Black Houston TBH.

That said, every carry out/bodega/convenience store/gas station I pop into is set up like a Dexter Kill Room - can't even buy a bag of chips without talking to an intermediary through 5 inches of bullet proof plexi...
 

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I get in about 5 miles a day of walking/jogging and do my best to check out spots near me.
A lot of the more suburban/SFH areas around SE can be quite nice indeed.
  • Nobody hanging out.
  • Low Drama
"A Black Man Heaven" (c) Outkast

Don't ask me about the school system though.

SE DC reminds me of the nice parts of Black Houston TBH.

That said, every carry out/bodega/convenience store/gas station I pop into is set up like a Dexter Kill Room - can't even buy a bag of chips without talking to an intermediary through 5 inches of bullet proof plexi...
The achille’s heel ( DC Public Schools educated)

That’s always been the problem Black people don’t check each other.

Actually Vivek mentioned it in his initial crash out tweet Culture.

Even most middle class Black kids are allowed to watch fukkery on TV and with the internet it’s way worse.

People literally ran to PG county because the schools were better now PG’s schools are shyt and people are moving to Charles county.

Again you need fathers in the house that are educated and demand that kids read.

I didn’t learn about Achilles in school which is why I can’t spell it. I read it on my own, It wasn’t required reading in Ballou High School.
 

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Even most middle class Black kids are allowed to watch fukkery on TV and with the internet it’s way worse.
Our kids get zero screen time on school days (Sunday evening to Friday afternoon) and have 30 minutes reading only time at night. We also read to the younger ones.

Too many Black parents want the school to educate kids rather than take it in our own hands and go above and beyond (extra tutoring, other enrichment).

But to be fair, Black areas are often more mixed socioeconomically too. I went to Dekalb County schools in Atlanta, which was a PG clone in the 80s and 90s, and kids ranged the gamut from upper middle class to projects. It is hard to one size fits all there. White communities are often more homogenous economically.

Also, I wouldn't boost Vivek. He is just repeating the culture line (a la Sowell) that all Black problems derive from culture and WS, discrimination, structural barriers etc. are a red herring for our problems whichbis dishonest. These things all feedback on each other.

A lot of Black middle class parents aren't told of all the resources. I have learned of a lot of stuff from non-Black parents myself.
 

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Our kids get zero screen time on school days (Sunday evening to Friday afternoon) and have 30 minutes reading only time at night. We also read to the younger ones.

Too many Black parents want the school to educate kids rather than take it in our own hands and go above and beyond (extra tutoring, other enrichment).

But to be fair, Black areas are often more mixed socioeconomically too. I went to Dekalb County schools in Atlanta, which was a PG clone in the 80s and 90s, and kids ranged the gamut from upper middle class to projects. It is hard to one size fits all there. White communities are often more homogenous economically.

Also, I wouldn't boost Vivek. He is just repeating the culture line (a la Sowell) that all Black problems derive from culture and WS, discrimination, structural barriers etc. are a red herring for our problems whichbis dishonest. These things all feedback on each other.

A lot of Black middle class parents aren't told of all the resources. I have learned of a lot of stuff from non-Black parents myself.
This. Ironically because my father was an international businessman all the other kids in the neighborhood my age or older had a father there every night I was the outlier in that situation.

The older daughters started having fathers by multiple Men one kid is in the hospital fighting for his life ( heart issues) now.

But yeah any Black community had doctors and nikkas who won a lawsuit. And if you had too many section 8 kids it affected the community.

There was that article in the Atlantic that said Chicago’s drill culture happened after they closed massive Projects like Cabrini Green and distributed them to middle class neighborhoods

O Block used to be middle class until the section 8 kids came in and it’s a rifleshot away from where Michelle Robinson grew up.

I can say I joined the gang that ended up going to war with Rayful Edmond when I had a problem with another gang and kinda was pressed to join when someone merged all the gangs.

Basically I was presented with a get down or lay down situation. You’re talking about a 12 year old who stole bikes occasionally.

Point is I lived a life that my mom’s and pops didn’t know about because my pop’s wasn’t really there like that and my moms didn’t ask questions.

To keep it a buck only two of the dudes who had alcoholic fathers got involved and none of them got involved to the extent that I and my brother got involved but both of them died and me and my brother survived so there’s that.
 

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