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Igel

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15. That's a bit different.
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:25 AM
Jul 2013

My understanding is that it's changed, but when I was living back in the area DC was a semicircle of black communities, largely poor, with a gentrified central core (mostly Georgetown) that was white and pretty well off. It was one of the weirdnesses of the city. I'd go to the Smithsonian in the morning and then head up to Rockville to a Russian bookstore, and the route usually took me from the "halls of power" and culture through working class and destitute black areas until I was out of DC properly and going through Bethesda. I knew there had to be Hispanic communities in there somewhere, if only because of the Spanish-language radio stations. Never found them, though. Perhaps NW or SE of downtown?

That's not insulting a person by saying that there's a mismatch between his skin color and attitudes, and he'd better bring his attitudes in line with his skin color.

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