Reply #8: You should have heard the squealing about 10 years ago over gentrification in DC [View All]

[ProgressiveProfessor]

Urban, mostly liberal whites were moving into traditional black neighborhoods, buying the older homes and fixing them up. Activists were upset over the loss of color (their words, not mine) in traditional black neighborhoods. There was a clearly racist external Op-Ed piece in the WP where the author accused those of selling to whites of being race traitors and claiming that the city had an obligation to keep those areas black. The elderly residents were upset because the furor was making it harder to sell their homes and retire out of the district. It was amazing to watch at the time