Comments on: There is no Georgetown conspiracy to keep out POCs.

By: historystudent

historystudent — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:15:00 +0000

Thanks for the great post. Readers may be interested in the following book for more information and a historical perspective on African Americans in Georgetown. It is a rich and complex history.
Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community From the Founding of “The Town of George” in 1751 to the Present Day
by Kathleen M. Lesko, Valerie Babb, Carroll R. Gibbs

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Second, it is a great read.

By: Anna John

Anna John — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:53:00 +0000

Wow! What a great recommendation– now I really want to read this. I am definitely interested in the history of the city, as well as mobility issues. In 2007, I had to spend six months in a huge leg brace, and it was a depressing, humbling lesson in what the disabled have to face every day. The escalators were the worst. Thank you so much for this comment!

By: KH

KH — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:28:00 +0000

If you’re interested in the history of the city at all, this is a really good book to read. The cover might look like it would be a dry, boring read, but there’s a lot to learn about our city there. And, it just makes a lot of things about Metro make sense. Like – who would planned such a messed up governance/funding system? Read the book and you find out everyone knew it wasn’t a great governance system from the get, go – but they needed to put something together before a particular deadline (can’t remember if it was elections or bureaucratic) or the whole deal would fall apart. So, there you go. Or, wonder why L’Enfant Plaza is such a pain to navigate with a wheel chair or stroller? The oldest stations were designed pre-ADA and then retrofitted. You can read how the then head of the system borrowed a wheelchair and rolled himself on and down an escallator to prove how elevators were an unnecessary accomodation! And, to think, now if you put a stroller on an escallator they yell at you to use the elevator .