http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/06/in-d-c-is-green-the-color-that-transcends-all-others/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/06/in-d-c-is-green-the-color-that-transcends-all-others/#comment-644 Rfw716 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:46:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=8108#comment-644 One topic that is often ignored at the intersection of class/wealth/race, is the fact that there are virtually no poor white people here. I think it effects how issues of race in DC are viewed and expressed. Even though DC has pockets of black prosperity, if not wealth, in every ward the overall conversation is very patronizing toward the black community. Having recently returned from a trip to the MidWest I was shocked to see town after town and neighborhood after neighborhood of poor whites living in situations far worse than the most downtrodden DC neighborhood. I was shocked bc here poverty is presented in "black face" and I'd been living in the beltway bubble too long. One topic that is often ignored at the intersection of class/wealth/race, is the fact that there are virtually no poor white people here. I think it effects how issues of race in DC are viewed and expressed. Even though DC has pockets of black prosperity, if not wealth, in every ward the overall conversation is very patronizing toward the black community. Having recently returned from a trip to the MidWest I was shocked to see town after town and neighborhood after neighborhood of poor whites living in situations far worse than the most downtrodden DC neighborhood. I was shocked bc here poverty is presented in “black face” and I’d been living in the beltway bubble too long.

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