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Mayor Bowser is Black. I keep reading everywhere (not just DU – let’s be clear on that) about all of the populations that today’ s anticipated targeting will eliminated. The clearest one, never gets mentioned. I’ll say it again – The End Game Is Us. White Supremacists will always do their W.S. thing. It’s all they know. America started with this, it will end with this.

Ominous or Accurate? You all tell me.

I pray that Black Americans living in D.C. keep their children home and safe today. The last thing we need is thousands of children criminalized as AmeriKKKa LOVES to do to Black Children . . . this time by the National Guard and FBI.

And I'm sick and tired of well-meaning people pissing on Black Americans backs and telling us raining. It's not helping. It doesn't help us. We are putting the oxygen masks on ourselves and going behind those Americans' backs. That mentality does not keep Black bodies safe.

Seriously - the vast majority of these folks poo-pooing this aren't part of the Black American experience. They do not have the Intergenerational Trauma in their DNA to even talk about it. .

Let's see how this all plays out. They SAY they are targeting the homeless - but I suspect it's not only the homeless who willend up in Alligator Alcatraz today.

Chocolate City:
Goodbye to Chocolate City - D.C. Policy Center
It’s still highly segregated:

Our case is unique in that, in recent decades, our majority group was black (The other three states had majority white groups). The demographic high water mark for “Chocolate City” was 71.1 percent “Negro” in the 1970 census. Whites were 27.7 percent and “persons of Spanish language” (of any race) were 2.1 percent.

As of 2015—almost a half century later—D.C. residents identified themselves as 48.0 percent Black, 35.6 percent “Anglo[2],” 10.2 percent Hispanic (of any race), 3.6 percent Asian, and 2.6 percent mixed race and other.

In 1970, blacks and whites largely lived in separate neighborhoods. Using a demographer’s common measure[3], D.C. black/white “segregation index” was 72 (highly segregated). By 1980, the segregation index had risen to 77 though the increase may have been largely a statistical artifact; for the first time, the 1980 census allowed Hispanics to be separated out from white and black categories. Separating out white Hispanics to create the Anglo category (i.e. non-Hispanic whites) raised the segregation index somewhat since Hispanics proportionally tended to share neighborhoods with Blacks (that is, non-Hispanic blacks) more than did Anglos.

Despite the growing diversity of some neighborhoods, in 2015, D.C. remains highly segregated. Its Black/Anglo segregation index was 70. From 77 to 70 in 35 years—that is not much progress

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https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/district-of-columbia.html

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: 2020 Census
The District of Columbia Gained More Than 87,000 People in 10 years
August 25, 2021
Written by: America Counts Staff

Population (up 7.4% to 331.4 million).
Race and ethnicity (White alone 61.6%; Black alone 12.4%; Hispanic 18.7%; Asian alone 6%; American Indian and Alaska Native alone 1.1%; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 0.2%; Some Other Race alone 8.4%; Two or More Races 10.2%).
Diversity Index (61.1%, up from 54.9%).
Under-18 (down 1.4%) and adult population (up 10.1%).
Housing units (up 6.7%) and vacancies (down to 9.7%).