7. "RE: a lotta transplants here. " In response to In response to 4
>Where are y'all taking your birthing class? Shady Grove
And on transplants here's what I tried to explain to a friends last night:
"I think part of it is coming from Texas and spending so much of dating life and social life as the odd man out. To get here and see people to choose that life rather than be part of the larger community is weird. It's like they have no sense of what DC has historically been for black people and black culture of how they have the ability to contribute to that."
I lived here very briefly in the 80s with my grandparents. Fell in love with the Hoyas, wanted to go to Georgetown just to meet Big John. DC in my life has always held a black mythos the way Brooklyn used to or Chicago can be or how Atlanta became. That mythos is part of the reason I moved here. It's never been just another city, it's always been DC.
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