IF YOU read the blogs, you can get the impression that Columbia Heights is becoming DC's little Baghdad with white gentrifiers the Shiites and poor blacks and latinos the Sunnis. Since poor blacks and latinos don't have too many blogs, we're largely getting one side of the story but, even so, it seems the level of hostility and cultural narcissism is unusual for Washington, which historically has done better than many places in ethnic relations. What appears to be missing is cross-ethnic involvement as well as consciousness that the newcomers are, in the eyes of many, invading their territory. There is also, among some, an assumption that is what's good for young white home buyers is the best for everyone.
clipped from: prorev.com