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#WeAreDC since my city is currently trending for the wrong reasons, i wanted to do a show what it’s like through the eyes of me, someone born and raised there.
first of all, ignorant transplants love to joke about how “no one is from dc 
” which couldnt be further from tbe truth. growing up in dc, i’ve seen all sorts of people, from hospitality workers like my dad (who constantly have to deal with said ignorant transplants who won’t-
” which couldnt be further from tbe truth. growing up in dc, i’ve seen all sorts of people, from hospitality workers like my dad (who constantly have to deal with said ignorant transplants who won’t-
wear masks), to lawyers, to ESSENTIAL WORKERS, who have to continue working through this week, despite the metro being closed, many streets being closed and there therefore being virtually no way for them to get there. at the same time, these gentrifiers have been constantly-
moving native Black washingtonians out of their neighborhoods, from columbia heights to anacostia. at the same time, they’ve participated in further cultural erasure by calling and making noise complaints about go-go music playing in said neighborhoods that THEY had the gall-
to colonize. to add to this, the DC government turns a blind eye to these neighborhoods, including ward 8, where they’ve FINALLY found the money to build a new hospital there, ONLY after spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a sporting arena to attract even more-
gentrifiers!!
it got to the point where even a local magazine (although it’s more for pretentious suburbanites and transplants) did a whole “i LiVe hErE” photo shoot, and didn’t bother to use ONE Black model, so Black washingtonians staged a photo shoot of their own: https://twitter.com/wamu885/status/998540661690380289
here’s a great thread on the policing of go-go in dc, and White people gentrifying and policing Black spaces: https://twitter.com/tahiramahdi/status/1116062743226912770
a White vegan came into my dms recently to tell me how washingtonians have no right to speak on unaffordable food as we’re full of grocery stores... well... https://twitter.com/itsdianalynn/status/1032633690252300289
