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Sixty miles? this asshole could be in Fauquier County right now, same as I.

he did not witness the "birth" of Shaw and Ivy City etc.. He witnessed the gentrification of Shaw and Ivy City...

I read the first 50 or 60 pages of White Fragility on the plane yesterday and it's just so funny to see a textbook example of what she's talking about, in the very next morning's WaPo.

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Posted: 08/11/2020 at 06:36AM

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An Atomic one. Actually, when it comes to whatever happens to that guy, -- 111Balz 08/11/2020 07:26AM

Sixty miles? this asshole could be in Fauquier County right now, same as I. -- southdenverhoo 08/11/2020 06:36AM

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No dimwit. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/10/2020 10:20PM