I don’t even feel like typing out this long rant that I initially planned to type because I am tired and disgusted. I’m not sure if their intentions are good or not. I’m not sure if they’re really trying to make a positive change. I don’t know, but I don’t feel they are. As an individual who has grown up between DC & the parts of MD surrounding DC, I have witnessed its culture at its prime & its recent decline. I have witnessed people being forced to move out of their home & their business, because the rent drastically increased just to get rid of them. Mind you some of our people may have indirectly displayed negative stereotypes that encouraged this gentrification process by the people in power, but no one is deserving of this and I don’t want to see this city, my city, diluted. The people in power feel this imperative need to rid the city, Chocolate City, of the very people who helped build this city and made it what it is today (you know, before the people in power came). If these people in power build & rebuild for positive change, why not make it affordable for those who already reside here? It has now become a city that MUST be appealing to and “comfortable” for whites; that inconspicuosly, but really conspicuosly, means getting rid of all things ethnic/black-related. Just know that the nation’s capital has been stripped of its inherent culture and tradition.