A Disturbing Snapshot Of Shaw
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The Post's Feb. 23 front-page article on the changing face(s) of the Shaw neighborhood was a bizarre exercise in spinning outright racism and hypocrisy into an admirable, heartfelt attempt to hold on to treasured neighborhood traditions and culture.
The newspaper applies a double standard that should be as embarrassing to a so-called top newspaper as it should be to the Shaw residents described in the article as repelled by and resistant to the prospect of more of "those people" moving in. They might as well have said, "There goes the neighborhood." And I say, "There goes The Post, once again."
-- Jeff Bloom
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What claptrap. Without even a whiff of irony, we read repeatedly that the blacks in Shaw are uncomfortable with, and even downright opposed to, whites moving back to the area. Read these two sentences from the article, and then replace the word "black" with "white":
"Don't sell, she said. No matter what they offer you. Pass it on, keep it in the family.
"She drove away, Lofton said, but the message stayed: Keep the neighborhood as it was. Keep it black."
This racism gets a pass? If I were to lament the growing diversity of my own small town, once all-white, I would be castigated as a bigot. Yet your paper believes that some blacks can say the same prejudiced things against whites.
