I do not mean to claim that blacks oppress whites in D.C. If you want to see real oppression, try getting your car inspected, but in that case everyone here suffers regardless of race, creed or color.
Now that you mention it, I would argue that blacks in D.C. have less power than in Newark or Detroit. Here the authentic (in terms of popularity) local politicians were destroyed by the Washington Post and the U.S. Congress while President Bill was diddling M.L. Now they're working on P.G. County. The Mayor and police are utter tools of capital with zero political roots.
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CB: Max, regarding your n.b, I am sympathetic to the fact that for white people living in a majority Black city there are local power dynamics that make the claim that Black people don't have power , well, not jive with your day to day experience.
But this is is something of an illusion of immediate experience. You know about positivism, and basing a scientific conclusion on only your immediate experience. You know that in the overall larger , national picture , using sociological and economic and other social scientifc data etc., power resides with whites relative to Blacks.
I don't mean this makes it ok that you feel like an oppressed minority in your local city.