A very good article on race relations/gentrification/etc in D.C.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031700699.html

"If you were eight blocks past uncertainty, three steps from neglect, five houses down from hope, and you just saw a white man with ear buds rollerblading past a crack house without looking up, would you know what street you were on in the City?