Friday, April 06, 2018

Aaron Weiner's WaPo Outlook commentary on poverty moving to the suburbs; the protagonist is a former Bloomingdale resident; Bloomingdale is referenced throughout

Click on the link to read the entire Washington Post commentary from Mother Jones reporter Aaron Weiner:


On a sunny afternoon, when deliveries at his Domino’s job got slow, Delonte Wilkins sat in his old white Chevy and thought of home. Not the place he lives now — a drab apartment block on a dead-end street behind a highway in Capitol Heights, Md., which he habitually refers to as “out there” — but rather the block where he grew up in the 1990s: a strip of stately turn-of-the-century Victorian rowhouses in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Northwest Washington. 
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