PRINCE GEORGES County, the mostly-black suburb of Washington, D.C., has the highest residential foreclosure rate in the region. Michael Fletcher of The Washington Post performs mental cartwheels trying to explain why this is so, and why the county is generally lagging, without looking at the obvious, which is that blacks in large numbers cannot sustain the high-functioning stability typical of expensive white suburbs. The expectation that they can has led to financial devastation for some. Racial egalitarianism causes suffering. It also does not alleviate the anger it is expected to address.

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