Can you can see what is wrong with the following description of Duke Ellington's house?

• The private home of composer Edward "Duke" Ellington is located on a residential street in the nearby historic Shaw neighborhood, home to respectable and hard-working middle class African Americans in the early 1900s.

Yes, that's right. Duke Ellington was fortunate enough to live among the "respectable and hard-working middle class" black population of the early 1900s. That in no way suggests that the other (and much, much larger) segment of the black population was in any way less respectable and hard working. Not at all. Gag me.

This is the kind of subtle gaffe that you'd expect to see on the Council of Conservative Citizens website. I would not expect to have found this on the Washington, DC Convention and Tourism Corporation website.

How terrible.