Seattle's Vanishing Black Community

Pacific Northwest Magazine / Seattle Times ^ | May 26, 2016 | Tyrone Beason

[MHGinTN]

Articles, movies, and media interviews seem to appear with a racist tint that engenders hatred of racial groups for other racial groups, exactly when the democrap party fears it will lose an election if blacks and Hispanics don’t vote democrap. Sadly, black people don’t seem to notice the blatant manipulation, while Hispanic racists use it tot heir cause of fracturing off pieces of America for Hispanic invasion and occupation. Black people will not be/are not welcome in those ‘special enclaves’.

[dila813]

This is exactly what Obama has advocated, desegregation, so what is the problem?

Obama wants these black only areas broken up.

[Max in Utah]

Obama wants these black white only areas broken up.

[American Infidel]

The entire article is written from the perspective of the longtime black residents of the area, and the overriding theme is the lament that the 'community' feels over the fact that the houses in the neighborhood are being purchased by white folk (undoubtedly at huge profits to the black sellers). The character and history of the neighborhood are essentially being gentrified (so they suggest).

They make it seem as if the black residents are being "forced" out by selling against their will.

I read this article and tried to imagine how the residents of an historically white community would have been portrayed if they lamented that whites were moving out and non-whites were moving in. They would have been portrayed as evil, anti-progressive 'racists' who were fearful of a changing neighborhood. The hypocritical double-standard is in full display here.

The writer seems to suggest, without actually saying it, that something should be done to preserve historically black neighborhoods to keep them black and to keep whitey out. But that isn't racist. That is simply advocating the preservation of the 'cultural purity' of a particular area.

Key lessons: White flight is racist. White influx (gentrification) is also racist. Whitey in general is racist, even in a leftist enclave like Seattle.

[Cronos]

Ancient civilisations like the Chinese, Indians, Japanese are all very racist towards what they perceive as “lower civilisations” — and that includes people of European and sub-Saharan lineages.

[cynwoody]

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