Posted on 05/27/2016 9:17:44 PM PDT by steve86
PASTOR PATRINELL WRIGHT was just a 20-year-old country girl from Carthage, Texas, who didn’t know what she was getting into when she migrated to Seattle in 1964.
She grew up one of seven children in the Walnut Grove community, to be exact, a nearby farming enclave designated for blacks. That’s how it was in Southern towns back then. If you were black, you knew where you belonged, and it sure wasn’t around white people, unless you happened to be working for them.
Seattle had its own form of segregation, with blacks clustered mainly in the city’s Central District because of racist lending practices and whites-only “covenants” in housing subdivisions in Shoreline, Ballard, Green Lake, Queen Anne, Magnolia, White Center, Bellevue and beyond.
Wright boarded a Continental Trailways coach and set off by herself on the first cross-country bus ride she’d ever taken. But the price of that three-and-a-half-day bus ride to Seattle cost a lot more than what she paid for her ticket.
She was forced to take a seat at the back of the bus, on a bench barely suitable for sitting, the only black passenger on a coach overloaded with hate.
“I was called every name in the book, except ‘Child of God,’” Wright says while reminiscing at her home in the Central District, where she has lived for 48 years.
The bus lavatory and the restrooms at bus stations along the way were for whites only, too. Blacks used unisex outhouses behind the stations.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
What's it like to grow up black in a world of white privilege? /s
Without looking, I’m guessing this isn’t an article about how much BETTER everything has gotten. It’s about how much MORE has to be done.
There’s never any money in celebrating how much BETTER things have gotten.
Why is it that blacks still lag far behind Asians, people from India, and pretty much everyone else?
Fact is the extreme green-gay leftism of Sattle did it. Property values skyrocketed close to the city center and wealthy gays moved in, desiring the urban lifestyle...upscale.
Blacks there are seeing what middle class whites have for many years...but they’ve got enough cache with the left wing press to get a sob article. It really helps to get sympathy when you vote Democrat.
Sucks but at the same time, things change in metro areas alot and gentrification is apart of it, half the reason I will never live in one and currently resent commuting and working in one now.
LBJ brought the Blacks to the Democratic Plantation.
Look at the second commercial at Shanghaiist.
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/05/26/racist_laundry_detergent_ad.php
The Chinese ad was based on this Italian ad.
Huffington Post and Mother Jones etc... Do not mention the genesis of the Chinese ad.
I would say so. A little web searching (no, I won't provide links but it was pretty simple) and the King County property records show that her house and land are appraised at $681,000.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-woha
There she stood in the street
Smilin’ from her head to her feet;
I said, “Hey, what is this?
Now maybe, baby,
Maybe she’s in need of a kiss.”
I said, “Hey, what’s your name?
Maybe we can see things the same.
“Now don’t you wait, or hesitate.
Let’s move before they raise the parking rate.”
All WHITE now, baby, it’s a-all WHITE now.
All WHITE now, baby, it’s a-all WHITE now.
(Let me tell you now)
I took her home to my place,
Watchin’ every move on her face;
She said, “Look, what’s your game?
Are you tryin’ to put me to shame?”
I said “Slow, don’t go so fast, don’t you think that love can last?”
She said, “Love, Lord above,
Now you’re tryin’ to trick me in love.”
All WHITE now, baby, it’s a-all WHITE now.
All WHITE now, baby, it’s a-all WHITE now
I wish the Minnesota black community would vanish.
It's a phenomenon driven by economics. It's not "racist".
If the Wrights were white, the same thing would be happening. And the Seattle Times wouldn't give a crap.
revisionism and claptrap.
I lived for 15 months in the Tacoma region in the early 80’s, and noted even then...long before housing prices escalated...that there just wasn’t much of a black population in the Tacoma-Seattle region.
If you asked most blacks that you bumped into...they were there because they’d been with the Army and stationed at Fort Lewis. Other than that ‘magnet’....there was no reason for black population growth in the region.
In the early 80’s, there was no a single black-theme nightclub in the entire region except around Fort Lewis itself.
I do agree with the pricing of property affecting some to leave the area. The thing with the two major national park/forest area (west and east of Seattle-Tacoma) is that it really limits any boom-town or cheaper living accommodations.
According to the Ray Charles biopic, ‘Ray’ there was a vibrant African American music scene in Seattle BITD.
Things change and to be honest it happens in white areas as well so I really do not see the fuss, they either have to adapt or move elsewhere.
LBJ brought the Blacks to the Democratic Plantation.
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They willingly went to the democrat plantation so it’s no one’s fault but their own.
They are willing to compromise their beliefs and integrity for democrat handouts. It doesn’t matter what their church leaders tell them. Many will say that they’re against abortion and gay marriage but it doesn’t matter when they vote.
There's a photo of him in a school class picture from the 50s. He's one of maybe two black kids in the whole class. Looks like a happy kid to me.
Second row, third from left:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Jimi+Hendrix+school+picture&view=detailv2&&id=D3CC40CA505D4554A6481A1C519100FDBD0BB0C7&selectedIndex=10&ccid=mbrS%2baDq&simid=607986917088759411&thid=OIP.M99bad2f9a0eadcba5a9bbf103dc7ac2do0&PC=MOZA&ajaxhist=0
Geez, this article wins some kind of victim-compression algorithmic process award.
But, whether we think of it or want to think of it or not, Seattle in particular was a viciously segregated city and area, in no small part because Mr. Boeing created the racially restricted covenants and embedded them into the deeding of the property he transferred to the city of Seattle. These are not tall tales, and the effects in very large part extended into the mid 50’s.
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