Seattle's Vanishing Black Community

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.

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’.

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.

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