Black Population In Seattle (Pacific, Index: lessons, work, community)

[No attitude]

Your perspective is related to your experiences as well as your attitude.It also depends on the home and work enviroment that you deal with on a regular basis.Bad experiences can make people resentful and wary of certain people.A predisposition towards violence and over reaction does not help matters it only continues them.For someone to take real responsibility for their actions is the answer, not intimidation and violence which only makes it worse.

[pirate_lafitte]

I took some time to find something else. I have some history about Seattle's neighborhoods and African-American influences on the city as well as other ethnic groups:HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History

[aeroz]

Originally Posted by No attitude

Your perspective is related to your experiences as well as your attitude.It also depends on the home and work enviroment that you deal with on a regular basis.Bad experiences can make people resentful and wary of certain people.A predisposition towards violence and over reaction does not help matters it only continues them.For someone to take real responsibility for their actions is the answer, not intimidation and violence which only makes it worse.

I've lived in downtown Seattle in the Belltown neighborhood for nearly a year now and I've been to Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, South Seattle, and several other areas and I've had many bad experiences with black people. I haven't met any middle class black people yet, only the lower class and homeless people. One black man is stalking me even as I write this post and another black woman followed me off the bus and for 5 blocks thereafter while screaming and yelling at me when I told her to turn down her loud and profane music on the bus. You're right I am very wary of "certain" people and will soon be filing a restraining order against the one who is stalking me. I'll be leaving Seattle very soon.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by aeroz

I've lived in downtown Seattle in the Belltown neighborhood for nearly a year now and I've been to Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, South Seattle, and several other areas and I've had many bad experiences with black people. I haven't met any middle class black people yet, only the lower class and homeless people. One black man is stalking me even as I write this post and another black woman followed me off the bus and for 5 blocks thereafter while screaming and yelling at me when I told her to turn down her loud and profane music on the bus. You're right I am very wary of "certain" people and will soon be filing a restraining order against the one who is stalking me. I'll be leaving Seattle very soon.

Maybe you are around some of the wrong places. Maybe you need to talk to me or pwright. I have met many middle-class African-Americans. Maybe it is where and who you are with.

[aeroz]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

Maybe you are around some of the wrong places. Maybe you need to talk to me or pwright. I have met many middle-class African-Americans. Maybe it is where and who you are with.

You're right, downtown Seattle is not the right place to meet respectable black people.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by aeroz

You're right, downtown Seattle is not the right place to meet respectable black people.

Where do you go? I know that living in the suburbs of Atlanta, I painted the entire place as a judgmental, racist, boring place. I took a trip to the CITY of Atlanta, not to the northern suburbs, and found it relatively non-judgmental, in the city. My problem was that I spent too much time in the 'burbs where the persons who are judgmental often move to.

BTW, I found somewhere that the per-capita income for African-Americans in Seattle is the third highest among major American cities.

[aeroz]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

Where do you go? I know that living in the suburbs of Atlanta, I painted the entire place as a judgmental, racist, boring place. I took a trip to the CITY of Atlanta, not to the northern suburbs, and found it relatively non-judgmental, in the city. My problem was that I spent too much time in the 'burbs where the persons who are judgmental often move to.

BTW, I found somewhere that the per-capita income for African-Americans in Seattle is the third highest among major American cities.

I used to take the buses constantly and walk on the streets of downtown Seattle and that is where I would meet blacks. Think about the area around 3rd & Pike St.

I now have a car.

I'm not sure how it could be that Seattle downtown blacks make a lot of money, because I always hear them talking about getting laid off, fired, etc and how they are on foodstamps. I kid you not. I used to hear it all the time while on the bus.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by aeroz

I used to take the buses constantly and walk on the streets of downtown Seattle and that is where I would meet blacks. Think about the area around 3rd & Pike St.

I now have a car.

I'm not sure how it could be that Seattle downtown blacks make a lot of money, because I always hear them talking about getting laid off, fired, etc and how they are on foodstamps. I kid you not. I used to hear it all the time while on the bus.

I got this stat from another website. I can't post it here because it is a competitor website. Maybe it was an older statistic, from the mid-2000s. In this economy, alot of people are getting laid off. Another thing to think about is that the ones who are working and making good money might not be the ones taking the bus. I say the thing about the bus because I frequently and that is where I see the majority of working-class and poor African-Americans. I see most of the middle to upper class African-Americans driving cars.
As for getting laid off, fired, and other stuff, the economy is quite bad right now. I can't even find a job, and I'm in college. I have a friend who can't find a job and he has a college degree, in Georgia.

[aeroz]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

I got this stat from another website. I can't post it here because it is a competitor website. Maybe it was an older statistic, from the mid-2000s. In this economy, alot of people are getting laid off. Another thing to think about is that the ones who are working and making good money might not be the ones taking the bus. I say the thing about the bus because I frequently and that is where I see the majority of working-class and poor African-Americans. I see most of the middle to upper class African-Americans driving cars.
As for getting laid off, fired, and other stuff, the economy is quite bad right now. I can't even find a job, and I'm in college. I have a friend who can't find a job and he has a college degree, in Georgia.

This is kinda off topic but, I haven't met a single person of any race who is graceful about being poor. Why can't one be a well-mannered person of integrity and upstanding moral character if one is poor? I myself have come extremely close to the poverty level (which is around $14,000 per year for a single person) many, many times in the last year but I maintain the same level of integrity, have not resorted to drug use, and have not applied for food stamps or welfare (and I probably qualify, too).

[tindo80]

Originally Posted by aeroz

This is kinda off topic but, I haven't met a single person of any race who is graceful about being poor. Why can't one be a well-mannered person of integrity and upstanding moral character if one is poor? I myself have come extremely close to the poverty level (which is around $14,000 per year for a single person) many, many times in the last year but I maintain the same level of integrity, have not resorted to drug use, and have not applied for food stamps or welfare (and I probably qualify, too).

Its not that a person cant, its just that more likely than not, poverty pushes the human character to its extreme. You do things others wouldnt.

If you really think about it, poverty only pushes the limits of what a person is willing to do. There is bad stuff that rich people do equal to poor people. 1 in 3 married women (poor and rich) is in or has been in an abuse relationship, sexually or physically.

Just because you may have the strength not to resort to drug use does not mean everyone can. Everyone has a weakness, and everyone has an addiction.