sam
Posts: 466
What transit?
The city seems to be consciously arranged to prevent black people from going to the white parts of town. Unfortunately I fit the demographic and geographic profile of a black person at the moment. Consequently malls that sell business casual clothes are out of reach.
Also drivers here are openly hostile and/or drunk and try to kill me daily. Seriously
I miss my Minneapolis lifestyle
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cameron
Mr. Awesome
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Well… if you change your mind about the FED and want to get into business, there are a lot of finance type jobs you could look into in Seattle. People here are peaceful, public transit is excellent, and summers are not miserable.
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sam
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it turns out there’s actually a Fed branch out in Seattle but I think it’s not the sort of place that does much research
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Adam
Seattle, WA
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Art has been, in the past, quick to note that Minneapolis was at least partly designed with an eye towards keeping the black people out of the ‘white’ parts of town. The sparsity of bridges across and interchanges from the section of 94 between the Lowry Hill Tunnel and 35W being his example, IIRC. (Correct me if I’m wrong, Art).
Seattle, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have been engineered similarly – though I have to admit, I haven’t really had my eyes opened to figure out how it would’ve been.
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sam
Posts: 466
Heh
Also
I was under the impression that the black population in Seattle is approximately 1.5
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Adam
Seattle, WA
Posts: 336
Heh, that’s actually fairly close to true.
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Art
I'm a pirate, AR
Posts: 180
Adam: yeah, that’s right. The process is called Red Lining, where they’d actually outline the black parts of town and under/wrongly-develop them (no freeway exits, demolishing them to build freeways, etc). It was pretty systematic and well documented. I can only imagine how it must be in Richmond.
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atyra
Seattle, WA
Posts: 175
Interesting. Can you point us to some of the places it is documented?
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Art
I'm a pirate, AR
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Hrmm… not having much luck finding documentation in a cursory online glance, but I learned all about it in high school. I’ll see what I can find a little later. Don’t let me forget!
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