From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 07:32:30 MDT
Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> Loree wrote:
> > I have a hard time believing that there would be
> > anyone on THIS list arguing in favor of racial
> > profiling.
>
> Or wondering if it exists.
>
> A few days ago Lee Corbin asked me for an example of racism in Seattle. I
> happened to remember that request (due to lack of time, I've not kept up
> with every post) today, when I saw this in The Seattle Times (and it's by
> far not the only example):
>
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/134326988_carl08.htm
> l
>
> Astonishing, no?
Not really. Renton is, from my experience living in Seattle, the battle
ground between the heavily black populated Rainier Valley and the
Camaro-driving white redneck types (a high number being transplants from
southern states and who generally work at Boeing or Boeing dependent
industries) who live in and south of Renton. They don't have the
geographic advantage that Mercer Island does in insulating itself from
population growth in the Rainier Valley expanding outward. At least
thats the way it was back in 1995. I can only imagine that pressures
have grown since then.
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