3rd & Pine in Seattle, a civil discussion on Yelp ("I have become accustomed to being harassed all my life. Nothing new this time.")

Someone is always crashing my parties.

I have become accustomed to being harassed all my life.   Nothing new this time.  

The memory comes back to me of being around 14 with my sister playing at Roanoke Park and being surrounded and attacked by a group of white teenagers.  At least they didn't hit me hard, not the way blacks in the past have really punched, slapped, and kicked me.  Cruelty and taunting I have lived with all my life.

Gross distortion of another's views, name-calling, and taunting are second nature to many of the young generation.  They seem to have brought up on it so it has become second nature.

What have you seen downtown at 3rd & Pine that really scared you?

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One hour agoLily "The hetero homo (as in heter-o-dox, homo-sapiens)" H. says:

What have you seen downtown at 3rd & Pine that really scared you?

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   33 minutes agoHeather J. says:
   

   Nothing particular, but I recently went to Buffalo NY and my friend kept trying to tell me what a bad neighborhood it was and I seriously had to question if she had forgotten about downtown Seattle.

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   24 minutes ago from Yelp for AndroidChris "Quiff!" W. says:
   

   Oh good, more racialism from Lily.

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   24 minutes ago from Yelp for AndroidChris "Quiff!" W. says:
   

   Why don't you keep your rants to your blog?

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   22 minutes agoLily "The hetero homo (as in heter-o-dox, homo-sapiens)" H. says:
   

   I try to spend as little time as possible and avoid waiting for the bus there.  But I've still seen people running around, a guy on the ground with police around him, and police cars parked in front.  There seems to be lots of screaming, hooting, and shouting.   Hustlers?  But no knives or guns.  So far.
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   19 minutes agoLily "The hetero homo (as in heter-o-dox, homo-sapiens)" H. says:
   

   Some people think they know what racism is but, unfortunately, do not.   Too young to have lived through the Civil Rights movement of the sixties, as I did.
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   16 minutes ago from Yelp for AndroidChris "Quiff!" W. says:
   

   All the sadder for you.

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   10 minutes agoLily "The hetero homo (as in heter-o-dox, homo-sapiens)" H. says:
   

   I did not bring up the topic of race.  Someone else did.  He is not paranoid.
   
   Besides, everyone knows that blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Muslim-Americans, etc. are all equal, and ergo,all equally represented at 3rd and Pine.
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   6 minutes ago from Yelp for AndroidChris "Quiff!" W. says:
   

   If 90% of your reviews weren't ranting about the savagery of the "African American male", I might think differently.

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   A moment agoLily "The hetero homo (as in heter-o-dox, homo-sapiens)" H. says:
   

   Besides, to quote The Stranger, "what would a 'stupid white boy' like 'X' know?"

At least he didn't make a snide remark about my sex change.



to be continued...