Is it racist not to want to have people who, as soon as the weather is warm, roll down their car windows and blast the neighborhood with their neighborhood? Maybe park and sit right outside your house, stretch out, and listen...?
I think not.
The large Afro-Saxon population of Seattle disagree.
Reading regularly a rag like The Stranger one could infer the following:
Tenet #1 of Afro-Saxons: White people are to blame for everything, including the plight past and present of people of color, of whom blacks are first among equals.
Tenet #2 of Afro-Saxons: Black people cannot be racist, by definition. They can only be (A) victims or, alternatively, (B) victims, or (C) both. Institutional racism and history is responsible for all their problems. African-American culture is not only cool, it is healthy, non-violent, law-abiding, hard-working, wise, superior, without shortcomings and beyond reproach of any kind.
Amen.
From which we can deduce that
(1) when Black people begin to move in large numbers into a non-black community and there is concern about noise and/or security, it is racism. THIS IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
(2) when White people (or some other group) moves in large numbers into a Black community and there is concern, it is justified because that means Whites (or some other group) are taking over and pushing out Blacks. THIS IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
Note:
By implication, as well, there should be no mention of race (1) when someone of one race kills four police officers of another race, in cold blood, or when (2) a man of one race hits the mayor, who is of another race, in the head with a microphone. No mention, no need then for analysis, or self-reflection. (If you have to mention it, minimize).
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