Does Seattle Have The Potential To Become The Next Black Mecca?

[Pond Scum]

and they give free water refills.

 

[DEE-LICIOUS]

I ain't see NO black ppl when I was out there...and I went 4x's....

 

[b@squ1@t redux]

seattle is the land of the brown and red

i embrace them all

they're all my children

living in seattle is like living in a bowl of rice and beans

 

[kevmic]

I live in Seattle, and all I can say about that is we have the potential. But the issue is that the blacks here in Seattle has absolutley no Unity!! We have all the elements to make Seattle a strong black city, with the difference being we actually have money in our neighborhoods. Microsoft, Nintendo, Boeing, Amazon.com, Expedia.com, and a bunch of other corporations are stationed here, so it's not like we have a declining economy like most prominant black cities. But the black people here are from all over the map, and the locals don't even reach out to the other blacks who live here. Southern cities, have generations of black families living in the same neighborhood, so it's not hard to see why they got their shit together. Seattle just got this boom of blacks just in the past 30 or 40 years. Maybe in about ten years or so we might see that black mecca coming out of the Town, but right now we got some work to do.

 

[kevmic]

I ain't see NO black ppl when I was out there...and I went 4x's....

Depends on where you were when you came to Seattle. If you was in the Southend or the CD you can't help but see black people. If you was in a neighborhood like Eastlake or North Seattle...Not so much.

 

[b*braze]

I been up to Seattle and was stationed up at McChord AFB....

the answer is no.

you can find some bad ass native american bitches up there tho

 

[kevmic]

I been up to Seattle and was stationed up at McChord AFB....

the answer is no.

you can find some bad ass native american bitches up there tho

That's because Mchord AFB isn't even in Seattle. It's in Tacoma, which is miles south of Seattle. Which is also not that far from Reservation land, which is probably why you saw so many cute Native Americans. It's about the same as me taking a trip to Athens Georgia and say something about Atlanta.

 

[b*braze]

That's because Mchord AFB isn't even in Seattle. It's in Tacoma, which is miles south of Seattle. Which is also not that far from Reservation land, which is probably why you saw so many cute Native Americans. It's about the same as me taking a trip to Athens Georgia and say something about Atlanta.

lol im not a idiot. i know mcchord is in tacoma.

what you think we hung out in tacoma in our down time? no we drove out to seattle. it wasnt nothin but 35 minutes away.

and nothing in seattle says "next black mecca".

 

[kevmic]

lol im not a idiot. i know mcchord is in tacoma.

what you think we hung out in tacoma in our down time? no we drove out to seattle. it wasnt nothin but 35 minutes away.

and nothing in seattle says "next black mecca".

But this is still coming from a visitor.

 

[b*braze]

hilarious... i was there for two years. at what point do i cease to be a visitor

 

[kevmic]

hilarious... i was there for two years. at what point do i cease to be a visitor

Two years in Tacoma...means a visitor to Seattle.

 

[b*braze]

lmao... ok. despite the countless times ive been to seattle between june 2008 to august 2010, we agree to disagree on my qualifications on this subject.

in MY EXPERIENCE... i dont see how Seattle is the next Black Mecca. enlighten me on what i missed.

 

[b*braze]

you would think that as a black "visitor" my opinion on Seattle being the next black mecca would be more valid anyway. since being a "mecca" would be a place to attract visitors from other places.

 

[kevmic]

lmao... ok. despite the countless times ive been to seattle between june 2008 to august 2010, we agree to disagree on my qualifications on this subject.

in MY EXPERIENCE... i dont see how Seattle is the next Black Mecca. enlighten me on what i missed.

Well, what you've missed being stationed in Tacoma and only visiting Seattle is the fact that more black owned business have been opening throughout all of Seattle instead of one centrally located area like you would see in parts of Atlanta and other black cities. You would've also notice the rise of the urban/hip hop culture throughout the entire city even spilling over into Tacoma who has their own hip hop scene. Community activism have began to take shape again just like it did back in the late 60's and early 70's when the Panthers had a location headquarters here in the same area where we a starting to see it come back. Gentrification of our high populated black neighborhoods has cause for many blacks moving from one all-black location to spread out amongst other cities close to Seattle that others would consider to be all white. My first response to your first comment was not to make you come off dumb nor was I trying to clown on what you said, It's just that to those who live here, we look at Tacoma as a completely different world from Seattle. There is a history there that keeps the two cities seperated, which makes people who live or lived in Tacoma speaking on what goes on in Seattle come across as uninformed. It would be no different then me talking about what goes on in Tacoma. Yeah I live in the same state and been to the clubs and shopped over there but I don't live in Tacoma to act is if I know how it is over there. In your experience you don't see how Seattle is the next Black Mecca, but have you really experience enough of Seattle to come to that conclusion?? Have you ever been to the Bite?? Hempfest?? Umoja Fest? The Black History Festival? The annual MLK March from the Central District to Downtown Seattle?? The Virgo or Libra Parties?? The Hip hop Business Expo?? There are tons of things where you will see tons of Blacks. Not even on some funny shit or trying to disrespect you. But if you come out to Seattle and had me show you around, I promise you you will go back to you city thinking you just been to a black city.

 

[b*braze]

Aight I could dig that. Although I have been to the Bite and I wouldn't put that as an example for the black Mecca case. And every city does an MLK march/parade. And as an active duty member of the air force I will neither confirm nor deny any involvement in the Hempfest lol.

Haven't checked out the black history festival, honestly.

As far as you showing me around to the majority black areas, I do that on my own. I ain't afraid of my own people and I seek them out every place I go, because I know that's where I'll feel the most comfortable. I used to fuck with a chick over on jefferson.

Good shit tho. I asked and you showed.

 

[shadb33]

man no..I was born in Seattle and lived there for 9 years before moving to Atlanta...all the black people in the city are moving to the suburbs or outta state completely...white folks in all major cities are doing the same thing...buying black people's homes in the inner city for cheap and building it up...Seattle's black population is like 8% or something not a lot similiar to L.A. except L.A. has like 3 million people so they have way more black folks...Seattle has like 600,000 residents...black folks movin back to the South right now so some southern city will blow up after Atlanta dies out (which it is right now)...

 

[shadb33]

oh I kno this a joke thread btw lol

 

[kingblaze84]

It's closer to a Black mecca than Boston is. I've been there twice, and I can count the amount of Black people I saw there in one hand.

 

[Fazeem_Blackall]

The Ignorance of Some, My City and the Central Distict In Particular was Like Atlanta before even the civil Rights era. We at one point had the largest black owned area in the nation, African americans have Been Making Moves since Lewis and Clark out here. Read up on the frontier city which came up at the time right beside seattle and is now currently the CD and China Town. THose not from here have no clue about the intricies of our Culture and HipHop Scene. Being of both african and Native american Origins I have enjoyed every aspect of Seattle from the Pow Wows to the hemp fests to the underground after hours spots. Outsider speaking gritty get shot real quickly as Ice Cube Learned in the early 90's. Point being fuck you bitches talking reckless about shit you know nothing of...

 

[b@squ1@t redux]

portland oregon is my favorite city

but

my aunt used to live in seattle..

i plan on moving to seattle one day and then dying happily