http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-twilight-of-yesler-terrace/Content?oid=15933703 Comments On: The Twilight of Yesler Terrace by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Gray Panther]]> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:46:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by billwald]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:13:31 -0800 The Stranger
I am uncertain what is to come of this VALUABLE land.
Posted by sea'mo]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:34:56 -0800 The Stranger
Classy.
Posted by AlaskanbutnotSeanParnell]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:16:26 -0800 The Stranger
#15 I'm also a musician who has performed music in Harare, Zimbabwe for their annual HIFA festival sponsored by Coca-Cola. General admission is mostly black and the special tickets are mostly white.

Coke is a major employer in South Africa and in the 80's they were also major supporters/benefactors of apartheid. The world has some real messed up people with a lot of money pulling strings and sweeping what really matters under the carpet. And apparently Seattle is no exception.

Here's a quote from a song that I think is quite relevant:

"I feel like I've been living in a city with no children in it a garden left for ruin by a millionaire inside of a private prison" -Arcade Fire
Posted by Chris Poage]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:07:22 -0800 The Stranger
Sprinkle some buzzwords on it (today's are "transit oriented development" and "walkable" and "vibrant" and "sustainable" and "McGinn's campaign just got another $100,000"), and there ya go.
Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:06:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by DMar]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:48:26 -0800 The Stranger pretending to give a shit, which is what Seattle is very good at doing: pretending.

In the end, the blacks will be moved somewhere else. Paul Allen will get his upscale money machine. City Hall will get the bribes they've always depended on. You will move on. Charles Muede will move on. The Stranger will find a different real estate developer who needs blowjobs. The wheel turns.

But please, don't fuck around about "blaming blacks." Do you really not see what a tool and pawn you are?
Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:42:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by AlaskanbutnotSeanParnell]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:55:46 -0800 The Stranger
Yesler Terrace is 70 years old, give or take a few years. It was constructed with high hopes, and for some period of time it did its job. Then it went downhill, and because so many black people lived there, and because no one wanted to offend the self-appointed spokesliars for those folks, the easiest thing for the city to do was to basically not give a shit and occasionally toss a few (and only a few) maintenance dollars in there, along with some police to go pick up the druggies and the hookers and the assorted other criminals who ran rampant.

But still, no one gave a shit. This is Seattle, after all, and Seattle is entirely about the money, with the thinnest possible veneer of what you call progressive applied on top with a precision spray gun that can spray it really thin. "Nanotechnology," isn't that what they call it?

And now, suddenly (or so you think), some well connected friend of your favorite progressive, whether it's Mike McGinn or some other joker on the city council or the planning department, sees that there's "value" in Yesler Terrace, as long as we can throw all the poor black people outta there.

Was it sudden? Not hardly. It was all planned. It's why they stuck the street car where they did. Just like light rail. It'll be gentrified, just like the progressives you talk about always wanted. And you, poor thing, spend your Sunday morning shilling for Paul Allen while he laughs his way to the bank.

What, you didn't even get paid? Idiot.
Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:28:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by northquirk]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:49:29 -0800 The Stranger
SHA has plenty of info about what they've been up to at their website: http://www.seattlehousing.org/redevelopm…

Again, I acknowledge that there's a LOT more that needs to be done to create a more just society, definitely including at YT. But writing as if SHA and the COS aren't trying to make progress on these issues is sad. And ignores the hard work that hundreds, if not thousands of humans are doing in this city. We've got a long way to go, but as long as fellow progressives dismiss and deride our work, it's going to be even harder.
Posted by northquirk]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:45:13 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJTGcG-s…

(yes, this song was about a neighbhorhood that's far worse than Yesler Terrace, but it was still a place that had meaning and value to those who lived in it, and it was about those in power not seeing ANY of that meaning and value).
Posted by AlaskanbutnotSeanParnell]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:24:36 -0800 The Stranger
It's not about undoing the existence of countries...it's about healing the wounds and admitting the wrongs, and it's also about losing the damn arrogance and sense of entitlement.

The best way to go through life is to recognize that, if you got anything good, no matter how hard you worked or how "moral" you think you might be, you got those good things largely through luck. Know that, let it keep you humble, and be happy to be one more-or-less good person trying your best amongst all the rest of us.

Nobody HAS to have power over anybody else. And nobody has to be wealthier than other people to be free.
Posted by AlaskanbutnotSeanParnell]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:09:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:21:42 -0800 The Stranger
To imply that SHA hasn't acknowledge the problem residents will face by displacement is to imply that they don't really care about their jobs. The first phase of new construction involves property adjacent to YT, so that once that building is complete, some people could move over there, and the spaces they move out of would then be redeveloped. It's not perfect, but again, the idea that Vulcan is behind all this does a disservice to the people who live there and have tried to help shape the redevelopment.
Posted by northquirk]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:08:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:29:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sea Otter]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:46:15 -0800 The Stranger Posted by BallardBoy]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:05:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by BallardBoy]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:02:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by 5th Columnist]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:19:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by 5th Columnist]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:17:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by 5th Columnist]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:14:23 -0800 The Stranger Daniel. you think Francis`s postlng is something... I just bought a new Lancia Straton after making 5489 this past five weeks and-in excess of, ten-k lass month. this is really the nicest job Ive ever had. I actually started 8-months ago and right away started to bring home minimum 70, per-hr. I follow the details here, fly38.com

Posted by jhonpoul]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:37:33 -0800 The Stranger
You realize there is a direct causal line between the treaty of Versailles and WWII right? Learn some history before you try to talk like a historian.
Posted by zivilisierter Wurm]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:42:50 -0800 The Stranger