If you are a person of color and new to this city, here are some things you need to know: Seattle is one of the whitest major cities in America and, in fact, is becoming slightly whiter. In general, its northern neighborhoods are very white and its southern ones are multicolored (although it’s losing its historic Black neighborhood, the Central District, to gentrification). There are places in the deep north (Mountlake Terrace, for example) that have Black African and Asian enclaves, but the south is where the majority of the city’s people of color reside. Indeed, one of its neighborhoods, Brighton, is, according to the 2010 census, almost 90 percent people of color. There is no place like that in the north. As a consequence, many of the major Chinese, Filipino, Black African, Black American, Vietnamese, and Latino establishments, events, and recreational centers can be found in the south and, increasingly, the deep south…
