Racism in Grays Harbor Co, WA (state)

[fortyfeetunder]

Seattle is great but leave the metro area, and it's a whole new world in the outlying areaa....and yes these incidents happened recently...


http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0511/050316_news_hoquiam.php


"It's a question others around Grays Harbor have asked. In recent months, a black Aberdeen eighth-grader was attacked by schoolmates, and a Samoan U.S. Coast Guard officer at nearby Westport asked to be transferred after her car was keyed and she was harassed by locals. Eighteen months earlier, a black Coast Guard officer was transferred because of similar harassment. On Feb. 15, a man associated with white supremacists was arrested at his relatives' home in Hoquiam for conspiracy to sell C-4 explosives. He was nabbed in a multicounty sweep that included an alleged Seattle gunrunner who once bragged about trying to kill Martin Luther King Jr. On Feb. 17, police arrested an Aberdeen man on suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and rape of a black girl, a 16-year-old from Maryland, whom he met on the Internet. Arriving in the midst of this was a new book, Death on the Fourth of July, reopening the wounds of July 4, 2000, in the resort town of Ocean Shores, where a Vietnamese man from Bellevue was attacked by a group of skinheads waving a Confederate flag and shouting, "Gooks go home!" The Vietnamese stabbed to death the group's leader, an Olympia man, and wound up facing a count of manslaughter. (The case ended in a mistrial.)"

[angee_is_mad]

1. and I was thinking

about moving to Washington State, assuming that it was more progressive than NC. Thanks for the post.

[fortyfeetunder]

2. Don't despair -- it's progressive in places.

Western Washington, along I-5 is probably the most progressive area. Come visit the WA board and ask questions if you are still interested in relocating.