Few want to hear this, they don't want to believe it's true

It is hard for me to believe that my experience of being looked at with contempt, hatred, suspicion, and anger is not shared by other racial minorities in Seattle and elsewhere in the United States.


I speak from my own personal experience:
As a racial minority (but not African-American), I have experienced in Seattle far more frequent and far more virulent racism-- from dirty looks and rudeness to actual physical and verbal abuse--from African-Americans than from Caucasians.*


Few will believe me, few want to hear this, white or black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Arab,,,

But I tell the truth
of my own experience.

I dare.
I do.

Someone has to.



Seattle, Washington
9.15.2016


* I don't live in a neighborhood or frequent parts of Seattle where African-Americans are more than 10%-20% of the population.