When everything is racist, nothing is racist
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That’s racist!
The area surrounding King County Superior Court includes a homeless shelter and other social-services organizations and has become an “unsanitary and potentially frightening” scene — one “that reeks of urine and excrement” — according to an article in the Seattle Times. Desperate for help with the disgusting environment, two of the court’s judges have asked the city to please power-wash the poop-covered sidewalks. That seems like a pretty reasonable request, but apparently, one councilman is worried that doing so might be a form of microaggression.
According to the Times, Councilmember Larry Gossett “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.”
I may be totally out of touch with your average homeless street addict, but I would think he’d appreciate a (slightly) cleaner sidewalk as much as, even more than your average citizen because, after all, he’s the one sleeping on it. And based just on personal observation, I’d say the homeless come in all the human flavors, white, brown, black and yellow: addiction seems to be an equal-opportunity destroyer.
But apparently only a true liberal can see the underlying racism involved here.
