B/W hands down my favorite "color" and medium! Great photo

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If your instincts are telling you that a white person is racist even though they haven't said anything overtly racist to your face, and that you're being discriminated against, you should trust your instincts. There's a lot of covert racists here.

I'm white and other white people often say super racist shit when there's only white people around that they never say in mixed company or to a non-white person's face. They just assume that because I'm white that I must agree with their white supremacist viewpoints, which makes me suspect that the majority of white people they've said that shit to in the past were indeed fine with it.

I call shit out when I can but sometimes I'm just stunned or it's a delicate situation like in the workplace with a client etc. Me getting mad at other white people's racist remarks has been enough of a recurring problem in my life that I'm now relieved whenever my direct supervisor at work isn't white because I don't have to worry about my boss casually making white supremacist remarks to me at work.

Ok thank you for letting me know.

I would say there is some racism towards the “west end”.

Yes, but SoDo = South of Downtown just like SoHo in NYC means South of Houston Street

I lived in Ocean Shores and worked in Aberdeen. Aberdeen and Hoquiam are not really towns I'd want to live in.

It tends to be less overt

Slur that starts with n

Hard r? What?

Rather than Vancouver I'd suggest OP take a look at Longview/Kelso because housing is going to be much less expensive, a better selection and better quality and they will probably find more of a community there than Portland's bedroom, Vancouver. More about Vancouver's housing: the supply of new homes is very low and quite frankly what is primarily being built are let's say, "units" trying to maximize density without providing walking spaces or parks and even these are being sold at Portland prices. It's probably been a long time since Vancouver would win a beauty contest but what's happening right now is really tragic.

Well they seemed to have knowledge of such countryside, just curious where they were talking, or just talking

Probably referring to us troglodytes over east of the mountains. Which is funny because the few instances of overt racism I’ve witnessed against African Americans in my many years in Washington have all been in Seattle.

I’m white but what black friends have told me is that racism here is different. Less in your face than in other parts of the country. More passive aggressive, like a lot of things in Seattle. There are also just a lot fewer black people around, especially outside of areas like south King County.

Outside of urban areas, it is extremely white. Some parts of rural Washington can be like northern Idaho white supremacist racist.

I work in hvac with some of the whitest people I’ve met in greater Seattle area. More than one use the hard r when exclaiming frustration instead of just saying “shit” or something

seattle probably not, but farther out of the larger cities yes big yes. remember half of wa is flat and dry. and there are a lot of towns that have fallen into shit shape and have massive drug problems, this combo leads to white supremacy rising and becoming more prevalent. aberdeen is a good example of this problem, there has alwayse been a white supremacy movement there and has grown more active over the years. during the olympia blm protests in 2020 there was a large group of them who showed up downtown and freely screamed hate speech for the whole night while every police officer ignored them and watched over the peaceful blm protesters. also the shooting at the transit center (again in olympia) where a proud boy was shot while chasing and threatening a person (not sure if the shooter was blm or antifa not the important part) the group of proud boys had been chasing and threatening anyone they saw downtown that was bipoc during the daylight hours just before the shooting.

even in the early 2000's there was a case where a local musician curb stomped someone then fled to aberdeen and never got charged. fast forward to now and the same person is the lead singer of a band that tours around wa and was recently booked at a bar in oly till they were outed as white supremacists and public outcry caused the venue to cancel the show.

overall i think the racists are in a big minority in wa overall but they have places they try and concentrate their power as it were. just remember most of wa is nothing like seattle and the surrounding area.

Whereabouts you talking?

South of the cut in Seattle down along the I5 corridor to around Lakewood is the most diverse (and consequently least racist) part of washington, overt racism is an extremely rare occurrence. The further you get out into the country the more the odds of encountering racism increase.

You should be fine in Seattle or any city areas but the countryside is full of racist assholes. They probably won’t do anything but they say some fucked up shit.

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Overt racists? Not many. White people incapable of acknowledging privilege, all to happy to just leave things the ways things have always been? Plenty.

Smoke was having some engine trouble and was being towed by the 1st boat.

Us too!

Paul Bunyans Stump on the left of Pyramid Peak.

Thanks. Was looking through these old photos. These are after sunrise with just blue sky, when the morning colors were gone but the clouds were good.