"There are now no East African restaurants or residents in what was once the most progressive area of Seattle."

Doing a Google "East African restaurant near me" shows several results in Seattle, four on Capitol Hill including Adey Abeba Ethiopian Restaurant on East Union St.

Charles, I recall reading part of this review in either 2023 or 2022, and screenshotting the paragraph about Kiarostami. Your review had me excited to see Know Your Place back then, so it's great to have a chance to see it in 2024.

However -- and I'm not sure if this was in the original review -- Seattle isn't exactly "losing its color". The Central District's Black community has been displaced, of course, but as of the 2020 census, Seattle is getting less white and more Asian and Latino. And to your last paragraph about POCs being priced out -- many are recipients of the tech jobs you mention and contribute to gentrification, yet you seem to lump the entire, heterogenous category of "POCs" together.

Watch out for @1 Phoebe and her Googlefingers, just waiting to check what you know in your soul to be true with a mind numbing capitalist transaction.

@3: There’s a Ghanaian restaurant literally across the street from the Stranger’s old office on Capitol Hill. It may not be East African, but that seems like a weird distinction to draw in an article whose subject is Black displacement. Harare-born Mudede himself is not from East Africa, unless you torture the definition.

@1: Might want to double-check your Google-fu. That restaurant is on 22nd and Union, which is not even close to Capitol Hill.

The African population has remained steady in Seattle for the past 20 years.
The Asian population has increased.
The central district has made huge investments in low and medium income housing that is almost exclusively, probably illegally, directed towards Africans. Ever heard of Africatown? While I think they are despicable racists they have managed to get the city to give them over five properties in the central district and counting.
The woe is me attitude is tiresome and dishonest. Maybe the black community should have to see films about how their violence negatively impacts the Asian community.

@2 "The Central District's Black community has been displaced"

It's a dishonest use of the word displaced. Black homeowners voluntarily sold their homes making a huge profit. It was the Japanese people being displaced that allow them to buy the homes at a very modest price by the government to begin with. For some reason there seems to be less outrage over this than black people voluntarily selling their homes and making an enormous profit. It's a voluntary displacement. There are plenty of programs in place to help low-income and elderly homeowners with property taxes. There are tons of neighborhoods that cycle through different ethnic groups during a span of 100 years. That idea that when a neighborhood is a predominantly black neighborhood and then is in transitioning from that it is somehow more of a tragedy than any other ethnic transitions is dishonest. There are plenty of other groups who are also priced out of neighborhoods. And there are plenty of times where black folks choose to leave out of their own volition just like everybody else. It's odd that when white ethnic groups do not want to see cultural changes to their neighborhood we do not say they are fighting gentrification or displacement. We say they are racist. And gentrification and displacement, real things, have been dishonestly used simply because of the desire to keep a culturally black neighborhood culturally black, even when those changes don't come about by tragedy. The central district became less Native American and less Japanese out of tragedy and injustice. Neither tragedy nor injustice is what is causing the central district to become less black. Yeah mourn The changes but then don't turn around and call other demographics racist when they hate to see the changes new ethnic groups bring to their neighborhoods.

Teresa Mosqueda, Tammy Morales, and Kshama Sawant succeeded in 'upzoning' the Central District to make housing "more affordable" and "equitable"
Real estate developers swooped in and offered black families money for their homes.
Those families moved to cheaper areas like Kent.

In their place, $800K and $900K ugly townhouses were built and the Central District started to change
"Progressive" policies failed the people they're supposedly trying to help, yet again.

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