Seattle Was a Better City for Blacks in the 1950s, During the Redlining Days

by Charles MudedeThe twilight of the good times...
My economist father once described the difference between the Soviet Union (the bear) and the US (the bear) in the Cold War days, as this: the former locks its dissenters in and the latter locks them out. I thought of this as I read Gene Balk's excellent piece on the sad state of black homeownership in Seattle.In the bad old days of redlining, Seattle locked blacks in; today, it is locking them out. What connects the two is the absence of black