@lidsville
Very good piece by #CharlesMudede, thank you for sharing. That Sraffa 1927 lecture is indeed good to recall today

A great article by #CharlesMudede:

“Why #Seattle Doesn't Give a Fuck About Pedestrians”

“You can't sleep on the street without making the news, but you can constantly break the vehicle laws with near impunity.”

https://www.thestranger.com/transportation/2023/03/13/78900631/why-seattle-doesnt-give-a-fuck-about-pedestrians

> ...the Black population in the Central District (CD) dramatically collapsed between 1990 (64 percent) and 2020 (below 15 percent). Most of the Black churches are now gone, and the Black Americans who could afford to stay in the Seattle area have moved to Renton and Kent, beyond South Seattle. Also gone is a curious Black-owned business that bought gold at all hours of the night. Midtown Square, which is across the street from a new Whole Foods, was designed by the respectable Seattle architectural firm Weinstein A+U, and includes panels by the active and talented Seattle artist Adam Jabari Jefferson.
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> The panels—which are part of a swirling collection of art devoted to the memory of the old CD, the CD that in the 1960s was 70 percent Black, the CD that gave us Jimi Hendrix and Quincy Jones and Ernestine Anderson—are of Black people. But a lot of Black people are no longer in the area. This art, as good as it is, is not all about the future, which is increasingly white and white collar. It’s about the past. Black people, Black working-class people, were once here, and so were their clubs and shops. That was yesterday. But here today is all of this art and architecture about them. Tombstones for the graveyard of gentrification and property speculation.
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> Indeed, because of this ever-increasing concentration of capital, you are more likely to find a Black Lives Matter sign in the CD than an actual Black person."

https://www.e-flux.com/notes/508924/the-rise-of-tombstone-public-art-and-architecture-in-seattle
#Seattle #SeattleWA #Gentrification #CharlesMudede #BlackSeattle #CentralDistrict