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Spek @​spekulation - 16h Vv
% ‘ Imagine moving to Othello, in the heart of Seattle's

South End, and then calling the *police* on people
performing hiphop music? And then imagine
suggesting that if they performed some other genre,
one usually associated with white people, that the
police wouldn't be called.

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Spek @​spekulation - 16h Vv
% i This is white supremacy in action. This is part of the

same continuum that saw this city redlined, that
segregates schools, that incarcerates black folks at
wildly disproportionate rates, that suspends black
children from school, that gets kids shot for playing
rap music.

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Spek @​spekulation - 16h Vv
% ‘ This is not a simple noise complaint. Jeff Caldwell is

actively trying to harm a local business, put kids' lives
at risk, and exercise illegitimate control over a
neighborhood that doesn't belong solely to him. All
because he'd rather hear something else.

~@paranoid Sadly this is not the only story I've heard like this from Seattle, though it may be the most clearly documented.