Comments on: Why are they all black?

By: ...

... — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:10:38 +0000

Young homeless usually live 24/7 in places for the homeless,

By: Michael Damrow

Michael Damrow — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:37:12 +0000

Because they are all a bunch of worthless crackheads. You know how I know this? Because I am homeless myself in Texas.

All the whites are alcoholics, and the blacks are hopeless crackheads. I have never met a black homeless guy with ANY class whatsoever. Moreover, they steal from the homeles white people.

I know this to be true. I am not predjudist, I have a valad excuse to be racist.,

By: Elliott Back

Elliott Back — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:43:02 +0000

Minimum wage at $5 an hour is $40 a day, $200 a week, and $800 a month. You can’t get a nice place for that money, but you can find somewhere to live, to chare low income housing, to leverage government housing projects, etc. Really, if you want to, you can live on minimum wage–that’s why the concept even exists.

Now you don’t have a point anymore.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:02:40 +0000

What I don’t understand about your piece is the statement that homelessness is a choice. If you can’t afford to own or rent housing, you’re homeless. Is the underlying assumption that homeless means unemployed? Because that’s not the case. A lot of homeless people are employed, they just don’t make enough to pay for rent. Which then makes me question the theory that we’ll eventually not have homeless people. I mean, I guess that’s true, when we don’t have poverty. But I’m thinking that might be a ways off.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:45:18 +0000

Got any numbers to back up your anecdotal evidence? I currently live in Seattle and work near S. Lake Union, so I end up in downtown a lot. I guess it depends on where you are looking. All of the beggers I see near the off ramps for I-5 I see are white. Most of the homeless I saw in lower Queen Anne for the 2 months I stayed there were white.I saw one black guy sleeping in Capital Hill when I was over there on Thursday and Scab Man is black. All of the homeless kids on University Way are white (and more than a few are fat. How you get to be homeless and fat is beyond me). Every bum I’ve had ask me for spare change outside the Elliot Bay Book co. has been white and usually older.

My experience has been that Seattle, for all it’s claims of diversity, is lilly white with a little splash of Asian.