'Unwanted subject': What led a Kirkland yogurt shop to call police on a black man

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4. I know where that shop is. I'm a little surprised and yet not.

The Seattle area is strange. It’s genuinely liberal ideologically but oddly segregated in reality. I see many people of various ethnic backgrounds and religions and people do have friendships and relationships but people in general tend to be cool and not casually friendly and interactive. There’s not a big black population and in Kirkland there’s REALLY not much of a black population. So people think of themselves as unbiased in part because those biases aren’t challenged. It’s SO easy to live here. And there’s so little of the juice that drives life. IMO we trade “niceness” for kindness and it gets lonely. I feel bad for that man.