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Dori: Seattle wants to use reverse racism in Legacy Business Designation Program

Nov 21, 2018, 4:47 PM

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Seattle Councilmember Lisa Herbold. (Seattle Channel)

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Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold wants a $110,000 grant in 2019 for a “Legacy Business Designation Program.”

A listener sent this to me and asked if it was legal. According to its info sheet, the Legacy Business Designation Program would “prioritize the most vulnerable businesses, likely to be ethnic minority and immigrant-owned, rather than providing benefits only to businesses which are already thriving and stable.”

The listener who sent me this link said that their family has run a business in Seattle for 40 years. They said that the business is struggling as much as anyone else right now. They have been paying taxes and creating jobs for four decades.

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But the Seattle City Council specifically says that the city will be prioritizing businesses owned by minorities and immigrants. Why wouldn’t the city prioritize the most vulnerable businesses, period? Why wouldn’t this listener’s family business be just as eligible as everyone else?

That’s liberalism for you. They get to choose who to support and who not to support. It’s not looking at everyone the same and treating everyone with the same amount of respect. This is going by the color of people’s skin and not by the content of people’s character, because that’s the way things work in Seattle.

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Dori: Seattle wants to use reverse racism in Legacy Business Designation Program