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oldgar t1_jczgpmc wrote

Reply to comment by Zhenja92 in is Blustery's in Vantage actually permanently closed?? by dreams-of-lavender

Well said. But, those bad apples are the ones that are aggressive to people of color, the whites in the community may rarely see it, because they are not the target. I (w m) Lived in a small town with my wife of Latino descent, the white friends we made there were appalled and surprised to hear of the bigoted things experienced by my wife. To list them in detail would take much time.

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Zhenja92 t1_jczzgbk wrote

Back to my original question - have you or your wife been personally hassled in Ellensburg. I am not denying that there is undoubtedly been issues here - but I think that telling people to avoid coming into to a town to get Ice Cream from a local shop because you/your wife had bad experiences in a totally different community and thus you assume that all small towns are inherently threatening is not that different from the logic of someone who says I once worked with (a black, a woman, a jew, a hispanic) and they didn't do a good job so I don't want to work with (blacks, women, jews, hispanics).

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oldgar t1_jd0z885 wrote

Yes, Ellensburg, but I never said don't go there, only gave a facetious warning to people of color. Wasn't my wife, her brother was driving and I was the passenger in a private parking lot and police pulled us over and stuck him in the back of the police car for twenty minutes, they never said a word to me. I asked him what was going on and he said happens often, let's just go. So we did, but he didn't look happy and his face was very red.

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