Rantz: Activist says Seattle’s open-air drug markets don’t exist, is racist
I don't think I've ever read a more insane article in my life.
Real Change is a homeless advocacy group, but only in that they advocate policies that keep people living on the streets, often with untreated addiction. Their latest attempt to downplay the drug crisis, arguing that criticism of drug dealing is racist, is as bizarre as it is dangerous.
In an editorial for Real Change News, associate editor Tobias Coughlin-Bogue claims Seattle doesn’t have any “open-air drug markets.” He bluntly pretends they don’t exist and is merely a “sneering phrase,” while arguing we should give the homeless private spaces to purchase drugs and then get high.
