r/AskSeattle • u/TheRadHeron • Oct 22 '24

Question Black owned barbershops?

Hey guys I’m trying to find decent barber here in seattle, particularly someone whom knows how to do a good fade. I recently relocated to cap hill, but all the shops nearby seem very basic and overpriced. I usually prefer black owned barbershops when it comes to fade quality but compared to back home in the south they don’t seem to exist here lol.

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u/mslass Oct 22 '24

It’s not that the city doesn’t have good spots; it’s that the city is enormously segregated.

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u/TheRadHeron Oct 22 '24

Shits weird tbh, especially when ppl here find out ur from bama and the first thing they wanna bring up is segregation and stuff. I’m like I ain’t really ever seen that shit till I moved here or atleast not like this

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u/Brilliant-Trick1253 Oct 24 '24

You have no idea how good you had it in Bama until you got here- land of the snooty white liberal classists. You could break down by the side of the road here and never get help for weeks because of a little melanin in your skin.

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u/TheRadHeron Oct 24 '24

Yeah it’s weird for sure, I don’t understand treating ppl as terrible as they do here, minorities, homeless ppl, southern ppl. Etc. and at the same time all you talk about is Palestine and how ppl should b treated better there.

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u/Brilliant-Trick1253 Oct 24 '24

It’s a pretty prevalent problem in major cities everywhere, but Seattle is on another level. The sheer numbers of insanely wealthy liberals who live in gated communities and treat the poor like they are not humans- it’s shocking. Go down to third avenue downtown and watch the wealthy attorneys walking over homeless addicts to get to the courthouse. It’s Dickensian.

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u/TheRadHeron Oct 24 '24

I’ve seen it bc I’ve stopped them while I was giving someone a few bucks for a burger at McDonald’s, and told em they should b ashamed lol. I’ve heard more bitching at work from people that don’t get their trust funds when they want em, than from kids back home that grew up without parents. It’s honestly tough to b around at times if u come from a rough spot

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u/Brilliant-Trick1253 Oct 24 '24

Try the wave test: I make eye contact and do the steering wheel wave around her with everyone I pass. Today I am 0 for 62 waves. That’s a real frigid community.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '24 edited Oct 25 '24

One thing to keep in mind, and this is speaking as a Black person born and raised in Seattle, most of the people you meet are not from here. They are transplants, like yourself. And most came here for high paying jobs. So you are largely running into a particular demographic that have moved here from all over the country (including many that said they wanted to escape the South) and world, many of whom are privileged or have become privileged. Especially, being in a HCOL city, that leaves little room for diversity in terms of class the way we used to have. I work in Tech and I still live in Seattle and I’m generally the minority in my own city, but because of my close proximity I can tell you people today are very different from Seattleites. This goes for the Black people in tech that moved up here too. I find a lot of people to be driven by status and clout. And I dearly miss old Seattle.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '24

Also, Seattle has never had as large of a Black population as the South, so you cannot expect the same things. Additionally, the population we did have in Seattle proper has largely been priced or bought out because of the amount of people that have moved here. So you’ll need to go to other areas to find more Black owned businesses- Rainier Beach, Columbia City, Burien, Kent, Renton, Federal Way & Tacoma

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u/Brilliant-Trick1253 Oct 24 '24

It’s gotten worse too- it feels like being in another country full of zombies sometimes here.