Seattle, WA
Rantz: Seattle’s equity movement punishes white men to push race-based marijuana licenses
The Seattle Metropolis Council and Mayor are upset that too many “hashish companies are owned primarily by White males.” They’ve a plan to sort out the problem within the title of “hashish fairness.”
The council says white males function 87% of the town’s pot outlets. This stat is supposedly proof of institutional racism. Consequently, the town launched a Racial Fairness Toolkit (RET) to “tackle disproportionate possession of Seattle hashish companies and redress among the harms brought on by the racially unequal enforcement of prior hashish legal guidelines.”
By way of a set of so-called hashish fairness payments, the town establishes race-based standards to create extra black-owned pot outlets. They acknowledge a few of their concepts are racist and unlawful affirmative motion. Now, they’re searching for methods across the legislation.
Hashish Fairness: the brand new left-wing, social justice invention
To attain hashish fairness, metropolis leaders have redefined “fairness” to imply “equal outcomes.”
Since each entrepreneur, no matter race, has equal entry to sources to construct a enterprise, the council has determined to socially engineer a extra diversified pot store possession. Nevertheless it’s particular to 1 race.
Although Asians (14.9%) signify Seattle’s most important racial minority, the town hopes for extra black-owned pot outlets. Whereas the black inhabitants is simply 6.8%, the council notes black individuals had been disproportionately impacted by the Warfare on Medicine. The council says these arrests and convictions precipitated “inter-generational poverty, housing insecurity, lack of training and employment alternatives, disruption of household constructions, and different burdens.” The subject is so triggering that they refuse to say “marijuana,” claiming it’s a time period steeped in white supremacy.
The town used the RET to satisfy its targets. Seattle defines this as “a course of and a set of inquiries to information the event, implementation, and analysis of insurance policies, initiatives, packages, and price range points to deal with the impacts on racial fairness.”
Removed from night the taking part in discipline, the RET is supposed to govern it.
Too many white individuals: payments defined
Mayor Bruce Harrell and far-left councilwoman Teresa Mosqueda, with the assistance of left-wing group activists, introduced a trio of payments that develop not too long ago handed state laws on the identical concern. The laws works inside the framework set by the Washington State Liquor and Hashish Board, which regulates the variety of licenses to function pot outlets.
Council Invoice 120391 does little greater than set a plan for the following legislative yr.
The invoice says the Mayor’s Workplace will “use summer time authorized interns to take part in and accomplice with ongoing regional efforts to work on expungement of hashish convictions handed down previous to 2014.”
It’ll gather “demographic details about staff at present employed in Seattle’s hashish business” to develop new concepts to diversify the workforce and assist decide how a lot the town ought to fund race-based coaching to assist non-white Seattleites turn out to be pot store homeowners.
Council Invoice 120392 impacts marijuana license charges.
Enterprise homeowners which can be “social fairness candidates” — a condescending time period outlined to virtually completely apply to black individuals — wouldn’t should pay for his or her marijuana license. This variation offers “the best probabilities of success in getting into the authorized hashish business in Seattle,” in keeping with the invoice. Primarily white individuals pays the $3,500 payment.
Lastly, Council Invoice 120393 covers pot store worker retention and safety.
The invoice will “encourage” pot outlets to commit 10% of their employees to be convicted drug sellers or different drug criminals. It creates a brand new set of employee’s rights, primarily when a brand new proprietor acquires a pot store. The brand new homeowners should supply all staff a job beneath the brand new enterprise. They are going to maintain these jobs for a minimum of 90 days. If layoffs happen, they can’t be achieved based mostly on benefit, however based mostly on seniority. And so they can solely occur if the employer “determines that fewer hashish staff had been required than by the outgoing hashish employer.”
The town is aware of a lot of that is unlawful
The council and Mayor’s workplace know that race-based licensing is unlawful. You can not give preferential therapy to 1 racial group over one other. It’s why even Washington voters so persistently reject affirmative motion.
To get round a possible lawsuit, the town plans to undertake exact language that successfully discriminates towards non-black residents whereas skirting the road of legality.
To be thought of a “social fairness applicant” for a marijuana license, what you are promoting have to be in a “disproportionately impacted space.” It’s outlined by the town (based mostly on state definitions) in a approach that solely impacts black communities:
1. The world has a excessive poverty price;
2. The world has a excessive price of participation in income-based federal or state packages;
3. The world has a excessive price of unemployment; and
4. The world has a excessive price of arrest, conviction, or incarceration associated to the sale, possession, use,
cultivation, manufacture, or transport of hashish.
The totality of the definition would wholly disqualify Asian, white, and Native American candidates from making use of. It doubtless additionally disqualifies Latinos. That is intentional.
Whereas the town goes out of its approach to not single out one racial group for preferential therapy, it did go away a suggestion to supply “grants/loans and technical help to black hashish companies.” White, Latino, Asian, or Native American enterprise homeowners are omitted.
Hashish fairness hurts extra individuals
It’s not the function of the federal government to socially engineer range in any business. Since when is it important to have an business mirror the range of the inhabitants it serves? Would the council demand extra white-owned or Asian-owned companies if black enterprise homeowners ran 87% of the pot outlets? In fact not.
Not all the things have to be seen by way of a social justice lens. Nevertheless it’s 2022 in Seattle, and all the things is racist. Thus, metropolis leaders should body each concern round race, inventing crusades alongside the way in which.
There’s zero proof that black persons are being deliberately pushed out of the marijuana business. A scarcity of illustration doesn’t equal unlawful discrimination. It’s a lazy left-wing argument to level to “a legacy of racism” to make some extent which you could’t show.
And whereas marijuana-related arrests are almost non-existent now, the black group should still undergo.
In keeping with a research in JAMA, legalization means black and Latino communities “could also be extra doubtless than White populations to expertise damaging penalties of legalization, together with elevated frequent hashish use and CUD [cannabis use disorder].” The authors say this could possibly be because of “finding dispensaries (which have been tied to elevated CUD) in neighborhoods with a majority racial or ethnic minority inhabitants.”
Seattle’s hashish fairness plan would doubtless see extra pot outlets in black communities. The town’s pot outlets are already disproportionately positioned in neighborhoods with excessive black and Latino Seattleites.
Whereas I typically help one’s proper to get excessive responsibly, ought to they select, it’s a harmful message to push any group into getting excessive.
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Seattle, WA
Seattle Weather: Mild and fewer showers Friday
It was a wet and cool day for Western Washington. We saw more rain today than we have seen during the entire month of April.
Highs today were only in the low 50s, which is almost 10 degrees below the seasonal average of 61F.
Steady rain will taper to showers overnight, with plenty of clouds. Overnight lows will be in the mid to upper 40s.
A few more showers will be around to start the day versus the afternoon. Clouds will be around with only a few light sprinkles by the evening.
Highs will be warmer on Friday with temperatures warming back up to the upper 50s to low 60s.
Showers will be around heading into the weekend along with below-average temperatures. Chances of showers will continue into the middle/end of next week.
Seattle, WA
Seattle Seahawks NFL draft picks 2024: Full list of team’s round-by-round selections
Here is a 2024 NFL draft pick-by-pick breakdown for the Seattle Seahawks:
Round 1 (No. 16 overall)
Round 3 (81, from Saints through Broncos)
Round 4 (102, from Commanders)
Round 4 (118)
Round 6 (179, from Commanders)
Round 6 (192)
Round 7 (235)
Seattle Seahawks’ recent top draft picks
- 2023 (No. 5 overall): Devin Witherspoon, CB, Illinois
- 2022 (No. 9 overall): Charles Cross, OT, Mississippi State
- 2021 (No. 56 overall): D’Wayne Eskridge, WR, Western Michigan
- 2020 (No. 27 overall): Jordyn Brooks, LB, Texas Tech
- 2019 (No. 29 overall): L.J. Collier, DE, TCU
Previous drafts: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Seattle, WA
Details: Live Seattle Seahawks draft coverage from Seattle Sports
It’s time for a huge NFL Draft for the Seattle Seahawks, who own the No. 16 overall pick in the first round to kick off their seven selections over the three-day event that starts Thursday.
Wyman highlights UW Huskies LB as Seahawks draft target
Once again, the team at Seattle Sports is geared up to be there every step of the way with live coverage both on the 710 AM airwaves as well as in video form online and on our official mobile app.
In addition to breaking down all the Seahawks picks, which UW Huskies get drafted and more, Seattle Sports will have live Mariners coverage throughout the weekend. We’re here to help you find either option, so here’s the full schedule for programming on Seattle Sports from Thursday through Saturday.
Thursday, April 25
Airing on Seattle Sports 710 AM, Seattle Sports app and SeattleSports.com
• 6-10 a.m. – Brock & Salk
• 10-10:30 a.m. – Bump & Stacy
• 10:30 a.m. – Mariners Radio Network pregame
• 11:35 a.m. – Mariners at Texas Rangers
• 2-4 p.m. (or after M’s postgame) – Seahawks pre-draft coverage from Seattle Sports
(Hosted by Stacy Rost and ESPN Seahawks reporter Brady Henderson)
• 4 p.m. – The John Schneider Show with Seahawks general manager
• 4:30-9 p.m. – Seahawks draft coverage from Seattle Sports
(Hosted by Brock Huard, Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus and Bob Stelton)
Friday, April 26
Airing on Seattle Sports 710 AM, Seattle Sports app and SeattleSports.com
• 6-10 a.m. – Brock & Salk
• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Bump & Stacy (with Brady Henderson from 2-3 p.m.)
• 3-5:30 p.m. – Seahawks draft coverage from Seattle Sports
(Hosted by Dave Wyman, Bob Stelton and Paul Moyer with Brady Henderson)
• 5:30 p.m. – Mariners Radio Network pregame
• 6:40 p.m. – Mariners vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
Airing exclusively on Seattle Sports app and SeattleSports.com
• 5:30-9 p.m. – Seahawks draft coverage from Seattle Sports
(Hosted by Dave Wyman, Bob Stelton and Paul Moyer)
Saturday, April 26
Airing on Seattle Sports 710 AM, Seattle Sports app and SeattleSports.com
• 8-11 a.m. – Seahawks draft coverage from Seattle Sports
(Hosted by Mike Salk and Stacy Rost)
• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Draft coverage from Seattle Sports
(Hosted by Maura Dooley, Curtis Rogers and Mike Lefko)
• 5:30 p.m. – Mariners Radio Network pregame
• 6:40 p.m. – Mariners vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
Seattle Seahawks draft coverage
• Brock’s Draft Profile: The perfect match for Seahawks? Troy Fautanu
• Do Seahawks have enough draft picks for every need?
• FOX’s Joel Klatt: Why Seahawks should draft Michael Penix Jr. at No. 16
• Why rankings don’t matter for UW’s Odunze, other top WRs
• Rost: The Seattle Seahawks’ smart pick, fun pick and wild card at No. 16
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