Red, White & Dead Zombie Walk
Ack, I stayed up all night rendering a super-long video.
Why?
I just don’t know.
Below is about 80-90% of the entire Seattle Zombie Walk.
I included the entire thing out of respect to the walkers who may want to see themselves. The mainstream news generally provides 10-15 second excerpts so it’s a crap shoot as to whether or not the zombies will be able to see themselves on TV.
Also, If you were not able to make it to Fremont for the Zombie Walk, well, consider that problem rectified. Now, you were there. Virtually at least.
Caution, this video is nearly 15 minutes in length. You can click over and watch it on YouTube in 720p or even 1080p HD if you are so inclined.
Download Video: MP4
I was the zombie school girl in the back at 04:55-04:54
Are there no black people in Seattle….or perhaps they just dont participate in these type of events?
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Lots of extra time on people’s hands! What was the total attendance?
Of course there are black people in Seattle. As of the last census, they make up about 8% of the city population. This is, however, less than the national average of 13%.
Events like this, in my opinion, tend to fall along class lines.
Working class people can’t take time off to march down Pine Street for Slut Walks or ride bicycles naked through Fremont. Even if they aren’t working, this would not be their chosen way to spend their 1 or 2 days off. They often have weekend obligations or chores that precludes these types of things. Minorities also may not know anybody at these events, and thus not feel the same social cohesion. Many times, they’ve probably not even heard about it since Fremont can seem like a world away from “urban” Seattle.
Younger, more affluent people have more free time, more disposable income, more social connections (friends who also are likely to participate), and have less responsibilities to others (fewer kids, etc). At the very least, they aren’t as stressed out and cynical.
Younger, more affluent Seattleies tend to be overwhelmingly white. Older, more affluent Seattleites are also overwhelmingly white. People who live paycheck-to-paycheck aren’t likely to do these things.
It’s not really a mystery why the demographics fall the way they do in these walks/marches/rides.
There are no black people in Seattle, at least not in the downtown areas I have seen. I am sure there are some, and the stats say there are a lot of Asians in Seattle as well. But, in the “hip” and downtown areas Seattle is white, white, white. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
It’s strange. With Microsoft and Boeing and Amazon in the area, I would’ve expected to see many more Asians. But I don’t, and Seattle is the whitest “cosmopolitan” U.S. city I have ever visited.
It would be an interesting study. We know the ethnic demographics of any large urban area, but what is the make-up of the heavy civic participants – the restaurant goers, the organized runners, the Critical-Massers, the Zombies. That is, the people who make or break an urban core?
I suspect that they are disproportionately young and white. But, even with that stipulation, Seattle is an overwhelmingly SWPL city, as evidenced by the representative images seen here.
Wow, I’ve lived in Seattle all my life and I will vouch that there are in fact black people here. There were black people in the walk (including zombie Mr. T) but these types of things draw a certain type of people and maybe the vast population of African Americans in Seattle just aren’t interested. I’m mixed and I was there.
very good points…thanks for the feedback
I was being facetious, of course. But, downtown and tourist-area Seattle really is like a parody of SWPL.
6:58-6:59 wow… mr.rodgers RIP
I wonder if someone did bill murray