“We Want to Live” Rally Draws Thousands in Support of Black Youth in South Seattle

by Ronnie Estoque

No one within a mile of Othello Park Sunday afternoon could avoid the message. The crowd was too massive, the signs too numerous and the uniform chant, Black Lives Matter, was too loud.

A multi-racial, multi-generational, and multi-gendered assemblage of an estimated 8,000 people gathered in one of South Seattle’s oldest parks Sunday afternoon to protest racial injustice, yes, but also its structural catalysts. Community members welcomed those in attendance with…