Recently, our youngest son and two friends were in a Snohomish restaurant and bar.
A group of about a dozen men and women were loudly spouting off racist, QAnon B.S. in the bar.
The bartender and manager asked them to keep it down, but they wouldn’t. Our son and his friends applauded the staff for standing up to the racially charged verbal abuse. The group then turned on my son and his friends verbally assaulting them using racial slurs and questioning our son and his friend’s ethnicity. Our son and his friends left the bar and walked into the parking lot followed by the group and were physically accosted.
Because Snohomish Mayor John Kartak and Snohomish City Councilmen Steve Dana and Larry Countryman have not acknowledged or denounced the racism that happens in Snohomish, hard-right racists felt comfortable enough to act out and be blatantly racist in a public place in Snohomish.
Are these city government public elected officials condoning right-wing extremist actions like this as part of their espoused small-town values? Are these three, blind and tone deaf, to the ignorance, hate and racism that does exist and evidently thrives in Snohomish.
This ugliness does not belong in our community.
David Clay
Snohomish
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