Omari is also on camera telling a man to go back to Asia, despite the fact that "Africatown" was bought with the lifeblood of Japanese Americans. Very few blacks lived in the CD before WWII. Then historically Japanese neighborhoods & businesses were snapped up at fire sale prices when the Japanese Americans were thrown in concentration camps. Like Ian Isenberg, I grew up in the CD. I remember the Black Panther headquarters in Madrona where our teenage neighbors could be found most days, across the street from the IGA.  I don't remember Omari.  Where was he back in the day?  Until he started trying to take over buildings and fracturing faces with a bullhorn I'd never heard of the man.  I think his "respected elder of the CD" shtick is mostly in the minds of the 12 white people who know him and Sawant.  He has been on one long attempt at a land & money grab since the 90's but in the 60's-80's where was he? Not in the hood I grew up in. What city is he from, anyway?