Othello that opposition of Brabantio to Desdemona marrying Othello-a respected and honoured general-cannot make sense except in racial terms, citing the scene where Brabantio accuses Othello of using witchcraft to make his daughter fall in love with him, saying it is "unnatural" for Desdemona to desire Othello's "sooty bosom". Singh argued that since people with dark complexions are common in the Mediterranean area that for a Venetian senator like Brabantio to oppose Desdemona marrying Othello for merely being swarthy makes no sense, and that character of Othello was intended to be black. Michael Neill, editor of "The Oxford Shakespeare", notes that
Othello station southeast corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street in 2011. A second phase of the project, the 355-apartment "Othello North", will be built on the north side of Othello Street and open in 2017. An additional low-income housing project was built north of Myrtle Street by Mercy Housing on surplus land used for equipment staging, which was auctioned by Sound Transit for $1.9 million in 2014. The 108-apartment building opened in July 2017, with its lowest rents at $450 per month. The southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street was planned to be