SER, strength to you. So many of the black folk I knew when I lived there, who had moved from other places left after a few years because the unacknowledged racism was so hard to deal with.
I moved to inner NE in 1999 - just west of MLK and south of Alberta. I guess I was the tip of the gentrification spear. I saw the changes, the loss of local long time business and neighbors and the hipsterization of the community. I tried to be respectful but my privilege probably kept me from seeing my role in it all.
I still love Portland and the PNW, but at in rural Nevada i know where people stand, and am not shocked when they act like fuckwits.
Don't forget the other history- Vanport flood in 1948, Mulugeta Seraw....
As always we hear nothing but platitudes and we will investigate the route causes, we will form a committee to look into it. And 9 months later we have a 90 page report full of mumbo jumbo. a citizen's committee will be formed to look at police injustice with only white citizens on the committee. We have heard it for the past 100 years. Just wait. If not now then when. Give me a date when the white population realizes that black and brown people have been marginalized, given less money for their schools, limited it finding housing, discriminated in finding jobs. Yeah ask us to wait some more
Oh was that you? Sorry to talk shit about you in public.
SER, strength to you. So many of the black folk I knew when I lived there, who had moved from other places left after a few years because the unacknowledged racism was so hard to deal with.
I moved to inner NE in 1999 - just west of MLK and south of Alberta. I guess I was the tip of the gentrification spear. I saw the changes, the loss of local long time business and neighbors and the hipsterization of the community. I tried to be respectful but my privilege probably kept me from seeing my role in it all.
I still love Portland and the PNW, but at in rural Nevada i know where people stand, and am not shocked when they act like fuckwits.
Don't forget the other history- Vanport flood in 1948, Mulugeta Seraw....
"the long-time systematic racism is undeniable." This is the United States of America. It's ALL like that.
Oh please. He's a cringing bully.
Yes, I wrote it, so what? I'm not allowed to express an opinion? Get a grip.
Find/Replace, Biden/Trump
You mean like the 2 lesbians murdered in Medford in 1995?
In the movie of his life, he will be played by Bert Lahr.....oh, wait.............
You might also have added the I don't really care do U?
"Law and Order" is what wingnut assholes like Cotton want to apply to others, not to themselves. I've been through this movie before.
"They must've each had their own personal Klansman, like a Big Brother or Big Sister, but racist."
Bigot Brother.
Yup and Oregon's same sex marriage ban passing in 2004.
Me and the wife got married in Multnomah in 2004...and then unmarried at the polls and in the courts.
Wow...must google later...did not know and pretty impressed
People always seem to miss (purposefully or not) the not insignificant distinction between "This IS NOT us" and "This SHOULD NOT be us."
As always we hear nothing but platitudes and we will investigate the route causes, we will form a committee to look into it. And 9 months later we have a 90 page report full of mumbo jumbo. a citizen's committee will be formed to look at police injustice with only white citizens on the committee. We have heard it for the past 100 years. Just wait. If not now then when. Give me a date when the white population realizes that black and brown people have been marginalized, given less money for their schools, limited it finding housing, discriminated in finding jobs. Yeah ask us to wait some more