Saturday, May 26, 2018

This is So Portlandia

5/26/18 New York Times:
In Portland, Ore., organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.
Brown Hope, a local activist organization, wanted the event, which was held on Monday, to be a space for people of color in a mostly white city to meet one another, discuss policy issues and plan potential action.
A mostly white city in an overwhelmingly white state where there were never any slaves.

2 comments:

  1. A state in which blacks were unconstitutional until 1934.
    Related:
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-017-9601-2 (Free to download. From Springer!)

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  2. Knew that. Guy who made it happen tried to do the same to California and he is why California has no RKBA in its state constitution.

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