@chuckutzman Some people will defend the pigs no matter what they do. It's almost like they like the way a boot tastes when they lick it.

People have to earn my respect. Just putting on a pig's uniform does not earn anything from me other than disgust. I believe that the only kind of person that would take that job are bullies, psychopaths, sociopaths, and people that just want to get away with assault and murder.

acab

I imagine the cops are tired of being cursed & spat on/at. It does not look like she was injured, but she should not have been surprised.
My best friend (he & I were in Chicago in '68)lives in Portland and so far he has not been a participant--to my great relief.
The time will probably come for street resistance-but this isn't it. I think Michael Tracy says it pretty well.
https://youtu.be/8sKhzAIB_9g

@chuckutzman

TPTB are pushing it for all it's worth, probably because it sounds like "Intifada" and so vilifies the "anti-fascists" by association with "EEEEvil Mooslim Terrists".

You KNOW it's deliberate. It's all part of Their psyops.

I imagine the cops are tired of being cursed & spat on/at. It does not look like she was injured, but she should not have been surprised.
My best friend (he & I were in Chicago in '68)lives in Portland and so far he has not been a participant--to my great relief.
The time will probably come for street resistance-but this isn't it. I think Michael Tracy says it pretty well.
https://youtu.be/8sKhzAIB_9g

@humphrey What percentage in police demographics? How do they react to these thuggeries? How are they in the different law enforcement agencies treated, and integrated or not? Same behaviors, or not?

Have never heard or read.

It makes you white nationalism legal.

edited to add: At least it seems this way.

@boriscleto Within a year the nuns, The Sisters of Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, had a convent, chapel and school between 4th and 5th downtown in Portland. The KKK burned a cross on their front lawn that year. The Benson Bubbler fresh water drinking fountains and many establishments were signed "White trade only".

Then there were the instances of Japanese people sent to Thule, California and other 'detention' centers. As recounted in 'Stubborn Twig' about the Yasui family of Hood River, from Good Reads review....

Heart-wrenching, superbly written account of the racial-bigotry, lying, hatred, and jealousy of white America, with a focus on Hood River, OR, in the years before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, that was behind the real reason (government studies reported the American Japanese were not a threat) for Roosevelt’s and government’s internment of the American Japanese. Using a true family with family interviews with good historical research this is a detailed accounting of the impact on each individual; their successes even with their trials with hatred and jealousy that they experienced. Then the most detailed, tear-jerking account of what each individual in the family encountered with the government’s curfew, travel, and internment policies. “Daughter - a senior at the U of O being the sole lonely individual late at night watching the train pass by that carried her family from Hood River South to internment with only what they could carry.” Plus the government’s denial to let her ‘break curfew’ (8pm) to attend her own graduation (over at 10pm) followed by her eventual escape, via a midnight bus, to Colorado. And of course, detailed descriptions of what the camps were like down to the fact that the latrines had no doors so the ladies tried to only go at night rather than in full few of the whole camp. Putting up cardboard to protect their straw-self-stuffed mattresses from the leaking melting tar of the poorly constructed small one room family ‘units’, plus the horrible day heat and freezing night conditions of the desert intermixed with their unsuccessful efforts to stop the ‘stealing’ of their properties and loss of 30 years of hard work. Good conclusion on the continued racism, bigotry and discrimination in Hood River following the few returning Japanese and the results of all of the above (plus 2 suicides and resultant Diaspora) on the subsequent children and grandchildren.

To the city of Vanport, a Portland neighborhood:
Vanport

A 1947 Oregon Journal investigation discussed the purported eyesore that Vanport had become, noting that except for the 20,000-some residents who still lived there, "To many Oregonians, Vanport has been undesirable because it is supposed to have a large colored population," the article read. "Of the some 23,000 inhabitants, only slightly over 4,000 are colored residents. True, this is a high percentage per capita compared to other Northwestern cities. But, as one resident put it, the colored people have to live somewhere, and whether the Northwesterners like it or not, they are here to stay."

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Nice face on everything, but deeply entrenched divisions.

Small and dwindling black population.

My dad being a dark haired, dark skinned Sicilian/American second generation, suffered discrimination his entire life.

I have only as a late stage adult really come to understand how Portland really works.

And the gutless mayor won't stand up to them.

Oregon has always been a haven for white nationalists, in the 1920s Oregon had the highest per capita membership in the Ku Klux Klan...Portland is still one of the whitest cities in the US, something like 77% white...