In 2020 at a special meeting of the Portland Committee for Community-Engaged Policing, which was Zoomed in on by more than 450 people, then-co-chair Lakayana Drury announced that black people would get to talk first.
This is the kind of racist stunt that has been allowed to go on in Portland and has been unchallenged by the legacy media. Fighting racism with more racism leads to more racism, but racism can be very profitable.
Drury has since left PCCEP and a teaching job and moved on to more profitable pursuits with his nonprofit, Word is Bond.
I learn new words and alien concepts when rummaging around this stuff our betters have invented to help grease democracy's wheels. Giving bipoc the floor first is called progressive stacking:
Thanks, Larry. The professor in the story you linked to could have called on whomever she wanted to first without advertising her intent. That wouldn’t have allowed her to show off, though.
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Thank you for pushing back against explicit plans to hold a no-white-people meeting on a matter of critical civic importance.
Here's something else for you to consider challenging. It is the Portland Bureau of Development Services (BDS) "Arts Empowerment Program" that provides racially preferential assistance to BIPOCs and other favored identity groups in obtaining assistance in the sometimes confusing process of obtaining a building permit. Here is how the BDS describes the program:
The Arts Empowerment Program assists artists and arts organization get permits. We focus on assisting Black, Indigenous, people of color and persons with disabilities.
How we will support you
Answering questions about the permit processes
Researching your potential site before you sign a lease or contract
Finding solutions and problem solving for projects in process
Keeping you updated on the progress of your project
Connecting you with other potential community resources
This doubtless violates city, county, state and federal ordinances, laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin or color, yet there it is. Someone is taking it upon themselves to implement the Kendi doctrine that: "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination."
I suppose the architects of the Arts Empowerment Program believe that all white artists are privileged, entitled members of the upper middle or upper class who are living off trusts established by their great grandparents and who have the best lawyers at Portland's most elite white-shoe law firms on retainer to handle trivial matters such as building permits for their 4000 sf art studios at their ancestral manses in Portland Heights. Who knows?
Whoever wrote you back sounds coached because if this is an event that is a creature of the City, even if it is being "curated," or managed by some private group that is racially exclusive, then it would be a flat out violation of the 1965 federal civil rights acts to deny access or grant some kind of second class access to anyone based on their ethnicity, race, skin color, etc. I'm sure they can use typical passive-aggressive scolding behavior to "persuade" pale people like you from participating. I'd suggest you contact the Pacific Legal Foundation. 255 South King Street, Suite 800. Seattle, Washington 98104
In 2020 at a special meeting of the Portland Committee for Community-Engaged Policing, which was Zoomed in on by more than 450 people, then-co-chair Lakayana Drury announced that black people would get to talk first.
This is the kind of racist stunt that has been allowed to go on in Portland and has been unchallenged by the legacy media. Fighting racism with more racism leads to more racism, but racism can be very profitable.
Drury has since left PCCEP and a teaching job and moved on to more profitable pursuits with his nonprofit, Word is Bond.
I learn new words and alien concepts when rummaging around this stuff our betters have invented to help grease democracy's wheels. Giving bipoc the floor first is called progressive stacking:
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19101
Many cutting edge educators are convinced of its utility.
Thanks, Larry. The professor in the story you linked to could have called on whomever she wanted to first without advertising her intent. That wouldn’t have allowed her to show off, though.
Thank you for pushing back against explicit plans to hold a no-white-people meeting on a matter of critical civic importance.
Here's something else for you to consider challenging. It is the Portland Bureau of Development Services (BDS) "Arts Empowerment Program" that provides racially preferential assistance to BIPOCs and other favored identity groups in obtaining assistance in the sometimes confusing process of obtaining a building permit. Here is how the BDS describes the program:
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The Arts Empowerment Program assists artists and arts organization get permits. We focus on assisting Black, Indigenous, people of color and persons with disabilities.
How we will support you
Answering questions about the permit processes
Researching your potential site before you sign a lease or contract
Finding solutions and problem solving for projects in process
Keeping you updated on the progress of your project
Connecting you with other potential community resources
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This doubtless violates city, county, state and federal ordinances, laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin or color, yet there it is. Someone is taking it upon themselves to implement the Kendi doctrine that: "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination."
I suppose the architects of the Arts Empowerment Program believe that all white artists are privileged, entitled members of the upper middle or upper class who are living off trusts established by their great grandparents and who have the best lawyers at Portland's most elite white-shoe law firms on retainer to handle trivial matters such as building permits for their 4000 sf art studios at their ancestral manses in Portland Heights. Who knows?
Here is a link to the program's web site: https://www.portland.gov/bds/empowered-communities-programs/arts
Whoever wrote you back sounds coached because if this is an event that is a creature of the City, even if it is being "curated," or managed by some private group that is racially exclusive, then it would be a flat out violation of the 1965 federal civil rights acts to deny access or grant some kind of second class access to anyone based on their ethnicity, race, skin color, etc. I'm sure they can use typical passive-aggressive scolding behavior to "persuade" pale people like you from participating. I'd suggest you contact the Pacific Legal Foundation. 255 South King Street, Suite 800. Seattle, Washington 98104