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One year ago the rabble who now go by the name Occupy Portland tried to crash the peaceful, uplifting Tea Party Rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square. They took bullhorns to drown out our message, laughed en masse at the reading of portions of the Constitution and swore during and mocked the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance.
They hurled racist and homophobic remarks at Tea Partiers and their children.
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“Show us your face brother!” “House Negro!” “Uncle Tom!” were hurled at black Tea Party members by the one black guy who turned out to be Ibrahim Mubarak, the founder of “dignity” village, the homeless squat in NE Portland, and his white socialist friends. One black person and several white folks calling the several black members of the Tea Party racists? That’s rich. The incident scared the (black) children of a Tea Party member and at least one (black) person I talked to said he didn’t know if he wanted to come to anymore Tea Parties because of the racists who tried to crash it one year ago.
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Mayor Sam Adams was beseeched to denounce the hatred and only did so, tepidly, when pressed on my program–and then he pretended not to have heard about it. In fact several Tea Party folks sent the Mayor letters asking him to publicly denounce the crazies. Instead, when they took up the new mantle of “occupy” he marched with them. Bigotry by the left apparently is ok.
Now, this week, a black member of Occupy, who’s also running for Mayor, Cameron Whitten (who’s black), participated in a group therapy session to eradicate racism. Well, it’s a start. From Occupy’s newspaper:
These discussion groups are facilitated by trained volunteers from Uniting to Understand Racism and the City of Portland Intergroup Dialogue Program.
Please mark the date of next month’s program on your calendar, Tuesday, May 8, for a screening of the film Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part II, followed by discussion.
About Race Talks: Opportunities for Dialogue
They’re late.