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In reply to the discussion: Opinion: Portland's protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they're white spectacle" [View all]Yeehah
(4,585 posts)43. Who threatened to stop fighting?
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Opinion: Portland's protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they're white spectacle" [View all]
StarfishSaver
Jul 2020
OP
Just read a thread about an injured medic in PDX - he says the protest on the ground is still BLM:
chia
Jul 2020
#38
You make a good point. But if you read my post again, it was explain with the expectation
Blue_true
Jul 2020
#51
I read your and agree with your point. My post wasn't intended to counter you
StarfishSaver
Jul 2020
#52
Black people are not going to get far against the system without White allies.
Blue_true
Jul 2020
#9
Bravo herdingcats!! This is what civil rights icons would say to do...and did!
Thekaspervote
Jul 2020
#14
There has been nothing of the kind... A BLM protest was met with bullets and
Demsrule86
Jul 2020
#25
The entire country has fallen into the hands of a fascist cabal directed by a foreign enemy...
Hekate
Jul 2020
#16
Portland's Wall of Moms turned over leadership of their group to Black and Indigenous women
flibbitygiblets
Jul 2020
#20
About naked yoga woman, I couldn't help think: that's such an art major thing to do.
betsuni
Jul 2020
#23
Yet it seems that only white people threaten to stop "fighting the power" when black people aren't
StarfishSaver
Jul 2020
#41
I, native Portlander, am watching the live feed into the wee hours every night.
Grasswire2
Jul 2020
#48