Conservatives programed to trigger at words "Black Lives Matter" by Russian trolls.

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https://apnews.com/article/boycotts-oregon-education-george-floyd-race-and-ethnicity-8c41873c210ab6ec031f049c4d37537e

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon school board has banned educators from displaying Black Lives Matter and gay pride symbols, prompting a torrent of recriminations and threats to boycott the town and its businesses.

Newberg, a town of 25,000 residents situated 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of Portland in gorgeous wine country, has become an unlikely focal point of a battle between the left and right across the nation over schooling.

The City Council has condemned the action by the Newberg School Board. So did members of color of the Oregon Legislature and House and Senate Democrats. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon is threatening to sue. The Oregon State Board of Education called on the school board to reverse course, saying student identities should be welcomed and affirmed.

But the four conservative members of the seven-member board are digging in their heels. Member Brian Shannon, who proposed the ban, said lawmakers from Portland should keep out of the school district’s business and instead focus on Portland, where homelessness is an issue.

Opponents say the board has emboldened racists. On Sept. 17, a special education staffer at a Newberg elementary school showed up for work in blackface, saying she was portraying anti-segregation icon Rosa Parks in order to protest a statewide vaccine mandate for educators. She was immediately placed on administrative leave.

The same week, word emerged that some Newberg students had participated in a Snapchat group in which participants pretended to buy and sell Black fellow students. Newberg Public Schools Superintendent Joe Morelock said there will be an investigation and disciplinary action meted out.

Underscoring how deeply the board’s action has cut, raw emotion was on display during a virtual public hearing of the board Wednesday night. Some speakers said the board’s action is harmful. Others said the signs have no place in schools, saying they’re political.

Local resident Peggy Kilburg said they should be banned from schools, as well as signs supporting any political position, like National Rifle Association posters.

Robert Till, who is gay and a sophomore at Newberg High School, said he is embarrassed to live in Newberg. He cited an estimate from the Trevor Project, a group that aims to end suicide among LGBTQ young people, that at least one LGBTQ person between the ages of 13–24 attempts suicide every 45 seconds in the U.S.

“A simple pride or BLM flag in a classroom shows the love and acceptance that we need,” Till said, his voice shaking with anger. “Pride flags can literally save someone’s life, and you’re just going to take that away?”

School board chairman Dave Brown, who voted for the sign ban, declared in an earlier Zoom meeting that “I’m not a racist.”

“I work with and will always accept those around me no matter what,” Brown said, an American flag pinned behind him. “I don’t care if they’re gay. I don’t care if they’re white or brown or Black. I work with everybody.”

Shannon defended the ban, which hasn’t been imposed yet.

“I don’t think any of us can deny the fact that these symbols are divisive,” Shannon said. “They’ve divided our community and gotten our attention away from where it needs to be, just teaching the basic fundamentals of education.”

Opponents of the ban say it is the board that is being divisive and distracting from the challenges as educators begin in-person instruction with safety protocols after a year of remote teaching because of COVID-19.

“It has been difficult to see a community divided. You can see the anguish on both sides. It makes being an educator harder than it already was,” said a faculty member at Newberg High School.

Speaking on condition she not be named for fear of being harassed online, she said more students than ever are displaying gay pride and Black Lives Matter symbols on lockers, water bottles and laptops since the board took its vote in August. The ban does not apply to students.

Alexis Small, a 15-year-old high school junior who is Black, believes the members who endorsed the ban simply don’t approve of people who aren’t like them.

“The message that I feel is hate,” Small said in a telephone interview. “I mean, I can’t say that this decision was made out of love or made out of what’s best for people. I genuinely think that they did this out of hate.”

In June 2020 — as Black Lives Matter protests roiled the nation after the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis — the board took a completely different stance, condemning racism and committing to being an anti-racist school district. But conservatives gained a majority in school board elections last May amid a light turnout, and everything changed.

Tai Harden-Moore, a Black candidate who lost, recalls a nasty election. Comments on social media supporting her opponent called Harden-Moore un-American and claimed she hated whites, she said. Her campaign signs were ripped from the ground or left in place — with tree branches placed on top.

“My sign, I’ve got my face on it, and so for them to put the branches on it, it was like this weird link to lynching for me,” Harden-Moore said.

Harden-Moore has joined a group called Newberg Equity in Education, which is advocating for inclusion and equity in Newberg schools.

The Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce told the school board that it has received numerous phone calls and emails from people saying they will boycott Newberg, the valley’s main town.

“As business leaders and owners, we are very concerned about the impact this has on our businesses and on the reputation of our community,” the chamber said, the Newberg Graphic newspaper reported.

Newberg Mayor Rick Rogers told the four conservative board members their actions can hurt the town, which features a dozen wine tasting rooms and a university founded by Quakers.

“While you may believe your actions only affect the school district, please know in truth your actions impact us all. To thrive, Newberg must be welcoming to all,” he wrote.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-africa-caribbean-united-states-middle-east-7954470f191f811d6bcc65542faa6f32

More than a year after Black Lives Matter protests launched a worldwide reckoning about the centuries of racism that Black people continue to face, the question of reparations emerged — unevenly — as a high-profile issue at this year’s largest gathering of world leaders.

At the U.N. General Assembly, African and Caribbean countries that stand to benefit from reparations were backed by other nations, though those most responsible for slavery and colonialism said little about what they might owe to African descendants.

Leaders from Africa (South Africa and Cameroon) to the Caribbean (Saint Kitts & Nevis and Saint Lucia) were joined by representatives of countries that are unlikely to be tapped to pay up — Cuba and Malaysia among them — in explicitly endorsing the creation of reparation systems.

Those missing from the renewed global conversation on the topic, though, were noteworthy as well: the United States, Britain and Germany, wealthy and developed nations built from conquests of varying kinds.

“Caribbean countries like ours, which were exploited and underdeveloped to finance the development of Europe, have put forward a case for reparations for slavery and native genocide, and we expect that case to be treated with the seriousness and urgency it deserves,” said Philip J. Pierre, prime minister of Saint Lucia. “There should be no double standards in the international system in recognizing, acknowledging and compensating victims of crimes against humanity.”

A look at who is and isn’t talking about the issue this past week is a sign that while the movement supporting literal payback to the African continent and the forced diaspora that ravaged it is growing, the substantive engagement of major powers — however apologetic — is limited.

U.S. President Joe Biden, for example, made no mention of it in his address, though the White House earlier this year said it supported studying reparations for Black Americans. And the office of its U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who is African American, wouldn’t comment on the recent reparations discussions.

Monetary atonement for America’s history of slavery is a seminal question in the world’s attempt to reconcile with what South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called “one of the darkest periods in the history of humankind, and a crime of unparalleled barbarity.”

“Its legacy persists in the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and in Africa itself,” Ramaphosa said at a meeting on reparations during the General Assembly. “Millions of the descendants of Africans who were sold into slavery remain trapped in lives of underdevelopment, disadvantage, discrimination and poverty.”

Slavery in what became the United States began more than 400 years ago with slaves forcibly transported by ship from Africa. The debate about reparations has been ongoing ever since slavery was abolished in 1865.

In recent years, the issue has languished in Congress for more than three decades, though reparations have gained traction in a smattering of cities and local governments as the country continues to grapple with fallout from the death of George Floyd in 2020.

Carla Ferstman, an international law expert who studies reparations as a professor at the University of Essex, said the U.N. talks this session mark a significant milestone for the global reparations movement that has been brewing for 20 years.

What remains to be seen is how it unfolds between individual nations — and how transformative the results are. While each reparations program would specifically be between the perpetrators and the victims’ descendants, the conversation to rectify wrongs in history has now become universal.

“It’s universal,” Ferstman said, “because inequity is universal.”

Valued reparations to address harm could come in the form of direct financial payments for individuals, developmental aid for countries, the return of colonized land, treasured artifacts and cultural items, systemic corrections of policies and laws that may still oppress, and the kind of full-throated apologies and acknowledgements that wipe aside certain historical figures that were once celebrated as national heroes.

“People perceive their harms in very different ways — this perception of how the wrongs happened and how they manifested in terms of later generations,” Ferstman said. “One needs to be sensitive to what is important and how to best rectify.”

The latest discussions on reparations came as the U.N. commemorated an important but contentious 2001 anti-racism conference in South Africa that resulted in what is known as the Durban Declaration.

A new resolution adopted at the commemoration meeting last Wednesday acknowledged some progress but deplored what it called a rise in discrimination, violence and intolerance directed at people of African heritage and many other groups — from the Roma to refugees, the young to the old, people with disabilities to displaced people.

There was even a discussion devoted to reparations, though it didn’t go unnoticed during that talk that last week’s new declaration stopped short of demanding nations must pay reparations to those their government harmed.

It said only that there should be a way for descendants to seek “just and adequate reparation or satisfaction for any damage suffered.” That was despite the U.N. Human Rights Council’s explicit recommendation for reparations in a major milestone report in June.

“While reparations could not compensate or right all the wrongs that had been done against the people of African descent, they could go a long way in addressing systemic racism that still lingers in the society today, in bringing about a level playing field to realize their true potentials,” Syed Mohamad Hasrin Aidid, head of Malaysia’s U.N. mission, said at Wednesday’s meeting.

The United States, Britain and Germany were among the dozens of countries that didn’t attend the Durban commemoration last week because of persisting grievances about the conference 20 years ago, when the U.S. boycotted it over references to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. U.N. officials for Britain and Germany didn’t immediately respond for requests to comment.

But Germany’s president, in his General Assembly address, also didn’t mention reparations, though his is one of the few countries that have directed money to make up for its colonial-era actions.

Early this year, Germany officially recognized the massacre of tens of thousands of people in Namibia as genocide and agreed to provide 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for projects that are expected to stretch over 30 years to help the communities affected. That announcement pointedly did not label Germany’s initiative as formal reparations.

 

[Three Berries]

I heard the Dems have disowned BLM? I heard it here!

 

[mooray]

I heard the Dems have disowned BLM? I heard it here!

Let's say a person does something shitty while carrying the US flag. Would you then say the action wasn't shitty, because they did it while carrying a flag? Likewise, BLM as an ideology has no dependency on the BLM organization, and if the BLM organization does something shitty, it doesn't somehow ruin the ideology.

 

[hanimmal]

I heard the Dems have disowned BLM? I heard it here!

Really, wow since you have such a stellar record of not being a troll, I guess we should believe you!

 

[Three Berries]

Let's say a person does something shitty while carrying the US flag. Would you then say the action wasn't shitty, because they did it while carrying a flag? Likewise, BLM as an ideology has no dependency on the BLM organization, and if the BLM organization does something shitty, it doesn't somehow ruin the ideology.

Oh maybe it's their millionaire organizers?????

 

[mooray]

Oh maybe it's their millionaire organizers?????

I don't follow you.

 

[Three Berries]

Really, wow since you have such a stellar record of not being a troll, I guess we should believe you!

It was in one of your ChiCom sponsored threads here or one you were LOLing in. Hope you get more than a dollar a post.....

 

[Three Berries]

I don't follow you.

BLM founder called a 'fraud' for buying $1.4m home in white LA neighborhood

A BLACK Lives Matter co-founder has been branded a “fraud” for buying a $1.4m home in a largely white district of LA. Patrisse Cullors, 37, who calls herself a “trained Marxist…

www.the-sun.com

 

[mooray]

BLM founder called a 'fraud' for buying $1.4m home in white LA neighborhood

A BLACK Lives Matter co-founder has been branded a “fraud” for buying a $1.4m home in a largely white district of LA. Patrisse Cullors, 37, who calls herself a “trained Marxist…

www.the-sun.com

I thought I addressed that....no?

Fuck the BLM org, but not the ideology.

 

[hanimmal]

It was in one of your ChiCom sponsored threads here or one you were LOLing in. Hope you get more than a dollar a post.....

I don't get paid to post, I know that is a alien concept to you paid propaganda spam trolls.

BLM founder called a 'fraud' for buying $1.4m home in white LA neighborhood

A BLACK Lives Matter co-founder has been branded a “fraud” for buying a $1.4m home in a largely white district of LA. Patrisse Cullors, 37, who calls herself a “trained Marxist…

www.the-sun.com

lmao 'the sun'. You are really really bad at this.

I thought I addressed that....no?

Fuck the BLM org.

This is just more propaganda that triggers these idiots.

 

[Three Berries]

I thought I addressed that....no?

Fuck the BLM org, but not the ideology.

Well you need to rebrand and put out a better image. Burning down the house is not the way to woo peeps.

 

[Three Berries]

I don't get paid to post, I know that is a alien concept to you paid propaganda spam trolls.



lmao 'the sun'. You are really really bad at this.


This is just more propaganda that triggers these idiots.

I can find other sources. So can you. I just googled it.... LOL at the ills of your ideolog as it destroys all..

 

[mooray]

Well you need to rebrand and put out a better image. Burning down the house is not the way to woo peeps.

So then I guess you need to rebrand the US flag, because retards are carrying it while committing felonies...?

 

[hanimmal]

I can find other sources. So can you. I just googled it.... LOL at the ills of your ideolog as it destroys all..

Feel free. I am sure that what you find won't be bullshit.

 

[Fogdog]

I can find other sources. So can you. I just googled it.... LOL at the ills of your ideolog as it destroys all..

Since when has owning a few homes become a crime? Patrisse Cullors built a resilient and massively effective organization that stripped away political cover for police brutality toward Black people. Of course she draws fire from right wing white nationalists. She's an effective leader and helped nudge this country toward being a better place.

 

[CatHedral]

Since when has owning a few homes become a crime? Patrisse Cullors built a resilient and massively effective organization that stripped away political cover for police brutality toward Black people. Of course she draws fire from right wing white nationalists. She's an effective leader and helped nudge this country toward being a better place.

When it gives “those people” an effective way to penetrate bastions of whiteness. The actual crime is success.