[MSN] A new city policy requiring public signs on brick buildings warning they might collapse in an earthquake is part of a long history of white supremacy aimed at forcing black people to move out of neighborhoods, the NAACP of Portland, Oregon, says.
The group on Thursday decried the policy affecting some 1,600 unreinforced masonry buildings that are on average 90 years old, many in areas with a predominantly black population, The Oregonian/OregonLive reports.
The policy "exacerbates a long history of systemic and structural betrayals of trust and policies of displacement, demolition, and dispossession predicated on classism, racism, and white supremacy," the group said.
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*Boggle* No *Double Face Palm Time*.
Here is the link to the Oregonian/OregonLive article. They are serious about this.
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Good grief... they really do think it's all about them, don't they?
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Good grief... they really do think it's all about them, don't they?
Secretive, paranoid, distrustful of the white man, 'his' economics, education, religion, and politics. Not much has changed in over 300 hundred years. Not much is likely to change in the next.
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The city said its database of unreinforced masonry buildings has existed since 1995 “and has been known to building owners, lenders and insurers for over two decades.”
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The way I read this is: Although (or maybe because) Portland is as white as any big city in the country, the city leaders would rather eat a pepper than display anything that might be construed as racism. There are a lot of commercial building owners who don't want the signs going up because they think the signs will hurt the value of their property. So, the building owners enlisted the NAACP as allies. Therefore, the building owners win the game of identity politics. It's pretty brilliant when you think about it. Makes no sense in terms of earthquake preparedness, but it fits right in with the Narrative.
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Unreinforced masonry is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Therefore, the building owners win the game of identity politics.
Community organizers going to the highest bidder; color me not surprised.
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IMO,people who keep looking for racism everywhere will eventually find it.
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So I'm to believe that black people are attracted to unreinforced masonry? Or are unreinforced masonry buildings easier for black people to afford because they are, for some unknown reason, less valuable than a stronger building, thereby not able to command the same rent?
Smalls was a loyal Republican. On August 22, 1912, he wrote to U.S. Senator Knute Nelson, "I never lose sight of the fact that had it not been for the Republican Party, I never would have been an office-holder of any kind—from 1862 to the present."[26] In words that became famous, he described his party as "the party of Lincoln ... which unshackled the necks of four million human beings". He wrote this line on September 12, 1912, in a letter expressing his anxiety over the looming presidential election.[27] He concluded that letter, "I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast, would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place.
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Ok,
Put up signs instructing them to run into unreinforced masonry structures in any seismic event.
Problem solved, or will be solved next time you have an earthquake.
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ The federal agency tasked with guaranteeing U.S. airport security acknowledged an increase in the number of its employees calling off work during the partial government shutdown .
Employees of the Transportation Security Administration are expected to work without pay during the shutdown because their jobs are considered essential.
The TSA said in a statement Friday that call outs that began over the holiday period have increased. The agency did not say how many of its employees have called out, but it said the call outs have had "minimal impact given that there are 51,739 employees supporting the screening process." The statement said wait times "may be affected" but so far "remain well within TSA standards."
"TSA is closely monitoring the situation," the agency statement said. "Security effectiveness will not be compromised."
The Department of Homeland Security and President Donald Trump pushed back Saturday on suggestions that the call outs represented a "sickout" that was having significant consequences on U.S. air travel. White House officials and congressional aides were in talks Saturday to end the shutdown, which entered its 15th day. Negotiations are at an impasse over Trump’s demands for $5.6 billion to fund a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
TSA spokesman Michael Bilello tweeted that 5.5 percent of the TSA workforce at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport called out Friday, compared with 3.5 percent on a normal day. He said wait times "may be affected" but that all passengers would be screened as normal.
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Obviously, a job that needs to be turned over to the airlines. See - El Al
They don't want it because they then assume liability which they got their congresscritters to pick up on 9/12 to protect their ASSets for hiring a bunch of retired doughnut cops to man the screening stations.
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Perhaps these TSA folks are calling in sick because they are jealous that they are not getting the same paid vacation as other non-essential gov't workers.
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Uh huh.
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Passing through Philly airport several years ago, I actually saw a TSA agent confiscate eyelash curlers from an elderly woman. And we wonder why the security lines take so long.
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Not a failure, reminds me of the tower operators in the 80's. We, the people that elected him want the wall. When the politicians that just want the debate of immigration during elections are hating this. WE WILL GET THE WALL.
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This is a 100% W Bush failure. There was no reason to nationalize the security operations in airports. Government overreach.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The education of the star-studded class of House freshmen has begun.
Lesson one: Speaking with the bluntness of a candidate can produce swift and uncomfortable results.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib learned that before lunch Friday, when her profane remarks the night before vowing to impeach President Donald Trump
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Remember Donk 'intense' and 'passionate' is racist and white supremacist for a Trunk.
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NEW YORK (AP) ‐ The federal agency tasked with guaranteeing U.S. airport security acknowledged an increase in the number of its employees calling off work during the partial government shutdown .
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The education of the star-studded class of House freshmen has begun.
