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| Portland Mayor, Police Chief attending $56,000 diversity training for white male managers |
| 2014-07-09 |
| [OREGONLIVE] The city of Portland is sending 16 white male employees and managers, including Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Mike Reese, to a three-day diversity training conference at a Mt. Hood-area resort this week. The training, run by the company White Men as Full Diversity Partners, costs $56,000 and will be funded in part by Hales' office and the Portland Police Bureau. According to Hales' office, the training focuses on eliminating racism, sexism and homophobia in organizations. The 16 staffers will be at the conference from 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday at 2:30 p.m. The Portland-based White Men as Full Diversity Partners (WMFDP) chose to host the training at The Resort at the Mountain in Welches at the foot of Mt. Hood. "Most of the city's top administration is white and male," a Hales spokesperson said in an email. "In order to address inequities in the city, the white male leadership needs a deep understanding of the Portland community in its wholeness and complexity." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Raj nailed it. That is a reeducation camp, and we let them slip it in on us. Inch by inch. |
| Posted by: Lowspark 2014-07-09 17:24 |
| #9 Hale is a democrat. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-07-09 14:36 |
| #8 This article may offer a different perspective, and give us all a little more breathing room. By Thomas Sowell, always a breath of fresh air. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-07-09 14:02 |
| #7 I'll probably wake up one morning and find that NSA has hacked all of Rantburg's files and we will all be invited to diversity/sensitivity training at the local FEMA gulag. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-09 13:16 |
| #6 I remember the online diversity class I had to take for my employer. There were little quizzes along the way. The only way I could get through them was to give the answers that I thought were wrong. Seriously, I never thought of myself as a racist. I certainly don't hate people because of their race. But now I know better because I can't bring myself to agree with Affirmative Action. Shame, shame on me. I know now that I'm a bad, bad person...an angry old white guy. But I was lucky. That class only took an hour or so. Three days stuck at a resort with some weenie brow beating me the whole time and I might go right 'round the bend. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-07-09 11:44 |
| #5 High crime neighbourhoods are based on certain races. That needs looking at Jesse Jackson and Co!The answer is why?Work ethic comes to mind! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2014-07-09 09:58 |
| #4 LGBTQ? Isn't there some redundancy in this? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-09 09:01 |
| #3 Like football. Soon to become flag football should they agree on colors other than green. |
| Posted by: Dale 2014-07-09 08:46 |
| #2 By NOT attending these sessions regardless of the reason, it is immediately assumed [by liberal lawyers], that you [as a non-person of colour] have failed to do everything possible to rid yourself of inherent racism. You failed to take the prescribed gov't medicine, therefore you are automatically negligent and assumed to be sick, and through extension guilty of racism. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-09 01:48 |
| #1 Off to reeducation camp with youse! |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-07-09 00:39 |