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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
NAACP links earthquake signs in Oregon to white supremacy
2019-01-06
[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.
Posted by:Fred

#16  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.
Posted by: Gomez Elmolurong6499   2019-01-06 22:27  

#15  using that same convoluted logic; trailer-dwellers attract tornados
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-01-06 17:00  

#14  SC Congressman Robert Smalls 1839-1915

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.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-06 15:11  

#13  #5 Wonder how they'll 'Blame Whitey' when some of these buildings collapse, say after a 5.0 quake?

They'll figure something out.

They always do.
Posted by: charger   2019-01-06 13:53  

#12  "It'll come down like a ton of bricks."
-Grand Wizard Duke, San Francisco 1906




Kewpie Doll for Matt.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-01-06 13:43  

#11  Only one possibility, Gorb: obviously black people hate reinforcing steel.
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-06 13:00  

#10  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?
Posted by: gorb   2019-01-06 12:15  

#9  IMO,people who keep looking for racism everywhere will eventually find it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-01-06 11:31  

#8  Therefore, the building owners win the game of identity politics.

Community organizers going to the highest bidder; color me not surprised.
Posted by: Crash Dark Lord of the Veal Cutlets1879   2019-01-06 10:44  

#7  Unreinforced masonry is a disaster waiting to happen.
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-06 09:40  

#6  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.
Posted by: Matt   2019-01-06 09:10  

#5  Wonder how they'll 'Blame Whitey' when some of these buildings collapse, say after a 5.0 quake?
Posted by: Raj   2019-01-06 08:49  

#4  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.”

Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-01-06 06:04  

#3  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.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-06 06:01  

#2  Good grief... they really do think it's all about them, don't they?
Posted by: Dave D.   2019-01-06 05:43  

#1  *Boggle* No *Double Face Palm Time*.
Here is the link to the Oregonian/OregonLive article. They are serious about this.
Posted by: magpie   2019-01-06 01:03  

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