On Friday, Jan. 26, the Sun Journal published articles on pages A2 and A3 that were obviously connected. The articles caused me to stop and wonder in sadness and dismay. The story “Flashes of Memory” (page A2), concerning holocaust victims recounting atrocities of the Nazi regime via photo displays, caused my sadness. The story on […]
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Attorney alleges racial profiling by state police in Portland traffic stop
Warning: This video includes graphic language The attorney for a man charged with illegally re-entering the United States presented police video recordings in federal court Wednesday that he says show a state trooper’s decision to stop and detain a van filled with Spanish-speaking men on Interstate 295 in Portland was a case of racial profiling […]
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Leonard Pitts: Let’s talk about ‘America on black’ crime
OK, fine. Let’s talk about “black on black” crime. That, after all, is where the conversation seems to inevitably turn whenever one seeks to engage a conservative on the American habit of shooting unarmed African-American boys and men. So it was exasperating, but nowhere near surprising, to see former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani go […]
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Blacks in Portland arrested at ‘disproportionate’ rate, police chief admits
PORTLAND — Portland’s black population is underrepresented on the city’s police force and overrepresented in the arrest logs, Police Chief Michael Sauschuck told an audience of more than 50 people Monday night. Of Portland’s approximately 66,000 residents, 7 percent are black, according to 2010 U.S. Census figures. Sauschuck said on Monday night that out of […]
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L. Tabor: Do away with racial labels
Who is perpetuating racism? If a direct ancestor came from Russia some 200 years ago, does that mean a person now is a Russian-American? If ancestors came from Spain, are descendants all Spanish-American? If they came from Africa, are all descendants African-American? It seems so, and it does not matter if it was 10 years […]