Jo Ann Hardesty says she's the angry black woman Portland City Council needs.

Willamette Week ^ | May 2, 2018 | WW Staff

[nwrep]

Portland, OREGON: No matter who gets sworn in next January, the dynamics of City Hall will change.

This City Hall race features six contenders: former state Rep. Jo Ann Hardesty (D-Portland), two-term Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith, architect Stuart Emmons, mayoral aide and David Douglas School Board member Andrea Valderrama, and Felicia Williams, the business manager at her partner's biotech firm, as well as perennial candidate Lew Humble.

We've concluded that Hardesty, a Navy veteran, county aide and nonprofit leader, is the best person for the job.

Hardesty is not without flaws. She doesn't always work well with others, can be arrogant to a fault and is sometimes guilty of acting first and thinking later. (In 2016, she got in an argument with a fellow critic of the Portland Police Bureau and threatened her: "The only way I'll be in jail is if I whip your ass. That might happen.")

While Hardesty can lose her temper, she is easily the most knowledgeable candidate running, one who demonstrated granular awareness of police reform, economic justice and housing policy. We hope she will maintain her independence but find ways to work with the rest of the council.

In America's whitest big city, where leaders pay lip service to equity and then drift back to bikes and bioswales, Hardesty works from a position of sustained outrage—and appropriately so.

[Pravious]

... and why does ANYWHERE need any more angry black women? Aren’t there enough of them on the planet?

[antidemoncrat]

This is what amazes me. After years of Democratic rule the people keeping electing more Democrats to fix the problems they have created based on the same promises.

[bboop]

Oh, yeh, that’s what this world needs is more angry black women.

[dfwgator]

.. and why does ANYWHERE need any more angry black women?

I don't know if Diamond and Silk, would qualify, but they certainly work for me.

[Pravious]

Good point. I was thinking more of those hog-like creatures that regularly rip up fast food joints because they didn’t have onions on their triple cheeseburgers.

[rhubarbk]

I read the article & the comments . . . just another run of the mill “activist” with less than admirable qualities plus a non-honorable discharge. Not a good choice.

[Thibodeaux]

Genuine dyed in the wool exslave Amritrash

[dfwgator]

Sometimes a black “angry” woman is a good thing if they’re conservative, they aren’t afraid to say the things that most whites are afraid to say.

[caww]

Close copy Imo....Michelle Obama just had handlers that finally shut her up because she was hurting Obama when she spoke.....and she was furious about it!

[NorthMountain]

Diamond and Silk don't strike me as angry, just loud. Very loud. If their real personalities mirror their internet personalities, I would probably not find their company particularly pleasant.

I hope it's just an act, and they know how to turn it off.

[jmaroneps37]

I hope she wins. Seeing a Crazy Democrat win pushes the evil donkey closer to the cliff.

[Blogatron]

Wash her and bring her to me.

[trebb]

Too funny! Angry Black women/men/boys/girls are a dime thousand.....

[4yearlurker]

Uhh...okay...I think....whateves.

[Osage Orange]

one who demonstrated granular awareness

What?

[Osage Orange]

That’s a man, baby...!!

[newgeezer]

"That's a MAN baby!"

DING, DING, DING! We have a winner!

I agree with you.

[aquila48]

She’s one ugly broad.

[soupbone1]

Mick Jagger in blackface.

[aquila48]

“In America’s whitest big city, where leaders pay lip service to equity and then drift back to bikes and bioswales, Hardesty works from a position of sustained outrage—and appropriately so.”

The guilt ridden, self hating whites of Portland will gladly elect her so she can inflict penance on them and thus absolve them of their sins of being white.