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Readers respond: Do Black lives really matter in Portland?
The Oregonian ^ | April 16, 2023 | By Letters to the editor

Posted on 04/16/2023 8:26:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: blackdog

20M to black people so they don’t kill other blacks


21 posted on 04/16/2023 9:32:07 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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To: heartwood

I think we all know the answer to that question.


22 posted on 04/16/2023 9:49:40 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: Roadrunner383

Better yet, bring back the death penalty!


23 posted on 04/16/2023 9:50:00 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: blackdog

New York, Los Angeles, Denver, San Francisco and Chicago all come to mind.


24 posted on 04/16/2023 9:50:45 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

The sooner we implement those two things in those cities, the better.


25 posted on 04/16/2023 9:51:32 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Black lives matter, but they are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overvalued. 13% of a nation ruined the 87%.
26 posted on 04/16/2023 9:52:52 AM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
47% of Portland murder victims were Black.

Just 5.6% of Portland's population is Black.

It would be interesting to know the race of all the arrested murder suspects.

Nationally, only about 40% of Black murders result in a murder prosecution.

About 80% of white murders are prosecuted.

Many USA Hispanics now identify as white, so it is hard to determine an accurate prosecution number. Twenty years ago, about 60% of Hispanic murders were prosecuted.

27 posted on 04/16/2023 9:55:51 AM PDT by zeestephen (43,000)
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To: PGR88
BLM was a top-down radical politics street-agitation movement.

That's what it became. It started out as just another race-grifting scam with the founders using all the millions in donations to buy expensive mansions where the white people live.
28 posted on 04/16/2023 10:43:02 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak
It started out as just another race-grifting scam with the founders using all the millions in donations

No. Even a mere financial scam based on race-baiting needs protection from the law to grow. That's where it needed protection from prosecution. That's what the DOJ gave.

BLM founders visited the White House something like 50 times. Petty financial scammers do not have such access.

And then especially when one goes onto the streets - that's a challenge to the Deep State. At minimum, the security state (again DOJ/FBI) will most certainly want to know who you are. Beyond that, they will seek to control, manipulate and guide.

No one knows exactly how "organic" vs. "controlled" BLM was - but it should be clear, they had very obvious interactions with the Obama/Holder regime.

29 posted on 04/16/2023 10:55:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: escapefromboston

I do care about the innocent blank persons who are murdered, on a regular basis unfortunately, including wee infants and the elderly.

This is why I despise “Black Lives Matter”. They are in the side of the murderers.


30 posted on 04/16/2023 11:08:20 AM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2022/2022-pdx-problem-analysis-public-version.pdf

This was the best info I could find. Between 2019 and 2021, 41% of homicide suspects were black. Some interesting graphs that show the increase in homicides in Portland began in 2017 exploded in 2019.

31 posted on 04/16/2023 11:08:25 AM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I didn’t know there were any blacks in Portland.

Or Seattle.

Or any of those north-west Yankee places that condescend to the rest of us, and throw riots to prove how tolerant they are.


32 posted on 04/16/2023 2:02:06 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: jocon307

Hate to be cynical, but being honest means lots of those black people murdered, in their cities, are not “innocent” and just as likely would’ve shot someone else. Most probably just became the victim before they were the perp.

As for the bystanders like children and others, yes. I feel sorry for the truly innocent.


33 posted on 04/16/2023 2:03:59 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

At one time I think the only blacks in Portland were the members of the Trailblazers.


34 posted on 04/16/2023 2:04:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Just increase and train the police force and ENFORCE THE LAWS! Rescind any laws that favor the criminal like 1000dollars-a-day free shoplifting privileges. Then get rid of any prosecutor that was elected or appointed with Soros money and fire any prosecutor whose main aim is not getting convictions and prison time for criminals.


35 posted on 04/16/2023 2:14:40 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe ci)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Some serious black vigilantism is needed now that white people in the cities are so afraid that black people and college grads won’t love them.


36 posted on 04/16/2023 2:16:24 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: Dr. Sivana

Only one neighborhood in the entire state of Oregon is black. And that is where all the killing are. The gangbangers love shooting each other. It is so common the media and sheriff’s department never shows mugshots.


37 posted on 04/16/2023 2:35:37 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“As for the bystanders like children and others, yes. I feel sorry for the truly innocent.”

Sorry to go on and on, but it just makes me INSANE.

I don’t know where you live, but I have lived my entire life in NYC and the Metro area. For decades and decades I’ve read story after story about some poor black person gunned down, not you know some fellow gangster, but just a person. Too often a child, or some old person, or just some ordinary person going about their business.

I think that for me the worst, stupidest, one was the guy on his way to do his wash at the laundromat who was shot to death for the roll of quarters he had. Not sure when that was, but 25 years ago, at least.

And, now, now they come up with “Black Lives Matter” and don’t you dare say any others do. And it’s not about that guy trying to wash his clothes, or any of the other countless black victims of crime. No, it’s the few miserable miscreants who manage to screw up that one last time and get their just or unjust deserts. (Yes, there is malfeasance by the police at times, but that affects people of all races.)

It’s maddening.


38 posted on 04/16/2023 7:42:40 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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