Portland to pay $8.5M settlement to descendants of displaced Black families

OPB ^ | 6/5/2025 | Kyra Buckley

[simpson96]

2025 Portland City Council.

[No name given]

The city council of Portland is downright crazy.

[JZelle]

It’s ok, blacks gonna make it right for whitey in 200 years.

[frank ballenger]

The “displacement” has been true for all types of neighborhoods since the 1950s. The Detroit blues places on Hastings Street in the so called black bottom area recorded a few of the artists in historic places that, along with hundreds of homes, had to be bulldozed for the new construction of the freeways. One was John Lee Hooker.

And really recently (just before 2000 or so) Little Caesar’s Pizza owner quietly bought up land and forced people out of poor areas to build his new Comerica Park for the Tigers and the stores and restaurants and Detroit Red Wings hockey area-—almost all of the people displaced were poor and black. Places with collapsing ceilings and peeling lead paint made way for “District Detroit.”

[doc maverick]

That’s Portland for you. It’s the outhouse of Oregon.

[Midwesterner53]

Every penny will be spent in a month.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Fine. It’s not our money. If I was a Portland resident It’d be different so who cares?

[popdonnelly]

The only slaves in Portland were the Chinese.

[zeestephen]

The Washington state legislature has recently created a Reparations Study Group.

The USA Political Left never walks away from any kind of Cash Back fantasy.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Many, many more white families than black have been displaced for freeway construction in the Portland area over the years. Where’s their multi-million-dollar settlement?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I can't remember ever seeing a Negro in Portland.

[BipolarBob]

What about the Native Americans???

[Racketeer]

It is a shame politicians feel they must pay money in order to earn support.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

How about compensating the Japanese there were displaced during WWII.

[D_Idaho]

There are more “Black Lives Matter” signs in Oregon than there are actual black residents.

[TangoLimaSierra]

How about compensating the Japanese there were displaced during WWII.

How about the Japanese compensating Americans living there who were interned or disappeared during WWII.

We treated the Japanese here a whole lot better than the Japanese treated us over there.

[EinNYC]

Then Portland is even more stupid than I thought. Gullible white libtards being played.

[mo]

Wonder what percentage winds up back in city council members pockets?

[where's_the_Outrage?]

How about the Japanese compensating Americans living there who were interned or disappeared during WWII.

And how many of those interned were Japanese citizens?

The US Government interned US Citizens, kind of like the Covid overreach.

Denying non citizens rights is kind of like deporting illegal aliens.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I can't remember ever seeing a Negro in Portland.

That does not seem possible.