Posted on 09/24/2010 11:44:49 AM PDT by penelopesire
Approximately 10 minutes into the speech the moderator informs the public not to film. The citizen continues to film, stating it is his First Amendment Right. The camera is smashed into his face. This is clearly seen on the video.
This event was sponsored by a local news station and there were cameras from that station inside the room during this event.
Portland, Oregon is one of the most liberal cities in the country, has over 100 strip joints (which is a huge number for a city of that size), and is a mecca for child prostitution. The three things aren’t merely coincidental.
BTW, Nashville, TN is slightly larger than Portland and has only 14 strip clubs.
You insulted the entire state of Oregon and all of our people. There actually are so smart people in this state. I don’t go to strip clubs, and I have not seen any child prostitutes, either.
“Or perhaps you think freedom of the press means he has the right to gather whatever information he wants, whether anyone wants to provide it or not?
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You’re being retarded.
Call the Waaaambulance.
Fitzy found the name and I found his pic. Looks like the dude to me:
From a post elsewhere:
Charles McGee
President and CEO - The Black Parent Initiative
Charles.McGee [at] thebpi.org
(503) 493-9722
The Black Parent Initiative
2811 NE Holman
Portland, OR 97211
http://www.thebpi.org/html/contact.html
Charles McGee also of the “Self Ehancement, Inc.” of Northeast Portland.
194 posted on Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:51:27 PM by Fitzy_888 (”ownership society”)
http://wweek.com/editorial/3424/10838/
Say Amen, Somebody
African-American ministers struggle to make their voices heard in America’s whitest city.
[April 23rd, 2008]
The national spotlight has rarely glared so brightly on the pulpits of America’s estimated 75,000 African-American churches as it did Sunday morning, March 23. It was Easter Sunday, but the national media dedicated that Sunday to coverage of how those churches would react to one man, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
On the cable news networks, incendiary excerpts from the 2001 and 2003 sermons of Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor were airing more regularly than Pennsylvania poll numbers: God damn America! God damn America! God damn America! Six days earlier, Obama himself had delivered a historic speech in Philadelphia, in which the Democratic presidential front-runner would declare of Wright, “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”
Meanwhile in Portland, 2,000 miles away from Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, senior pastor W.G. Hardy stood in a royal-blue frock at the wooden dais of his purple-carpeted sanctuary at Highland Christian Center, which also is part of the United Church of Christ. Three cameramen beamed his image to a jumbo screen behind him and five other televisions in the balconies.
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“Anyone who knows a tad bit about African-American history knows what kind of role the church plays in African-American life,” said Charles McGee, co-founder of the Black Parent Initiative, which seeks to organize churches for social activism. “The church is more than just a spiritual vehicle. The church has been the singular place for black people to express themselves. The church was the place where they [could] go to get away from a week of disappointment—a place where they could yell.”
(end snip)
and assault people I guess too...(eye roll)
The article above is a goldmine:
(snip)
The Newest Organizers
Charles McGee is also convinced that African-American churches need to build up reserves of political capital.
He just doesn’t think the ministers should be doing it.
“They did fantastic work,” McGee says. “They did work that was tremendous for that time and that hour. [But] it’s really clear to me that a new day has come.”
McGee is no stranger to challenging older men. He is 22 years old. At 19, he ran for a seat on the Portland School Board and placed third out of seven candidates with 4,482 votes. After losing that race, McGee re-evaluated his political approach.
“We’re having all these conversations about helping African-American children,” he recalls of the campaign, “and I look around the room and don’t see many African-American people.”
So McGee founded the Black Parent Initiative, a Portland advocacy group designed to “inspire, empower and mobilize black parents in hopes of closing the educational achievement gap.”
BPI was initially funded by a $100,000 grant from the City of Portland’s general fund and an additional $50,000 grant from Portland Public Schools. It operates out of a vinyl-sided house turned makeshift office on Northeast Dekum Street. But its organizational base is African-American churches.
BPI has begun recruiting churches to join—encouraging members of the congregations to attend leadership-training seminars in which they are instructed how to advocate at schools, in public meetings and in the media.
Hardy, while admiring BPI’s aims, is skeptical of McGee’s post-pastor model. “I think most pastors do encourage their congregations to become active in schools [and] the political arena…I’d love to see it move beyond [ministers]; I don’t think it ever will.”
So far, 11 churches have agreed to join BPI. Most are small: places like the Church of the True Vine, with 80 members, and True Believers Christian Center, with 60 members. The ministers at these churches are a little younger—True Vine pastor Rev. Dwight Minnieweather is 47, and True Believers pastor Rev. Andre Young is 37—and they are less interested than previous generations in speaking on behalf of their congregations.
“There is a social place in society for the church,” says Minnieweather, sitting at the BPI conference table, where BPI lead organizer Ron Williams has invited him for an interview with WW before his Sunday, April 6, worship service.
Minnieweather is clearly not accustomed to talking to reporters: He seems shy, and he often glances down at a sheet of talking points he’s prepared for the interview. “I need to take my congregation from the smaller church world to the larger world.”
McGee says the tentative steps taken by Young and Minnieweather will reap rewards by empowering their congregations to move beyond waiting for a commanding pastor to lead them on each and every political question. And as the nation debates Jeremiah Wright’s legacy, McGee is fashioning BPI in the mold of Barack Obama’s early church-organizing efforts in Chicago.
“At the end of the day,” McGee says, “we will have to deliver for our families and our children. The singular leadership model is losing traction. That leader, and we’ve seen it nationally, can and will be torn down. We will not find another Martin. We will not find another Malcolm. People will have to do it for themselves.”
The guy that committed battery (Posey):
“He was just totally disrespectful,” Posey said. ”I’m not particularly proud of it but that’s what happened.”
http://blogs.wweek.com/news/2010/09/24/politics-as-a-contact-sport/
According to some comments, “Posey” ran for Mayor of Portland in 2006 with the slogan “Pick a Posey”.
Yep, I just read that a bit ago googling around for updates. It looks like on the tape though, that McGee was the one who punched him. I’m confused now...lol.
The attitude of “tolerance” is why Portland has so many child prostitutes. Just search for “child prostitution” and “Portland” and you will come up with many hits.
“The freedom to assemble doesn’t mean “freedom to assemble film footage.””
The govt has stated there is no expectation of privacy in a public place. This is a public official giving an official speech.
What laws limit this kids right to film this event?
Whatever
Why are you splitting hairs about this?
Gads..he sounds like a Van Jones wannabe. His organization got state funding and no telling what else. That church is a sister church to Rev. Wright’s church as well.
Just following the Dear Leaders orders of “get in their faces.”
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