Thanks. Just trying to offer a bit of clarity on a very, very complicated local issue gamed by local Progressive power-brokers via infested City government.
Addendum: I neglected the link to the NYT piece, "Racial Shift in a Progressive City Spurs Talks", where I referenced
...and here's a pre-PAALF article on Portland's 'gentrification' (barf alert...NYT & lots of 'Progressive-relative discussion, but important if you care to understand what the Trader Joe's controversy is all about).
discussing the 'gentrification' which, again, is only a very small part of it. Only <7% of Portland is Black...the 'land-game' is a City-wide problem. The race issue is a distraction, and the ironic thing is that Portland still doesn't have enough $$ to fix potholes, but Million$$ to build Bioswales & anti-car HDH-subsidized developments...
That’s the most amazing showing of white guilt I’ve seen in ages... I’m speechless...
Again - thanks for the insights and background...
From your link:
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Last month, Joan Laufer, who is white and who moved into a house in Northeast in 2006, stood up to express gratitude to a black minister for describing how hard it was for blacks to get home improvement loans and for addressing some sensitive stereotypes.
“I’ve learned two things about all you guys already — why the houses aren’t fixed up and why you guys are riding around in all these big flashy cars,” Ms. Laufer, 55, a nurse practitioner, said.
At one point, she also asked blacks what she should call them — blacks or African-Americans.
An older black woman in the front replied, “People.”