Posted on 06/11/2020 5:43:25 PM PDT by Revel
The mayor of Portland, Oregon, announced that all city employees will receive 40 hours of bereavement leave to “grieve and reflect” over 400 years of black people being oppressed.
Mayor Ted Wheeler sent an email to all city employees on Monday informing them that they will receive the uncontested paid time off to mourn racial disparity in response to the death of George Floyd, according to the Portland Tribune.
“As a nation and as a City we continue to grieve the recent loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and others in the country and in our community,” Wheeler’s email said. “We acknowledge that Black employees are experiencing a collective grief and trauma coming from a culmination of oppression that is over 400 years old.”
The email continued: “We hear and understand that many of our employees, especially our BiPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) employees, are deeply impacted by these recent events and are hurting. I want to give our employees space to grieve and reflect: 40 hours of bereavement leave as allowed under HRAR (Human Resources Administrative Rules) 6.03.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
If the multiples monuments and statues are removed and history erased, then did slavery ever exist?
He should have used those few million to clean up and repair his city...
Remember, we’re all in this (your wallet) together!
The US founded 1789
Not the Babylon Bee.
Lots of checking required these days.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
400 years and most of those employees probably have an average age of around 40 so they’ve only lived 1/10 of those years...
so if you must just give them 1/10 of the money $40 each then collect it back to repair the city ...as loyal oppressed people they will be glad to contribute...
Note: In my spare moments I pen articles for the Babylon Bee.
The US founded 1789
Died 2020
Cause of Death: Suicide
Sorry Babylon Bee, the Onion, et al., you had a nice run.
Erased from existence. ...
https://youtu.be/WAQbRFZU7rE
Everyone knows where this is going, right?
Can you say George Floyd federal holiday?
Everybody is to use that day to get on their knees in the public square.
A random white person will be executed by black thugs as part of the festivities.
You heard it here first!
Everything that’s happening all across our country is sheer lunacy.....
Since these 40 hours are being given to compensate for 400 years of slavery, then doesn’t that mean that anyone accepting this time off would be “fully compensated” and would no longer have a grievance?
Sounds like a fair trade: give every African American 2 weeks off, and we will stop talking about race forever.
Love Portlandia and Armisten Need to binge. Thanx for the clip. I tested and I’m from the Mediterranean (grandparents from Sicily) and England and Ireland (my mom’s side) as i thought. I guess that is still white. But every one came through Sicily at one time or another
O.K., Mayor.
If you need to reach me, I’ll be spending the week grieving at the beach. And I’ll be very sad while I’m there, I promise.
Why do we have a House and Senate when Mayors and Govenors write their own laws by edict?
That’s mighty big of him, throwing around the taxpayer’s money.
Yup, they elected it, didn’t they?
A former co-worker took his paternity leave that way.
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