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Portland mayor gives every city employee 40 hours of paid time off to mourn 400 years of black oppression
Washington Examiner ^ | 6/10/20 | Andrew Mark Miller

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: insanity; oregon; pc; portland; tedwheeler
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To: Revel
....." to “grieve and reflect” over 400 years of black people being oppressed"......

Why? If after 400 years blacks haven't figured out how to resolve their community problems, and they know though often deny them, then why is throwing time and money suppose to work now?

41 posted on 06/11/2020 6:27:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: Revel
....." to “grieve and reflect” over 400 years of black people being oppressed"......

Why? If after 400 years blacks haven't figured out how to resolve their community problems, and they know though often deny them, then why is throwing time and money suppose to work now?

42 posted on 06/11/2020 6:27:11 PM PDT by caww
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To: Revel

Does this include the police?


43 posted on 06/11/2020 6:27:27 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

You people are not American patriots.............


44 posted on 06/11/2020 6:32:45 PM PDT by Stayfree (Liberalism is an incurable mental disease caused by stupidity and ignorance!)
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To: dfwgator
I am contemplating moving to Poland.

If I had to chose between Poland or Portland, I would choose Poland.

45 posted on 06/11/2020 6:33:00 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Revel

“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 “

BiPOC - Black, Indigenous and People of Color

WhiPOC - White Persons of Character

That was easy!

I too am deeply impacted by these recent events and I want my 40 hours.

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46 posted on 06/11/2020 6:33:21 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: dfwgator
I was thinking Australia.
47 posted on 06/11/2020 6:34:26 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: Chgogal

Australia is just as PC as here.

Slavic people are still normal.


48 posted on 06/11/2020 6:35:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: caww
then why is throwing time and money suppose to work now?

That is the prog way, grab tax money from you, throw it at the phantom "problem" and walk around basking in their imagined virtual signal glory.

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49 posted on 06/11/2020 6:38:03 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Yeah, Mayor, I really need about 160 hours of paid leave to mourn properly. After all, we are talking about 400 years of oppression.


50 posted on 06/11/2020 6:40:02 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Revel

40 hours of PTO!!

Sheet...Can this idgit just mandate that?

The world is nuts.....


51 posted on 06/11/2020 6:43:08 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Mar's isn't a place to raise your kid...)
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To: Revel

This is nonsense unless those employees spend the forty hours in prayer for the state of Oregon.


52 posted on 06/11/2020 6:49:45 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Revel; goodnesswins; PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...

If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.

Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

53 posted on 06/11/2020 6:50:46 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: redshawk

Portlandia is a documentary. Everyone who lives here knows that.


54 posted on 06/11/2020 6:54:22 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: ealgeone

It’s Portland, the taxpayers probably demanded it.


55 posted on 06/11/2020 7:07:10 PM PDT by chickenlips
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To: Revel

I’ll bet a few Greek-Americans would like a few paid days off to contemplate years of oppression from Turkey. A lot of Chinese women had ‘a bad situation’ with the Japanese military back in the 1930’s.


56 posted on 06/11/2020 7:09:59 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

I’m Polish, I have to deal with what the Germans And Russians did, so I deserve double time off!


57 posted on 06/11/2020 7:10:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Zgadza Sie!
(that’s right!)


58 posted on 06/11/2020 7:14:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TLI

Round and round it goes and they all take their cut along te way....


59 posted on 06/11/2020 7:24:47 PM PDT by caww
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To: Stayfree

Huh?


60 posted on 06/11/2020 7:29:09 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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