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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: dfwgator

Believe me, I have started thinking it. As long as they continue their Soladansk stance. What would it be like to be in Poland? Hhhmmmmm...

Sad, but true.

Although frankly, we should make THEM get out. They hate it here so much, from the founding, they should want to leave, not sit here and fester in our horrid country.


61 posted on 06/11/2020 7:31:57 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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To: the OlLine Rebel

I’ve been looking at Gdansk/Sopot, some real nice areas there.


62 posted on 06/11/2020 7:32:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Shit like this is why I am contemplating moving to Poland.

You are not alone. Where can we get away from this lunacy

63 posted on 06/11/2020 7:35:24 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Revel

The cost of this should be taken out of any federal funding to Oregon or Portland.


64 posted on 06/11/2020 7:35:52 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Hildy

How can we band together? Seriously, not “virtually”? We are unprepared for this. Mostly because we do not bother to agitate and “protest”; we goon with regular American life, just trying to live, not complain.


65 posted on 06/11/2020 7:37:46 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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To: ladyjane

poland or Russia...lots of beautiful country back in mother Russia....


66 posted on 06/11/2020 8:08:40 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Revel
Portland mayor gives every city employee 40 hours of paid time off to mourn 400 years of black oppression

What about current black oppression in Africa and the middle east?

67 posted on 06/11/2020 8:48:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: dfwgator
True, but Poland is sandwiched between Germany and Russia. Both countries have behaved stupidly with very nasty consequences.
68 posted on 06/11/2020 9:24:54 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

I’m not worried about the Russians anymore. Their bark is worse than their bite these days.


69 posted on 06/11/2020 9:27:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Understood, but....

https://www.economist.com/eastern-approaches/2014/04/04/weaning-poland-off-russian-gas

70 posted on 06/11/2020 9:29:43 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: cherry

And, yes, even dare I say, Belarus. Lukashenko may be a nut, but it’s a clean country, I’d like to visit it and see how “Soviet” it is (as my favorite YT blogger “Bald and Bankrupt” would say)


71 posted on 06/11/2020 9:30:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lee martell

I have some Armenian in me so, naturally, I have a major problem with Turkey. I’m sure you are aware of the Turkish genocide of Armenians.

I want in on this.


72 posted on 06/12/2020 1:32:09 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“Welcome Down to my Planet Hell”- Nightwish)
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To: cherry

I’ve been looking at Saint Petersburg.

Stunningly beautiful city, especially in the winter.


73 posted on 06/12/2020 1:40:29 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“Welcome Down to my Planet Hell”- Nightwish)
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To: Revel

I’m going to Portland to live and get my “leave pay” reparations for all the relatives I lost in Europe in the Holocaust. /sarc

Wheeler is another psycho Marxist governor. The whole West Coast his run/ruined by them: Inslee - Wash. State; Wheeler - Oregon; Newsom - California and who was the fool from Colorado (Hickenpooper?).


74 posted on 06/12/2020 1:42:20 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: Revel

What is he doing for the killed and maimed victims of black criminals? NOTHING!!!

He’s a reverse racist. As Haley Joel Osmond might say about him re “The Sixth Sense”, “He doesn’t care about crime victims”.


75 posted on 06/12/2020 1:44:21 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: Salvation

Oy vey.


76 posted on 06/12/2020 5:04:34 AM PDT by Wuli (Get)
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To: Revel

If I were a city employee I would mostly mourn those who had been aborted. Still ongoing sadly.


77 posted on 06/12/2020 5:24:04 AM PDT by xp38
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To: goodnesswins

Yeah, as if there was extensive slavery in Oregon.


78 posted on 06/12/2020 3:20:00 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Revel

Schedule the 40 hours mourning time-off back to back with a week’s vacation and go to the beach.


79 posted on 06/12/2020 5:12:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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