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.”
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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.
I’ve been looking at Gdansk/Sopot, some real nice areas there.
You are not alone. Where can we get away from this lunacy
The cost of this should be taken out of any federal funding to Oregon or Portland.
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.
poland or Russia...lots of beautiful country back in mother Russia....
What about current black oppression in Africa and the middle east?
I’m not worried about the Russians anymore. Their bark is worse than their bite these days.
https://www.economist.com/eastern-approaches/2014/04/04/weaning-poland-off-russian-gas
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)
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.
I’ve been looking at Saint Petersburg.
Stunningly beautiful city, especially in the winter.
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?).
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”.
Oy vey.
If I were a city employee I would mostly mourn those who had been aborted. Still ongoing sadly.
Yeah, as if there was extensive slavery in Oregon.
Schedule the 40 hours mourning time-off back to back with a week’s vacation and go to the beach.
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