Posted on 06/23/2020 3:15:38 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.
Health officials announced last week residents must wear face coverings in public settings where they may come within six feet of another individual who is not from the same household.
But people of color do not have to follow the new rule if they have “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” over wearing the masks, officials said.
“No person shall intimidate or harass people who do not comply,” health officials said.
With mask requirements becoming more common, activists have raised concerns that the directives could put non-white people in danger.
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” ReNika Moore, director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, told CNN.
Trevon Logan, who is black, said orders to wear face coverings are “basically telling people to look dangerous given racial stereotypes that are out there.”
“This is in the larger context of black men fitting the description of a suspect who has a hood on, who has a face covering on,” Logan, an economics professor at Ohio State University, told the outlet.
“It looks like almost every criminal sketch of any garden-variety black suspect.”
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Considering that black folks seem to be subseptable to the Wuhan flu is the governor trying to thin the herd?
Because that’s wacist!
No...it’s KTA time
So these leftards want black people to die. Am I right about that? Sure seems like it to me.
Politicians have no authority to take rights from Whites that others get.
Whites are already kneeling to apologize for purported privilege.
Blacks are at greater risk if they catch covid-19 but they are exempt from mask requirements? This is a racist exemption to the mask policy that put them at risk because of some made up fear of profiling...in Oregon..
Seems unconstitutional,equality clause and the like.
are they saying that all people are suspicious of Blacks???Mostly when they wear masks in the sto'
Hmmmmm. they’re right.Whose fault is that?
See my tagline.
T-shirts reading "Shove Your Mask Up Your Ass" would be big sellers, until the t-shirt makers got attacked by the 'woke'.
Put on some green camo face paint. Now you are a “person f color”.
DARE them to make an issue of it.
Typical SOFT BIGOTRY.
Here is the best part.
I heard they were asked why this was passed , and the answer provided was astounding. These Leftist said it is because the masks make black people look like criminals. I am not joking they really said that was the reason. Haha!
So because Leftists deep down inside are actual racists at heart. They think everyone that has the same skin pigment, looks like them thinks like them. This is why they project. It is something they hate about theirselves.
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