Posted on 04/24/2020 6:54:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
In a daily report dedicated to news updates and guidance for county employees fighting the coronavirus, an Oregon county in the Portland area said it was creating a safe "grounding space" for minority staff to escape a predominant “whiteness.”
The April 5 "situation report" from the Multnomah County Office of Emergency Operations Center announced that the "Emergency Operations Center Equity Officer is hosting a grounding space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees to share, heal, connect, and get grounded in a space that is not dominated by whiteness."
Multnomah County dismissed any notion that a government entity hosting a race-specific "grounding space" as a haven from "whiteness" could raise constitutional concerns or furnish grounds for a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.
“Multnomah County is acting lawfully,” Julie Sullivan-Springhetti, Multnomah County communications director, said in a statement to Just the News. “The space excludes no one. It is based on shared lived experience not identity. The same way our employee resource groups for veterans, paren
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As a Caucasian who self identifies as African American, can I go there?
This country should fire all government workers...
and start over....hire only 20% back
I just assumed snowflakes were white. Guess not.
Maybe if all the touchy people go to the “haven from ‘whiteness’” the tension level in the other areas will goes way down.
Can I get a “Whiteness?”
Can I get a “Whiteness?”
Dude this thread is so gay it’s Marvin Gaye.
Diversity is our strength...
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Good. Racist colored people will essentially create a Whites only place. Marginalized only by colored people completely capable of coexistence with white folks. Sounds perfect
They used to call them whiggers. Don't know if they still do. Question: can you dunk?
Can I get some “grounding space” to escape WOKEness?
The thing I occasionally relay about Brown vs the BoE is the way the decision was argued by Warren is that segregation was unlawful because it essentially made people feel certain ways and NOT because the motives, goals and functionality of segregation was intentionally to be unequal.
On one level this was simply abhorrent because it makes it out like the whole motive for laws didn’t even matter to be mentioned but what few seem to realize is that Warren’s fatuous opinion can result in if some jurists accepts arguments that the feelings segregation engenders have been dealt with, say if more and more black people WANT separation of the races, then the door can be opened for segregation as a matter of laws to return.
Sure, you can go there. Just as you can go to any big city’s MLK Boulevard. Have fun!
Actually, no higher than the local percentage of the population.
If you want to go that way.
So races to stay six feet apart and Covid avoidance is six feet apart. Does that add up to 12 feet or is each on its own? (kidding)
Asking for a friend who believes separation of racial groups is called “segregation” and was ruled to be against the law.
Parallel universe and American freak show.
Yes, they’ve come a long way since those days of black folk slaving away in Oregon’s cotton fields and tobacco plantations. Oregon is the epitome of “systemic racism”. </sarc>
So white only spaces are provided?
Racist pos all of them.
On perhaps a lighter note, I guess they never noticed that various “people of color” groups within their safe space have racial contempt for one another.
We’re going to need a bigger “grounding space”.
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That’s why such persons SHOULD be offended, and offended often. Let them know you celebrate them being offended and are happy that they are offended.
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