Portland Has Given Millions to a Sketchy 'Anti-Racist' Group That Won't Say What It Plans To Do With The Money

Free Beacon ^ | April 25, 2023 | Susannah Luthi

[lowbridge]

The city in 2020 agreed to fund the progressive advocacy group Reimagine Oregon to the tune of $1.9 million a year, with no end date specified. At the time, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler (D.) called the grant the "centerpiece" of his budget proposal. Three years later, the organization has not said what it plans to do with the grant money. Nor has it spent a penny of the nearly $5 million in taxpayer funds, which are now sitting, untouched, in city coffers.

Formed by black activists in 2020, Reimagine Oregon outlines policy ideas to "dismantle systemic racism" through policies such as defunding the police and redistributing wealth. Last week, Portland city commissioner Mingus Mapps (D.) proposed terminating the grant and redirecting the money to other causes. But after fierce blowback from local black activists, the commission and mayor tanked his amendment on Wednesday.

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Portland lawmakers’ recommitment to Reimagine Oregon comes after high-profile "anti-racist" and equity groups have come under fire for their murky finances and shoddy track records. One co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network, the umbrella group for the grassroots movement, secretly bought a $6 million house with the group’s funds. Another BLM executive allegedly stole $10 million for his own use.

Commissioner Carmen Rubio blamed the city for preventing Reimagine Oregon from accessing the funds and claimed that a city agency will submit a plan for the grant money in May. "That’s when we will all learn" how the group intends to spend $5 million, Rubio said.

Reimagine Oregon does not appear in the IRS directory of tax-exempt organizations and boasts just one staff member: Justice Rajee, a podcaster who is also running this year for a local school district board seat.

[Qwapisking]

“Any time a group of people claim to be anti-something you just KNOW they aren’t” L.Star

[AuntB]

Reimagine Oregon?
How about building back some of the neighborhoods these anarchists burned down??!

[Leaning Right]

> Three years later, the organization has not said what it plans to do with the grant money. <

[LouAvul]

Portland is the equivalent of a closed fascist society and commits unspeakable harm to the community, all without consequence or repercussions.

And, this nightmare scenario is being played out in every liberal sewer across the country.

We somehow, some way, have to stop this insanity.

[PIF]

Portland adores violence of all kinds, asks for more.

[jmcenanly]

This is why many Oregonians are reimagining themselves as citizens of a greater Idaho.

[Twotone]

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.

[Organic Panic]

And like most states these isolated fascist s holes control the rest of the state. Oregon got close to a republican but, as usual, with the mail in voting the democrats hit up the homeless camps and ‘helped’ fill in their ballots. With a month of early voting there is plenty of time to make phony addresses set up to a “shelter” print provisional ballots, and get them all filled out just in time.

[Inspectorette]

If only Portland was more like the IRS, where you have to account for every penny.