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‘Calling His Mother While Black’: Hotel Guest Demands Public Response From Portland DoubleTree After Being Evicted From His Room [Updated]
A black hotel guest is demanding a Portland, Ore., DoubleTree speak publicly about an alleged racial profiling incident in which he was accused of trespassing by hotel staff. Jermaine Massey, a Washington resident who had traveled to Portland for a Travis Scott concert, filmed the exchange between himself and a hotel security guard, Earl Meyers,…
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#CrosswalkCathy Calls Police on Black Man Because She Didn’t Like The Way He Parked
Another day and another white woman is becoming an Internet sensation for calling the police on a black man who parked his car too far into the crosswalk for her liking. I miss the old days when passive aggressive white women wrote notes and left them on your windshield. Portland, Ore., couple Rashsaan Muhammad and…
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Wild 'N Out, Yet Again: Katt Williams Arrested for Assaulting Driver in Portland, Oregon
We all have the person we root for, doggedly, stubbornly, and despite all the messed up, self-sabotaging stuff they do. Katt Williams, for a reason I don’t quite understand, remains that person for a lot of people, including myself. Williams (born Michah Williams) seemed on the up-and-up for a minute, after a riveting and Emmy-winning…
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A Recap of This Weekend’s Wypipo Hunger Games
Between Saturday’s London terror attacks, Bill Maher blurting out the n-word on live TV and the NBA Finals, you might have overlooked the fact that Portland, Ore., hosted a mashup of The Purge and The Hunger Games this weekend. White supremacists, militia groups and people who simply want to “make America great again” squared off…
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Jeremy Christian Went Crazy Yesterday Because White Supremacy Is Crazy
The white supremacist suspected of murdering two men and wounding another screamed and shouted his way through an arraignment hearing Tuesday. “Free speech or die,” Jeremy Christian yelled to a courtroom audience that included Micah Fletcher, the surviving victim of what authorities say was Christian’s brutal knife attack aboard a Portland, Ore., train, CNN reports.…
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Muslim Groups Unite, Raise More Than $500,000 for Families of the 3 Portland, Ore., Heroes
Two Muslim nonprofit organizations have come together and raised more than $500,000 in about four days for the families of the Portland, Ore., heroes who were violently attacked while defending two young women from a raging white supremacist yelling anti-Muslim insults. Last Friday, the two girls were verbally attacked by Jeremy Joseph Christian while riding…
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Meet ‘Y’all Qaeda,’ the Right-Wing Militias a Republican Wants to Hire for Security
A Portland, Ore., leader responded to a white supremacist terrorist attack in his city by offering an interesting solution to the recent rise of violence by right-wing extremists: He wants to hire more right-wing extremists. After authorities say 35-year-old Jeremy Christian stabbed to death Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Rick Best on a Portland train Friday,…
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Man’s Ore. Home Vandalized With Racist, Threatening Messages
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon is investigating a “bias” crime that was reported Tuesday after Hasel Afshar, who is originally from Iran, returned from a three-day vacation in Canada to find his home ransacked and vandalized with racist graffiti. The vandals even left a threatening note. According to local news site the Gresham…