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Bruce Poinsette
- Jan 15, 2020
- 2 min
VIDEO: LOSD Professional Development Day Student Panel
On Nov. 25, 2019, Respond to Racism hosted a student panel for the Lake Oswego School District's Professional Development Day featuring a diverse group of students from Lakeridge and Lake Oswego High School. During the event, the students discussed the pervasiveness of racism in the school district, how teachers and staff tend to respond, daily microaggressions, and more. It should be noted, that while these panels can be enlightening, the ultimate goal is for community membe
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Bruce Poinsette
- Jan 9, 2020
- 1 min
ACTION: Submit Comments for the 2020 City Council Goals Input by Noon on Jan. 10
If we want to change the culture of racism in LO, we need to attack it at all levels. That includes applying pressure to local government to make sure they prioritize funding, resources, and space for anti-racism work. The LO City Council is accepting public comment for their 2020 goals until Jan. 10. You can help contribute to making sure anti-racism stays on their radar by submitting comments that highlight these needs. If you're looking for an example of what that might lo
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Bruce Poinsette
- Dec 23, 2019
- 1 min
EVENT: Mary's Woods 6th Annual MLK Celebration to Feature Portland Black Panther's Founder K
Mary's Woods has been providing great Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration programming for years now and 2020 will be no different. For their 6th Annual MLK Celebration, Mary's Woods will be featuring Portland Black Panthers founder Kent Ford and music from the Northwest Freedom Singers. For more info, check out the flier below. #maryswoods #kentford #blackpanthers #history #mlk #mlkday #portland #lakeoswego #northwestfreedomsingers #peacemovement
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Bruce Poinsette
- Dec 6, 2019
- 4 min
This Week’s 5: B.I.R.S.
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt I’ve never been great with acronyms. Right now, I’m workshopping a variation of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). Version 1.0 is BIRS, or Blackface Is R
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Bruce Poinsette
- Nov 29, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Seriously Though, Why Does Tucker Carlson Still Have a Job?
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt School districts get sued for racism often for a reason. There’s only so much shoulder shrugging parents can take when racist teachers keep getting
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Bruce Poinsette
- Nov 22, 2019
- 4 min
This Week’s 5: Fire Stephen Miller
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Some white supremacists make a point of covering their tracks. By making their bigotry appear subtle (or even questionable to the untrained eye), th
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Bruce Poinsette
- Nov 16, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Hostile Workplace
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt When I started This Week’s 5, I imagined the overt racism section would be the weekly racial slur report. However, white supremacist terrorists have
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Bruce Poinsette
- Nov 8, 2019
- 4 min
This Week’s 5: White Supremacists Just Won’t Leave the Emmett Till Memorial Alone
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt If you want to know how committed white supremacists are, look no further than the Emmett Till Memorial. Vandalized, destroyed, and rebuilt over and
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Terri Kraemer and Bruce Poinsette
- Nov 6, 2019
- 1 min
ANNOUNCEMENT: RtR and LO Library to Host "Priced Out" Screening on Dec. 6
Mark your calendars. We are thrilled to share that the Lake Oswego Public Library is partnering with Respond to Racism for the Library’s December First Friday Film Discussion Group. The Library's Film Discussion Group meets monthly at the Lake Theater & Café, and the Library plans to partner with Respond to Racism for these events on a semi-regular basis. This partnership is an opportunity to bring community members together to view and discuss movies and documentaries that
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Bruce Poinsette
- Sep 30, 2019
- 1 min
ANNOUNCEMENT: This Week's 5 is Taking a Break in October
This Week's 5 will be taking a break for the month of October. To everyone who has been reading, commenting, and sharing, thank you. The column will be back in November, strong as ever. In the meantime, while This Week's 5 serves as a weekly recap of specifically curated stories on racism, it also functions as a resource that readers can always revisit. During this mini-sabbatical, please feel free to check out past editions of This Week's 5 in our Opinion archive. #thisweeks
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Bruce Poinsette
- Sep 27, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Harvard’s Affirmative Action for White People by the Numbers
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Here’s a story that should make your blood boil. A group of six grade boys recently assaulted a Black girl at a Virginia private school by holding
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Bruce Poinsette
- Sep 20, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Please Stop with the Black People Field Trip Stories
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt There are a lot of thoughts that come to mind when I read the headline, “Texas Teacher Who Asked Trump to Deport ‘Illegal Students’ at Her School Ge
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Bruce Poinsette
- Sep 13, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Grow Up
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Anyone else getting tired of the painstaking effort law enforcement seems to keep taking to make sure they are absolutely sure before they acknowled
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Bruce Poinsette
- Sep 10, 2019
- 1 min
Check out "Queens Girl in the World" at the Clackamas Repertory Theatre
It's no secret that the creative arts are a great vehicle for bringing people together to engage with insightful, often difficult discussions about issues like race. The Clackamas Repertory Theatre will be hosting such an opportunity with the west coast premier of "Queens Girl in the World." The play, written by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, directed by Damaris Webb, and featuring Lauren Steele will be showing from Sep. 5-29 and will feature post and pre-show lectures on select d
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Bruce Poinsette
- Sep 6, 2019
- 1 min
Save the Date: LO City Council to Discuss DEI Task Force Updates at Sep. 17 Meeting
Since the Lake Oswego City Council announced it would be forming a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force, RtR has expressed excitement about the opportunity while also warning that this effort needs to be more than just a box-checking exercise (You can read our open letter to the City here). While creating a DEI Task Force is an important step for a city with the well-earned nickname of Lake No Negro, we can’t overlook the importance of the process. Specifically, if don
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Bruce Poinsette
- Sep 6, 2019
- 4 min
This Week’s 5: More Human Rights Violations, More Foot-Dragging
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt What is it about white supremacists that evokes such a haunting commitment to caution from America’s most powerful figures? Any other movement linke
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Bruce Poinsette
- Aug 30, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Robbing FEMA to Pay ICE (Again)
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Representative Steve King saying racist things is about as consistent a bet as the sun rising and setting every day. He was back at it again recentl
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Bruce Poinsette
- Aug 23, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Demanding What We Actually Want
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Using your position of power in a major political party to cover for white supremacist terrorism is nothing short of despicable. Nonetheless, it app
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Bruce Poinsette
- Aug 16, 2019
- 5 min
This Week’s 5: Keep Telling on Yourselves If You Want To
Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Why isn’t the infiltration of police departments by white supremacists considered a national emergency? In what other context would society be comfo
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