Can White Portland’s Fragility Handle a Megaquake?

“Acknowledge it away—your white privilege—but it will always be a tool you can employ at will as a weapon against Black people or a tool to shield your own transgressions. Defund the police? Yes and defund and disinvest in yourselves. Liberal, conservative—whatever. You are superspreaders of a sickening power none of us can wholly break free from.”

Published: Jun 16, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,345 words)
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