Aug. 20, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Portland Sucks | Part 1
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Welcome back to Slightly Offensive with your favorite gay black woman, Mia Elijah Schaefer.
What's up, man?
We are here live at the Portland protest here in Portland, Oregon at the Waterfront Park, covering what seems to be a clash or potential clash between right-wing and left-wing groups.
Today, what we're seeing is something incredible.
The police have cardoned off the entire section and have kept everyone apart.
When after the Charlottesville thing, when Donald Trump said like that there were good people on both sides, but not the white supremacists, not those people.
So obviously you have more like serious signs of people saying white supremacy is terrorism than you have people just taking a lighthearted approach, which is actually rather funny, but the implications of it are obviously there.
It says white flower.
They're promoting a message of tolerance for baking and promoting good cooked goods, wife power.
What inspired this?
Why did you decide to come with this approach rather than let's say a more, I would say, I don't know, like a darker approach, yeah?
unidentified
The reason black people in the early days of Mississippi weren't given birth certificates, dude, is because the police and the doctors were selling their body parts to all the rich people across this country.
People are really passionate about flour here.
That was genocide going on and nobody cared and it's not in the history books, but I know it happened.
Well, I did have thoughts of fear last night and this morning before I came, but I felt it was more important to show up in good humor and in a joyful way than it was to give in to the fear of the other.
I wish we could get back to the hippie days when protests were like people like sit.
I like this.
They're singing music.
It's a good type, good vibe.
I got sifted.
It's the white flower.
Of course, we do have militant factions.
unidentified
We must and cannot tolerate the spirit of hate breathe through the loins of racist communities that house the likes of folks like the Brown boys and Ku Kuk's Klan and many other white nationalist groups that have laid dormant for 60 years and there has been a reinsurgence without apology on America's front lines everywhere.
I don't know what that means, but we do have a police blockade here right now.
They have obviously riot protective gear and they also have riot prevention gear or intervention gear, depending on who you ask.
But we do have the group of right-wingers here gathering on the grass and all the streets have been closed and sidewalks over there, but the energy is heightening.
Welcome to stage three of the protests.
It's like we have to go into the action and it's like every normal body, like cell in your body says, that's not where you should go.
But because we're slightly offensive, we're going.
Sorry, I shouldn't have cursed there, but that was just really kind of scary.
I remember at the DSA convention, they said not to make a lot of noise, but the DSA is making a lot of noise.
So you tell me, Democratic Socialists of America, are we allowed to make noise or are we not?
Because you're in the job of telling people what they are and are not allowed to do.
But you know what I got to say to you?
I don't care because you're not in charge of this country.
You never will be.
All right, so it looks like they've got a guy that they believe to be a Trump supporter, and they're courting him off.
And it's like, I don't know what's happening, but the dog is arguing with him.
This could turn volatile real quick.
I'm betting on it.
unidentified
I'm normally the type that doesn't back down, but when I got 20, 30 people coming at me with a history of violence, you know, I mean, if you're supposed to be peace, loving, tolerate diversity, and then you treat somebody like me who's got 30 years as a paramedic and I'm retired, screw fellow Americans.
You haven't even tried to have a discussion at all.
I literally would talk to you about anything, but you just yell at me obscenities, which sucks because I'm a normal person.
It's dehumanizing.
That's exactly what marginalization is: when you dehumanize people and you yell at them because of a label on their t-shirt rather than having a conversation.
That's what we stand against.
There's a lot of reasonable people here.
We've had a discussion.
Just because people are unreasonable, certain people, that doesn't stand for everybody here.
So right now we're getting cordoned off by riot police, but there is a group of people from the right side of the protest over here on my left.
And of course, it looks like we're going to start trying to chase them.
