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Respond to Racism Statement Regarding Mayor Studebaker’s remarks
The Respond to Racism’s Board of Directors and Leadership Team strongly condemn Mayor Studebaker’s remarks which perpetuate racism in...
Admin
Aug 25, 2020
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Dec 6, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Nov 29, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Nov 22, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Nov 15, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Nov 8, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Sep 30, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Sep 27, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Sep 20, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Sep 13, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Sep 6, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Aug 30, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Aug 23, 2019
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Aug 16, 2019
This Week’s 5: White America, Is This the Attention You Wanted?
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Aug 9, 2019
Latest LO Review Column Addresses Thoughtful Allyship
In case you missed it, the latest column in our monthly series with the Lake Oswego Review tackles the subject of thoughtful and...
Bruce Poinsette
Aug 7, 2019
VIDEO: What Might an LO Cultural Center Look Like?
A year or so ago, LO resident Melissa Fireside came to me with an idea about creating an LO Cultural Center. While ambitious, it struck...
Bruce Poinsette
Aug 6, 2019
This Week’s 5: Move Centrists, Get Out the Way
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Aug 2, 2019
This Week’s 5: Ilhan Omar and the Read America Deserves
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jul 26, 2019
This Week’s 5: Not Your Racism Janitor
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jul 19, 2019
This Week’s 5: #ProsecuteICE
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jul 12, 2019
This Week’s 5: Why Are We Still Debunking “State’s Rights” in 2019?
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jul 5, 2019
Latest LO Review Column Sheds Light on Tokenism
Since Lake Oswego, in most respects, is operating from a major deficit when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion, there is a...
Bruce Poinsette
Jul 1, 2019
This Week’s 5: No Quarter for the Confederacy
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jun 28, 2019
This Week’s 5: Why is Gerrymandering Still a Thing?
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jun 21, 2019
This Week’s 5: “But I Have a Black Partner” and Other Poor Excuses for Racism
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jun 14, 2019
An Open Letter to the LO Community About the City’s Upcoming DEI Task Force
Community members of Lake Oswego, As we approach the two-year anniversary of Respond to Racism, it’s important to recognize progress. In...
Admin
Jun 10, 2019
This Week’s 5: Arbitrarily Contentious
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jun 7, 2019
Latest RtR LO Review Column Explores Intersectionality
In case you missed it, RtR now has a monthly column in the Lake Oswego Review. Our hope is to provide insight into the critical race...
Admin
May 31, 2019
This Week’s 5: Laughing at Racists, Very Publicly
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...
Bruce Poinsette
May 31, 2019
This Week’s 5: C.C.R.E.A.M. (Caucasian Comfort Rules Everything Around Me)
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...
Bruce Poinsette
May 24, 2019
This Week's 5: White Fear, Loathing, and Anti-Abortion Laws
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...
Bruce Poinsette
May 17, 2019
This Week’s 5: The 53 Percent Strike Back… With Measles
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...
Bruce Poinsette
May 10, 2019
This Week's 5: 2044
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...
Bruce Poinsette
May 3, 2019
This Week’s 5: Twitter’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Excuse for Protecting White Supremaci
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Apr 26, 2019
This Week’s 5: “Debate Me, Bro” Culture is Privilege Personified
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Apr 19, 2019
This Week’s 5: Be Like the Third World Liberation Front, Not Reebok
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Apr 12, 2019
This Week’s 5: When White Supremacists Come for Your Family History
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Apr 5, 2019
This Week’s 5: Killing Us Softly With Stress
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Mar 29, 2019
This Week’s 5: Because White Supremacists Love Attention...
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Mar 22, 2019
This Week’s 5: Aunt Becky and the White Mediocrity Heard Around the World
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Mar 15, 2019
This Week’s 5: What You’re Not Going to Do is Erase Palestinians
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Mar 8, 2019
This Week's 5: Mark Meadows and the Audacity of Bare Minimums
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Mar 1, 2019
This Week’s 5: Oregon Racism Rings Bells in Colorado
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Feb 22, 2019
This Week’s 5: Let’s All Laugh at Stephen Martin
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Feb 15, 2019
This Week’s 5: Classic Caucasian Jujitsu
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Feb 8, 2019
This Week's 5: Ted Bundy, Texas, and the Paw Paw Racial Slurs
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Feb 1, 2019
This Week’s 5: Upon Further Review, Covington Catholic is Still Trash
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jan 25, 2019
This Week’s 5: ‘Nice’ Racism is Still Racism
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jan 18, 2019
This Week’s 5: Aggressive Acts of Whiteness
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...
Bruce Poinsette
Jan 11, 2019
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