I am now on the twenty fourth day of my hunger strike, sitting mere inches away from Portland’s City Hall. I faithfully embraced this sacrifice in advocacy of three resolutions based on the subject of housing justice, to provide essential relief for the homeless, poor, and working People during these hard economic times.
To the dismay of my efforts, a website was discovered which violently disgraces my own character and that of the black community, who are reduced to niggers and the “it” pronoun. To this blatant form of racism, I only offer humor.
http://niggermania.net/forum/showthread.php?36411-Portland-Former-uppity-nigger-candidate-on-20th-day-hunger-strike
Many People will visit this site, and it might reinforce their claim that racism still exists in America, despite living in a post-segregation, 21st century with a half-black President. In all honesty, such examples of verbal racism are the least of the colored persons’ troubles. The engine of systemic racism is powered by economic oppression. Racial disparities exist in employment, education, incarceration, sending earthquakes through our neighborhoods and children’s future. Affirmative action and exclusive scholarships are only an aversion to the elimination of all poverty.
The colorblind mentality adopted by a number of members in our society is the bane of racial harmony. Those who attest that all races are considered equally dismiss the reality that Latinos and Muslims are scapegoated for our societal woes, such as were the Asians, Irish, Jews, and Blacks before them, some of whom can still feel the echoing disparities today. We need our allies to realize racism, and join our struggle against it.
A dear friend wishes to launch a campaign, asking People to change their profiles to my image in support of overcoming this cowardly act of racism. I support this, because no activist involved in non-violent civil action should ever suffer attacks on one’s basic existence. The truth is that all races hunger for justice.
There is no determined end date for my protest. I am not a masochist based off of individual choice, but I am a reflection of my species, which has proven to be cannibalistic through its constant greed and apathy. I cannot prepare to nourish my physical body until my soul is sure that a thousand more minds have become awake.
Our system is not working. Our skies and waters are poisoned with fossil fuels and manufactured chemicals, even though more Americans are relying less on electricity and automobiles. American forces occupy foreign lands and extinguish diverse cultures while our families are starving and falling to illness at home. We are consumed by the flirtations of Hollywood productions and recreational luxuries while our moral foundation crumbles to dust. They say we have to lose everything in order to cherish what we have. I reject that myth.
I know that we can re-focus our priorities. We do not become a strong nation through warfare and imprisonment, but through education and social uplift. I hope that the People who read this letter will be inspired by the freedoms that they do have and become champions for universal freedom, based off of love and tolerance.
With all humility, I call on you to join my struggle. Take accountability for the apathy and insecurity within yourself, and you have already committed a great deed for humanity.
Dear Cameron Whitten,
Thank you for all you are doing for the good of the People. Bless you. You are loved.
with sincerity,
Joan
Prime Minister Harper should also be imforned about hunger strike. He should step in now to take some action , is he waiting for the death of those people who are on hunger strike. After all he has majority govt BY OUR VOTES and he cannot be excused by just saying its is a provincial matter. Relief should be given to people of Canada,it does not matter either it come from Federal or Provincial Govt. Keep up the good work NFCA.
Technically I’m inter-racial, but, people just codsnier me white, in spite of the black [from Scotland?], Chinese and Vietnamese in the family. Guess it comes from too much Viking in the family. But, people have hit me with racial slurs all the time. [Though getting called the 'N' word when I was young was a bit confusing].Gist of it is, if people want to be racist they don’t need logic, after all, if they were logical they wouldnt’ be racist in the first place. We’re all members of the Human Race. [And I think I'm coming somewhere near last in the Human Race! Stupid race anyway!!!]
Being a person of action in movement for the people has always been a dangerous position to assume because a small portion actually has the courage while the rest observe and lay opinion from a distance.
I told you up close last week that I commend you and respect what you are doing because it is an action representative of what WE are doing, choosing to be of service through the works of passion and sacrifice for what should be human rights in this world-access to food, housing, clean water and clothing. Necessities that are the bare minimum requirement to sustain a livable and functional condition in this country, region, state and city.
Your endurance clearly is willed by your purpose and opinion cannot rule over the fact that you are appreciated despite the toxicity and tainted distortions of humanity in this generation.
Keep on pushing, continue to fast for as long as your body will allow. Our bodies deal with much pain and suffering in a lifetime but often not as detrimental as the mental damage from injustice, classism, unfair and inequitable treatment, neglect, isolation, brutality, harrassment and municipal crimes committed against homeowners, youth, parents, minorities, students, the working class, the unemployed, those unboxed by the system living in unlivable conditions or similar to the station you created in front of City Hall.
Local press, public opinion, prejudicial criticism of your fearless effort is a non-issue here. I applaud you, I support you, and I encourage you to become who and what you set out to be in making this statement. This is part of the struggle in what is necessary to bring visibility towards facing the reality of the fallacious syndicate governing our cities nationwide.
Much Love to You and to The Struggle Endured,
W
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Bigs is not a racist.People are tired of being shut down with the CONSTANT race card being shveod in their face.There is by FAR, more racism against white people now, in the last 20 yrs and people are so dang brainwashed that they refuse to see the truth.Racism works BOTH ways.I notice that many of these people are so quick to cry like babies over the race card crap, but rarely take up for the people that died in helping them WITH their civil rights, the fking JEWS, the people that you all allow in your rooms to be called kikes, oven magnets, etc.
Unbelievable! I like and agree with one of the comments in the arlctie, describing Whitten as a racist out of ignorance. I’ve seen quite a bit of that lately and I suspect it will increase as we become more and more diverse as a country. Instead of insisting that his employees change, did he ever consider taking classes to learn Spanish? I’m should they would have been more responsive to him had they seen some good faith effort on his part versus coming in like the new sheriff, kicking butt and taking names. Also, it’s quite demeaning to ask someone to change something so personal like their name to suit others. Would he have asked the same of an Anglo with a hard to pronounce name for his Hispanic clientele?
So it’s the “racist white media” that has forced black men to act like sburitelate thugs in music and life? Really? Is that the “racist white media” that constantly deplores hip hop’s violent, cruel stereotypes in editorials and magazine features, or the “racist white media” in magazines like The Source and other youth-oriented music mags staffed mostly by blacks, asians and assorted wiggas, who celebrate this ugly stereotype constantly? That’s some kind of incoherent reasoning, youth!Leafing through Central Tech’s literary magazine reminded me, if nothing else, of how happy I am that my teen years are decades behind me now. What a cesspit those years were – expressing a half-articulate idea was like trying to scream into a gale-force headwind.
This liberal tmpeer tantrum only proves that liberals don’t want bi-partisanship, they want a dictatorship. They want to be able to enact whatever cockamamie tax theft scheme they dream up each week and shove it down the publics throat without interference.This is why they are so shocked that Obama has to compromise with his political opponents. They imagined that once they elected The Messiah, they’d be free to do anything they pleased.I can’t wait to watch their heads explode when the GOP takes the WH and the Senate in 2012.