Lindsay E. Murphy agreed. She marched with protesters from Portland’s wealthiest neighborhood last night and saw her moving deeper and deeper. She saw white protesters shouting at white residents that Blake’s life was important – and that residents were chanting.
“There was a crowd – I wouldn’t even say mostly white – I would say it was almost a white crowd passing through Portland’s whitest neighborhood shouting ‘Black Life Matter’ and ‘Black Life is Magic’. Murphy, who is black. And hosts an educational children’s YouTube series. “What I am witnessing was a lamentable prayer, a voice of repentance and shame among the white people. That’s what I saw. He was healing. “
The American flag that caused the controversy is displayed in the canton, a neighboring area of Portland with small bungalows, nice front gardens and ripe fruit trees. In the weeks following the confrontation, the flag-waving couple said they feared retaliation from angry protesters who had traced their phone numbers.
But they say removing the flag will not intimidate them.
“I will not lower my flag,” said the husband, who declined to give his name in a brief interview.
Protesters came to the couple’s door last month, the same night they went to the commercial district of Canton and used the restaurant picnic table as fuel for the fire. They collected colorful wooden dividers, which the neighbors had recently built for outdoor dining and also burned. Mr Moses and others in the community fled the protest along with firefighters.
That night, protesters stormed the Portland Police Association building and set it on fire. Later I saw a man scrub the sidewalk graffiti – a popular message was “ppb = kk,” meaning the Portland Police Bureau is a Ku Klux Klan.
Mr Leela said he opposed the destruction of the property, but he also understood. And he believes, in general, that more direct protest tactics are at work in residential areas as they make the movement more personal, and reveal who is right to change. If someone is against the movement, they turn off their lights or refuse to raise their fists, he said, adding that discussions need to be held in homes and families.
