"Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame," Wilson said. "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children."
Yesterday, the Mercury reported a story revealing that as the Portland City Council was discussing entrenched racism in local politics at a meeting last week, a local real estate broker and a handful of connected political activists were texting racist messages to each other about progressive councilors of color. The Mercury obtained photos of the texts, which include racist, sexiest, and homophonic slurs used over the course of two hours.
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