Chili Peppers and Poetry: a Day at the International Farmers Market
Portland is white. Portland is, in fact, 70.4% white, according to the most recent U.S. Census. Last Saturday, the white-nationalist, far-right group “Patriot Prayer” conducted a racist protest in Portland. When Portland police officers were called to the scene, they responded with pepper spray and stun grenades, attacking not the white-supremacists, but the anti-facist, anti-racist, counter-protesters instead. I missed the commotion. I was on a Saturday morning 10-miler organized by the Portland Running Company, weaving…