Portland Public School District Superintendent Guerrero has sent out a press release in part stating:

“The State of Oregon has communicated that local school districts are in the best position to determine further measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In alignment with public health experts’ recommendations, Portland Public Schools, along with its labor partners, is committed to taking every step possible to ensure the health and safety of our students, employees, and community.”

By “labor partners” Guerrero means the Portland Association for Teachers. There were no “labor partners” at the August 4, 2021 work session with a panel called “public health experts” one from Washington, D.C. where eleven-year-old children can be vaccinated without parental knowledge or consent. See previous Northwest Observer report on that session where some elected school board members valiantly attempted to get parents and the public’s questions answered to no avail.

The July 27, 2021, Portland Public School Board meeting included an announcement of a vaccination clinic to happen that week at Franklin High School. The day of the clinic only 15 students showed up to be vaccinated. Students do not want to be vaccinated. Black Americans do not want to be vaccinated. In parts of New York only 28% of Black Americans got vaccinated.

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“Dr. Reed Tuckson, a founding member of the Black Coalition Against COVID (BCAC), believes the increased resistance of Black Americans to take the vaccine comes from a long-time distrust in U.S. societal institutions.”

Black Americans’ intuition, experience and distrust of American institutions is well founded in history. The Public Schools created by the 1854 Congress (a Congress that feared the coming freedom of Black men) brought in institutional racism that even the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs the Board of Education that desegregated the schools could not reform.

Samuel Blumenthal’s 1984 book outlines the history of that government education system patterned off the Prussian school system and how it was and is set up to bring in socialism. It’s the reason Kindergarten is a German word. America has had a German compulsory government school system beginning in 1854.

“Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second-class citizens.”

Jim Crow came into Portland, Oregon with the 2020 masking. Those who couldn’t or wouldn’t wear a mask were told to stay outside like what was done to Black Americans for almost one hundred years. The Democratic Party created the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), that party brought in Jim Crow. Now it’s the same party and the teachers’ unions who repeat this kind of history, but now attempt to do it on everyone.

The Tuskegee experiment on Black American men ran from 1932 to 1972. There was no informed consent. Just as in today in 2021 the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), Oregon Health State University (OHSU) and Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) refused to give NW Observer the “fact sheet” on the vaccine with the PBEM employee overseeing the Franklin High School vaccine clinic stating that pulling up your sleeve to get the injection “…was informed consent.” These various institutions continue in the same mindset that created the Tuskegee experiment.

A long history, for forty years the Public Health Service used, abused, caused further injury and death to Black American men. The study only stopped in 1972. Historical memory remains in the Black Community of institutional abuses and taking of their rights and health. But the superintendent of the Portland Public School District repeatedly says that he will follow the Public Health experts; under the guise of public health, he deems he can take away the rights of students, parents, and the Black community.

Citizens viewing the recent PPS board meetings noticed that the school board directors elected by the voters in Portland, Oregon are not the boss of the Superintendent, Guadalupe Guerrero, that he and his administrative staff are the boss of the school board. In the August 4th work session when board members were presenting too many questions from parents emailing them, Guerrero interrupted them about “...getting too much into the nitty gritty…” He and his staff’s repeated mantra was to do what the “public health experts” say. Historically it is the young people, it is the teens who opened the modern-day civil rights movement in 1955. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr get the credit, but it was teens and young Black men coming back from World War II who said, “Hell no we are not sitting at the back of the bus, and we will eat at the lunch counter.”

Claudette Colvin is why in the Portland area public school systems they not only will not teach about Claudette’s role in starting the 1955 civil rights movement (and her case and other teens’ cases went to the US Supreme Court, but not Rosa Park’s also), but one year when a substitute, in February, for Black History month put up Claudette’s photo and the photo of the college kids at the lunch counter the school district took them down. The remark to the substitute was, “It’s hard enough controlling these kids and you put that up there?”

Teens today, students today should learn about Claudette Colvin. Fifteen-year-old Claudette by her actions pushed adults like Rosa Parks to, nine months later, act. Some in Portland see in the current population of young people, that there are some Claudette Colvin teens who are standing up for their rights.

It may be the teens and Black Americans who once more end up reminding the community and the world that the US Constitution was written for all to use to acquire and ensure their rights in America.


--Margo Logan

Post Date: 2021-08-19 15:17:20

Last Update: 2021-08-19 16:54:46