On this day, March 28, 1942, Japanese-American lawyer Minoru Yasui (1916-1986) violated a military curfew in Portland, Oregon, and demanded to be arrested after he was refused enlistment to fight for the US. He was one of the few Japanese Americans who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In 2015 he was among 17 people awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom.
Also on this day March 28, 1939, the front page of the Eugene Register-Guard blared the headline: "Mighty Oregon Scramble Ohio State to Take Hoop Title of All America," right under a declaration that the Spanish War had ended, of course.
Golden uses the word several times in his memoir
Fox News is
reporting that Oregon State Senator Jeff Golden (D-Ashland) repeatedly used the word "n-----" in a book he wrote.
Senator Golden published "
Watermelon Summer" in 1971 about his experience spending a summer on a Georgia sharecropper farm.
Golden is currently running for re-election against Republican Medford Mayor Randy Sparacino.
Golden uses the word "n-----" several times in the book:
- "The Featherfield people are not as politicized as the Muslims, but that may make little or no difference to a white community that perceives the threat of a whole county of uppity n-----s." "And, of course, the only things lower than uppity n-----s are n------lovers."
- "It’s a minor act of defiance to demonstrate that the good-n----- requirement of a skullcap haircut is a thing of the past,"
- Golden wrote about a "barroom brawl involving a n------ lovin’ white" in town.
- "The Smithville police follow us most of the time we’re returning from town, and charged up here immediately last night when they heard about a barroom brawl involving a n-----lovin’ white in Americus."
Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate and former Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek has been endorsed by Senator Golden. The Northwest Observer has reached out to her campaign for a comment, but has not yet received a reply.
"Jeff Golden's words are despicable and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms," said Republican State Leadership Committee Spokesman Zach Kraft. "Jeff Golden owes voters a serious apology and every Democrat candidate for state Senate should condemn Jeff Golden's shameful behavior.â€
--Staff ReportsPost Date: 2022-10-05 14:48:35 | Last Update: 2022-10-05 15:41:32 |