Thank you for remembering the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda and the Irish famine. Human cruelty has always been with us. We have to make a point of remembering. Too many people don’t want to know.
I have to wonder if “the River of Death” would be shown by most American media today. Or, would the concern be that showing such violence could malign an African nation?
What PDX_Real is doing resonates with the public, because it shows what is really happening on the streets. There’s no reason the state’s largest newspaper, The Oregonian, couldn’t have told that truth early on. The city might be in better shape.
Thank you Pamela. That essay kind of veers a bit, but I meant well, I guess. Angela Todd is doing such a great service to Portland, in much the same way you and Richard are…
I can see she’s got a future in television. She’s such a natural in front of a camera. I really enjoy her video stories. As to the Oregonian, I agree about them. Under Bottomly’s direction, in my opinion, they are pointless and irrelevant…
Unlike Rwanda, Armenia, and Germany, this particular genocide is not part of a deliberate plan.
Nonetheless, the paternalistic allowance to essentially "let God sort them out" is almost as cruel.
And as a community we are just as surely failing those members of the community who overdoes and die.
Thank you for remembering the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda and the Irish famine. Human cruelty has always been with us. We have to make a point of remembering. Too many people don’t want to know.
I have to wonder if “the River of Death” would be shown by most American media today. Or, would the concern be that showing such violence could malign an African nation?
What PDX_Real is doing resonates with the public, because it shows what is really happening on the streets. There’s no reason the state’s largest newspaper, The Oregonian, couldn’t have told that truth early on. The city might be in better shape.
Thank you Pamela. That essay kind of veers a bit, but I meant well, I guess. Angela Todd is doing such a great service to Portland, in much the same way you and Richard are…
I can see she’s got a future in television. She’s such a natural in front of a camera. I really enjoy her video stories. As to the Oregonian, I agree about them. Under Bottomly’s direction, in my opinion, they are pointless and irrelevant…