Portland Activists Built Resilience Fund Inspired By Racial Justice Protests
Posted on AllSides April 12th, 2021
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As some of the most contentious Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 erupted in Portland, Ore., last spring, 29-year-old Cameron Whitten started getting a deluge of messages. Friends from all corners of his life were checking in on him.
"At first I was like, 'Did something happen to me?' " says Whitten. Realizing people were just concerned about his well-being, he reached out to other Black people to ask: "Are you having white people message you too?"
It wasn't just that people were wanting to discuss with him the killing...
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