Here’s a WTF? I forgot to include in This Week in WTF? The NAACP says that earthquake warning signs that are to go up around the city of Portland are racist symbols of white supremacy. Don’t ask me to explain this, I just report the insanity, but I do think it’s safe to say that the black activist organization has officially run out of stuff to bitch about. When earthquake warning signs are are a racial outrage, racism has truly been defeated. Al Sharpton, who thinks solar energy is racist, wouldn’t even touch this one with a ten-foot race-hustling pole.
A recent ordinance passed in Portland, OR requires buildings made of non-reinforced brick to display signs warning of the possibility of a collapse during an earthquake: “This is an unreinforced masonry building. Unreinforced masonry buildings may be unsafe in the event of a major earthquake.”
Do you see the racism here? Me neither, but the NAACP sure does. Here’s a real headline from OregonLive: Portland NAACP joins fight over city’s earthquake warning placards, linking them to legacy of white supremacy
Unfortunately the story doesn’t shed any light on how these signs are racist, but at least it’s really funny:
The Portland branch of the NAACP is jumping into a fight over a city policy that will require owners of brick buildings to post public warnings that the buildings could collapse in an earthquake.
The civil rights group said [the signs] would reinforce gentrification in historically black segments of North and Northeast Portland.
“[The signs] exacerbates a long history of systemic and structural betrayals of trust and policies of displacement, demolition, and dispossession predicated on classism, racism, and white supremacy,” said the Portland NAACP chapter in a statement.
How could an ordinance requiring earthquake warning signs be this insidious and racist? Nobody including the NAACP is willing to explain that, but some of the problem may be that the city didn’t get black people’s permission before passing the ordinance.
…the NAACP said the black community was similarly were left out of the discussion over the placarding ordinance.
“It speaks to our houses of worship and everything about the black presence in the North-Northeast area. As usual, the African American community is the first affected and the last informed,” said Rev. E.D. Mondainé, president of the Portland NAACP chapter.
Yeah, how dare those super-leftist “white supremacists” who run Portland pass a minor safety regulation that affects everyone equally without first finding out what black people think?
There really is no explanation in this article or from the NAACP as to how exactly this is racist. I thought maybe they were going to claim that the sign requirement disproportionally affects buildings owned by black people, but blacks tend not to own anything in the neighborhoods they claim belong to them. In any case, this was not the reason given, so it’s going to have to remain a race-hustling mystery.
I imagine the NAACP was sitting around fretting that there wasn’t anything racist they could freak out over to justify their existence. Maybe during a brainstorming session one of the members suggested they rage against earthquake warning signs and because they didn’t have anything better, they went full-Sharpton on it.
According to the left everything is racist, but they still have the task of cataloguing each one. Anyone who had “earthquake warning signs” on their bracket just won the entire Race Madness Tournament, because this is probably the last thing you’d think they’d find racist.
