I thought going into 2021 we could leave behind the despicable people who misrepresented our values for honesty and decency. The former President of the Portland NAACP (E.D. Mondaine) was a straight-up disgrace and now he wants to try and rehabilitate is his horrible record with a disingenuous editorial of encouragement for the new leadership. It’s sad. This man is sick. Somebody needs to find him some help. As one other respondent to his article said, public officials who enabled him ought to apologize and acknowledge being complicit in his harm to the community. Until they do, it is also a stain on their leadership and character. And I don’t plan on letting them forget.

The Portland Observer newspaper ought not to be a platform for his poisonous lies and misrepresentations. And the Community ought to hold this paper accountable.

Needless to say, I was wrong as two left shoes about Georgia. No one could be happier than I about how black people and many whites showed up to change the national narrative about this state and the progressive prospects for this region. There is hope but we must not let our guard down now and put our shoulder to the wheel to take advantage of this enormous change. Still, 74 million folks voted for a racist lunatic. If that ain’t scary I don’t know what is.