One county in Oregon has enacted a public health order mandating all citizens wear a face covering in public—-unless you are a “person of color.”
On Tuesday, Lincoln county health officials wrote in their guidelines, “people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public” are exempt from this rule.
“No person shall intimidate or harass people who do not comply,” health officials said in the directive. “This Directive is intended to induce voluntary compliance and compliment education and encouragement of use of face coverings to protect ourselves and our community.”
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” Director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, ReNika Moore, told CNN.
Read the directive HERE.
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NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO RIOT,BURN,LOOT OR KILL – EXCEPT PERSONS OF COLOUR.
It’s so sad. You can’t fix stupid.
The PC lunatics have taken over another asylum. Last time I checked, “people of color” are at the greatest risk for CV.
So, “This Directive is intended to induce voluntary compliance and compliment education and encouragement of use of face coverings to protect ourselves and our community.” What we will be hearing next, is that the Lincoln county health officials are baffled as to why there is an unfairly high number of black people who have contracted COVID-19 in their country when BLM. Gee guys, [the word guys includes gals, trans etc. etc.] maybe it is because you encouraged the blacks in the community not to protect themselves.
PS – a question to Director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, ReNika Moore – how many black people have decided not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus and found themselves in life-threatening situations? Welcome to Chelm, Lincoln County OR. In her article for the ACLU Alabama on April 8, 2020, IF COVID-19 DOESN’T DISCRIMINATE, THEN WHY ARE BLACK PEOPLE DYING AT HIGHER RATES? Ms. Moore says “At the state and local level, Black people are more segregated than any other racial or ethnic group in the U.S.” If that is the case maybe they should wear face masks to protect themselves and not have Lincoln County health officials further discriminate against black people? And why the upper case B for black people? Are they something special to be discriminated against?
So apparently, in Oregon County ONLY Black lives matter…
Assuming they believe that masks reduce the chance of getting Covid19, and that they believe Covid19 is a serious public health threat, one should ask if it is Blacks they want to kill? or perhaps Asians? In that part of the country, it might be American Indians? Either they believe Covid19 is a hoax to begin with, or they are using it to dabble in genocide (long tradition of this in America – that’s how the Americans got rid of most of the Indians, though Covid19 is fatal enough to be useful for that).
OH GOODIES! MY COLOR IS TAN. NO MASK FOR ME! OH BUMMER! I DON’T LIVE IN OREGON………..
This is a purely RACIST policy where race is used to make distinctions in law. As expected, those who accuse others of being racists are 1.) racists themselves in their policies; and 2.) ignorant of what racism really means.