The Blatant Racism of Chloe Eudaly, Portland Politics and Media. Retrieved from https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest news/2011/04/in_portlands_heart_diversity_dwindles.html, 22.) TriMet lines on these routes saw decreases in delays of up to 76%, with buses crossing the Burnside Bridge nearly two minutes faster. He is heard on the tape, speaking in a beseechingly earnest tone and apologizing repeatedly. And now Dear Reader, let us venture back to Chloe Eudaly. Announced in June 2019, the Rose Lane Project was designed in response to the Enhanced Transit Corridors Plan (ETC), which was adopted by City Council on June 20, 2018. I couldn’t help but wonder how anyone could be that naïve, ignorant, and uninformed.
I watched, to my dismay, as she turned her head to her left, toward Fred Stewart and then proceeded to speak in that direction, as if she were speaking directly to him. Retrieved from https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/04/13/city-council-candidate-fred-stewart-pinned-his-16-year-old-daughter-against-a-wall/, 21.) “I am done. Dysfunctional Portland City Council Member, Chloe Eudaly. Because if we schedule another appointment, who’s to say commissioner Eudaly is not going to have a bad day? Stewart volunteered with the Police Budget Advisory Committee from 1993 to 1998, 3.) The result of this decade’s long process of gentrification and income induced Diaspora is that growing numbers of people of color continue to disappear from the landscape.
(2016, July 24). An Explosive City Council Video from 2017 is Ignored by the White Portland Media? Kennedy, Griffin. And it was an essay which included perspective from having respectfully interviewed, at length, and in a rational manner, Fred Stewart, his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Stewart, his sister Tracy Stewart and his former girlfriend Margaret Ibanez. I sat in the audience, in the third row, watching the fiasco unfold. The offensive stereotypes, as presented by Jaquiss and Duin are not consistent with anyone who knows what an, intelligent, rational and generous man Stewart has proven himself to be. Coll, Steve. (2016, February 26). He is the father of two sons and worked as a college professor, teaching political science to students of all ages. A commissioner who respects the public and a commissioner who respects staff.
And further considering the racist and dismissive way Eudaly treated Fred Stewart at the 2016 PSU Panel Discussion, (which again I witnessed) and considering the horrible way she treated Alicia Byrd, Shei’Meka Owens and Mr. Omar Shabazz in 2018 in City Hall, and considering her unjust firing of Mingus Mapps in 2019, all of these wonderful people of color, and assets to their Portland communities, and considering the petulant fashion that Eudaly demands to be “respected” with ingratiating shows of empty praise and flattery, upstaging even Steve Novick in the manner that she quickly became the very thing she had been protesting against, it is clear Eudaly is not suited for a lifetime career in politics. Because to do that would not agree with Duin’s agenda, which was to destroy Stewart’s political chances in Portland, finishing off what Nigel Jaquiss had started. Department of Education Tasmanian Government. Frankly, I’ve never seen something go as poorly, so I feel embarrassed. (2020 June 4). However, I investigated those angles. Eudaly said that seat is the one vacated by her former colleague Fish, who died of stomach cancer Jan. 2. That Stewart’s reputation was also destroyed was incidental to their goals and entirely irrelevant to them. She was made that upset by his sarcastic suggestion that she was lying.
I know I speak for many Portlanders when I say that I fervently hope Mingus Mapps wins that runoff vote and I feel that way because I genuinely want what is best for Portland. He did not correct Eudaly’s absurd presumption, or at the very least ask why she would make such a statement, wherein she claimed she knew more about black issues than a lifetime resident of Portland who is also a black man. Stewart was immediately silenced and I recall vividly that he appeared disgusted and confused by what had just happened. It makes the person who is speaking thusly, come across as immature, hesitant, indecisive and weak. Author’s Note: This is a story that cannot be told in fifteen hundred words. Apparently, Oregonian journalist Steve Duin does. With regard to Eudaly’s background, I think it’s important to note that she dropped out of high school sometime after her freshman year, and attended Portland Community College for approximately one year before dropping out yet again. Harbarger, Molly. Rather than having a white journalist “white-splain” to people of color their own concerns, issues or struggles with systemic racism, shouldn’t Portland media, small as it is, employ black writers and journalists who can and should do those things on more of an occasional basis? The email below was more than revealing and all the confirmation needed: Its so funny because a week or so after this incident happened the non profit where I’m a board member received a Spirit of Portland award. (2015, November 15). “I have ideas and deep passion for the issues, but since coming back to Portland full-time, I have been struck by how many Portlanders feel we are being run over by our challenges — how we are losing urgent opportunities to take on these issues in a way that improves the city we love,” he said in an email to supporters. I asked my friend Fred Stewart what Eudaly said at the close of their discussion and he floored me with his response. Most black people live in that category of living, just below the poverty line. Los Angeles Times. Like, I wouldn’t take it personally; like, there’s been a lot of… it’s been a tough day.”, Byrd: “So why do we have to… she’s a public official!”, Owens: “Right. What I heard on the tape contradicts the whitewashing WW writer, Rachel Monahan provides in her article. I’ve talked to Fred when he’s been at his best, when he’s been happy and full of laughter and I’ve talked with him when he was deeply hurt by circumstances beyond his control, due to the way others have used and betrayed him. There was a better seat for him to run for.”. What kind of person torments an elderly black woman like that? During the recording what is most notable is the consistently apologetic tone used by Runkel, during which he apologizes profusely, blames himself and then asks the group not to share that Eudaly had had “a terrible day” and to “keep that between us.” Contrast this complete and accurate transcription of the recording and the manner that Runkel blames himself for the failure of the meeting, basically due to his personal incompetence to stay abreast of what emails were being sent to Eudaly’s office, to the lies Runkel told WW reporter Rachel Monahan and you will see an extremely deceptive man who is comfortable with lying to multiple people in order to make problems go away. In Duin’s copycat hit piece, he explains he had previously heard about the drama between Stewart and his daughter, (as circulated through the Portland media grapevine presumably) but chose not to write about it, “…because I considered Hunter’s privacy more important than her father’s political ambitions.” Duin’s ‘I’m the bigger person’ boasting rings false. *Duin wrote his copycat hit piece, just as Jaquiss wrote his hit piece because they knew the stories would be sensational and would be eaten up by a hungry white readership. Byrd says her group’s treatment by a Eudaly staff member and the commissioner herself contrasts with the treatment they’ve received in other commissioners’ offices. Neither of them cared about the damage either hit piece would inflict on Fred Stewart’s family, including his elderly mother, Mrs. Dorothy Stewart who was devastated by both articles and feared her son would be targeted and killed by white supremacists’ and who spent several weeks “crying every day” worried that her son would be “lynched” because of the way both hit pieces had ultimately destroyed Fred Stewart’s reputation, accusing him of being a wife beater and child abuser. I’m just letting you know that from the minute we walked into her office the energy was weird and it was obvious by the reaction of her staff, staring, whispering, hesitant to approach us and greet us, that they were surprised. It is obvious Duin felt it was more than acceptable to come between a young biracial teenager and her father — the same father, who had supported, provided for, protected and indulged his daughter since the day she was born, as a cherished only child with no siblings. It was nauseating to watch. 4.) Mrs. Stewart was offended by Duin’s comment and hung up the telephone.
Institutionalized and Systemic Racism is Often Unconsciously Expressed. Personal Communication, July, 2020. (2016 April 12).