No personal beef. I’ve encountered Teressa Raiford at many public meetings (most recently the COAB and CRC) and have always politely listened to her.

When she showed up at the school board to protest (justifiably, I believe) then-Superintendent Carole Smith, her group brought nooses. Imagine the outcry had white activists brought nooses to protest a black superintendent. It was a racist gesture on the part of Raiford’s group. Whatever the cause, she will find a way to introduce racism.

Raiford has found a home in Portland. This city’s white progressives will not tell her to her face what they really think. She's got them whipped.