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Sleek and Potent Regal GS
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The 2019 Buick Regal GS packs
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The 2019 Regal GS comes
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Natural Grocers Apology for Noose
Racist emblem
traced to store
worker’s auto
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Natural Grocers apologized
Friday after a miniature noose was
found hanging from a rear view
mirror outside the store in a car of
one of its employees. The store is
located in a retail shopping com-
plex with African American roots
at the corner of Northeast Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Al-
berta Street.
In a response to the Portland
Observer on Tuesday, Natural
Grocers spokesperson Amber
Dutra would not confirm the em-
ployee was the manager, but ex-
pected to have more information
in the next 48 hours pending an
investigation by the company.
“This matter is a top priority
for Natural Grocers, and we are
working as quickly as possible to
complete our disciplinary action,”
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A miniature noose is found hanging from a car’s rear view mirror in
the parking lot of the Natural Grocers on Northeast Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard. Neighbors traced the image to a manager at
the store and posted it online.
Dutra said.
The proprietors of an art gallery
located in the same complex, Cole
Reed and her wife Dayna, were
going grocery shopping Thurs-
day with their 4-year-old son
when Dayna originally spotted the
noose, the Oregonian reported.
Reed, who is African Ameri-
can, posted a picture of the car and
noose on social media, after being
told the car belonged to a manager
of the store.
“You have a noose in your car,
and you are a leader in our com-
munity whether it’s earned or pro-
moted. That’s not what you do,”
Reed reportedly told the manager.
The offending item has since
been removed, Natural Grocers
said.
Michelle DePass, who recent-
ly secured a seat as the only Af-
rican American board member of
Portland Public Schools, called
the noose an unacceptable racist
display, and shared Reed’s social
media post, calling for people to
“blast” the grocery chain’s Insta-
gram account.
Dion Jordan, an African Amer-
ican community member and an
equity and inclusion manager for
Multnomah County posted that
most people who are not black
cannot even imagine what facing
a racist symbol feels like.
“How would you like to go to
a grocery store in your neighbor-
hood and see a symbol of hate,
death, and murder towards you
and those who look like you?”
Jordan posted, adding that “The
apology means nothing if that per-
son is not fired.”
The Colorado-based natural
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