APRIL 6, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 27
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CENTS
News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Vanport event photos .....7
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
PHOTO BY ARASHI YOUNG
‘THE WAKE OF VANPORT’
Former Black Panther Wiley G Barnett protested
the use of corporate money to gain police access
outside Friday’s “Meet the Heat” fundraiser Friday.
‘Meet the
Heat’ Draws
Protest
Fundraiser for Citizens
T
he golden morning sun was still
low on the horizon as protestors
gathered in front of the Portland
Police Training facility on Airport
Way. Cars quickly sped by, while com-
mercial freight trucks honked their
horns in support.
The protestors held signs calling for
accountability of police in cases where
people have died in their custody. Kea-
ton Otis, James Chasse, Kendra James
and Aaron Campbell’s names were
written on their banners.
The group gathered on April 1 to pro-
test what they thought was a bad joke:
the use of public police resources to
hold an exclusive $1,000-per-person
AP PHOTO/DAVID KEYTON
See PROTEST on page 3
People protest in front of the Progressive Party
headquarters building in Reykjavik, Iceland,
Tuesday. Iceland’s prime minister Sigmundur
David Gunnlaugsson resigned amid outrage over
revelations he used a shell company to conceal a
conflict of interest.
World Briefs
Off-shore accounts
leaked, Cruz and Sanders
take Wisconsin
page 9
Kam Reviews the new
Miles Davis Biopic
page 6
A capacity crowd showed for a showing of The Wake of Vanport Sunday, including the survivors pictured here. Dan Scarl (top row, left), Hurtis Hadley,
Ethan Scarl, Lee Moore and Terry Kanderkooy, Mariah Taylor (middle row, left), Dorothy Hadley, Betty Jones;,Bottom Alta High Elk (bottom row, left),
Marian Loveland and Betty Chinn. For more photos, see page 7.
Twelve-Year-Old Arrested at Beaumont
Police say unnamed girl is charged in alleged fight two weeks earlier
By Lisa Loving
Special To The Skanner
P
ortland police last
week handcuffed and
arrested a 12-year-old
girl in the office of
Beaumont Middle School
— two weeks after an al-
leged fight between her
and another student.
Police said the other stu-
dent’s family filed charges
of misdemeanor assault
against the child, which
were referred by the Mult-
nomah County District At-
torney’s Office and they
were forced to arrest her.
The unidentified child
was taken to the Donald E.
Long Home, the county’s
only juvenile detention
center.
Multnomah County is
currently facing scrutiny
for recent use-of-force sta-
tistics showing Black in-
mates in county facilities
are far more likely to face
violence from sheriff ’s’
deputies, especially when
they are first booked into a
correctional facility.
Neither the child arrest-
ed last week nor her family
has been publicly iden-
tified and the family’s race
has not been disclosed.
The incident is reminis-
cent of the last time the po-
lice arrested a child. In that
case an African American
nine-year-old was arrested
on her porch in her bath-
ing suit almost a week after
an alleged conflict she had
with another student at an
after school program.
The story was first re-
ported by the Portland
Mercury.
“They put the handcuffs
on her,” the girl’s mother,
See ARREST on page 3
PCC Kicks Off Whiteness History Month Events
Monthlong educational program examines the
roots of racial designations, White supremacy
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
“I
sometimes think we’re only
going to realize we’re human
when we’re invited by aliens
from outer space,” James S.
Harrison, a history and humanities
instructor at Portland Community
College, told a small crowd mostly
composed of PCC faculty and staff
Monday afternoon.
Harrison’s talk on the Cascade cam-
pus — titled “Imagining a World
Without Whiteness” — touched off a
monthlong program on PCC campus-
es called Whiteness History Month,
which will run throughout April.
Some are broad in their focus, offer-
ing introductions to concepts in race
theory, and some are more specific,
discussing specific moments in histo-
ry or specific identities. One talk, for
instance, is titled, “How Arab-Ameri-
cans Became White — and Then
Weren’t Again.”
According to Abe Proctor, the com-
munity relations manager for PCC’s
Cascade Campus, planning for the
event grew out of a series of discus-
sions over a faculty and staff email
list following the death of Mike
Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the an-
nouncement that Darren Wilson, the
officer who shot him, would not be
indicted.
“There was a long internal email
exchange on Ferguson and the email
reactions to it,” Proctor told The
Skanner News. “It became clear that a
PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
PHOTO BY ANTONIO HARRIS
Crime Commission cost
$1,000 per person
PCC kicked off its Whiteness History Month
education program with a series of events
focused on history, race theory and the
construct of Whiteness.
larger conversation was necessary
on race, and racism and white privi-
lege and how the concept of white-
ness came to be.”
Whiteness History Month was the
See WHITENESS on page 3