“Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored”
via the New York Times
Category: Persons
People who interest me
The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard Of
In 1971, Alex Chilton and his friend Chris Bell formed a new band, Big Star. You geezers boomers will remember “The Letter,” inescapable on Top 40 radio in the late 60s. Chilton was the sixteen-year-old singer on that number-one record and the string of hits that followed for the Box Tops.
Robert Moses and the Mt. Hood Freeway
I have recently written about urban renewal and the consequences for those in its way. Here is twelve-minute film celebrating the never-built freeway through a southeast Portland neighborhood and the subsequent change of direction in the city’s planning. It’s from 2006, so you won’t see the homeless who have since set up camp in Waterfront Park.
Race and Self-Deception
Nicholas Kristof grew up on a farm in Yamhill, Oregon. He works for the New York Times, traveling the world, reporting from wherever there is human suffering. In 2005, when pundit Bill O’Reilly was promoting his annual “War on Christmas,” Kristof offered to show him what war really looked like.
“If you want to do something journalistic, come along with me on my next trip to Darfur. You’ll have to leave your studio and deal with people who, if they don’t like you, will shoot you in a moment. But you’ll also have the chance to take a genuinely important and overlooked story and bring it into people’s homes. So come on, Bill. What’ll it be? More ranting from your studio? Or real journalism?”
Mr. O’Reilly did not take him up on the offer.
Mr. Kristof recently published a piece on a timely subject: race and white delusion.
“My hunch is that we will likewise look back and conclude that today’s calls for racial justice, if anything, understate the problem — and that white America, however well meaning, is astonishingly oblivious to pervasive inequity.”
and now . . . something political
Historians weigh in on the Republican candidate for president:
Urban Renewal & Dislocation
On summer days, Portland’s Keller Fountain is alive with children splashing, students playing with smartphones while dangling feet in the water, and workers from nearby offices enjoying lunch. Formerly named Forecourt, the Ira Keller Fountain sits across the street from the Ira Keller Auditorium, host of much big-name entertainment that comes to town.