Category Archives: Crime

Fanfare for Donald Trump

Should Donald Trump live to see Election Day, he deserves another win. It would be a rebuke to America’s vaunted media who have devoted the last four years to waging war on him. This is the same media who are forever telling us that the president of the United States is the most powerful man […]

The Lynching of Jake Gardner

The black man had big plans for his future. The white man was trying to run a bar. The black man boasted he wanted to have 18 kids and make a rap album as great as his idol, Kevin Gates. The white man had a dog named LeBron and campaigned for Donald Trump. This black […]

Investing in White Supremacy

The George Floyd Gravy Train is about to the leave the station. If you’re black and you haven’t figured out how to monetize Big Floyd’s passing, hurry. Inconvenient truths are piling up. A week ago, prosecutors in Minneapolis released more toxicology reports confirming that Floyd had enough Fentanyl in him to cause pulmonary edema – […]

Portland: A City of Nobodies

Here’s a glimpse into the future of law enforcement in Portland, Ore.: A hand-scrawled cardboard sign taped outside the wall of the Stevens-Ness Law Publishing Co., “Per Rico and Riot Ribs please don’t vandalize.” Will Portland’s nationally-recognized protests, which have included vandalism and looting, devolve into a protection racket? The Stevens-Ness store is a block […]

America’s Black Curse

By now we all know how long George Floyd, a black man, lay under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer. Does anybody know how long it took Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old white college student, to crawl up the stairs in a New York City park after three black teens robbed and stabbed her? […]

The Trial of Jeremy Christian

How timely that Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum should kick off her new Hate Hotline while the murder trial of Jeremy Christian is under way. Christian is the “white supremacist” (as the media call him) who stabbed three white men on a Portland, Ore., MAX train on May 26, 2017. As the story went, he […]

Pawns in Criminal Justice Reform

The man found driving April Fletcher’s stolen 2013 Honda Accord had nothing to worry about when Salem, Ore., police pulled him over for a traffic stop. Brandon Nelson had no license, no insurance, no title to the car. But he had political apathy in his favor. It has been more than a year since Fletcher’s […]

‘What if God Was One of Us?’

Thousands of Mexican girls and women have disappeared into the deserts outside Ciudad Juárez, and it’s Bill Clinton’s fault. Nobody actually says so in Isaac Gomez’s play, “La Ruta,” being staged by Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre. But the play links the murders of thousands of girls and young women in Juárez to the North American […]

Crime, Punishment and Fellowships

In his story, “The Curious Case of the Prisoners in the Wrong Cellblock,” Oregon State Penitentiary inmate Sterling Cunio reveals the fears that grip him as he tries to make a phone call from inside the prison, while keeping an eye on two suspicious inmates who show up. This is not their cellblock, and they […]

Oregon: A State Fit for Criminals

If it had been up to Oregon’s governor, Cal Coburn Brown would have awakened this morning to a brand new day. He could’ve had his morning coffee and looked forward to whatever simple pleasures were available to him. Maybe a yoga class. Listening to music. Reading a book. Watching TV. Or reliving his glory days […]