Portland’s protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they’re white spectacle, writes E.D. Mondaine, the president of Portland’s NAACP chapter: https://t.co/zgMPXO9yoY

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) July 26, 2020

I get where the author is coming from, and we definitely don’t need to get away from the original point. But the moms didn’t show up until their kids were being taken. The veterans didn’t show up until moms were being taken. You definitely don’t want to turn this into all lives matter, but turning what is happening to everyone in Portland to advance their cause. At the same time, whites definitely need to remember that their privilege doesn’t give them power.