Oregon county creates race-specific 'grounding space' to escape 'whiteness' during pandemic

[mountaineer]

Portland, natch.

Oregon county creates race-specific 'grounding space' to escape 'whiteness' during pandemic
'Multnomah County is acting lawfully,' spokesperson declares.
By Carrie Sheffield
Last Updated: April 24, 2020 - 4:15pm

In a daily report dedicated to news updates and guidance for county employees fighting the coronavirus, an Oregon county in the Portland area said it was creating a safe "grounding space" for minority staff to escape a predominant “whiteness.”

The April 5 "situation report" from the Multnomah County Office of Emergency Operations Center announced that the "Emergency Operations Center Equity Officer is hosting a grounding space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees to share, heal, connect, and get grounded in a space that is not dominated by whiteness."  ...

“Multnomah County is acting lawfully,” Julie Sullivan-Springhetti, Multnomah County communications director, said in a statement to Just the News. “The space excludes no one. It is based on shared lived experience not identity. The same way our employee resource groups for veterans, parents, and people with a disability are based on life experience and not identity. All are welcome here.”  ...

Full story at Just The News
To read the full Multnomah County Emergency Operations Center report, click HERE

[Smokin Joe]

No one excluded...

Right.

Is there a 'space' for white, single, straight, healthy, males and females who aren't parents?