Remember the Wall of Moms? Protecting Portland rioters. Fawning press coverage. Copycat Wall of Moms groups forming around country. But now Portland Wall of Moms falling apart, riven by racial tension. 1/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
Problem: Wall of Moms 'predominantly white,' enjoys press attention black-led groups, who have been in fight longer, don't get. Resentments rise. Portland WOM leaders, white women, give up positions to black women. 2/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
But at same time, Portland Wall of Moms founder, white woman, registers WOM with state of Oregon as nonprofit group that can receive tax-free contributions. Makes herself president; doesn't tell black colleagues. 3/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
Rival black-led group, Don't Shoot Portland, attacks: 'Anti-Blackness showed its ugly face with Wall of Moms.' Particularly angry that Wall of Moms incorporated 'without the knowledge of the Black leadership WOM was claiming to implement.' 4/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
Remember the saying: 'Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.' Wall of Moms went from movement stage to business stage in record time--a matter of days. Next: Racket. 5/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
Now, at very moment national media celebrates Wall of Moms as movement spreading across country, original Wall of Moms in Portland is collapsing from its own internal tensions. Link: The Revolution Devours Itself in Portland. 6/6 End. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
