Clackamas County condemns Jim Crow, vaccine card comparison June 02 2021
Commissioner Mark Shull s resolution abhorrent and irresponsible according to Chair Tootie Smith
A firestorm of criticism was unleashed this week when a Clackamas County commissioner proposed a resolution that compared showing a COVID-19 vaccine card to the segregationist Jim Crow laws.
Commissioner Mark Shull had drafted a resolution to block the state rule that a business must see someone s vaccine card before they can enter without a mask.
Shull s resolution draft stated vaccine passports create conditions of a new Jim Crow 2.0 but fellow commissioners, including Chair Tootie Smith, harshly criticized the comparison to laws that had legalized segregation and led to arrests and lynchings.
January 14 2021
More than 100 elected leaders, community organizations have called for Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull to immediately resign.
Leaders in Oregon s Muslim community have rejected an embattled Clackamas County Commissioner s plans for outreach and apologies saying his hate speech requires an immediate resignation.
Newly-elected Commissioner Mark Shull referred to Muslim Americans as invaders and savages as recently as mid-2019 in his Facebook posts and called for military force against them, including extermination outside the lands of Islam.
And while the former lieutenant colonel told The Oregonian he plans to meet with Muslim leaders to build understanding, the most prominent officials in that community say they haven t heard from him.
Mark Shull apologizes during Muslim Educational Trust event January 18 2021
When asked to say Black lives matter, the Clackamas County Commissioner responded that all lives matter.
Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull has apologized for social media posts expressing Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views, but said that recent public conversation has taken them out of context. I certainly didn t imagine that some of (the posts) would be presented to countless people, causing fear and anxiety, Shull said during an event on Monday, Jan. 18, at the Muslim Educational Trust in Tigard, describing an email with screenshots of the postings as intended to cause a public media storm.