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by Charles Mudede • Apr 21, 2021 at 5:01 pm T.S. Eliot s prayer for this cargo ship in Elliott Bay: Lady, whose shrine stands on the promontory, / Pray for all those who are in ships, those / Whose business has to do with fish, and / Those concerned with every lawful traffic / And those who conduct them. Charles Mudede Who got the props? Who got the props? For Rodney Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, the black man murdered by Derek Chauvin, it s Portland, Oregon. This is what he said during a presser that soon followed a verdict that found the former cop Chauvin guilty of taking Floyd s life without justification. Rodney Floyd was evidently impressed by the intensity and length of the Black Lives Matter protests in the whitest large city of the Pacific Northwest. Indeed, he is under the impression that this city s passion for justice made a difference. Portland is, of course, the capital of Antifa. ....