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(Photo: Getty Images) This year is already one for the history books. 2021 will be remembered as the year a seditionist, outgoing United States president forcibly attempted to overturn his election loss by summoning a white supremacist mob to the U.S. Capitol. But as we continue to grapple with the fallout, more importantly, we must also remember 2021 as the year America inaugurated Senator Kamala Harris as the country’s first Black, first South Asian and first woman vice president and Georgia elected Reverend Raphael Warnock as the state’s first Black U.S. senator; all while barrier-breaking Black leaders on the local, state and federal level began their service in elected offices across the nation. ....
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. ....
January 13 2021 Clackamas County postpones a Jan. 13 swearing-in ceremony for new commissioners as Mark Shull faces condemnation. Clackamas County has postponed a swearing-in ceremony for county commissioners. That ceremony had been planned for Wednesday, Jan. 13, but is being rescheduled, the county said, because of recent threats of violence. County officials said it will provide a new date for the ceremony once they are determined. Additionally, the government said policy and business meetings would return to the streaming platform Zoom for the foreseeable future. While the brief announcement posted online doesn t mention newly-elected Commissioner Mark Shull the politician has become the isolated center of a firestorm of controversy after Pamplin Media Group first reported on his Facebook posts, which widely deemed to be racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and transphobic. ....
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. ....