More "largely peaceful" Portland protests

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(10-30-2020, 01:01 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: I wasn't deflecting anything.  Think what you want.

Listen everyone, I will admit, without all the sarcastic humor this time, i'm not some super smart, highly educated guy.  I'm just some regular dude, who grew up in Fairfield and participating in the Bengals message board.

I don't have the ability to write as nicely or think as in depth as some on here.  I'm a big 46 year old kid who loves life, loves to have fun, have always had a steady job and I have a wonderful family.  I'm just an IT dude at a local, very rural Hospital.

If I have said anything to make someone think I am racist I apologize.  If I said anything about genetics that offended anyone I apologize for that also.  It was unintended and not made in any kind of demeaning way.

People say things poorly around here a lot.  Blaming "one race" and the inner city citizens "sounded" (to me) like something invoking racism whether you are a racist or not.  We all try to be careful that we are not taken out of context and I took those two posts and made my response.  I won't apologize for doing it because we have to stand by what we say but I will apologize to you for the assumption that others made that because I called the statements dog whistles that meant YOU had to be a racist.  It doesn't mean that, it means the statements themselves invoked race as a reason solely.  I will be do better in the future.