Saturday will see people in Portland, Oregon squaring off in protests and counter-protests over a racial reckoning too many white people refuse to acknowledge needs to happen. Even in light of the State of Kentucky officially declaring drywall to hold more value than the life of a Black woman in the outrageous grand jury decision regarding Breonna Taylor's killing by cops, large swaths of white people still don't believe we need to be out in the streets screaming that Black Lives Matter.
So aggrieved are these white people by the presence of Black people, accompanied by allies and supporters of all colors, demanding acknowledgement of their humanity and right to equal treatment, that they feel the need to have their own little protests. Only, in this case, they feel the need to wave their guns around. And their neo-Nazi flags. In some cases, even actual Nazi flags. They belong to one of several white nationalist groups, either the Proud Boys, or Patriot Prayer, or 3 Percenters. They don't like attention drawn to the fact that police brutality is being challenged, especially brutality directed at Black people.
