This is the fourth episode in a 5-part series on the Hollywood Metro Station murders that took place on May 26

 (Train sounds…police car sirens…ambulance sounds…)

 In this episode we’ll try to find the national perspective… why has Congress failed to recognize this event? What’s been the effect of this event on the national image of Portland ----Boston became “Boston Strong,” but what has Portland become?.  Is white racism somehow winning in a conflict with democratic pluralism?  Is racism becoming… respectable, main-stream?  What about the treatment of people who commit this type of crime---is prison the solution?

 Castillo

 Here’s Shweta Moorthy on how the national media handled the incident.  Her comment is even more interesting in light of what took place in Charlottesville on August ______

M-4 The media said it could only happen here…

 Blazak made this comment about the comparison with Boston:

B-5  Boston has a history of dealing with the complex problems…

 About the issue of the national environment for the discussion of racism, Here’s Blazak again:

B10-:  political center has shifted so far to the right…liberals now are communists

 What about the treatment of people who commit this type of crime? According to Zakir Khan, the mental health issue can actually distract us from a core issue:

             K-6

TF: Is there anyone who still believes that putting people in prison really solves anything?  We still do that, and no one seems to have any viable alternative.  But what price do we pay for doing that?

             B-7 Radicalization in prison

            M-16  Drugs moving from Gresham---prison-related

Tomorrow, in a final episode, we’ll ask the question: how do we leave this?  How do we write the history of what happened that day?  Will May 26, 2017 be seen as a turning point in the history of this city, or will it be just another mile marker on a long trail that begins with the systematic mistreatment of native people and a misguided constitution and leads to a seemingly endless series of hateful racial encounters? Where will this end?  What permanent results, if any, should we expect?? What have we learned from what happened on May 26, 2017?

  MUSIC:  a little more somber, … fading under the closing text…

 You’ve just heard the fourth in a five part series; Listen in tomorrow for the final episode:  “The Holllywood Murders:  Where do we go from here?”

 That’s it for Episode 4. Listen to the whole series at our website, K-B-O-O DOT F-M and call or e-mail us with your comments.