text: For those who don't travel outside state to get some perspective, in 2014, Trader Joe’s yanked plans for a store in a black neighborhood in Portland, after protests by leftist whites and the AALF, who declared it would attract too many whites. The protesters decried the $2.4 million subsidy the city offered the grocery store to build on a long-vacant lot (sound familiar?) The protest worked: a month after Trader Joe’s pulled out, the Leftist Portland Mayor Charlie Hales pledged $20 million for additional projects, instead.  The neighborhood remains in poverty-- but at least "the community" is together.