Well excuse me for not knowing 'Mark's schedule.  I don't care about it tbh, I still think if you really cared you could have emailed and said 'lets discuss this', but what's your public benefit to that? 

Youre right, I said 'I' instead of 'my friend'.  Does it really dilute the point so much?  To the person with the knife that night, it didnt matter if it was me or my friend standing at the bus stop, so...  I do know folk that went down to Sheridan (Google it, im going to hazard a guess youve never been there), and everyone who went to school out here knows a pro or two, PDX is a worldwide waypoint for human traffic.  But according to you, this is a SAFE city. 

I dont need you to explain the history of OR (im actually from here remember? we learned it in grade school), i dont need you to tell what i can and cannot be angry about, and I find it hard to believe that you 'usually' listen to people of color, when your first instinct on this page was to attack.