This from PBS I don't know if this is considered STATE MEDIA like they have in foreign regimes with trolls jumping on Clutchfans just to go on the D&D with fake IPs so they trash Americans and pretend they are Americans but when they say STATE MEDIA and they DISLIKE MOREY and NEVER POST ON THE GARM, it's obvious they are STATE TROLLS But yes, This was an interesting look into a history the city that has been on the news lately even before Lillard got into beef with the Bev enjoy! @Os Trigonum @Reeko THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION https://blackdemographics.com/population/black-city-population/ 7. Houston, TX 1,141,697 17% 91. Portland, OR-WA 67,881 3%
Wow, just wow. Incredible, why don't the protestors ever mention things like this as a reason to protest, this is a reason to protest!
I’m from Houston And when I went to Portland to visit I noticed great nature and scenery And no Black people always wondered why
https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-white-history-racist-foundations-black-exclusion-laws/ Although the laws were repealed almost a century ago, the racist language in Oregon's constitution wasn't removed by voters until 2002. But, Imarisha said, it's important to note — just 18 years ago — 30% of voters elected to keep the racist clause in the constitution. @Reeko
Forget Columbus They got to cancel Portland https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-white-history-racist-foundations-black-exclusion-laws/ "[These] laws point to the fact that Oregon was founded as a racist white utopia," said Walidah Imarisha, a Black studies educator and writer based in Oregon. "The idea was that white folks would come here and build the perfect white society."
Okay? This is widely known to those that are interested in race relations. Also it isn’t a shock that 30% of the electorate in Oregon voted to keep the laws on the books. As a state it didn’t flip to Democratic until 1988 and was a toss up state until 2008. It has a deep seated history of institutional racism.... as does a lot of the USA and the attitude permeates the entire country.... remember that the next time a black person or minority states racism is an institutional problem... you cannot have it both ways.
Houston, the answer is always Houston...no matter their age, race, gender, etc...the answer is always Houston
the amount of things African Americans have dealt with, and continue to deal with, are just insane my grandfather was almost 40 when the Voting Rights Act was passed...my grandfather...not my great-great grandfather or someone from centuries ago, but my grandfather who is still alive today “if u don’t leave the area, u will get whipped in public every 6 months“...just evil and barbaric 1 of the most haunting pictures I’ve ever seen is 1 with 2 black people lynched in public hanging from a tree while a group of people surround the bodies smiling and posing for the pic like it’s a 4th of July BBQ everything possible was done to prevent black people from having rights and attempting to generate generational wealth for centuries...if black people managed to overcome every obstacle and become successful, it was torn down and destroyed like Black Wall Street in Tulsa destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, killing hundreds of people, and creating so many orphans this Portland story falls right in line with all the other stories u hear about the purposeful disenfranchisement of an entire group of people
Gotta love those woke white liberals, they love black people so much, they’ve made sure their neighborhoods are completely free of them.
Its great Portland is trying to address gentrification. Believe me @tinman this is an issue in Houston. I posted a thread on gentrification in Third Ward earlier this year https://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php?threads/rice-st/ I don't think there is much cities can do about it in terms of keeping making sure minorities arent forced out of their historical areas. I don't see it as a "problem" to begin with. This is a bigger issue than race. This is the growing gap in wealth issue.
Houston still has areas not too far from downtown that are affordable. Im sure Portland due to its size is more limited in areas low income people can afford. Gentrification is not a black and white issue, no pun intended. Low income area residents talk about investment in the area, once an area starts improving no telling how far it will go. Also urban sprawl is a real issue in this country and reinvesting in cities is ultimately a greater good
Yall seen that movie GREEN ROOM? And Houston is better for blacks, but Katy, Kingwood, Woodlands, etc... is better for no man.
Eastern Oregon is pretty far right. That's the home of a lot of the white supremecist and separatist movements. Its a lot like Texas where the cities and the rural areas are on very different pages. Oregon is where Ammon Bundy and his clan took over that federal land and had the big standoff.
Funny thing about Ammon Bundy though: Dude is an odd character. Like I know his father Cliven is an abject racist but that video kinda threw me off.
I don't think very many people know about Oregon's history with race. The black exclusion laws have left a pretty big legacy of racial discrimination in Oregon. No other state in the US had exclusion laws like Oregon did. They only got around to repealing all of the racist language from the Constitution in 2002 and a full 30% of voters said they'd rather leave that stuff in the Constitution.
I should clarify, it is well known to those that have a strong interest in the topic.... as it is one of a number of cities that have had strong institutional racism, poor integration and to this day there are still effects...... Chicago and the south get all the headlines but in the Midwest and parts of the PNW it is far worse.... Utah has a lot of issues as well. While the laws in Portland are specific, they are not unique in their intent or even outcome. The laws and policies in a place like Chicago were made to keep out, then separate black people..... they were not wanted in Chicago during the first great migration...... were certainly not wanted during the second great migration........ and ever since then, they have been purposely segregated and marginalized. The entire Midwest is that way......
Aint no black folks trying to live in Portland. The northwest has to be as white as Nebraska or Vermont. Portland has more Asians than blacks. So does Seattle Edit: i want to visit Seattle. Seems like a great place to live
I once heard that white conservatives are willing to have a Black neighbor, but not a Black boss; and white liberals are willing to have a Black boss, but not a Black neighbor.
