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[https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/30/897298379/how-portlands-racist-history-informs-today-s-protests by Ari Shapiro 30/7/20 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/30/897298379/how-portlands-racist-history-informs-today-s-protests by Ari Shapiro 30/7/20 npr] | ||
Oregon has a long history of entrenched racism, dating back to its statehood in 1859, when the state constitution barred Black people from entering or living there. Yet the recent protests in Portland are part of another long history of black and white Oregonians combating that lingering racism, says Lisa Bates, an associate professor of urban studies at Portland State University. | Oregon has a long history of entrenched racism, dating back to its statehood in 1859, when the state constitution barred Black people from entering or living there. Yet the recent protests in Portland are part of another long history of black and white Oregonians combating that lingering racism, says Lisa Bates, an associate professor of urban studies at Portland State University. | ||
=====Growing up black in America: here's my story of everyday racism===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/growing-up-black-in-america-racism-education by Brian Jones 6/6/18 The Guardian] | |||
I am a black man who has grown up in the United States. I know what it is like to feel the sting of discrimination. As a middle-class, light-skinned black man I also know that many others suffered (and continue to suffer) a lot worse than me. I grew up around a lot of white people. In elementary school, I remember being told that I was one of the “good ones” – not like the “bad ones” I was meant to understand; I was different. | |||
