Shit White People say to Black&Brown Folks in PDX

[JonLP24]

Black& Brown in PDX (or Shit White People say to Black& Brown People in Portland) was created by a group of QTPOC who are surviving in Portland. Portland is 76% white and being black and brown in this city means navigating a white sea of ignorance and racism on the macro and micro aggression daily. We created this blog in the hopes that POC/QTPOC in Portland would have a safe anonymous place to share all the things we hear from white people while living in the city known for white hipster racism, neo-nazi skin heads, and steadfast post-racial belief systems (as if). We seek submissions of things POC in PDX have heard and been told so that we can document, vent, bring levity to, skewer, and witness the reality of living black and brown in Portland.
https://browninpdx.tumblr.com

I found this reading about this

The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/racist-history-portland/492035/

I found the blog to be very interesting but wasn't sure where to post figured this would be the best forum.

[The Polack MSgt]

1. KnR NT

[Kind of Blue]

2. Thanks for the post. I read the article last fall and sent to

my niece just about when she was going to audition at either Portland State University or the University of Portland, can't remember which has an outstanding music department. She got in but declined because, beside the article, the many rumors of bigotry and racism that filtered down to us about the area.

Pretty sombre that stark racism has to be considered when applying for higher learning or anything else in that part of the state.

[heaven05]

3. +++ nt

Thank you. It is "shit" that wypipo have ALWAYS, THOUGHT, SAID AND HAVE DONE up to and including private and governmental efforts to perpetuate genocide against black and brown people, African-Americans specifically. and the "shit" continues in the form of a dipshit potus and his brownshit 'deplorables' and their enablers.