Oregon was founded as a racist utopia.

[Bucky]

16. Here's an article that attempts to rank the states by racism. OR is 43rd

http://www.thetoptens.com/most-racists-states-us/page3.asp

Of course Mississippi & Alabama are #1 & #2. My home state (YeeHawwww!) came in 3rd. Sorry, but Texas racism is what Oregon racism wants to be when it grows up.

Interestingly, in this article (actually a collection of personal anecdotes about racists who come from each state) we find out that, even with 42 states being assessed as more racist than Oregon, we still hear testimonials like this:

Portland is VERY racist and they do know it{.} I'm a white woman married to a black man and have mixed kids... We don't live inside Portland but on the out skirts{,} but anytime we go to the store and my husband hands anyone cash they put his change on the counter they will not hand it to him in his hand and people stare at us everywhere we go. I have recently gotten VERY AWARE of {h}ow deep the hate of people here in Oregon City is since my son started going to school. {H}e is one of only 3 black children in the whole school... The kid's were telling my son that they wouldn't play with him because he's black and black people steal and black people go to jail... So as his mother I went directly to the principal who tried to brush it off by saying "kids will be kids"

I lived in West Linn just outside of Portland, and I have to say that there is a lot of racism in Oregon. It's just very hush hush, you know they don't want to seem behind or stupid up there. When me and my husband first got married we went to visit a family friend of my in laws just outside of Portland and the first thing she said was "I bet your mom was real happy to see that you didn't bring home a little n***** girl". I guess she just assumed that everyone in Mississippi are African American. I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and there are tons on interracial couples and biracial people. I grew up with just as many African American friends as white and I never have been spoken to in Mississippi like I was in Oregon.

Portland wants to be perceived as a city of liberals. But most of these liberals are secretly very racist towards people of color.

As an elderly Asian woman, born, raised, college educated in the U.S., and living in a middle-class neighborhood in the city, I experience and witness racism everyday.

I also experience this with the Portland police who are only there to protect the white male.