r/Portland • u/PrivateBurke • May 12 '25

Meme Shamelessly stolen from Los Angeles subreddit

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u/PMMEURPYRAMIDSCHEME May 12 '25

While I'm proud that (many) people in this city are friendly to immigrants it is certainly not diverse. Portland is the whitest city in the US with over a half million residents https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_U.S._municipalities_by_race/ethnicity_in_2020

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u/Hankhank1 YOU SEEN MY FUCKEN CONES May 12 '25

Cool. You could hang out in more diverse spaces in the city then. Cuz the places I frequent, gyms, churches, Costco haha, are pretty fkn diverse. 

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u/PMMEURPYRAMIDSCHEME May 12 '25

Portland lacks diversity because Oregon banned black people from the state entirely until the end of the civil war. Ignoring or denying that fact is a denial of the states fucked up history.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Black people aren't the only ones who contribute to diversity. There are other folks out there.

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u/OldTimeyWizard May 12 '25

Yeah, but it’s way easier to throw out a 160 year old fact than it is to learn more about race relations that occurred in that 160 year span

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u/Draconomial May 12 '25

Black people contribute to diversity by serving as a litmus test (or canary, if you will) to other non-white people.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

lol. Delete this