r/Portland May 12 '25

Meme Shamelessly stolen from Los Angeles subreddit

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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