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Not class segregation, but racial segregation. Yesterday I flew to the Atlanta airport and from there to the Portland Oregon airport. Probably 75-80% of the peo
by irrational 3y ago
Not class segregation, but racial segregation. Yesterday I flew to the Atlanta airport and from there to the Portland Oregon airport. Probably 75-80% of the people flying to Atlanta were black. I was in the airport for about 5 hours and 80+% of the workers were black. When it was time to fly to Portland, I looked around the departure area and realized that 100% of the people flying to Oregon were white and when I got to the Portland airport, I paid attention to the workers are realized that 100% of them were white. For some reason, I’d always assumed that cities would naturally have a diverse mix of people, apparently not.
- bluepod4 3y agoNow fly to Minnesota and see that most of the people on the flight are white but 90% of the airport workers are Somali.
- bluedino 3y agoIt's really dependent on the area that you are in https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Black2017-1024x768.jpg https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Black2017-1...
- Fricken 3y agoI'm Canadian, and when road tripping through the states, coming up from California, I was struck by how suddenly white Portland was relative to all places south of it.
- kec 3y agoThere were laws making it illegal for people of color to live in Oregon territory which persisted through statehood and weren't fully stricken until into the 20th century.
- mandevil 3y agoPortland- and Oregon in general- is something of a special case, because of its history legally excluding Black people. In general cities are better about accepting people of different ethnicity and backgrounds, but individual history and laws can override that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_black_exclusion_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_black_exclusion_laws
- monocasa 3y agoOregon for a while explicitly barred black people from entering or raiding in the state, at the constitutional level. While unenforceable thanks to the federal 14th amendment, the Oregon constitution wasn't fully amended to remove references to this until 2002. https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Remove_Constitutional_References_to_Race,_Measure_14_(2002) https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Remove_Constitutional_Referen...
- irrational 3y agoI certainly would hope they would bar anyone from raiding in the state.
- monocasa 3y ago*residing