No, no one is falling for your bullshit. At least not here. Maybe on the mean streets of La Pine? barfo
I was thinking of relax, ruminate, and reflect when I read the thread title. I was in a kind of euphoria. Then I read the OP.
Wait until the game threads! People are ready to hang others in effigy. Pure comedy gold. Good times, buddy!
I understand my point was the smaller towns probably aren't any more or less than some regular PDX metro areas. I have 1/2 Asian grandkid in Gresham and Lake Oswego and they get harassed. Its everywhere I know. On the other hand I've experienced positive results form integration and willingness for races to get along as well. I have one a grandson that is Caucasian and he's the only one on his HS soccer team, and it's been great, sure some kidding here and there, but he's doing great.
I can only speak for Lake Oswego because I've lived her and in the previous segment of Lake Oswego known as Oswego. Oswego was incredibly racist back in the 50's and before. My grandmother in Oswego couldn't stand Asians and there were dirty jokes galore about every group that wasn't White, Anglo-Saxon, Christian Protestants. We even made fun of Catholics and in my church we swear allegiance to the Catholic church. Somehow, I just never put the two together. Now, Lake Oswego is pretty Progressive except for the wealthiest donors in our church who had a priest expelled for saying things like we need to be kind to our Hispanic immigrants. So, there still is a nasty element of racism here but they are old and dying out. Shortly after I moved from Oswego to Portland I met some really nice Black kids and that coupled with my slow realization that racism just seemed wrong and coupled with my father's apology for denigrating Blacks and doing a 180° turn on the subject along with his switch to a string supporter of Black rights being equal to White rights, I changed. It was quite a while before I moved back into one of the old houses my mother still kept upon graduation from college. I don't think I witnessed any racism. Now, after buying a house in Aloha and living there for 35 years I'm back in Lake Oswego and notice a definite turn to Progressive here. Only one guy lived here that was my age and lived here all of his life and he died in the hospital under the VA's care which broke my heart. Every single one of the others has moved on.
