Oregon is both extremely liberal and extremely conservative, depending on where you are in the state.
No good feeling unsafe, though. As an Oregonian, I’m sorry: you should not have had that experience.
Along ‘the five’, I’m guessing you were in Southern Oregon, though there are plenty of places in the Willamette valley that love to be contrarian and stick it to the libs with kooky conservative virtue signaling like you experienced at the burger place. Fuck that noise.
And yes, Oregon has a racist history. Most of the families who are black and grew up here first settled in Vanport around the time of WWII, working the shipyards. Many of the now gentrified neighborhoods in North Portland were where many of those Vanport residents migrated after the flooding that devastated the homes.
With so few black families and the reputation of not wanting African American residents at all in Oregon, it’s no wonder the number of black residents hasn’t climbed.
Known as the living skeleton and the fat man, George Moore and Fred Howe performed across the country as a comical circus sideshow. They created their routine in response to doctors’ recommendations that they each increase their exercise—one to gain weight and the other to lose it—but they perfected it as a means to both travel and make money.
This is a good idea. At the very least, it’ll put the idea in their brands a maybe bring them along. Worst case scenario, it might spur you to start a community…
“Our technology is soooo jaw droppingly powerful, we must warn the public!” It just seems a little self serving. ‘Critihype’ (Motherboard?) was a term I heard recently that sums this up nicely.
What do you think of the Orange?