Continuing to allow white supremacy a place in Central Oregon is a threat to the economic, cultural and spiritual growth of the entire region
Two racially charged incidents inside the same week show us that while Central Oregon is changing demographically and culturally in the direction of more diversity and inclusion, not everyone is happy about it and not everyone is on board. Oregon’s long history of Black exclusion laws and its quest for a “white utopia” might seem like long-forgotten relics of a more racist past, but when asked about their reaction to the dead raccoon left at the office of Redmond’s mayor, or about the son of an elected official posing with a Nazi salute, one Black resident said, “It’s just another Tuesday.”…
