The Racist History Behind Why Portland is so White
The “white utopia” Oregon’s founders wanted
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8 min readJul 12, 2021
In my last week in Portland, I visited the west coast for the first time in my life. There are things in the city that I was previously completely not exposed to:
A completely naked man riding a bike across the bridge.
Whole streets of tents for homeless people.
A very sprawled…