Experts say the demonstrations have broad-based support in Oregon’s largest city, but some believe that’s not nearly enough to heal the deep wounds inflicted by decades of discrimination.
A predominantly white city tucked away in the northwest corner of the U.S. hardly seems the logical spot to emerge as the new flash point of the protests against racism and police brutality that have raged across the country for nearly two months.
For as much outrage and questions of constitutionality as the federal action in Portland has evoked, the longstanding demonstrations that began in the city shortly after the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police are more rooted in the state’s racist history than on recent events.– less than two years before it became a state – barred people of color from coming within its borders. It wasn’t until 1926 that the provision was repealed.
But he said they had tapered down, describing them as “peaceful, benign and boring’’ – until the feds took action. His comment was echoed by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, who told PBS the actions of “Trump’s troops’’ were “simply like pouring gasoline on a fire.’’
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