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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]gizmodo

[quote]I spoke over the phone with Walidah Imarisha, an educator and expert on black history in Oregon and she was quick to explain that the state is only really exceptional in that it bothered to proclaim its goals of white supremacy so openly.

"What's useful about Oregon as a case study is that[b] Oregon was bold enough to write it down," [/b][/quote]

but see

http://slavenorth.com/exclusion.htm

[i]And both followed the Ohio policy of trying to prevent black immigration by passing laws requiring blacks who moved into the state to produce legal documents verifying that they were free and posting bond to guarantee their good behavior. The bond requirements ranged as high as $1,000, which was prohibitive for a black American in those days. Anti-immigration legislation passed in Illinois in 1819, 1829, and 1853. In Indiana, such laws were enacted in 1831 and 1852. Michigan Territory passed such a law in 1827; Iowa Territory passed one in 1839 and Iowa enacted another in 1851 after it became a state. Oregon Territory passed such a law in 1849.[8] Blacks who violated the law faced punishments that included advertisement and sale at public auction (Illinois, 1853).[/i]

All these werre "written down"  Gizmodo is quoting someone who appears less than fully informed.   [/quote]

NP.  Not sure why you're so upset about Oregon.  Someone posited that the "historical reason" there are so few blacks there is that the state wasn't an industrial center.  But Los Angeles and SF certainly were industrial centers as were Seattle and Portland and all these cities received a great many blacks during the Great Migration.  http://guides.lib.uni.edu/content.php?pid=322696&sid=2836317

So yeah, misinformation all around.

However, northern cities were far more violent toward black people when it came to real estate.  Mob attacks and bombings were common in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and smaller places in between, though they don't teach much about that in schools.  Weakness or pure f*cking evil?[/quote]

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