Dude, who even knows.
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The west side of the river is the “nice” one in Portland, and old money in the West Hills aside, the wealthy suburb on this side of the hills is Lake Oswego, around an artificial and still access-restricted-in-defiance-of-state-law lake. Locals my age say that since at least elementary school it was called “Lake No Negro”, and I can only imagine what it took to get a reputation as monoethnically white in 1980s Portland.
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kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added: Honestly maybe it's cause it was so close to the 1980s inner city that was noticeable. Our MLK Boulevard was the first...