Dang, somehow my post got messed up. Well, I'll cut and paste:
There don't seem to be many black/white racial issues in Portland, Oregon.
But attorneys here have green and purple striped hair, so skin color is just ::shrug::
I do think people here have really worked hard to work TOGETHER, which is one reason I love this community!
Here, as mentioned before, racism is more black on black, or hispanic on hispanic, in my opinion. And it appears to be a generational thing. It's almost always young men who are the troublemakers.
One thing about Obama winning the election is that he's given a whole lot of young black men and women great hope that there IS a ladder they can climb with hard work and perseverance. This is something that I feel was greatly needed in this country.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to be EITHER candidate winning this election because nobody is going to be able to straighten this financial mess out. We've dug ourselves a deep old hole and the best advice I've heard is from the Church who say, put up a year's supply, get out of debt, don't spend money, and hunker down.
It's going to get MUCH worse before it gets better, in my opinion. In fact, I believe it will be WORSE than the Great Depression.
So even though I do worry about Obama's safety and pray for him every night, I worry more about the country breaking into civil war if things don't settle down on Wall Street. I've heard rumblings from other forums... and they're not nice.
