text: "Why doesn't the Lifestyles issue represent our whole community ? ............ Visuals are very powerful."
  The answer, dear Ag, is that most folks hereabouts are used to just seeing white faces and find that normal.  Except on the campus you can go all afternoon and not see a black face. That's our history and it won't change quickly--  but don't give up, we are making progress--I remember a couple decades ago a black person in Eugene was so uncommon they were often asked (though in a friendly way) "What are you doing here?"
  
  Now that many goodhearted people really do want to know how African-Americans here see Eugene, lets' ask the local NAACP to hold a representative panel discussion on "How local black people actually feel living in the Eugene-Springfield area."