Flying 1,200 Miles to Ruin Our Boss' Plan - Connect 4 Across America

10:43 Its my home state capitol :3

The giant golden dude is rly eye catchin but ya wanna know a fun fact? He literally is meant to symbolise colonisation. Theres another monument to colonisation, and i mean it explicitly says such on it in those words!, just around the corner of that buildin, some horse and rider statue.

As cool as the capitol buildin is, its a painful reminder of how wretched some parts of Oregon are; obligatory reminder that Oregon (Territory, so like, the whole PNW, includin parts of Canada) banned Black ppl from livin there to "protect racial integrity" and bcuz they were afraid of havin enslaved folks take their jobs.

That law, here in Oregon proper, wasnt fully repealed to the pt where they cud live and own property again until 1926; and they didnt remove the language of the ban from the constitution until 2002, when i was 12.

Progressive state, hah! On some things sure, but nearly always their progressiveness is based in horribleness. Like givin women the right to vote just bcuz they knew thatd mean more white folks votin so as to keep others from gainin any amount of power or wealth for that matter.