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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
Sure, things are better. Perfect, no...but certainly better. Anyone that says otherwise full of crap or being dishonest...ask them if they'd really like to go back to what it was like 50, 100, or 200 years ago.
All I have to do is look around my workplace and see a large number of non-whites working very well paying professional jobs...and I've been on the hiring team that hired many of them....based strictly on ability. They're also being equally well represented in management....in dramatically stronger numbers than the greater area's demographics. None of that would not have been the case 40 or 50 years ago.
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Camron - you're absolutely correct about things being "better" now. Especially here in the Portland area. Some day I'll tell you the tale of how, when I first moved to Portland in 1971, I almost lost my job because I promoted a black man. And....I was working for a major national company at the time. I also received a lot of nasty comments when I got remarried here in 1979 and my best man was black. I don't think either of those two things would happen today (I'm referring to the job problem and the nasty comments).