Inside the Deadly, Racist History of Portland's 'White Liberal Bastion'

Portland police were reportedly familiar with Christian’s background as a white supremacist—he certainly didn’t go through any pains to hide it—but wrote him off as “mentally ill” according to The Portland Mercury.

While the gruesome stabbing shocked many around the country who consider Portland to be a liberal white bastion, the state is dogged by an insidious history of white supremacy.

A history that, for Oregon’s people of color, remains all too present.

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