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Oregon aims to preserve original constitution, warts and all

[...] the state is trying to raise funds from schoolchildren and others to restore the leather-bound document, and to buy a special case to preserve and display it, warts and all. [...] 1990-1991, when we moved into this building, it never was in an environmentally controlled space. Written by white men in 1857 after a constitutional convention, it contained a clause prohibiting black people from residing in Oregon. The report by the Coalition of Communities of Color and Portland State University cited discrimination in housing, school discipline and the justice system, and racial profiling by police. On a recent Friday, several dozen demonstrators in Portland affiliated with Black Lives Matter accused the police of racism, and complained of excessively rough treatment at a demonstration two days earlier. Demonstrator Nita Kelly described witnessing racial profiling, saying that during the earlier demonstration at City Hall, police assaulted an African-American woman waiting for a light-rail train "simply because she looked like someone who participated" in the demonstration. In 1984, Oregon students raised over $37,000 to re-gild the golden pioneer statue on top of the State Capitol.

 

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