A well put together video from Oregon Humanities, inspired by the essay “The Air I Breathe” by Ifanyi Bell. It’s about Black people in Portland and the space we occupy.
Video produced by Brushfire Creative Partners and Ifanyi Bell.
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Portland Oregon is the number 1 City in America known for raciasm I will never forget the hard time I was giving trying to open a business their, and I was done in by that so call black community, so good luck catching up with the rest of United State.
It started in the late 50’s when I-5 was built. Then noticed MLK changing, then Alberta, Killingsworth, Fremont and now Williams and Mississippi. It breaks my heart to visit my home town. It’s not mine anymore.
Change began with us, we can change our surrounding; but if we don’t change our mind set what good is it. Moving together in a community does nothing until we choose to embrace each other no matter what setting we are in. A one point thier was a sense of black community in Portland years ago (in the 80’s); now we are spread abroad with no sense of community. We must become the change we want to see and choose to get involve to embrace the change we want to see in our community.
FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.. (THANK YOU)!!!
Being regentificated or reidentified here here in Portland was the worse on our generation being Fourth generation coming out of captivity in 2007 in a new location unfamiliar than the old northeast Portland of my elders was a sign of the nations hate still rearing its ugly head government labeled Northeast Portland it a den of thieves, the relocating blacks know known tribal root of youngest judah judah , with nationality remnant Hebrew, we now see the captivity blindness of our ancestors. Much is needed from our nations of brothers and sisters to build ourselves here in the states across the map. Much has to be done so that remnant Hebrew have stability here and are not on the pestilence side with claiming unidentified backing of Africa, we are grateful Africans backing, the blindness of our ancestors must have been a .trial. But we are unveiled ready to gain through God our place here among the nations societies.
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