OT: Are the Timberwolves the whitest team in decades?

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Mediocre Man said:
I realize how incredibly white Portland is.
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People always say that, but I don't see it. Besides 2 years when I first got married and we lived in Sellwood, I have lived in NE Portland my whole life. I'm never just around white people. This is why I love my neighborhood so much. Funny thing is I think 99 percent of black people in Oregon live in MY hood.
 
HCP said:
People always say that, but I don't see it. Besides 2 years when I first got married and we lived in Sellwood, I have lived in NE Portland my whole life. I'm never just around white people. This is why I love my neighborhood so much. Funny thing is I think 99 percent of black people in Oregon live in MY hood.
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thats because all 9 of them DO live in your hood.
 
HCP said:
People always say that, but I don't see it. Besides 2 years when I first got married and we lived in Sellwood, I have lived in NE Portland my whole life. I'm never just around white people. This is why I love my neighborhood so much. Funny thing is I think 99 percent of black people in Oregon live in MY hood.
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It's pretty amazing how different it is when you get to a real diverse city
 
Rastapopoulos said:
[Edit: this post now makes even less sense, as Sly has deleted the post it was responding to (that mentioned "mulattos")]
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Sorry about that, there were some complaints about the mulattos post so I thought it was best to erase that post.
 
Mediocre Man said:
It's pretty amazing how different it is when you get to a real diverse city
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I moved to Seattle a few years ago and it is definitely more diverse than Portland. My theory on why Oregon is so white goes back to the essential compromise of admitting Oregon into the union in 1859. Oregon was a free state, but it was written into the Oregon constitution that African Americans were prohibited from settling Oregon. The clause wasn't repealed until 1927.

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/black-laws-oregon-1844-1857

For the first 70 years of statehood it was illegal to live in Oregon if you were an African-American.
 
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Mediocre Man said:
It's pretty amazing how different it is when you get to a real diverse city
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I love the feeling of diversity. I think it's awesome when we are in DC or Atlanta and the restaurants are jammed packed with crackers. I like looking around and seeing people that are different then myself. Probably the main reason I could never live in the suburbs.
 
Rasta, are you Roger Smith in disguise? Hiding out in Portland to escape Michael Moore?
 
Zybot said:
I moved to Seattle a few years ago and it is definitely more diverse than Portland. My theory on why Oregon is so white goes back to the essential compromise of admitting Oregon into the union in 1859. Oregon was a free state, but it was written into the Oregon constitution that African Americans were prohibited from settling Oregon. The clause wasn't repealed until 1927.

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/black-laws-oregon-1844-1857

For the first 70 years of statehood it was illegal to live in Oregon if you were an African-American.
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What a fantastic law
 
I have a friend of mine that I work with you is from Flint. Graduated from Michigan and got into the TV industry. Last time I was out there, he said he bought a house back in Flint. Showed me pics and it was amazing. Old Victorian, must of had 5 bd/4bth/4000sf.......... told me he got it for $85,000! Said his and one other house are only houses on his street..... everything else is burnt to the ground or abandoned.
 
He overpaid. I bought my house in '99 for $105K. Better houses in my neighborhood are now going for $30K or less. And this is a good neighborhood! Hardly any of the gunshot incidents lead to fatalities. There's a historic neighborhood near downtown called "Carriage Town" with beautiful Victorian houses that you can get for $10K.
 
Didn't all the big wig GM founders build those homes?
 
crandc said:
Rasta, are you Roger Smith in disguise? Hiding out in Portland to escape Michael Moore?
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I did see Roger and Me shortly before I applied for many jobs, one of which was in Flint. "Ha ha" I said, "wouldn't it be funny if that was the job we got?"

Turns out it wasn't funny.

(And no, I've never met the bunny lady. However, I have seen Michael Moore: his sister-in-law ran my kid's Montessori school and he showed up for art night one year.)
 
HCP said:
Didn't all the big wig GM founders build those homes?
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There are some AMAZING houses. Houses with multicolored slate roofs, every stone of which was imported from Italy. But most of them are empty, their owners living down in Florida.
 
This is a great thread that is full of serious basketball discussion. :MARIS61:
 
DaLincolnJones said:
true Papa, true.

Back on topic;

1969 Boston called, they want this thread back
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1969? try 1988.

Greg Kite, Brad Lohause, Danny Ainge, Bird, McHale, Paxson, Sichting (before he was traded to Portland), Mark Acres, Fred Roberts. Holy shit thats a lot of white guys.
 
julius said:
1969? try 1988.

Greg Kite, Brad Lohause, Danny Ainge, Bird, McHale, Paxson, Sichting (before he was traded to Portland), Mark Acres, Fred Roberts. Holy shit thats a lot of white guys.
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yeah. well they were the "white"team that maintained more white player even after the intergration of all the colored players and the ABA guys,look at the rosters from 69 to 79 lol, it will blow your mind
 
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