美国大城市中白人比例最高的波特兰如何成为BLM抗议的中心

在波特兰连续56个晚上的抗议活动中，大批白人抗议者高举拳头，高喊：“这不是暴动，是革命。”在最近的几个晚上，抗议者的数量激增至数千。

根据Census人口普查数据，在美国人口超过50万的35个城市中，波特兰71％的居民是非拉美裔白人，是主要城市中白人比例最高的。

俄勒冈州的白人居民数量占到总人口的四分之三，对比加州，加州的白人居民仅占总人口的37％。俄勒冈州建立在白人至上的原则之上。19世纪俄勒冈州的法律要求鞭打在该州发现的任何一个黑人。在20世纪初期，俄勒冈州的立法机关由三K党（Ku Klux Klan）成员控制。在今天，波特兰市的黑人居民占总人口的比例为6％，黑人家庭的平均收入水平几乎是白人居民的一半。一些白人抗议者说，正是这种白人至上主义的遗产促使他们涌上街头。

俄勒冈大学（University of Oregon）右翼政治与种族专家Joe Lowndes表示，特朗普政府执政期间势力增强的极右翼团体在俄勒冈州的存在，也使反种族主义者和反法西斯主义者更加团结。

During 56 straight nights of protests here, throngs of largely white protesters have raised their fists in the air and chanted, “This is not a riot, it’s a revolution.” They have thrown water bottles at the federal courthouse, tried to pry off the plywood that protects the entrance and engaged in running battles with police officers through clouds of tear gas. In recent nights, the number of protesters has swollen into the thousands.

Of the 35 cities in the United States with populations larger than 500,000, Portland is the whitest, according to census data, with 71 percent of residents categorized as non-Latino whites.

Oregon’s relative homogeneity — the state is three-quarters white compared with neighboring California, where white people make up 37 percent of the population — was not accidental. The state was founded on principles of white supremacy. A 19th-century lash law called for whipping any Black person found in the state. In the early part of the 20th century Oregon’s Legislature was dominated by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Today the average income level for Black families in Portland is nearly half that of white residents, and police shootings of Black residents are disproportionate to their 6 percent share of the population. Some white protesters said it was this white supremacist legacy that helped spur them into the streets.

Joe Lowndes, an expert on right-wing politics and race at the University of Oregon, said the presence of far-right groups in Oregon, emboldened during the Trump administration, has also brought anti-racists and anti-fascists into closer alignment.  source

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