Betsy Hammond (pictured above), a reporter for the Portland Oregonian, has written a long article complaining about the fact that her city is "too white" to suit her. I found her picture on her Facebook profile, and she looks like the typical short-haired dykish quasi-feminist bitch normally found in a metro daily newsroom. Link:

http://tinyurl.com/6sugxo

As the nation's first African American president prepares to take office this week, metro Portland -- with its overwhelmingly white population and leadership -- is demographically out of step with 2009 America. Among the nation's 40 largest metro areas, only four -- none of them in the West -- are whiter than Portland, new census figures show (supporting graphic at the end of this post).

Longtime residents of metro Portland, particularly in Washington County and Gresham, talk a lot about how much racial change has come to their communities. And it has. But since 2000, growth rates among Portland's small minority populations have slowed from the 1990s. In the same period, more than 100,000 additional non-Hispanic whites have flocked to the Portland area. The whitest suburb -- Clark County outside Vancouver -- alone added 53,000 white residents.

The upshot is that the Portland metro area is startlingly white viewed against the national landscape -- even whiter than Salt Lake City, according to the latest Census Bureau estimates. Metro Portland includes Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas and Clark counties.

The implications are far-reaching.

In today's America, people of color make up more than 40 percent of a typical metro area's population, an analysis by The Oregonian shows. But in metro Portland, public policy still is controlled from a white point of view. Among the hundreds of mayors, city council members and state lawmakers representing metro Portland, there are just four Latino city councilors, one African-born council member and a lone African American state senator.

Portland's lack of diversity means it is less cosmopolitan, less dynamic and at risk of being less competitive than other metro areas, worries David Bragdon, president of the Metro regional government.

It's a plus that Portland is a magnet for young, college-educated Americans who can choose to live anywhere, says William Frey, demographer for the Brookings Institution and a specialist in urban and suburban trends. But college-educated Americans are overwhelmingly white, and those who migrate to Portland are disproportionately so -- the "beer, bikes and Birkenstock" crowd, in the words of Portland economist Joe Cortright.

Portland-area employers competing for top talent have a hard time retaining African American hires, who often can't bear the social and cultural isolation of a metro area that is less than 3 percent black. "A lot of my friends and other minorities come here to Portland thinking of it as a stopover," says Angel Anderson, an African American software engineer from suburban Chicago who was recruited by Intel. "They leave the state in a year or two."

Anderson has stayed four years, bought a house in Tanasbourne, loves her job and calls Portland "the friendliest place I have ever lived." But she chafes at often being the only black face in the room, longing for "somebody I could talk to who might have similar experiences to me."

The Portland area's nearly half-million people of color often get the message that their concerns are an afterthought, says Irma Valdez, a real estate agent who serves on the Portland Planning Commission. "Some of the stuff I hear on the planning commission would make you want to pass out," she says. Sustainability, downtown condos and bike lanes drown out priorities of minority residents, she says.

Read the rest of the article HERE

Once again, some idiot white lemming complains about her city being "too white". The only nigs and mexes she hangs out with are the "respectable" stepin fetchits. Note that she doesn't complain about Detroit being "too black".

To any of you lurkers reading this thread, burn this indelibly into your brain. Diversity and multiculturalism are inherently and endemically anti-white. To the elite, diversity doesn't mean any community can remain white. It simply means everything must become equally kaleidoscopic. What's black is black, but what's white always becomes negotiable.

Comments to the story require registration. If you want to jack her up, you can do so by e-mail

betsyhammond@news.oregonian.com