Sergio Olmos:
Well, you know, Oregon is 87 percent white. And it– it was it started, billed as a kind of white utopia. There were Black exclusionary laws built into the Constitution. You know, the language in the Constitution, some of it said Black people can't own land. That language wasn't removed until 2002. And even then, 31 percent of people voted against removing that language.
So there's a, there's a racist history to Oregon, but there's racist histories to every state. There's reasons why people would join these far-right extremist groups that apply kind of everywhere in the United States. You know, some of them being that people are looking for identity, meaning and purpose. And if, if you're living online and you have no nobody, no community, no tribe, no group that will kind of vouch for you, hang out with you, sacrifice for you, these groups will invite you to come hang out with them. So I think there's, there are structural reasons that push people towards extremism, and that's something that, that we can all look at.
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