Comments on faith in honest doubt: That Conversation

That's a good point, Mike. Here in Oregon we have ...

2008-05-13T09:51:00.000-07:00

That's a good point, Mike. Here in Oregon we have a substantial Native American population and there are tensions. We also have a rapidly-growing hispanic population which, I believe, surpassed the black population a few years ago and didn't stop climbing. We also have a reasonably large Asian population. So we have our own form of the conversation-to-be-had too.

By and large, racial politics aren't very "big" in Oregon. And I'm glad of that. I am not prepared to say it means we don't have racial tensions, but at least the problems are not bleeding open wounds. I think.

We have the same situation in South Dakota, as I p...

2008-05-13T09:40:00.000-07:00

We have the same situation in South Dakota, as I posted in my humble blog back in March.....

According to the last census, there are 4685 black/African American people in South Dakota, putting them as a minority group in a virtual tie for third with Asians,well behind Native Americans and Hispanics. It is still quite possible to grow up here and never meet a live black person. When you talk race relations here, it almost always involves Native Americans.

So any conversation about race here would be quite different from elsewhere.