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gered a response from white su
premacy groups here in Eugene.”
Rigues said the forum was in
tended to help Eugene residents
recognize and work toward elim
inating the “insidious racist acts
that are pervasive in our commu
nity every day.”
All five of the panelists advo
cated people respond quickly to
protest all acts of racism.
“Don’t let it go 24 hours or a
week or a month,” Jefferson Mid
dle School principal Paul Jorgen
son said. When an act of racism
occurs in his school, Jorgenson
said that “everything else drops”
and he immediately works to re
solve the situation.
Another panelist, city of Eu
gene diversity coordinator Mari
lyn Mays said that before signifi
cant progress can be made, “we
have to first look at ourselves.”
She recommended people of all
racial and ethnic backgrounds
analyze their prejudices and as
sumptions.
Mays said that common mis
conceptions about people of col
or in America include the belief
they all act and behave in the
same ways, that they are overly
sensitive about racial issues and
that they’re looking for a free
ride, be it through affirmative ac
tion or other anti-discrimination
legislation.
On the other hand, Mays said,
minorities often assume that all
Caucasians hold prejudices
against minorities, don’t under
stand minority issues and cling
to feelings of racial superiority.
Such assumptions “cause con
frontations too early and too
harshly,” Mays said.
She advocated people of all
racial decent not ignore racism
and prejudice but instead work
together to resolve conflict and
dispel misconceptions.
“We need to start putting past
differences behind - us,” Mays
said, “and start to rebuild and re- a
new past relationships and start
working together.”
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