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34 <br />• Racism is expressed by rudeness in the provision of services, e.g., library, coffee shop. <br />• Customer service, person in front of you treated well, then not the same for you, different, rude. <br />• Hard for a minority to date here. Dating apps allow expression of racial preference and discrimination: “whites only, <br />just a preference, sorry”. <br />• VRC, Gateway, followed by security, randomly checked. <br /> <br />Housing <br />• Very hard to find places to live. Landlords charging higher rents, not getting deposits back. <br /> <br />Jobs <br /> <br />K-12 Education <br />• Have been patted down by school security, but not white students. <br />• Schools are not culturally competent. <br />• Name calling, “beaner”, educational system. <br />• PBS Video “Precious Knowledge” shows culturally competent curriculum in Tucson. <br /> <br />Higher Education <br />• Parents don’t speak English, no help. If I came from white, middle class family, parents would be taking care. <br />• Undocumented don’t get a lot of info or resources. <br />• Police on and off campus treat Latinos with negative bias. <br />• People rude to me. <br />• U of O has statues of oppressors; buildings named after racists, e.g., Deady Hall. <br />• If mistreatment is bad on campuses, how bad can it be in the outside world? <br />• Get discouraged by this treatment, lose confidence and ability to strive and achieve in school/college. <br />• Pay attention to movements by students of color on the campuses; they carry significant messages. <br /> <br />Social Services <br />• White Anglo social service providers route people to Centro Latino, hardly serve Latinos. <br />• Agencies need cultural competence, are not providing services, very few materials in Spanish. <br />• Latino professionals are tokenized and kept on a leash; everyone just refers Latinos to them. <br />• Mental health services for Latinos are lacking or do not exist in Spanish. <br /> <br /> <br />Hostile Political Environment <br />• I have been in this country since 1951. As an immigrant, this is the most hateful and fearful time. It has always been <br />here, but [now] it is huge and dangerous and scary. I am more aware of other communities. I want this community to <br />figure out how to respond in a real way, quickly and loudly, and not wait until someone gets killed. <br />• Dave Ralston picks up on racist attitudes, speaks out, and reinforces those attitudes. <br />• The incident in Springfield, with the Nazis in the street, is being normalized. I was getting some pizza late at night <br />and somebody said to me to be sure to record when I get beat up by the Nazis. I’ve never felt more unsafe by myself <br />on the streets. <br />• This is an urgent time. People who have the ability, power and voice to say something need to act. <br />• Is there a way for the City to respond (to hate and bias incidents/crimes) so that people feel like somebody cares? <br /> <br /> <br />Micro-aggressions <br />• Micro aggressions go on all the time, every day. <br />• Commonly individuals are asked to “speak for your community”. No white person is going to ask you to speak for <br />all whites. <br /> <br /> <br />Isolation and Need for Safe Space <br />• Feel out of place, uncomfortable, in the absence of people who look like me. <br />• Here we have the need to blend in, not stand out. <br />• On arrival one needs to find (make) their own community and space; it’s what keeps you sane. <br />• Some places are not safe to be, you know when it is time not to be there or to leave. <br />September 12, 2018, Work Session - Item 1