Oregon State Song Updated to Remove Racist Language

By Associated Press ^ | June 7, 2021

[ConservativeStatement]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Legislature has approved changes to the lyrics of Oregon’s state song to remove racist language and make the lyrics more inclusive.

House Concurrent Resolution 11, approved Monday by a vote of 47-6, modifies the lyrics, while keeping the same music of “Oregon, My Oregon.” If reflects the “significant cultural, historical, economic and societal evolution in Oregon” since the state song was adopted in 1927, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.

[Tax-chick]

Very informative! It never occurred to me that Oregon had a state song, let alone that people sang it!

[Twotone]

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[bray]

Virtue signaling is hard.

[CurlyDave]

...Was there much violent bloodshed in settling the land of Oregon?

We live in southern Oregon and the local paper semi-regularly publishes stories from the early days of Oregon.

There were a lot of what were called "Indian Wars", which of course were mostly white settlers fighting and killing Native Americans. Reading the accounts now, the actions were pretty shameful. Based on one pretext or another, many involving the death or an attack on an adult male settler, a local militia would kill several Indian families, men, women and children of any age.

Now I have little doubt that entire settler families were wiped out completely, but by the time the stories the local paper carries happened, the Indians would get pretty wasted on "firewater", have a fight which led to the death of a settler, and the local militia would kill a few dozen Indians. And then get drunk on their own firewater. Eventually Indians became scarce.