You missed it in the article... see the sentences under paragraph 4 beginning with “Of course...” and see the heading highlighted “Sentencing length,” its second sentence states “Even when the researchers controlled for criminal history...” It seems you are grasping at straws to try and make this article not be true…

This article does serve a purpose. Its point was to show that the reason there are hardly any black people in the state today, in our time, is due to Oregon’s exclusion of blacks in its laws and the threatening of violence towards blacks if they didn’t get out of the state, since its founding (and before that time)…

Thank-you for your comment, you get it. I have tried to explain this to people, everything that you just wrote, but of course the response is always slavery was 200 years ago blacks should have pulled themselves up by now. But what they are forgetting is that there were actual laws that kept blacks down and poor until…