Willie Taggart to Quack?

PineapplePirate said:

They spelled Willie Lyles Nyles kinda funny

Southerndawg said:

AtomicDawg said:

Southerndawg said:

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Mosster47 said:

Rooney Rule

He's done a pretty good job at USF, could make a much worse hire.

Agree, he's definitely not a Rooney Rule candidate.

He may or may not be good. But from his picture I am pretty sure he is a Rooney rule candidate. State law. May as well interview a good one.

Ouch. He is a worthy candidate and that is the problem with the rule, it demeans worthy candidates whose consideration happens to allow the box to be checked.

Delegates to Oregon's constitutional convention submitted an exclusion clause to voters on November 7, 1857, along with a proposal to legalize slavery. Voters disapproved of slavery by a wide margin, ensuring that Oregon would be a free state, and approved the exclusion clause by a wide margin. Incorporated into the Bill of Rights, the clause prohibited blacks from being in the state, owning property, and making contracts. Oregon thus became the only free state admitted to the Union with an exclusion clause in its constitution.

The clause was never enforced, although several attempts were made in the legislature to pass an enforcement law. The 1865 legislature rejected a proposal for a county-by-county census of blacks that would have authorized the county sheriffs to deport blacks. A Senate committee killed the last attempt at legislative enforcement in 1866. The clause was rendered moot by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although it was not repealed by voters until 1926. Other racist language in the state constitution was removed in 2002.

Although the exclusion laws were not generally enforced, they had their intended effect of discouraging black settlers. The 1860 census for Oregon, for example, reported 128 African Americans in a total population of 52,465. In 2013, only 2 percent of the Oregon population was black.