Hugh -

You are criticizing slavery - the most severe racism.  We can all agree with that - especially as it applies to the history of much of the nation. 

But what part of  the kidnapping of blacks, the inhuman conditions afforded them, the murder carried out against them or their use as "animals of pleasure" was actually carried out against them here in Oregon - by the generation that created the University of Oregon and paid taxes and donated money and livestock to the building of Deady Hall? Or by the generation who, over thirty years after the Civil War, named the hall after Deady. 

The answer is not one one-hundredth of one per cent.

Instead, the majority of early Oregon voters made Oregon a free state and many went to war wearing Union blue.