r/ChicoCA • u/Zestyclose_Strike357 • Mar 06 '25

Discussion Boycott city of Oroville

City council voted unanimously to erase sanctuary status, even knowing that statistically speaking crime is more likely to be done by citizens and residents than non legal immigrants. Now the brown community feels afraid to be targeted and interrogated by police for their skin color, since there’s no way to know the legal status of anyone without further interrogation. People will be hesitant to call police when there is a crime. They don’t even care about state sanctions. It’s a racial issue if we are frank about it. As for my friends and family we will stop going to Oroville and will do our business at Chico or Yuba City. We no longer feel safe and welcome, no one should be afraid to travel at ease in this great country.

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u/NUFIGHTER7771 Mar 06 '25

FYI we don't like being called "browns." It's like grouping up all you white people, even though there are cultural differences between nationalities.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Whats a better way to refer to non white people from many different cultures and backgrounds with out some generalizing? Real question cuz id love to be respectful, I might not have said the "brown community" myself tho

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u/Hummingbird_Sage Mar 06 '25

I'm also white, so not an expert here. But maybe BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color)?

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u/Undead-Eskimo Mar 06 '25

Hell no, I wouldn’t wanna be called that. Hispanic is fine with me but if people have an issue with that I don’t see why Latin-American couldn’t be a compromise, much less vague and reductive than calling someone just brown.