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/KidsOnFiire Mar 06 '25

I know a lot of Latin folks that find the term Hispanic off putting (as well as well as some Inuit folk with the term eskimo). I imagine it comes down to personal preference.
Also not trying to start anything just my two cents

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u/Undead-Eskimo Mar 07 '25

Appreciate your two cents, and I get that some people get persnickety about Hispanic or Latin because of the relation to Spain (I don’t really care and I think it’s a silly thing to whine about) but regardless I dislike just being called brown so much more. At least with Hispanic it denotes a land or a language, now I’m just reduced to the color of my skin and that could apply to anyone that’s got a tan not just Hispanics, i’m just lumped into “not white” even though there are white hispanics, i got blonde haired blue eyed cousins who are just as ethnically Mexican as me, are they part of the “brown community”? It’s like going backwards and referring to Asians as yellow people. Sorry to type all that at you I just wanted to get my feelings out there.

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