Uploaded June 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
"There's this myth of America as being the place where everyone has an opportunity, the streets are paved with gold kind of thing" says one clucking hen at a Portland Community College workshop on critical race theory, while discussing students who have immigrated to the U.S. from other countries. "That myth of meritocracy" confirms another. They all start laughing at this notion. Yet they contradict this by going on to say that, in some ways, it's true for immigrants from countries with caste systems that the U.S. is land of opportunity for them.
This was part of a critical race theory workshop during "whiteness history month" at PCC.
"There's this myth of America as being the place where everyone has an opportunity, the streets are paved with gold kind of thing" says one clucking hen at a Portland Community College workshop on critical race theory, while discussing students who have immigrated to the U.S. from other countries. "That myth of meritocracy" confirms another. They all start laughing at this notion. Yet they contradict this by going on to say that, in some ways, it's true for immigrants from countries with caste systems that the U.S. is land of opportunity for them.
This was part of a critical race theory workshop during "whiteness history month" at PCC.
