~By Kimberly S. Moreland~ Racism plays a significant role in undergirding poverty and other injustices in the United States. Authors Goldblum and Shaddox, in their seminal work, Broke in America: Seeing Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty, say that racism and poverty are each other's evil twin. This combination creates many forms of oppression targeting our most impoverished and marginalized citizens. What is behind this dynamic duo, Malcolm Foley says, is that greed undergirds racism and oppression. Foley’s book, The Anti-Greed Gospel; Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward, continues by saying that greed is insidious because it is a sin that we are conditioned to both ignore and justify. Unfortunately, Portland, and the entire state of Oregon, is no stranger to poverty as well as racist policies...