It would be helpful for your readers if we had a few more details.

Perhaps the films were meant to be ironic? If there is one thing Portland is good at running into the ground it's irony. Hard to speculate with the near complete lack of details being presented here, though.

If Portland has this huge legacy of Racism that you heard about, why the fuck are you here?

So instead of this being just a dumb mistake and dealing with it like that, you gotta impugn the racism of Portland, as if some grand conspiracy is afloat and someone purposefully planned this?

People make mistakes, humans fuck up, accidents happen... and we all deal with it. Kinda like how it's possible for you to 'accidently' get on a plane at the airport back to your hometown, and bask in the glow of non-racism, progress and and human decency that surely overflows.

Ted Knight, I think the Mercury prohibits specifics on IA.
I say, "I think" because I'm too lazy to actually check.

Nobody shows Birth of a Nation accidentally. You shouldn't go to cop bars.

It's a good thing we stomped out each and every last bit o' racism back in the 1970s!

Yeah, more details. Was it Birth of a Nation? There weren't many movies in 1905. I'm really curious about why someone would be watching such a thing too.

Birth Of A Nation? Yikes. Hey, I can see studying it in film class - it is perhaps the first epic motion picture, despite it's horrific message. In a bar? With singers? That's....sorta weird.

If I remember correctly, Birth of a Nation is really long and was made in 1915. Perhaps they showed "Fortune Telling in a Gypsy Camp" or "The Watermelon Patch" or "The White Caps." Those sound racist.

Maybe it was Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator and you just didn't get the funny, I,A. If you try any harder to help save us from ourselves you just might pull a muscle or something. Breathe, relax.