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They were written by men every hit as fallible and angst- ridden as we are now. “We hold these truths to he self-evident: that all men are created equal.” Our forefathers knew oppression— an oppression that locked a man into his place in society as though his social class was tattcxied on his forehead. “They are endowed by their creator with cer tain unalienable rights." The men who drafted the dcKument that established our nation, this place we call the United States of America, knew how valuable and precious true freedom and equality is. They wrote the Declaration of Independence to preserve that freedom. They intended everyone to he first-class citizens. “Among these is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In keeping with our heritage, we fought to free a race of people enslaved, even though it drew serious opposition at the time. Now we lixik hack and say, “It was right to free the slaves,” and we are proud. Next, we fought for women’s right to vote— again, a notion that faced great opposition in its time. However, women did vote, changing the lives of millions. Now we hxik hack and say, “It was the right thing to do," and we are proud. Disabled people (a group any of us could join at any time) are another example. We provided needed “rights of access” for the disabled because it was the right thing to do. Again, we l<xik hack and say we are proud. Now gay people want the freedom to marry; they want to he first-class citizens. There is much opposition. As an American, I have no douht that years from now, wc will hxik hack and say: “Giving gay people the freedom to marry was the right thing to do. We are proud.” D.E. 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You see, Mr. Reinhard, that is why there are gay activists, and unless you are gay you cannot understand. It is not about morality. It is about identity. And if all of these anti-gay activists would allow everyone a place at the proverbial table and we put all of our money, time, energy and effort together, we could have solved much bigger stKial problems. We are tired of being overkxiked and not considered to he part of the public. M ik e H o l d e n N OW IN A N E W LOCATION. 503 443-2250 - i i i i e i l f S in laser Center 6 6 5 0 R e d w o o d L a n e S u i t e 150 P o r t l a n d , Or egon 9 7 2 2 4 Portland Do the math To the points out yes, hut hey— we separated them before they could go to Applebee’s and compare notes. We really are trying. We had detectives interview the officers in a shorter time frame (less than 24 hours). W e’re getting some of those— 89, is it?— mles activated that came down on us last year from the Police Assessment Resource Center. Hey, he patient, let the pnxress work, we’re try ing. We even had an inquest this time. T he logic seems to he: W ith every un provoked killing of a person of color, we, the police bureau, will “right” a few “wrongs." Not to m ention that most of these “wrongs” should never have taken place at all. In the past few weeks, the cover of “just a routine traffic stop” has been revealed to be an excuse. It now even has a name: It’s a “pretext n stop. Listen up, white folks, you who actually believe that if you just “follow the rules” the cops won’t kill you. See, they admitted it. They didn’t really care that you didn’t come to a com plete stop (Kendra James’ life) or failed to signal properly (James Perez’s life). W hat they cared about was: You might be, “might” he, somehow connected to dnigs. So let’s go give a kx>k-see, and hey if we kill you in the process, well, ttxi had. It’s the LIVABILITY of the neighborhood th at’s at stake, remember. So, to summarize: In 2003, the PARC rec ommended 89 changes the bureau needed to make. Kendra James killing = two wrongs right ed. James Jahar Perez = two wrongs righted. Do the math: 85 to go. And you wonder why the underhum in the city now is one of “hum hahy hum"? L in d a K a n z in g e r Portland Affair or abuse? To t h e E d it o r : he following is in response to recent news coverage and reactions regarding Neil Goldschmidt. W hen I was 12 I had an “affair,” to use G old schmidt’s term, with a man who was in his 20s at the time. Far from the shame and humiliation that seems to have befallen Goldschm idts hahy sitter, however, my boyhixxl dalliance with my older friend is something I remember with fond ness. O ne seldom hears such perspectives, though. My own experiences as well as those of o th ers I have researched as part of my graduate work have revealed that such relationships are not “necessarily or even usually harmful,” to quote researcher T.D. Oellerich. Vastly differing age-of-consent laws may (or may not) deem these relationships illegal under the assumption that they are abusive, hut that does not mean they will be viewed as such by those involved. Indeed, studies by those like Rind, Tromovitch & Bauserman, Constantine & Martinson, Fritz Bernard and Then Sandfort, just to name a very few, have shown that often the only “abuse” attested to by the youths in these relationships is at the hands of hysterical parents, police authorities and therapists. T h e highly conditional and contextual nature of these relationships— of all relation ships, actually— is something that neither our cmjrts nor clinicians have yet fully grasped. In the midst of the latest moral panic over child sex sparked by the Michael Jackson case in Los Angeles and Goldschmidt’s revelations locally, it behooves us to step hack and consider whether our negative attitudes and expectations about sex might not he abusive as well. T E d it o r : OK. A nother death, another killing. Portland Police C hief Derrick Foxworth r J ay M a r s Eugene
