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Wednesday, February 14, 2001
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
Black History Month
Remembering Black American contributions
JENNYCHAVEZ
Copy Editor
the effects of slavery.
“I often found myself regretting my
February is Black History Month,
which has ignited sudden bursts of
African film festivals, soul food lun
own existence and wishing myself
dead,” he said. “And but for the hope
cheons and African American dance
and music celebrations; but there’s
more meaning intended in Black His
have killed myself.”
February became amonth for many
tory Month than just the song, food
and dance.
Although no activities are sched
uled at Clackamas, Black History
Month is celebrated throughout the
Portland area, and has an interest
ofbeing free, I have no doubt I should
black historical events, including the
passing ofthe 15th Amendment grant
History Week to
bring national at
tention to contri
butions that black
fire extinguisher, F. Flemings Jr., guitar
(variation); and George Washington
wood stain, Worcestershire sauce,
dyes, shampoo, instant coffee, and
much more. This is Black History
Month, a time created by Woodson to
remember Black American’s contribu
Carver, inventor ofbleach, buttermilk,
tions towards a better America.
lawn mower, GF Grant, golf tee; J.L.
Love, pencil sharpener; Garrett A.
Morgan, traffic signal; T.J. Marshall,
Red warms hearts
ing blacks voting rights in 1870 and
the founding ofthe NAACP in 1960.
Black history is ingrained in major
US cities. A few of them are: Atlanta,
home ofthe original KKK headquar
ters, established in
ing history of its
own.
In 1926, Dr.
Carter
G.
Woodson
launched Negro
contributions made by them. In honor
of Black History Month, contemplate
this small sampling of the many inven
tions made by Black Americans: Sa
rah Boone, the ironing board; A.B
Blackbum, Railway signal; J.A Burr,
Black History
Month commemo
rates the birthdays
of two people:
Fredrick Douglass
and Abraham
Lincoln.
people made in
American history.
He was born to
parents who were
former slaves and worked as a child
in Kentucky coalmines. He was fi
nally able to go back to school at
age 20 and graduated when he was
22. Woodson went on to earn his
Ph.D. at Harvard, and being dis
turbed by the lack of references to
Black American accomplishments in
the history books, went on to write
about their contributions in Ameri
can history and soon turned Negro
History Week into Black History
Month.
February was the month chosen
because of the birthdays of two
people, Fredrick Douglass and
Abraham Lincoln, who impacted
black history. Douglass, a former
slave, writer and freedom activist
made the mid 1800 society aware of
1915, also housed
the 1960’s civil
rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther
King Jr. Detroit
became the foun-
dation
of
Motown Record
Corporation and
Montgomery,
Alabama was
where the histori
cal Rosa Parks’ arrest sparked the
civil rights movement.
America’s history of abuse to
wards blacks continues to emerge,
even today. Former President Bill
Clinton issued an apology in 1997
to Black Americans.
“The United States Government
did something that was wrong -
deeply, profoundly, morally wrong,”
he said concerning the Tuskegee
syphilis experiment from 1932-1972,
when 399 black men were deliber
ately left to die from syphilis so data
could be collected from the autop
sies. “It was an outrage to our com
mitment to integrity and equality for
all our citizens.. .clearly racist.”
Though America’s past is stained
with slaveiy, segregation and violence
towards blacks, it is also enriched with
GILBERT BARRETT / Clackamas Print
“Red, ” the heart shaped sculpture at the Barlow Hall parking lot entrance, was created by Dennis
Petersen, co-owner of a heavy construction company who made the shapes by rolling over
heavy pipes with a tractor. CCC Instructor Rick True organized an outdoor sculpture show at
PCC where Petersen’s piece was first displayed. PCC declined the offer to keep “Red” so
Petersen gave it to Bob Dozono, a friend of True. Bob loaned it to CCC and helped True move and
assemble the sculpture on our campus in 1995. The sculpture had to be dismantled into four
sections, and according to True, was very difficult to assemble. Although no one knows for sure
if “Red” symbolizes a deeper meaning, True offers his own idea: “I can’t address the meaning
except to perhaps the industrial coldness ofthe size and materials to its resemblance to the
warmth and life of a heart shape. ”
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See Valentine Special, page 2
Misley discusses Galapagos at social science colloquium
CORINNE RUPP
Opinion Editor
The second social science
colloquium this year was held Thurs
day afternoon in Pauling Center, 101.
Biology Instructor Bob Misley
the ship wrecked off the coast of
spoke to a large group on the bioge
ography of the Galapagos and how
do to the crude oil floating on the
San Cristobal, Misley was con
cerned with what the currents would
“It did not move where we origi
nally feared it would. It did not go
off and impact other islands like
we feared it would. It went up and
away from the islands into open
ence to the tanker that broke apart
off the coast of San Cristobal, one
of the southeastern islands in the
archipelago.
The Galapagos Islands sit on the
equator, 600 miles off the coast of
or the spin cycle?” he said.
These islands are home for many
species found nowhere else on
earth, like giant sea tortoises and
kelp-eating sea iguanas. The fear
was that the oil would flow back into
the archipelago and onto the other
islands. Instead, the bulk of the oil
moved north and east, away from
ocean.”
The bulk of the lecture con
sisted of slides of the islands, in
cluding the flora and fauna as well
as maps of the area. One slide
showed the process of the voy
age of the H.M.S . Beagle, the trip
the young Charles Darwin took on
his way across the globe. It is as
sumed that the five weeks he spent
in the Galapagos was a founding
block of his theories on evolution.
The colloquium lasted about an
hour. A question and answer pe
South America. Three major cur
land.
riod wrapped up the lecture.
the recent oil spill could impact the
unusual species found in the region.
“When something like this does
happen, we do not totally know what
its impact is,” said Misley, in refer
Biology Instructor Bob Misley points to the Galapagos Islands on
the map Thursday at the second Social Science Colloquium this
year. Misley discussed the oil spill that has just occurred there.
rents collide in the area around the
islands. Misley compared the cur
rents to a washing machine. When
surface.
“My first reaction when I heard
this was, are we on the rinse cycle