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LAND/OBSERVER Thursday M ar. 25, 1971
The Northwest’s Best Weekly
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ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher an d E d ito r
Faces problems
The
call fo r equality is now everywhere,
especially in
Am erica from the mouths of Blacks wanting to be re
cognized. They are fighting fo r what has long been denied
them-respect.
How long they w ill be fighting is anyone’ s
guess, but without doubt, they w ill continue until
freedom
rings free of the hard ship and burden that he now experiences
here in Am erica.
Throughout most Black ghettoes is the cry of p o l i c e
brutality, it has brought about some attention from th e
local government and retaliation f r o m Black communities
in every section of the country and even broaden t h a t
attention. To an extent, police officers think twice before
they answer to a Black p la in tiff’ s request fo r in some ways
and hurt it in another. It has helped because it may e-
lim inate police from going to fa r because of race. It may
hurt because they can’ t get immediate consideration
fo r
Black crim inals who mean to do them harm.
What would be the answer to such dilemma? To
put
more black police on the force would quiten the crie s of
police
brutality
from
the black ghettoes of A m erica.
Young Blacks would almost rather be anything other than
a policeman. I think that most persons would find dignity
in becoming a Law Enforcement O fficer.
There are only a hand full of Black O fficers in P o rt -
land but even with the hand full they just don’ t get rated
higher than a sergeant. There is very little promotion. At
the rate
things are going now in the near future there
won’ t be anything but white police enforcing the law even
in Black neighbors which w ill produce even more crie s of
like I witness in Watts.
U ntil the Black man somehow works his way into the
police on non-disc rim inatory basis and an adequate number
of them, Portland w ill always be a city who refuse to face
its ’ problems.
When this country took Japan, she s till let the Japaneses
people . The same of Germany- she let the German police
control the Germans. No one knows how to deal with a
race of people better than a member of that race. It would
be beautiful to see a Black and white together on patrols
throughout the c ity of Portland. Doing the proper things
now could save our city from many problems and make
our city a model fo r the country.
A continuation of the past cannot an must not be t h e
pattern.
Portland must change with the time; not on I y
in employment, education, better housing but in everything
that better all of its citizens. There must be new motives,
new ideas and a new future if this city or the nation is
to move forw ard. The law must be justified fo r all people.
Portland has got to get oregnant with mare Black policemen
and more Blacks throughout
the whole structual system.
Racial unheavals
The ra cia l unheavals do not
end at home here in the U.S. Ap
parently the Black G.I.s are
plagued with much the same
trouble. The trouble has become
such a nuisance to the Penta
gon, that a team of m ilita ry and
civilian experts w ill be d is-
patched to West Germany to in -
vestigate the happenings.
There w ill be a review of
race relations in a ll the s e r-
vices, but the p rio rity target
w ill be the 165,000-man Seventh
A rm y. We do not know whether
there is more trouble in the
Seventh o r if it's because it is
the Seventh, that is the U.S.
main ground force contribution
to NATO’s European shield. At
any rate the image of the Sev-
enth has been shattered during
the past six months.
There have been aggravated,
sometimes bloody, fistics in the
barracks between blacks and
whites. There have been at least
three rio ts sparked o ff in an
Arm y stockade at Mannheim,
because o f fric tio n between
black p r i s o n e r s and white
guards.
Black soldiers are seen giv
ing the upraised fis t salute to
th e ir brothers, knowing that It
means c o u rt-m a rtia l If r eport-
ed-
The trouble in the Seventh is
by no means a ll caused by the
blacks, who account fo r about
12% of the U.S. troops In West
G e r m a n y . The Black soldiers
complain they are harassed by
white MP’s and caustic NCO’s.
A ll of these actions, and
more, have caused the Pentagon
to do something about the situa-
tion. The Stars and Stripes re
Porters have been ordered to play
down any disturbances,
Seventh Arm y headquarters at
Heidelberg has set up an Equal
Opportunities Discussion Group
study the problem and sug-
Kest possible solutions. The
dl sseriidons have become sodev-
astatlng that the ranking o ffi
cers w ill, most like ly, be grate
ful fo r any apparent solution.
ALFRED LEE HENDERSONll
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By Helen Hendrix
Alfred
L.Henderson
Pub
lis h e r and editor * of
the
Portland
Observer has been
invited to appear
on
the
Multnomah County has career opportunities for college
Oregon Week in Review tele
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and 197204.
then a repeat 6:00 p.m.
the
following Sunday.
He w ill
appear with well
known
reporters
such as
J e rry
Tippens,
and M ort
Spence of the Oregon Journ
al, Doug Seymour
of
the
Oregonian, and Bruce Bear of
KATU News.
M o rt Spence is one who al
ways
reports
straight from
the shoulders specializes
in
Metropolitan
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and the Albina Community has
always
had
good coverage
from him. Tippens
is
the
program ’ s
generalist,
pre
senting a kind of ’ ’ Oregon-
at-large’ ’
reports,
while
Seymour and Bruce Bear handle
the legislative and state go
vernments agencies.
Henderson is the people re
porter representing a voice fo r
NORTH & N.E. PORTLAND
a ll people owning a black paper
h it reporting the news fo r all
citizens of Portland.
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Hughes M em orial Day Care
Center is now open and needs
only a few more children to
meet
their capacity
of 30
children.
The new day care center is
part of the Model C ities com
prehensive Child Care Servi
ces.
The M etropolitan
Commun
ity Coordinated Council as sub
contracted
with Berean D a y
Care Center to act as the op
erating agency.
Children from 3 to 6 vears
of age are eligible
Fees
are based
on t h e
fam ilies income and financial
obligations.
F am ilies in the Model C it
ies
area who need day care
and
other
related services
may inquire at Model- C ities
4-X3 Point of Information and
Referral located at 714 1/2 N.
E. Alberta Street.
Social
w orkers,
nurses.
Home
Economist, Child De
velopment S p e c i a l i s t
and
Home Makers w ill be available
to the fam ilies of
children
in the Day Care Centers.
Day
or Night Care is fo r
children below age 3,
school
age children 5 to 9, and handi
capped children..
Child care, in the Day and
Night Program ,
is provided
in private homes during work
ing hours of parents.
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by calling 288-5091.
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