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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1971)
Page 2 Civil Rights Commission raps N ixon Justice Denied MUET WORK TOMTHFRFOR FULL ANO EQUAL EMPLOYMENT. Portland/Observer Thursday, Nov. 25, 1971 The Northwest's Best W eekly A Black Ow ned Publication Published every Thursday by Exit Publis N. Killingsworth Portland. Oegon 97217. Subscription rates: 40 cents per month by carrier, $5. 00 per year;$5.25 per year by mail in Tri-County area:?6.00 per year elsewhere. Phone 283-2486 ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher Editor V erna L . H enderson Asst. Publisher/Business manager the Editor’s Desk Black need support The Bank of Finance, the only black-owned and operated bank m Los Angeles, has celebrated its seventh anniversary. The hank was founJed in 1904 to serve the needs of residents of the Black community. The bank has made over 100 Small Business Loans in the community to help promote black business. The Mortgage Investment Department is currently servicing approximately 800 real estate loans. The current assets are $28 m illio n , a growth of $11 m illion in the last year. Bank Presxient, Edward E . T illm o n , said. “ The fir s t five years of any business ate extremely d iffic u lt, and fo r a black txisiness they are absolutely c ru c ia l. F o r the black business, especially a bank, community acceptance is always slow. Obtaining and maintaining qualified personnel is another ma jo r problem that plagues all banks, and, as we all know, without good, qualified help no bank can provxie the type of service its customers want and deserve. He attributes the bank's success to two factors. Many of Am e rica 's la rger corporations are becoming aware of th e ir obli gations to place funds in minority-owned banks so this money can be channeled into the black community. Also there is a growing awareness in the community that the only wav black people w ill have a voice in the system is through the economic support and promotion of th e ir own business. Many black-owned businesses in Portland are having a d iffi cu lt time financially. They often have higher overhead such as insurance costs, which are higher in the area where black bus inesses operate. They often are training their employees be cause blacks have not had educational and employment exper ience. They also are located in an area where many of th e ir potential customers are unemployed or underemployed. Black owned businesses could be helped through the tenuous firs t few years of operation by the investments and purchasing power of the large corporations and government, which could buy goods and services from them. They also could benefit from the interest and concern of customers who a re w illin g to change their shopping habits to include black businesses, both those custom ir s who are residents of the community and those from other parts of Portland who would go a little out of their way to help a new business get started. 3 Still ’ ------ life x •He i^forT^nT issues Ax a C uj 10 voters ? Last March President Nixon «aid justice delayed was not only justice denied but that it also was ‘ justice circumvented, justice mocked and the system of justice undermined." For eighteen months now we have patiently borne the emotional torment of losing our children to Ohio Nat onal Guard gunfire and witnessing the circumvention of justice by the attorneys general of the United States and Ohio. This indefensible mockery of our judicial svatem by those charred with upholding the law has forced us to assume the distressinn role d F ^ H n Th’ s ^ f iZ 'ia l'r ‘* h u f ° / ° Ur de' r ch,ldren's constitutional rights «r ' “ »"«»H y costly forum justice has been denied bv the dia- N e t T . il, complaints under the ancient doctrine of sovereign immunity Nevertheless, we retain our faith in the judiciary. The denials, circumven tion and mockery that justice has suffered in the "inexcusable" killing c f our sons and daughters is not a reflection of any inadequacy in the ideologySV,tem bUt ° f *** bro* dening *ntrus,on into that system of political Just last month our faith was justified by the 8th District Court of Appeals in Ohio when it upheld, in a 2-1 landmark decision. Arthur Krause ' apjieal against the dismissal of his suit charging the state with M i^ n 'h é íV .h rr -the Wrongful de,th" ° f h,s daughter The majority opmion he Id that sovereign immunity cannot be supported in Ohio.” and that denial of responsibility -fo r the tortious conduct" of the state's authorized agents "is unjust, arbitrary and unreasonable." Despite the torment of the past year and a half we have managed to recognize a very human failing which, for too long, divided us and compounded our gnef The actions of our children on May 4th spanned the spectrum of student dissent from disinterest to involvement and we foolishly allowed ourselves to distinguish between walking to class and shouting an obscenity in terms of innocence and guilt, a failing we believe far too many Americans have revealed in their need to justify the killing or our children. Helen Hendrix Personnel and Production Manager --------------------_ Thi. órnele was written by Doris Krou.se. Sarah Seheuer. Florence Schroed,.r and tla.ne Miller. the mothers of the /our Kent State students killed by National Guardsmen May 4. 1970. Observer’s Intercom Mississippi Black, fa il to gain control M ississippi's grass-roots black political movement fell fa r short of its goals in the Nov. 2 g e n e r a l election. Blacks failed to bring a single M ississippi county under their control, to increase signifi cantly the number of black lo cal o fficia ls, or toadd to their token representation in the state legislature. Of 284 blacks who sought of fice on the local level, only44 were successful, on the basis of incomplete returns.Twenty- nine of those candidates beat white opponents, while 15 were unopposed fo r such offices as constable and justice of the peace. Blacks won only a hand ful of countywide offices. Among the defeated were ci v il rights leaders Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer, and in cumbent Claiborne County- Chancery C lerk Geneva Col lin s. Among the few winners in the generally abysmal elec tion were Robert C lark, the only black member of the state legislature, a black tax asses sor and c irc u it clerk in C lai borne County, and a black cor oner in m ajority-w hite Clay County. A t this tim e, it is impossible to explain fu lly the lack of suc cess, ixit a number of contri buting factors may be cited: The white pvw.. power 3uuciure structure ran scared, campaigned hard e r than ever before in a gen eral election, and turned out a larger percentage of the white vote than in any previous gen eral election. • Blacks were subjected to physical and economic in tim i dation, both before and during the election. • Black candidates were de nied certain rights and p r i vileges, such as adequate number of poll watchers and challenges on election day. • Many local slates of black candidates suffered from bad ly organized, under-financed campaigns. • In some counties, such basic items as sample ballots listing the names of black of fice-seekers were not avail able. • The campaign strategy that projected Charles Ever's candidacy as a mechanism for pulling out the black vote was unsuccessful. Immediately after the elec tion, Evers, and c iv il rights attorneys began investigating alleged abridgements of the rights of black voters and can didates in several m a jo rity- black counties, with aneyeto ward challenging those elec tions. The focus of the inves tigations is on Humphreys (continued p. 6 col 1) ... o Urban Homestead Fifteen Black Muslim p ris oners at McNeil Island Fed eral Penitentury have filed suit, charging discrim inatory religious treatment and im proper methods of judging alleged in-prison violations. • • • W illiam T. King, who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars fo r Nixon and other Republican card dates, w ill Join the Democratic party and support Senator Edmund Mu s- kie for the presdency. M r. King sa d , " I f I were to sum up in one word my rea son fo r supporting the senator from Maine as opposed to the President of the United States that one word would be C liar- acter. M r. Muskie has it,M r . Nixon does not." M r. King said the " la s t stra w " leading to his defec tion was M r. Nixon's propo sal of M ildred LU lle and H er- schel Friday for the Supreme C ourt, both ot whom were found inadequate by the Amer ican Bar Association. • • • The Fisk Jubilee Singers, who are celebrating their one- hundredth anniversary, w ill perform at the John F. Ken nedy Center of Performing A rts on December 2nd. The consert w ill be sponsored by the A fro A m srlca n Music Op portunities Association of Minneapolis. more of their own homes and Sol M . Linowitz, Chairman C iting a report by the L’JS. of the National Urban Coali neighborhoods." Department of Housing and tion, called today fo r the c te - Urban Development that itw U l "T h e abandonment of p ri ation of an Urban Homestead take a quarter of a m illio n new vately ownad housing in the in A ct that would give the people ner city, much of it basically Jobs to provide minimum pro of A m erica's inner cities the sound, relects the disintegra perty management services in opportunity to create decent tion of this sector of our eco public housing that now exists communities fo r themselves. nomic system,” Linowitz o r is under construction, In an address presented be said. "Y e t, as a nation, we Linowitz called fo r converting fore a dinner session at the sit idly by, almost paralyzed problems into opportunities by Hotel Madison of the annual by the speed of a cancer-like such means as property man convention of the PublicR ela- disease eating away the core of agement courses in tie public tions Society of Am erica, Lin our citie s. With clear evi schools that would train young owitz called the inner c ity the dence that private money is inner city residents for new nation's new fro n tie r. c a re e rs. fleeing the central city, it is " I see the people living disturbing to see that public there as our real pioneers — resources are dwindling at brave, determined, angry men precisely the point when they This winter you can learn to and women . . . who want to are most needed to slow, if not ski at Tlm berllne Lodge make out of the m aterial of reverse, this tide. through a program offered their destiny a place of self- “ In some cities we simply through the YMCA, It was an respect, a home, a Job, a wait to take title to the aban nounced by Ray Grogan of the neighborhood, a community.” doned property years later in North Portland YMCA, at Linowitz, form er Chairman an e ffo rt to liquidate thedelln- Moore and Killingsworth of Xerox Corporation andLJS. quent taxes. By that time the streets. The package Includes Ambassador to the Organiza property is hopelessly vanda one d ry land lesson at the John tion of American States, said lized and sold to the highest that: R. Leach YMCA, 6036 SJ2. bidder, thereby throwing it Foster Road, and four ski les "O v e r a century ago we pas once again onto the speculative sons at Tlm berlne on four con sed the Homestead A ct to help land market. open up new lands in the West "C le a rly , something must secutive Saturdays or Sun days, with two lessons each by offering 160 acres or more be done to haltthlsdepresslng day, morning and afternoon. of unoccupied land to those cycle of deterioration and w illin g to work it . . . I think speculation. C learly, this is And there's plenty of time to a practice between lessons.The the time has come to offer a going to require investment in whole package costs Just $42 modern urban homestead oj>- much improved municipal portunity to the pioneers of our services, new home financing with transportation probldod by Trallw ays, or $25 If you inner c itie s .” and property maintenance provide your own transpoi ra He said the prime objective tools and new forms of owner tion. of an Urban Homestead Act ship that w ill give residents a Ray Grogan at the would be to show the people of new stake and confidence in the cell the nation's inner citie s "th a t North Portland YMCA, 282- via b ility of their neighbor 5517. they can have a stake in carv hoods," Linowitz said. ing Communities to r them selves out of theurban w ilder ness, and that we all have a Let PEPI S BOTTLE SHOP be your headquarters fo r very large stake in encourag champagne, wines, m ixers. . At the lowest prices ing them to do so." town He noted the growing de mands by public housing ten ants foi a greater voice in the management of public housing Lloyd Center N ext to the Liquor Store pi ejects and called It impera 7 J PERI'S One end O nly Store tive that the nation begin to Open 9 30 a m to 9 0 0 p m Daily meet these demands " in the » Sunday« Noon to 4 0 0 p m only practical way possible — by enabling public housing tenants to take over more arxl a Shape up for the holidays * < n PRPI’S BOTTLE SHOP !«?• SHAPING STUDIO 2 8 5 -0 4 9 5 4940 N . L o m b a rd lhe U.S. C ivil Rights Com mission said President Nixon "has tailed to develop and communicate to the public a sense of urgency over the need to eixl disci lminatton.** A 1970 suiveylounJdepart ment headsand lessei govern ment off leal s slow In starting c iv il rights programs in their own offices and weak on en forcement of c iv il rights pol icies. In a follow-up study, the Commission fount) several federal agencies making pro gress hut their over-all per formance Is lacking. I lf the 27 offices, agencies and departments surveyed, none was rated adequate, only 15 were "m a rg in a l” ami 13, including the White House, the Justice D epartm ent'sLawEn- forcement Assistance Admin istration, the Internal Revenue Service ami the Veteran's Ad m inistration, are doing a " p o o r" Job. The commission stated "T h e ultimate source for pol icy guxlance . . . is the Pres- kient White firm and unequi vocal policy direction . . . Is no guarantee of effective unit rights enforcement It Is an es sential precondlton to vig o ro u s . . 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