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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1972)
Rambling Rose Portland/Observer Bladcgold of the Sun by Rosalie Booths Black Cultural Arta con tinue to bring to your atten tion the best of lively ana featuring Black Anlaana of the community. Today this w rite r la proud to Introduce an up and coming young poet by the name of Glenn Harper. As a member of the black w ritsra workshop, I have had the distinct pleasure of meet ing some of the finest up and coming black talent In the arsa that have penned their thoughts to prose. One such l<ereon la Glenn Harper, a freshman at Portland State University. At 18 years of •If®. Glenn Is really getting a good foundation In Black Studies. I might add that Portland State should be proud of the two superstars staffing the Black Studies program, mak ing It possible fo r young people like Glenn to emerge. M y hat goes off to Dr. AI Thompson, D irecto r of Black Studies, and to professor Jim Kogers. who fouixled tie Black w riters workshop of the Northwest. "E v ery Black poet reaches i t * point that sometimes lyric composed verses la lnade- quate for todays world. Beauty seems to fade Into a m ist. We live In a vast pool of blood that's mixed with toll, anqulsh, desire, frus tration, and finally death." The vital forces In which we 'lestroy ixjrselves. Instead of others dictate the feeble ness of a sick society. We live In a chaotic balance of escape. Avoid the m irro rs because it semis back reflec tions of failures, weaknesses. Our daughter received a dangerous toy for her birthday. It had wires that could poke out eyes and hands of a clock that could be swallowed and all parts could be easily re moved. W hat is being done to remove dangerous toys from the market? — Hillsboro I have notiHed the Fed eral Food and Drug Ad ministration’s Bureau of Product Safety about the toy you mentioned, and it will be investigated This bureau has the legal au thority to ban toys and children’s articles that present mechanical, elec tncal or thermal hazards. In the past two years, regu lations have been pub lished banning toys with sharp points that could cut a child; toys containing small or detachable com ponents that a child could swallow or inhale; toy guns and caps which pro duce sounds too loud for children’s ears, unsafe clacker balls; lawn darts improperly labeled; and hazardous baby bouncers and walkers Enforcement of these regulations result ed in about 460 bannings last year The Bureau also is developing a regulation which w ill specify a maxi mum safe distance be tween crib slats. I AM THE DESIRES OF A PEOPLE IN CHAINS, AND T H A T DESIRES CREATION OF A FREEDOM TRAIN UNDERGROUND I MOVE NON-STOP — A L L ABOARD Rosalie Boothe I AM THE GROWING DREAM. T H A T WOULD NOT BE DEFERRED. I AM THE RESOUNDING VOICE OF THE PEOPLE I I I I MUST BE HEARD I AM THE SEED OP TRANSPLANTED EBONY GROW ING/GROW ING/EVER STRONGER IN A STRANGE LAND I W IL L STAND T A L L . I AM THE L IF E FORCE OF A PEOPLE, IN THE GRIPS OF AWARENESS MOVING BOLDLY Y E T CA R EFU LLY TOWARD ID EN TITY I AM THE STRENGTH OF ALL BLACK WOMEN. THE ENDURANCE OF A LL BLACK MEN SEE ME PROCREATE A NATION RISE UP, ALMIGHTY PHOENIX STAND T A L L , O BEA UTIFUL BLACK SEED I AM THE W ILL OF 50 M ILL IO N BLACK PEOPLE I CANNOT BE WRONG I AM THE ENERGY OF BLACK YOUTH. THE PROMISE OF A FUTURE I AM THE SMILES OF BLACK NEW BORN BABES THE BLACKGOLD OF THE SUN I AM THE SOUL OF T H A T BI.ACKGOLD I SHALL NURTURE T H A T GOLD AND M U L T IP L Y THAT GOLD AND TEACH THE CHILDREN A LL THAT I AM . P.S. Por those of you who enjoy reading this poem, Glenn and I appeared together on "Being Black In Portland" moderated by Jim Rogers on Channel 10. Education M edia. This show w ill be shown In December, so watch fo r It. at this taping Glenn Harper dehuti his poem. I AM THE SEED W ITHIN THE BLACK BABE G RO W ING /G R O W INC^VER STRONGER RECREATING M YSELF I AM THE PHOENIX RISING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN I AM THE BLACKGOLD OF THE SUN HA-HA I SHALL NEVER D IE . GLENN HARPER ★ ★ * I am 86 yean old and have been a widow for 32 yean. Neither my hus band nor I ever worked 17-Piece Deluxe Cutlery . Sdt November 30. 1972 page 7 g-jgl D an gerou s lows continually investigated I AM THE LIVING REMAINS OF M IGHTY AFRICAN EMPIRES I AM THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF M ALI/G HA NA/M ESO PO TAM IA HEAR M Y TALES RELIVE MY STORES U N VEIL THE TRUTH OP M Y GLORY I AM THE STRENGTH o F THE PYRAMIDS THE WISDOM OF THE SPHINZ. I AM THE ETERNAL PHOENIX SEE ME RISE FROM MY MISERY OF A DYING NATION AFLOAT IN CROWDED SHIPS TRANSPLANTED ON DISTANT SOIL I W IL L SURVIVE. turmoil of llluslonary heauty. We comb our hair, and the power structure parts It on the sea of deception. Instead of removing our bodies with the disease, we stay around to rake the sunk of death. Yes Its possible to smell tire flowers, when bodies of dis content lies atop tie ground. Discontent, rlo u . and gang wars were a normal everyday occurence In the young life of Glenn Harper, living in the black belt of Chicago, before coming to Oregon. Glenn chose to escape his sur- rrxmdlrigs by recording tire inner soul of tie black man. THE W RITER PR tXID l.Y PRESENTS THE WORKS OF GLENN HARPER. Thursday under social security, but me the public has not been is there any way I could denied access to these claims, even though the still qualify for benefits? c'aimants do have the — Loos Bay right to post their claims Yes. The law has a pro against trespassers under vision for a special age72 the existing mining laws benefits which was enact This is a common problem ed to pay monthly benefits in rockhounding areas to people who are 72 or throughout the Western older, but who do not qual States The Bureau is cur ify for regular social secur rently studying resource ity benefits There is no uses on the land in ques coverage requirer.ent for tion to determine if con people who became 72 be flicts exist and how to re fore 1968 However there solve them are coverage requirements for those who became 72 in ♦ ♦ ★ 1968 or later An individ Is there any kind of law ual needs 3 quarters of cov erage for each after 1966 that w ill permit senior and up to the year he be citizens to remarry with comes 72. Thus, a person out losing their pensions? who becomes 72 in 1968 — Redmond must have credit for 3 cal The Senate is now re c-ndar quarters; a person viewing the Social Secur who becomes 72 in 1969 ity laws and. hopefully, must have credit for 6 some realistic and respon sive changes will be made * * * in the remarriage laws I am told that the agate However, at present, a beds at Graveyard Point widow who remarries af in eastern Oregon, near ter reaching age 60 is eli Homedale, Idaho, are gible to receive social being staked as claims. security benefits If she qualified for benefits on Rockhounds have used her deceased husband's this place freely in the record, she may still get past, and I would not like benefits on that record this to change. Wouldn't She would qualify for Vk of it be possible to create a her deceased husband's special status for these retirement benefit, or at places so that anyone age 62 for the amount of could dig in them and no the wife’s benefit on her one could claim them? later husband’s record, — Roseburg whichever is larger A sim The area is heavily stak ilar provision applies to ed and claimed by numer widowers who remarry af ous individualrockhounds ter 62 for agate collecting pur A d dr«t$ yowr questions to Son Sob poses But the Bureau of Pock wood cor« of this paper Land Management tells B B TO M «aa«M a UBLIC S B B BIMLOWfC M A T IB IA L A T O M TO B I V A C A T ID P a rt-tim e L in te r $75.000 worth of build big m aterials snd other home end farm supplies must bo llquldatsd ImmediatelyI Some fire and anoke damaged products. Store must be vacated In two weeks. Come es rly for beet buy a I Store form erly . 5 Income Ir a n your home. 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