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
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Cutlery
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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
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