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Page 8 Portland/Obeerver Thursday February IS, 1973 U n t h a n k e a r n s B ro th e rh o o d A w a r d (Continue from page 1) i - v iiiiw iiw iw dibck cooks pose on the steps of the Southern Pacific dining car in 1919. (Photo Courtesy of Oregon Historical Society) Dining car waiters make ready for passengers on the Seattle, Portland and Spokane Railroad. (Photo Courtesy of Oregon Historical Society) T h e b u r d e n o f B lad e R e lig io n Races a id tr e a tm e n t (Continued from Page 6) and devaluated - if I am not free to move around freely in the church - to be on any committee - to The Portland *A Midget at on any board - to rise Racing Association will be to any positions that I am holding a benefit race at the qualified to hold - to par Multnomah Expo Center on take freely of the church's February 24 and 25. Cars life and power - then to from Washington and Cali join your church was an fornia will also be participat ironical decision, for instead ing in the races. of choosing life. I h a v e The proceeds will help pro chosen death. I can only vide FREE medication for the choose life by choosing to be newly formed Hemophilia a member of the Black inde Clinic at Good Samaritan pendent church. This was Hospital in Portland. This the only option open to me clinic was set up to provide during slavery and it is the treatment for hemophiliacs 21 only option open to me and older who are not cov today. ered by insurance or other Simon was compelled into medical assistance. Cost of existence. And Simon's bur replacing the missing clotting den is first of all to serve his factors in a hemophiliac's own people; because apart blood may run as high as from Simon, his people have $12,000 per year. no real hope of being gen Dr. S. Fredrick Rabiner, uinely accepted anywhere. Chief of Medicine at Good Not ony are Simon's people Samaritan, and Dr. Robert excluded or given only token Pittenger will be heading the participation w i t h i n the clinic. The service will be white church; but the same available to hemophiliacs in Oregon and Southern Wash is true of all our western ington on a 24 hour basis 7 s e c u l a r institutions. Al though we may boast a Black days a week. mayor here and there - one Black Supreme Court Justice and One Black U.S. Senaor - the masses of Black people are still locked out of the political process and isolated from the escalator of civil ambition. Now you will let me in as an individual pro vided I let you shape me in your own image. I can come to your churches - as long as I leave on the outside my spontaneity, my enthusiasm, my ecstasy, my spirituals, my gospels and my people. You will let me in if I leave myself on the outside and identify with the w h i t e middle - class v a l u e s of pseudo-sophistication. You will let me in if I display the credentials that you honor. I can preach and lecture to you but I. must be able to rattle off white continental theology - I must talk like you — 1 must use your idioms. The more I sound like you, the more you will acceptme, but you haven't accepted me, only what you have made of me. And in your churches, I’m not free to be myself - to give vent to my own self hood. That's why the Black church was compelled into existence. Blacks, after an unsuccessful attempt t o w a r d Christian amalgamation, came to real ize that either they would have their own religion or that they would have no religion at all and nothing else. Either they would be accepted by God in Christ or by no one else. Either they would be free and wanted and unshackled in the Church or nowhere. So the Black man made himself a church in the 18th century and said to her in the words of the psalmist - "Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire b e s i d e s thee." There is none upon earth who will accept me as I am but my C h r i s t - my church - my cross. This is what our fathers meant when they sang that spiri tual: "Give Me Jesus". “You can have all this world, just give me Jesus". Either I will have Jesus or I will have nothing but futility and frustration. Either I will .Prices good Wednesday Feb. 14 thru Saturday Feb. 17. Shop 4 for Extra Values Fred Meyer ShOpp nq ( »nl., f Doxsee MY-TE-FINE Real Cream Ice C re a m Clam Chowder $100 4 ZB for ■ Available Grocery Sections Refl ‘1.89 2 Sugar Cured Tender Smoked Coffee $107 lb. can Reg. ‘1.49 lb. each x m m ( lb. Morrell's fully cooked boneless hams. A voiloble G rocery Sections Young Tender Butter Crust Broccoli Wieners Tight green heads. Source of vitamins A and C. FREE RECIPES. 2 S ’ I 00 50' 7 ~ - $ l 00 1 1 5' II I Reg. cans to 22' H eoch Hearty appetizing meal time favor- j ^itet. 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Reg. ‘1.99 $S 46 each Avoiloble Apparel Sections Available Variety Sections and Home Improvement Centers Sylvania Inside Frost Book M a tc h e s Light each Avoiloble Vc >ns Fred Meyer ' up ' J •—- I • Bright and Shiny 2 21 fOi, 60 Watt — 75 Watt — ,0 0 Watt Available Variety Sections ond Home Improvement Centers » Reg ‘1.99 The perfect fashion accent far any war drobe. - PCC - Cascade - BLACK VIBRATIONS, R o c k and Jazz Rands, B l a c k Arts, Poets. C h a in B e lts Bulbs Pkgof 2 Reg. 39« Reg. 17* Black History Week Calendar Thursday MY-TE-FINE 50 book carton find acceptance in the church or I will find it nowhere. Before we were allowed to identify with our familiea we found refuge and healing in our churches. The founda tion of our racial solidarity is not the family b u t the church - our f a m i l i e s were destroyed - our kin» men were torn from us - our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers were sold from plantation to plan tation driven from one master to another bred forcibly like cattle. Our families were torn asunder, our schools were disallowed, our businesses were crushed, only the church endured. The church too was perse cuted; but it endured be cause of its nature. It is the nature of the church to endure under persecution, to stand firm under fire, to walk through furnaces of trail and come forth like gold. It flourishes under strife. It is strengthened through suffering. It is quickened under oppression. It is more powerful in its hiddenness than in its open ness. Franklin Frazier called the Black church d u r i n g slavery the "invisible insti tution." Yet the finest hour in the history of the Black church is the nour of its invisible a n d underground manifestation. For it gave our people meaning a n d value, faith to persevere, cotrage to resist, and love to lifet her sons and daughters from bondage to liberty. This is still the burden of Black religion. To make everybody somebody in Christ and in the church. Everybody is loved in the free B l a c k church: The low and the high, the young and the old, the rich and the poor, those who think they ae sophis ticated, and those who know they are not - we love them all - we accept them all. That is why my choir s i n g s “I Am Somebody." That’s why we get happy in church - because a t no fXher time are we more aware of being loved and accepted. At no other time do we feel more intensely the love of God and the love of the neighbor. God draws near, the Holy Spirit falls upon us in tongues of fire, love is felt all around us, and we rejoice in the presence of the glroy of God. The first burden of the Black church therefore pertains to the acceptance and healing of Black people whose rejection by white society willed and compelled the Black church into existence. lEditor’s note: The Burden of Black Religion will continue n e x t w ee k ). $146 each North Branch Library and Central Library - f i l m s , 7:30 p.m. Albina Branch Library SPIRITUALS, 7:30 p.m. Available Apparel Sections Open 9 a.m . to 10 p. m. daily, including Sunday, Always plenty of free and easy parking. Grant High School - FREE SICKLE C E L L TESTING (Sickle Cell Anemia Founda tion of Emanuel Hospital) 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Year (1982) from the Portland Chapter National Conference of Christians and Jews (for outstanding work, especially with the Gypsy population), and Commendation for Out standing Public Service for the Medical Health Division of the State of Oregon (1964 46). He was cited for outstanding service by the Coty of Port land's Human Relations Com mission in 1967, DeNorval Unthank Park waa dedicated to him in May of 1969 by the City of Portland as a response to community recommends tion. His civic associations in elude the Portland Chamber of Commerce (Health Affairs Committee); he was the first Black member of the City Club of Portland; and the National Copuncil of YMCA. He waa the representative of the Northwest Area Council of YMCA’a to The World Council Held in K assell, Germany in 1957. He is Vice President of the Oregon Com M o v e m c n tN e w R Z p c T meeting on February 20th at 7:30 p.m. at Sabin Elemen- tory School. 18th and Shaver Street, will discuss the Youth Action Affairs Axis. Other ■ubjilts to be discussed are metbads to abolish hunger u d the effects at federal cutbacks. The public is invi ted. mittao for Equal Rights and he is a member and past chairman of the Commisaion for Human Relations in the City of Portland, now known as the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. He is a past member of the Council of Social Agencies. He is a past president of the NAACP, Portland Branch, and of Port land assisted with the organ ization of Urban League of Portland, of which he is a past president. He la a mem ber of the Governor's Com mittee on Child Welfare and The Children and Youth Com mmittee He attended White House Conference in 1960 as representative of Oregon. He is a member of the P.T.A., Dat's Club at Grant High School, and is affiliated with the Portland R im Festival As sociation (sponsoring). He is a senior warden of St. Phillips Episcopal Church. Dr. Unthank assisted with the organization of the Bleu sod Martin Day Nursery of which he is a charter and life board member and the I I . 8 . 0 .* W illiams A venue Branch. He is the son of Albian and Elizabeth Unthank. He is one of eight children and was raised and educated by hia sunt and uncle. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Unthank. He was married to Thelma Raimey Shipman on January 14. 1929. They had five chil dren: D eN orval, Thom as, Jam es. Thelma Unthank Brown, and Lesley Diane Unthank. Mrs. Unthank died ■n 1959. Unthank was remarried on July 28. 1982, to Mildred Minor. K. Don’t miss BERG'S famous G e o rg e W a s h in g to n S ale Monday, Feb.19 B e rg 's downtown only 9 A M to 9 PM 287 - 2887 E x c lu s iv e P r e m ie r He aims to please. , _____. . MGM pretent, 'HIT M A N ' Storin, BERNIE CASEY Co .u ™ , PAMELA GRIER A R M IT A G £ B e,ed U pon the N o v e l T * k ' , R . , urn H o m . by TED LEWIS Produced by GENE CORMAN D,mt.d by GEORGE ARMITAGE ¡ R h - . — ’L r - ng-'l METROCOLOR f kX l \ \ NÏEUNM Black History Week 'MELINDA' CALVIN LOCKHART ROSALIND CASH O I E H A McGEE LONNE ELDER. Ill RAYMOND CISTHERI ^ v P E R V lS A T K I N S . ^ HUGH A ROBERTSON ' r IISHHCTIB 4B>~| Mptrrirrjlrjr MGM mgmr ^ c -, Monday - Friday................................... 7:00 p.m. Saturday................................................. 5:30 p.m. Sunday................................ L00 and 7:15 p.m. Visit the Northwests only Bloch Owned Theater durini
