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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
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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
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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 ).
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SICKLE C E L L TESTING
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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
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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.
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