Portland/O baerver
“ rid e rs h ip " -
the people
who use buses and trains for
transportation in the cities.
"This means,” the Con
gressman said, “that Black
Americans can be involved in
developing mass transports
lion systems from the very
beginning.
This is vitally
important to the economic
development of inner cities
because it involves the crea
tion of jobs and spending of
billions of dollars.”
The Young plan requires
that the Advisory Councils
will review policies and de
cisions on planning, design,
and architecture, construe
tion contracts and sub-con
tracts; purchase of equip
ment and supplies; main
tenance; related services such
as concessions; hiring and
training (in clu d in g
mana
gerial, technical and profes
sional positions); the location
of routes; and the amount of
fares.
Congressman Young ex
plained the impact this can
have by observing that “the
Black community in my home
city of Atlanta has already
won the right to participate
in the development of A t
lanta's new mass transit pro
gram. Blacks therefore have
a major role in saying how
$1.4 billion will be spent in
Atlanta -
who gets t h e
jobs and contracts, where
the routes go, how much the
passenger pays. In Atlanta,
the fare has been reduced
from 40 to 15 cents.”
M r. Young pointed out
that poor people, the buai
ness and professional com
munity, the labor force, com
munity organizationa, a n d
people concerned about pol
lution and conservation ran
be represented on the Ad
visory Councils.
Andrew Young, a Dem o
crat, is the first Black Con
gressman from Georgia in
101 years and a leader of the
civil rights movement.
In
Congress, one of his first
actions was to persuade the
House Banking Committee to
create the Subcommittee on
Urban Mass Transportation.
He is a member of this sub
committee which approved
the new transportation plan.
Bill includes minority plans
In response to the national
concern on the part of the
Black Community as involves
budget cuts relative to anti
poverty programs, housing,
welfare, health and employ
ment, M r. Floyd B. McKis
sick, new town developer of
South City, North Carolina
and M r. Johnny Ford, Mayor
of Tuskegee, Alabama, held a
joint press conference at
which time it was made clear
that the number one priority
on the Black Agenda is to
communicate to The Ad
ministration Black concerns
while maintaining a strategy
of calm, (MMitive anticipation
in the future. Soul City, a
new community on the rise
in North Carolina, was sited
as positive example of Black
interaction with the adminia
tration, the consequence of
which w i l l
benefit some
50,000 Black and lower in
come people while having
positive fallo u t effect on the
national scene.
The point
was made clear that while
the majority of Black party
affiliation rests in the Demo
cratic Party, the next four
years rest in the judgement
of a Republican Administra
tion; therefore, the most
solvent Black strategic course
toward economic upgrade of
the nation must be a coali
tion of concerned spokesmen
and women that transcends'
affiliation and is predicated
upon sound counter prop<>
sals to administrative cut
backs, c o u n te r proposals
meaning positive alternatives
necessary to provide the
nation socio / economic up
grade on a cost effective
basis.
McKissick and Ford
called upon all national or
ganizations and business con
cerns to come together at a
national summit, the time
and place to be announced
one month from today, at
which time the primary o k
jective will be to mold into
an umbrella plan an economic
and political strategy repre
sen tatio n of the joint in
lerests and objective forecast
by Federal Government and
private industry as integrated
with minority forces inherent
in The National Business
league. The National Urban
league. The N A A C P . CORE,
SCLC. Operation P U SH . The
Black Caucus and all other
human interest groups whose
main objective is the uplift of
the American people as a
major whole
and
Black
Americans as a major part.
Inclusive in the McKissick
Ford conference was the
national announcement of a
newly formed third political
force, an organization known
as The National Committee
For a Two Party System, the
purpose of which is a dedi
ration to more effective poli
tical action by Blacks and
other minority through edu
cation.
by Jettie B. Wild», J r., Chair
man of Oregon Black Caucus
H a rrie t Tubman waa known
as “Moees" to her people.
One of her accomplishments
was providing escape routes,
via the Underground Rail
road, for slave* to the North.
The Underground Railroad
was a series of hiding place*
in homes, haystacks or other
spota, to help the slaves
escape to the North. While
thinking about Ms. Tubman I
began wondering if history
would ever repeat itself. Do
we have any H a rrie t Tub
mans around in the year
19737 Ms. Tubman provided
a very special service for
people in need and would
have been missed had she
suddenly disappeared.
Ob
viously, she had “connec
tions” in order to succeed.
Instead of coveting "connec
tions” as an end unto itself,
she risked her life tim e and
time again while utilizing
those "connections” to fur
ther her people.
In searching for the Har
riet Tubmans of today, I
looked around st the good
brothers and sisters to see if
their "connections" were an
end unto th em s elve s or
whether they served as a
medium for changing the pos
ture (how Blacks are viewed)
of P o rtla n d .
S e e m in g ly ,
there are a few individuals in
different positions that could
contribute toward changing
this posture. Since being in
position to act is no guaran
tee of action and since there
is great difficulty in asses
sing change. I approached
the issue with open ques
tions.
W hat would happen to the
City of Portland if suddenly
all of the Black leaders and
Black g r o u p s , or Black
by EHla H. Caaaon
“Where Are The Barents?"
DR JEFFREY
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Rut where are the parents?
I t is easy
fo r
other
“spokesmen" to tell the public
what they feel are the true
caught up in an attem pt to
escape his own frustrations
to the extend that he ne
glects his own child's mental
and social welfare, the child
more than likely will become
a social burden, if not an
urban danger.
The child "escapes" to the
streets, where all kinds of
fo rm id ab le "teachers" are
ready to give him the disci
pline and social disregard of
street gangsters.
The streets teach that “the
establishment” has done this
or that young person wrong;
has deprived him of a good
way of life; that society owes
him something he did not get
from home.
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members? Would there be
fewer Black state senators
and representatives? Would
there be fewer Black ad
ministrative assistants? The
list of questions could be
extended t o cover many
more areas. I f the answer
is no, then perhaps there is a
need for some reassessing. If
socalled confidentiality with
elected officials and/or the
ever-changing power struc
ture has not produced a yes
answer to t h e
aforemen
tioned questions then there
is surely a need for some
reassessing.
There is another set of
questions to ask. Do Black
leaders and Black groups, or
Black oriented groups, stag
nate or activate the people?
Do they give the people the
will to live or do they take it
away?
Do they serve as
enemies to the people by not
bringing the issues to them
for their decisions?
There
are so many questions that
must be asked and answered.
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BRADY
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Not too many
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Parents should look upon the
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Tubman must have asked
those questions sometime be
fore her death in 1913. She
evidently made a decision to
stand up and be counted.
Ms. Tubman had a southern
strategy. Perhaps we need a
southern s tra te g y in the
West.
oriented groups, disappeared?
Would t h e r e
be fewer
Blacks on the city council?
Would there be fewer Black
c o u n ty
com m issioners?
Would there be fewer Black
civil servants? Would there
be fewer Black school board
oice of the NAACP
The sudden eruption of
waywardness among Black
young people is causing due
concern.
To be sure, the
dramatic and violent rise in
gang activity among children
of elementary and high school
age brackets is violently co
gent enough to elicit acti
vated concern in all social
levels.
Outcries are coming from
police a u th o ritie s .
Civic
leaders are speaking out.
School officials are demand
ing that something be done.
Various and sundry pun
dita on all local communica
tions levels are organizing
forums to air. the dire frus
trations of these young street
soldiers who are now in open
street w e fa re ;
Robbing,
maiming, murdering, articu
lating their desires to be
seen and heard with bricks,
knives and guns.
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Committee voices Block concerns
C ongressm an A n d r e w
Young has initiated legisla
live action that rould enable
Black and minority comniu
nitiea in the nation's cities to
have a voice in deciding how
billions of dollars will be
spent for mass transports
lion.
The plan, which has
begun to move through Con
grrss, could have a tre
mendous impart on economic
development of the inner
cities.
The bill introduced by Con
gressman Young has been
unanimously approved by the
House Urban Mass Trans
portation Subcommittee as
part of a measure increasing
transit aid to the cities by
$3.1 billion. This legislation
has bipartisan support and
will go next to the House
Hanking Committee and then
to the floor.
Under
C o n g re s s m a n
Young's plan, no urban mass
transit system could receive
the federal money until it
seta up a citizen's Advisory
Council to review all policies
and decisions.
The Council
would be required to reflect
the com position of t h e
Thursday, A pril 12, 1973