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Anniversary of DuBois death remembered
by James II. Roger»
by Jetie B Wild«, Jr.
Chairman, Oregon Black ('aucun
It is the creed of the Cau
to serve as a catalyst for
change. The Caucus must do
this through the following
meant:
111 seeking and identifying
the relevant issues that ef
feet llluck folks.
12) seeking anil identifying
those persons interested in
one or more of the relevant
issues.
(3) p ro v id in g leadership
and/or followship in working
out strategies with those
|iernons who are interested
in resolving those issues.
(4) re s is tin g the
noise
created by those persons in
terested only in talking but
not working.
15) putting the freedom of
Black folks before friendship
and partisanship.
|6) continuing to ask this
question of ourselves and
others:
"What have you
done for the cause lately?"
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O PEN L E T T E R
We wish to make an open
ap|*eal to Bob Oliver. Oregon
State Ombudsman. On July
1, 1988, Governor Tom McCall
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DR. JEFFREY BRADY toys:
created the poat of Ombuds
man.
The Ombudsman is
required to report regularly
to the Governor and the
legislature, noting problems
of general application that
indicate a need for revision
of existing law, regulations
or policies.
Dear M r. Oliver: We, the
members of the Oregon Black
Caucus, would like to solicit
your assistance in remedying
once and for all the practices
and policies of the Oregon
Public Utilities Commission
which leave every Black ap
plicant for a dump truck
license in the poaitiou of
fighting for the privilege.
There is enough evidence
now to indicate a pattern of
denial to Black applicants.
The authority of your of
fire, as we understand it.
covers the investigation of
a d m in is tra tiv e actions of
state agencies:
E ither on
your own initiative or upon
complaint of any personls).
Otis Smith, Williams Jones
and David Dawson, all Black,
have had difficulties in ob
taming truck licensing. Hope
fully, the spirit of the Cover
nor's Executive Order of
April, 1972, decreeing an Af
firmative Action Program ap
plirahle to state agencies,
recognizes direct and indirect
relationships. It is not good
enough to approach affirma
tive action in a "business as
usual" manner if unusual
things are expected.
We are certain that your
attention to this m atter will
help to pave the way for one
more step in making Oregon
a place where all of its
citizens have an equal opjior
tunity to pursue an honest
living.
Bancorp
elects
Elorriaga
Directors of U.S. Bancorp
elected John A. Elorriaga to
the position of president and
chief administrative officer of
th a t co rp o ratio n , e ffe c tiv e
September 1. Ellorriaga will
also retain his title as presi
dent and chief administrative
officer of the United States
National Bank of Oregon,
principal subsidiary of U.S.’
Bancorp.
LeRoy B. Slaver, who has
held the dual titles of chair
man and president of Ban
corp, continues as chairman
and chief executive officer of
that corporation and also of
the bank.
In making the announce-
rnent. Slaver said that the
change is an important move
in the complete integration
of the financial services ex
tended by Bancorp, the bank
and other subsidiaries in the
group, and that it will assure
effective coordination of the
planning and marketing func
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Doctor's Fee
Harold's wife died shortly after
undergoing an operation. When
a bill arrised from the surgeon,
Harold decided not to pay. In
due course, the matter wound up
in court.
“ Obviously, the operation was
a failure," Harold pointed out to
the judge “ Why should I hase to
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Respectfully,
Oregon Black Caucus
P.(). Box 12282
"DO Not Pul Off Needed Denial Care"
William Edward Burghardt
DuBois died in Accra. Ghana
on August 27. 1983 lonly ten
years ago) at the age of 95.
It was the eve of the Great
March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom, March
28. 1973, in which more than
250,000 persons of every
race, nationality and reli
gious creed p a rtic ip a te d .
Ironicly enough, the Great
March seems to stand as
testimony to the life work of
W .E.B. DuBois, humanitarian
and freedom fig h te r re
n o w n ed th r o u g h o u t th e
world.
W .E.B. DuBois was born in
the New England town of
G re a t B a rrin g to n , Massa
chusetts in 1888, only three
years after the close of the
Civil W ar, in a period in
American history when the
o verw h e lm in g m a jo rity of
Americans believed that the
world belonged to ihe white
man and that Blacks and
other racial minorities were
not entitled to the rights and
privileges enjoyed by the
dominant caste.
William Edward Burghardt
DuBois accepted as his life
long mission th«- responsi
bility of the extraordinary
individual of moral and Intel
lectu al g ifts to challenge
those oppressive forces in
society that serve to dehu
manize the poor and the
powerless. At this death he
was recognized throughout
the globe as the most eminent
Black American intellectual
and political organizer pro
duced in our history. He had
w ritten 19 books; literally
thousands of articles; pam
phlets and editorials; socio
logical texts novels; short
stories; poetry; autobiogra
phies; and position papers.
His published writings on
behalf of social and racial
ju s tic e spanned some 60
years
longer than most
of us shall live. And at his
death, at age 95, DuBois was
the chief compiler and con
tributor to the Encyclopedia
of Africa, a massive work
still in progress at the Uni
versity of Ghana.
Yet, DuBois (contrary to
popular opinion) was born
into a poor, but proud and
hard working Black family
whose traditions taught him
personal d ig n ity and the
value of discipline and self
reliance in a society that
denied the majority of Black
people any modicum of those
attributes so highly prized
by whites.
DuBois' self confidence and
intellect was so highly de
veloped at age 15 that he
wrote in one of the columns
of the Boston Globe, that "if
Black people in the state of
Massachusetts desire any ad
vice on political organizing or
books of value to them, they
only need w rite W .E.B. Du
Bois, and he would be glad to
respond . . ." At the time he
was, of course, a teenager.
laiter he went South to
Fisk University in Nashville.
Tennessee, where he had his
first encounter with "large
numbers of Blacks".
He
later wrote that he was over
whelmed by the "beauty of
his people” and wholly un
able to understand why w hite
Americans were so reluctant
to "admit to the worth and
dignity of peoples of African
heritage.”
While working for a Har
vard I ’ H .D . DuBois studied
at the University of Berlin
and it was during his travels
through Europe that he later
wrote: "I ceased to hate or
suspect people simply be
cause they belonged to one
race or color . .
But white America did not
cease to hate or suspect
DuBois.
In 1898, DuBois
received the Ph D. on His
tory from Harvard and his
d octoral d is s e rta tio n . The
Suppression ol the African
Slave Trade, became volume
No. 1 in the Harvard His
torical Series, yet all colleges
and universities closed their
doors to the brilliant young
Black scholar la practice
shared in common by most
Oregon schools today in 1973.
1 have the evidence to prove
this point).
The young DuBois was not
to be easily discouraged.
He finally landed ill paying
jobs at tine W ilburforce Col
lege, and later Atlanta Uni
versity.
It is in this time
that the classical work. The
Souls of Black Folks 119031
and The Philadelphia Negro
la massive sociological study)
begain to appear.
DuBois
became one of the founders
of the Niagra
Movement
119081. the NA A C P; and
various Pan African confer
ences of the twenties and
thirties. DuBois was editor
of three singularly important
periodicals: The Crisis; Hon
zon; and Phylon; and thus
for th irty years he was
undoubtedly the most articu
late. fearless and widely read
advocate of Black liberation
and racial justice in America.
It is suggested by many
prominent historians of the
Black Experience that Du
Bois was "the bridge" be
tween the militant Frederick
Douglass, who died in 1895,
and M artin Luther King and
Malcolm X.
In 1903, in The Souls of
Black Folk, DuBois wrote:
" 'H e re in lie buried many
things which, if read with
patien ce, may show the
strange meaning of being
Black here at the dawning of
the Twentieth Century. This
meaning is not without in
terest to you. gentle reader;
for the problem of the twen
tieth century is the problem
of the color line."
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Seventy years later most
Americans have not under
stood the full implications of
DuBois’ admonition. DuBois
himself later became disaf
fected with the robber barons
of American capitalism and
the inability of social political
institutions to effect mean
ingful change for Black and
poor people, and thus DuBois
began tu rn in g more and
more to socialist theorists.
He was, of course, charged
by a racist and reactionary
government as being Com
munist
the eharges of
which he successfully re
futed; yet it led to his deci
sion to live in Ghana, first of
the newly independent Afri
ran nations, at the invitation
of Kwame Nkrumah and
other African leaders.
He
died on August 27, 1983. on
the eve of the historic March
on Washington, while com
piling the Encyclopedia A fri
cans.
It is of more than passing
interest that Nobel la u re a te
M artin Luther King's last
speech before his assassina
tion was in tribute to W .E.B.
DuBois in February of 1988
in New York City. Reverend
King said in part; “ DuBois
was one of the most remark
able men of our time. It was
never possible to know where
the scholar DuBois ended
and the organizer DuBois
began. The two qualities in
him were a single unified
fo rc e .
W h it e A m e r ic a ,
drenched with lies about
Negroes, has lived too long
in a fog of ignorance.
D r.
DuBois gave them a gift of
touch. If he lived today he
would be in the front ranks
of the («-ace movement. Du
Bois' greatest virtue was his
commited empathy with all
the oppressed and his divine
dissatisfaction with all forms
of injustice." That is what
M artin Luther King thought
of W .E.B. DuBois. Amen.
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to pay up I he court said a doc
tor's services arc to be measured
by the quality of his work, not
merely by the results and this
doctor had performed tlje opera
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"The marvelous skill of ihe
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added the judge, "is sometimes
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T his case states the general rule
of law about medical fees. Fur
thermore, unless a specific sum
has been agreed upon in advance,
the doctor generally has consider
able leeway within reason in
deciding how high the fee will he.
May he take into account the
patient's ability to pay? That is,
may he charge a higher fee to a
rich patient than to a poor one?
Most courts say yes, sometimes
on ihe theory that high-paving
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small or even nonexistent. In
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tient In his defense, he insisted
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Die judge commented:
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