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Portland Observer
Thursday. Ortober 2. 1975
WE SEE THE WORLD
THROUGH SLACK EYES
Another Point of
A new day?
The Busing Furor
The Grambling football team is coming to
Portland this week, along with the University's
revered President R.W.E. Jones, its 165 piece
Marching Band, and three regents of the state of
Louisiana. It is a historic moment as Oregon greets
this renowned group
This is an opportunity for Oregonians to witness
first hand the unusual talents of this all-Black
organization.
It may provide Blacks as well as
whites the opportunity to see that "Black is
Beautiful."
We salute Oregon State University for inviting
this fine university to participate in this athletic
event- in Portland.
We hope this game will not only be an exciting
and dramatic event but that it will also be a
turning point in the relationship between Oregon
State University and the Black community and an
indication of »Oregon State University's genuine
interst in Oregon's Black young people.
No guns needed
In recent weeks several attempts and threats
have been made on the life of President Gerald
Ford. There is much discussion about whether or
not the President should make public appearances
and whether he can be safe in a crowd.
The important thing to remember is that
President Ford can be removed through legal
means. The way to get rid of a President we don't
want is through the ballot box, and the time to
begin organizing the opposition is now.
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One thing that some white people conveniently
forget about busing "for purposes of integration" is
that years ago they did the same thing to Blacks
for "purposes of segregation" — and they didn't
seem to mind at all when those yellow buses ran
all over counties, sometimes crossing county lines,
to deliver Black students past white schools to
those "inferior" schools white people created.
Now, with the show on the other foot, some
white people are burning buses, throwing missiles
at policemen and creating general havoc in
Louisville and Boston, the latter of which is the
nation's oldest public school system.
It is, therefore, very difficult to sympathize with
whites who now show by rioting and "never"
exclamations that they don't want their children
going to those "inferior" inner city schools white
people created.
For years, they hired Black teachers in a "catch
as catch can" manner, they built buildings at half
the cost of buildings built for whites when many of
the buildings were constructed with the same
number of classrooms in the Black schools as the
white school. Equipment, from books on down,
were "hand me down stuff."
This was fair because it was only goinc to some
"niggers" who didn't need much education, they
thought, for that was the way to keep US in an
"ignorant" place.
But, in spite of second class everything, Black
people achieved and History ignored those
achievements until recently. A lot of us did not
achieve and we paid the price but, even at that
most of us managed to survive -- nobody on "the
other side of the fence" need laugh at the
ignorant among us because we are their creation,
too. And this unfair country, which continues to
bare its racism, is also their creation.
How in the hell can some folks fix their mouths
to say, "Bicentennial"?
But, then again, they do have "good" leadership
from a President who has forgotten what was done
to minorities in the "good old days."
There are Blacks who did not like busing, then or
now, but they "put up" with what was necessary
to get the^ children educated. And those white
who cannot stomach what it takes to "m ake things
right" are just going to have ’to bite the bullet, or
else gerrymander all the "one nation, under God,
with liberty and justice for a ll" pronouncements.
And we wouldn't put that past some people who
see integration and busing as right for South, but
wrong when it comes to their doorsteps
Some of White America needs to remember they
bused Blacks all over tarnation for "purposes of
segregation" in schools that were nowhere near
equal. This nation has come too far to be turned
backwards by those who choose not to remember,
or even ask.
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