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Thursday, September 14. 1978
A bad week in Oregon sports
by Bill Schaefer
The past week will not be recorded
in Oregon sports history as one of its
greatest penods. Bill Walton refused
to kiss and make up with the Trail
Blazers The Portland Beavers were
irgloriou&ly weathered out o f the
P acific Coast League baseball
playoffs. Oregon State. Oregon and
Portland State lost their football
openers And Peter Jacobsen, who
had earned some 525,000 in his las',
two tournaments on the Professional
Golfers Association tour, failed to
make the cut in the Southern Open
But the saddest news of all for this
observer was the arinouncement
from
M onm outh
that
Greg
Shewbert. the two-time Little All-
America tailback for Oregon College
o f Education via M adison H igh
School, would skip his senior year of
football to give his undivided atten
tion to track and a possible small
college decathlon championship next
summer.
The news is sad only in the context
that it will deprive those who watch
OCE this fall of witnessing possibly
the best small college tailback in the
country . I f this view sounds like an
overstatement let us, as A l Smith
would say, look at the record.
Shewbert was the second leading
ground garner among small college
players last year and he had a bad
season Really. He missed two games
entirely and portions o f several
others because o f injuries yet
managed to average almost ISO yards
a game and seven yards every time he
carried the ball
Shewbert almost single-handedly
kept OCE in the game against highly
favored Portland State, gaining
some 120 yards before leaving with
an injured ankle in the third period.
He broke the four-year career
rushing record at OCE in three years
minus seven games missed because of
injuries.
Jusi how gosd a football player
was Shewbert?
A fte r Shoobie played against
awesome Texas A A I in the NA1A
championship semi-final game in
1975, A&I Coach Gil Steinke was
asked what he thought of the 5 foot 9
inch, 175-pound freshman.
"Maybe you shouldn't print this
but you don’t see many white kids
run like he does,” Steinke says. " I f
he doesn't like it in Oregon send him
down to me.”
O C E’s head coach. Bill McArthur,
offered this poignant rejoinder when
asked how he felt about Shoobie's
decision. "1 feel just the way Tom
The Firey Urban Furnace
Blacks, land and technology
by McKinley Burt
In this concluding article o f the
trilo g y,
*’ Blacks.
Land
and
Technology". 1 hope to reinforce
some very obvious relationships that
1 am quite sure the reader has per
ceived. For instance, we have
described power in action in terms of
major Oregon industry importing
Black laborers and craftsmen by the
many hundreds into a state whose
constitution forbade their residence
or citizenship. Could not the same,
now even more powerful firms use
their clout today if they wished to
bring about the same integration of
ail people into the work force? (Even
into their own?)
In the ‘Allirmative Action Action’
course which I teach at Portland
State University and in the field, 1
never fail to reiterate that it can
never work except that there be com
mitment at the top — whether in in
dustry, public agency or in an
educational institution or system.
A second important connection is
one that is universally . . . intrinsic to
ail interactions between a people,
their land, their skills and their
aspirations. "D ifferent places at one
time will exhibit the same sequence
of events as one place at different
times. That is ergodic theory, but,
then, so many of our urban planners
have shown such an ineptitude in the
delivery of economic services to the
poor and m inorities (standard
business practices not needed for
Blacks?), that we had best let Ger
trude Stein put it in simpler terms for
them, " A Rose is a Rose, is a Rose,
is a Rose!’’ . Then, when 1 discuss the
formerly Black-owned lands on or
near the southeastern coast of the
country which are now valued at
Si ,000 a front inch, there should not
be that degree of difficulty in relating
as would preclude the reader from
making a direct inference concerning
Black-owned (o r lost) lands in
Oregon and Washington.
Specifically, reference was made
to the fact that there is Black-owned
property in the Albina section o f
• • • • • • • • • •
P o rtla n d . Oregon . . , which is
among the most valuable real estate
on the West Coast o f the United
States (high rises — trunk and belt
lines — residential options —
warehousing/depots — industrial
service and support — etc.; all
Oregon clean and with a view') —
and, fu rth e r, that there were
available "econom ic vehicles or
structures which Blacks in other
places have used at different rimes to
develop and exploit such resources
for their own benefit.” One would
think that our pubbe officials and
agencies; w ith their tremendous
resources (and infinite rhetoric and
acronym for the "escalation of the
quality o f life for the poor and
m in o ritie s") would surely, being
trained and educated persons, would
look to history, recent or older, for
their success and role models; that is
if they were serious.
Why, for instance, do we not find
the agencies, mandated by Congress
(and taxpayer) to develop Minority
Business Enterprise w ith all ex
pedition, using the m odel. . . o f the
w hite, w orker-ow ned Plyw ood
M an u fa c tu rin g Cooperatives? A
number o f these craftsmen/owners
were tax clients of mine at an earlier
period and 1 am thoroughly familiar
with the economic benefits o f in
come, annuity and capital accretion
to be derived fro m successful
operations. It is especially significant
that these Northwest enterprises so
closely resemble the structure o f
many of the earlier Black manufac
turing and agricultural companies
and cooperatives which 1 document
ed in the first article of this series.
Such economic concepts are
especially relevant in light of today s
disastrous Black employment ex
perience — and doubly so in view of
the craft-union construints upon the
Black worker’s ability to deliver his
skills and products to the market
place.
Another crucial evaluation to be
made of Black-owned urban property
is in terms of its surrogative value,
that is it represents beyond its intrin-
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sic high market value, the additional
possibility o f leverage e q u ity /
collateral for financing the con
struction o f high rises, shops,
warehouses, offices, post offices and
other public buildings, and what
have you f o r long-term lease Those
would be owned of course by cor
porations or cooperatives o f the
Albina residents who would then like
other Americans would "h a v e a
piece of the action" as the program
mers like to say.
T o me this would make more
economic, moral and ethical sense
than another 100 bandaid social
programs which all seem to be cen
tered, somehow, around a central
hidden agenda which always results
in the eventual displacement o f the
Blacks from their land — given that
it may be by direct sale, which given
. . . discriminatory employment and
‘red-lining’ box in which the Port
land Black finds himself, is really a
form of eminent domain exercised by
outside private financial interests!
In the fashion o f discourses on the
" P ro p e r Study o f M a n k in d ," a
proper study of the sociology of ur
ban America and its predominately
Black inner-cities could well be titled
" A Q uantitative and Q ualitative
Study of Building Permits Issued in
the Twenty Largest American Cities:
187 4-19 74 ." A suitable preface
would be a recapitulation o f the
evidence gathered in New York in
1940 and 1941 (not atypical) by a
small army o f U.S. Department o f
Justice attorneys in preparation for
an Anti-Trust Suit which could have
changed the entire course and social
direction of this country.
Specifically, it was found out by
white folks (Blacks, o f course,
already knew) that the particular
area o f New York City known as
H arlem did not just grow like
"topsy” , but rather there had been a
long-term conspiracy in restraint o f
trade extending across state lines to
maintain and control the Rental and
Consumer Merchandising Structure
of that colony! An excluded class of
investors and the craftsmen and
laborers o f the ‘ W hite-Male-Only’
Building Trades Unions had finally
awakened, ‘something must be done
about this vicious and planned
restraint of trade which has restricted
our incomes.’
But we will not see these things in
our sociology texts, will we? And
that "comprehensive" compilation
of statistics published by the gov
ernm ent, ‘ Social and Economic
Characteristics o f the Black
Population in the United States:
1974 U p d a te ’ is much " in the
fashion” o f the shadows on the sur
face waters o f Plato’s pond. The
given parameters of employment, in
come, housing, education, health,
the family, crime and politics hardly
speak to the infant and adult mor
ta lity rates o f these deliberately
contrived B antustan-like urban
ecospheres — these Harlem s,
somewhat euphemistically descried
as the "64 Billion Dollar Black Con
sumer M arket.” Nor do they speak
to an in to to , 100-year, Black
n a ta lity /m o rta lity rate function
whose excess over the national
median could approach the same
number o f souls lost during the
passage of the African Slave Trade!
The "American Dilem m a" was not
procured by ‘mirrors’ but by human
greed.
I f Blacks ever are to achieve an
economic parity in the American
scheme, they (though under constant
attack) will have to greatly escalate
their level o f socio-economic
cooperation
and
of
psyche-
sustaining mutual respect, taking
heed of the models cited in Parts I
and II of this series, not to mention
the redesign and recapture of their
educational process towards sur
vival. All of course is subtended by
the necessity for a restoration of self-
image, which only can be accom
plished by a factual retrieval (and
ownership) of the race’s magnificent
history o f achievement — just as is
the case with other ethnics. You can
not argue on both sides of the case
for a pluralistic society. Blacks were
never melted, except in ‘Mandingo.*
It would be well to remember (yes,
critical) that if European im
migration had not been cut o ff in
1914 by submarine warfare, very
likely the Black, like the Native
American (Indian), also would be
confined for the most part to scat
tered reservations — or is he? One
hundred years o f red-lining and
restrictive covenants (dejure or
defacto) is as efficient as the calvary!
Equally well it is to remember during
quests for land, economic parity and
“ a piece o f the action,” that there
are still with us many 'B akke-
oriented’ Americans who think in
terms of the 19th Century concept of
a New York newspaper editor, “ The
M anifest Destiny o f the W hite
Races."
This racist philosophy, which is
seen in the ‘ backlash’ and the
resurgence o f the Kian, is but the
other side of another coin of that
era. The fu ll title of Charles Dar
w in’s magnaopus, which is never
used by American publishers was . . .
“ On the Origin o f the Species by
Means o f Natural Selection” and
"The Preservation of the Favoured
Races of M ankind.”
Landry would feel if Tony Dorsett
came up to him and told him he
wouldn’t be playing for the Dallas
Cowboys this year."
Although Shoobie has enjoyed
fo o tb a ll, track has always been
numero uno with him. " A football
game stays in your mind for only a
short while after it’s over,” he has
said. "B ut in track 1 can't shrug
things o ff that easily. Things stay
with me a lot longer "
What has been most difficult for
Shewbert to shrug o ff have been the
injuries and this is why he is quitting
football. He has finished sixth in the
national small college ( N A IA )
decathlon championship in each of
the past two seasons and Shoobie is
known to feel that football injuries
both years set back his decathlon
training schedule by some six months.
A n d , w ith at least an outside
chance o f making it to Moscow for
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Scholarship Committee and member
of Board of Director Western Inter
national Development Corporation
(W IDCO). Past affiliations consist of
former vice president and president
of Portland Chapter of Association
of Black Social Workers, affiliated
with the N ational Association of
Black Social Workers, Urban League
and Oregon Association o f Child
Care Workers.
Persons interested in assisting with
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283-3824
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IYWHEREVOVTURM.
Employment
" T h e y are looking at the high
schools, trying to help students plan
their careers with forestry in mind,
but it is difficult." Though not par
ticularly successful in recruiting,
W illiams considers the Forest Service
"as open and sincere as anybody.”
Prior to 1977-1978 the State Ac
cident Insurance Fund had a good
minority hiring record but this year,
with reorganization and changes in
direction, minority employment fell
off.
The D epartm ent o f T ransp o r
tation had a large number of mi
nority employees until about eighteen
months ago when it underwent a
lay-off of 400 employees. Because
minority employees are generally
recent hires, 38 of those laid o ff were
minority.
The D epartm ent o f Hum an
Resources has the largest percentage
of minorities, but it deals in areas
that have tra d itio n a lly drawn
minorities — social work, childrens
services, rehabilitation programs,
counseling, etc. "Hum an Resources
gets more credit than they deserve
because o f their high numbers,”
Williams said. "Actually they have
few minorities in high level jobs —
Hazel Hayes, Ben Tally, Kay Toran
— but considering the fields they
serve and the numbers of people they
hire they should do better."
"Commerce, on the other hand,
doesn't have the high percentage but
Blacks are getting into new areas and
in high level positions.”
the 1980 Olympics, he wants to give
the decathlon his full and undivided
attention free of the specter of in
juries.
The decision must have taken on a
gut-tearing quality for young
Shewbert whose loyalty to his team
mates equals his on-the-field per
formances. OCE was looking for
ward to, and still might achieve,
another fine season and a possible
post-season playoff game. The three
Shewbert years have seen OCE lose
only four games — two to Portland
State, one to Texas AAI and one to
Linfield. The Wolves have not lost
an Evergreen Conference game since
Shoobie arrived.
There are some people connected
with the OCE football program who
are not overjoyed at the prospect of
losing this extraordinary athlete. But
Shoobie has to do what he feels is in
his best interests. Nothing else really
counts.
The Authority
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