Program aids youth
by NathanM Scott
STY O P (Survival Training for
Youthful Offenders Program), is a
juvenile program o f the Northwest
Ex-Offender Association, scheduled
to begin operations on September 2,
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Youngsters at the Black Educational Cantar
Sum mar Day Cara Program laarn the fina points of
corngrowing by Chonlta Smith. Mrs. Smith also
talked on Black hair cara dating back to Africa.
(Photo by Richard J. Brown)
1981.
The program was made possible
through M ultnom ah County fund
in g , to talin g 1 8 6 ,4 2 3 , which was
contracted out to eight d iffe re n t
agencies for juvenile programs. The
ex-offenders received $6,933 to ser
vice 13-20 high risk youths.
Rowena R. Bates, counselor and
holder o f a B.S. in social science and
a Black Studies c e rtific a te , and
Stressla L. Johnson, counselor, cur
rently working towards his degree
in crim inology and penology, are
the coordinators o f the program.
They said the (opus o f the p ro
gram will be self-awareness and self-
a ctu a liza tio n throu g h classroom
teaching, rap sessions and recrea
tional activities.
The youth (to date 13) are from
the Yaun Child Care Center, Juven
ile Paro le and P ro b a tio n and the
Youth Service Center. The program
will run through December 31, with
a m inim um o f three class sessions
per week.
Classes will deal with jo b develop
ment, job techniques, basic commu-
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nication and speech, persona) health
(hygiene), counseling and rap ses
sions to fam iliarize the youth with
the realities o f everyday living.
Rowena Bates said, “ W e identi
fied what we thought were the needs
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o f the youth in setting up our fo r
m at.”
The program, according to Stress-
la Johnson, will utilize the facilities
o f several c om m u nity agencies,
(K in g N eigh b o rh o o d F ac ilitie s ,
Yaun Center, Salvation A rm y recre
ational center and the Ex-Offenders
Office in the J.K. Gill Building), but
more community help is needed.
He said, "W e need more facilities
fo r recreation and m eeting rooms
(rap sessions) and vehicles for trans
p o rta tio n . Even the help o f com
m u n ity churches w ill be apprecia
ted.”
T h e S T Y O P schedule w ill be
maintained around school curricu
lums to .a v o id con flicts and each
youth will be provided transporta
tion— either vehicle or T ri-M et.
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South African racism shocks Chisholm
C ongresswom an S hirley C h is
holm (D -N Y ) just returned from an
18-day Congressional study mission
to six nations on the African contin
ent. Included in the itinerary was a
fo u r-d a y visit in South A fric a ,
where she was shocked and de
pressed by the c o n d itio n o f that
country’s non-white residents under
the apartheid system o f strict racial
segregation.
“ I was just not p re p a re d ,” the
Congresswoman said, " fo r the first
hand evidence o f harsh repression
and discrimination in South Africa.
I personally witnessed the despera
tion and human tragedy which is so
prevalent there. I saw black women
and children forcibly evicted, in the
cold ra in , fro m th e ir m ake-sh ift
shelters in L an g a, an area the
Government has declared off-lim its
to black squatters.”
” 1 could see, in a starkness we in
America are not used to, the human
cost o f a p a rth e id . B lack workers
travel many hours each day from
their homes to jobs in the city, and
then must rush to leave the c ity ’ s
borders before sunset to avoid being
‘detained* by the police after dark.
By conscious government decision,
Black communities are isolated, im
poverished, neglected, and grossly
underserved by basic public serv
ices. A n yo n e who protests these
conditions is follow ed, harrassed,
arrested, or banned by an all-perva
sive police power.”
The Members o f Congress spoke
with a wide spectrum o f government
and com m unity leaders, “ because
o f the weak and a m b iva le n t U .S .
policies on South A f r ic a ,” M rs.
Chisholm explained, "neith er side
in the conflict was happy to see an
American delegation. Government
representatives accused us o f med
dling, and the Blacks blamed us for
our cou n try’ s apparent condoning
o f the status quo. However, we all
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came away w ith a sense that the
South A frica Government is resist
ing re fo rm and is perhaps even
taking significant steps backward.”
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“ Everywhere we h eard,” Repre
sentative Chisholm revealed, “ great
apprehension about the increasing
chances for violent upheaval. M any
Blacks are determ ined that th e ir
children must not grow up under
such a system, and the whites are
equally determined to preserve their
to ta l d o m in atio n o f the economy
and society. Prospects for peaceful
change appear dim, and fading.”
" I came b a c k ,” the Congress-
woman concluded, “ believing the
unbelievable about South A fric a ’s
racial system: and more important,
I came back even more com m itted
to ending any semblance o f A m eri
can support for it."
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REP. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Apartheid is the one common enemy
(Continued fro m page / column 6)
apartheid she will be regarded as a
friend, whatever the United States
may say about it. Conversely, if the
United States sides with apartheid,
she will be regarded as an enemy o f
Africa, irrespective o f what she may
say to the contrary. Chester Crock
er, the U .S. undersecretary o f state
fo r African affairs, is well-acquaint
ed with this stubborn A frican fact.
I f he blindly chooses to ignore it, he
is not serving the real interests o f the
A m erican people, much less A f r i
cans.
A t present, thousands o f im m i
grant workers are forced by sheer
econom ic necessity to leave their
homes and go to South A frica just
to earn a subsistence living. They
are forced to stomach racial humil
iation in order to survive.
Africa’s main objective, therefore,
is to rid itself o f the need for this ra
cial humiliation and its most power-
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ful symbol— apartheid. The inten
tion is not to force civilization and
white people out o f A fr ic a , but
rather to civilize the whites them
selves, through tru e coo p eratio n
and a jo in t e ffo rt in n atio n -b u ild
ing. O n ly three years ago Robert
Mugabe o f Zimbabwe was described
by apartheid sympathizers as what
amounted to a man eating bananas.
Today he has revealed himself as an
outstanding statesman and humane
leader who is above petty racial pre
judices. Even his worst enemies
among whites in Z im b a b w e now
concede how ig n o ran t they were
about Africa's aspirations.
Black South Africans are fighting
to restore their dignity in their own
country. They fully realize the enor
mous potential role that South A fri
ca can play in the rapid development
o f the region. A South A frica freed
from racial hate and interracial vio-
lence can release enorm ous con
to put in motion a dynamic develop
structive energies for both Blacks
m ental process serving the entire
and whites. South Africa's economy
continent o f A fric a . G iven the
would expand significantly with the
global economic aspirations o f the
development o f an internal market
United States, no serious person can
o f over 20 million Africans who are
say that this developmental process
now trapped on the bare subsistence
is not in the long-term interest o f the
level. Its potential economic links
American people, either.
w ith the rest o f southern A fric a
The recent vote at the U n ite d
could be the nerve system o f a viable
Nations to deny credentials to South
econom ic com m u nity o f A fric a n
Africa for participating in the Gen
states, ensuring the unrestricted in
eral Assembly session on Namibia is
terchange o f labor and expertise in
yet another unambiguous rebuff o f
the positive interest o f more than
apartheid— and its backward vision
200 million people. The vast natural
— by the w o rld c o m m u n ity . The
resources o f the area, hitherto un
United States would do well to take
dertapped and to a large extent still
the implications o f that vote serious
unexplored, will assure a m aterial
ly.
basis for rapid development and a
•A .M . Babu, one o f the leading
rising income which, in turn, would
constitute a healthy m arket fo r experts on African Affaire is current
ly a visiting professor at Amherst
other developing parts o f Africa.
T o side w ith apartheid is to o b
struct development. To oppose it is
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