Page 2 Portland Observer, November 19, 1981
Include Blacks in nation's history
by Nathaniel Scot!
JULIUS STOKES
(Photo: Thomas Golden)
myth, he said, was further perpetu
ated by Hollywood through movies
For the firs t time since 1977,
like Tarzan which showed the A f
P ortland Com m unity College is
rican running around a steamy
o ffe rin g a class in Black H istory:
jungle with bones in his nose.
“ The History o f the Black Man in
The educational system also pre
the U .S .” The class, a one-term
sented Africans in such a negative
three-credit class, is taught by Julius
way that it convinced Black people
Stokes at Cascade Campus on
(American Blacks) not to associate
North Killingsworth.
with Africans, he said. The African
Stokes has been a faculty member
was also presented a negative stereo
at PCC for 12 years. Before that he
type casting o f Am erican Blacks
taught fo r the P ortland Public
through inferior roles in movies and
schools fo r one-and-a-half years
second class citizenry statuses.
(Jefferson High School), and be-
He said it is the educator’s duty to
forre moving to Portland, he taught
“ seek out all the fabrications and
in the Chicago (Illin o is ) public
concoctions that have diluted our
school system fo r eight years. His
history. The myths that allow some
areas o f teaching are H istory and
to go from cradle to grave without
Political Science.
having actual factual knowledge
He said Black history should be about African history.”
taught because Black people like all
According to Stokes, one o f the
other m inorities are a part o f the
w orld’ s first civilizations started in
“ national history.”
Egypt on the banks o f the Nile
The history o f the Western world,
River. He said, “ Ghana, the first
he said, “ was written by what I call
A frica n state w ith recorded evi
pseudo-scientific methods. And
dence, indicated that by 400 AD 44
some o f the writers, C.R. Glidden,
kings had already ruled in Ghana
Josiah Nott, Samuel A. Cartwright,
and that Mali reached even greater
an American, and Samuel Morton
heights and lasted u n til the fo u r
were contributors to pseudo-scien teenth century.”
tific racist ideologies that pictured
Song Hay, he said, also reached
the African as having made no con great heights and they all had the
tributions to world history.” That
characteristics o f states: standing
Police life please local woman
by Kathryn H all Bogle
armies, royal courts, and the
A fric a n “ was skilled in arts and
crafts: he domesticated animals and
used tools,” he said.
Stokes said because the history o f
the Black man is such a tremendous
amount o f information, dating back
some 6,000 years, “ I w ill w rite a
proposal and present it to PCC’ s
cu rriculum committee next year
(early January) that it become a nine
hour three-term course.”
The inform ation w ill then cover,
“ from the beginning to reconstruc
tion; from reconstruction to 1932,
the beginning o f the New Deal; and
the last term in the sequence will be
from 1932 up to the present,” he
said.
” . . . since there has been an omis
sion (in A fric a n and American
Black history) I see the need to cor
rect some o f the falsehoods and
myths and, also, to inform present
day people the need is there.”
Stokes touched upon the rhetoric
that says all men are created equal.
“ That wasn’ t true,” he said. Add
ing that some heroes o f the eight
eenth and nineteenth centuries were
not super-persons, they made mis
takes just like we do. “ The objective
o f teaching is to show all sides,” he
said.
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adequate to meet basic fam ily
with children and a father who goes
needs. Most important o f all is a de
o ff to work and a mother who is at
sire to offer your skills as a parent,
home. They w ill consider childless
loving patience and understanding,
couples, single persons, and work
to a child who needs them.
ing mothers. The length o f place
Foster parents are considered part
ment varies from a few days in
o f a team with the ch ild ’ s worker,
emergency care to several years in
whose job is to best meet the needs
long-term foster care like Tim and
o f the child. The social service
Amy experienced. Emergency foster
worker as well as other profession
homes take children 24 hours a day
als are available to the fam ily fo r
and receive a special board rate.
support and direction.
These home keep children on a
Foster parents are reimbursed f i
short-term basis only. There is also
nancially. The standard rate fo r
a group o f highly skilled, medical
children from birth to five is $162 a
foster parents who care for physical
month, for ages six to 13, it is $190,
ly and em otionally handicapped
and for 14 to 21, the scale is $257.
children. They too receive a special
In addition to monthly payment,
board rate.
medical coverage is provided. A
Foster parents for Children’s Ser
medical card is issued for identifica
vices Division go through a ce rtifi
tion and b illing purposes. Private
cation process which begins with an
physicians may be used. At time o f
orientation. This provides an over
placement in foster care, each child
view o f the foster care program and
has a "Medicheck screening.” This
its policies. Next, there are in d iv i
is a b rie f physical examination to
dual meetings with a foster home
check for communicable diseases or
certifier. Emphasis is placed on ex
other health problems.
ploring a fa m ily ’ s preferences.
Those who feel they can share
Matching children and foster fam their home with children like these,
ilies is im p o rta n t. References are please call 229-5795.
contacted and a police record check
is done. Training is offered by Chil
Danny is a bright,
dren’ s Services D ivision sta ff and
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other com m unity specialists in all
He needs an immediate
areas o f child care. Foster parents
loving foster family in
receive a license issued by the state
North or N.E. Portland.
upon completion o f their certifica
He would be a delightful
tion.
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What is required o f foster parents
interested please, please
call:
often depends on the kind o f child
they want. O bviously, stability in
Children's Services
the home and in personal relation
Division
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Foster children need homes
Tim and Amy are brother and sis
ter. They were in foster care in
M ultnom ah C ounty fo r several
years. Fortunately, there was a suc
cessful resolution o f the problems
that brought them to the attention
o f C h ild re n ’ s Services D ivision.
They are no longer in the “ system.”
In October o f this year, there
were almost 1.000 children, like Tim
and May, in licensed fam ily foster
homes certified by Children’ s Ser
vices D ivision in M ultnom ah
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the separation.
Children from b irth to 18 and
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need foster care. There are often
brothers and sisters like Tim and
Amy that need to be together. Tim
and Amy were children who had no
unusual problems. There are many
children like them. Other children
have medical problems or condi
tions that run the gamut from need
ing glasses to being seriously retard
ed. A few children are angry. More
often, they are frightened and con
fused. Abused, abandoned, and
neglected children need a safe refuge
and an understanding person to care
for them.
The concept o f foster care has
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Victoria Wade. And it all adds up to
a satisfying experience fo r this
young woman, according to her
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“ Every day there is a continuing
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and am enrolled at the Police
Academy fo r classwork and
improvement o f some skills. I have
not finished my college work at
PCC and PSU in the A dm inistra
tion o f Justice but I expect to pick
that up a little later on.
“ There are many departments
w ithing the police bureau: Crime
Prevention, Juveniles. Community
A ffairs—and others. Even riding in
the patrol car has a lot o f variety:
Officer Jay Decker instructs Officer Victoria Wade in marksman
helping people who need you,
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(Photo: Thomas Golden)
making decisions, working with the
public with so many different kinds
James, her children Andrea and
also coaches fo r the recruits. V ic
o f people in different economic lev
James Jr., have grown accustomed
toria’s Wade counts it her good fo r
els, different races. It could even get
to their beloved wife and mother ap
tune to have a female coach because
‘ physical,’ so you must keep the
pearing in uniform.
she feels that her coach is able to
body in good condition to be able to
In the beginning o f her career the
transmit helpful patterns for female
run, climb a fence or whatever.”
fam ily, especially her parents, W il
officers to adopt.
Officer Wade, at 5 '4 ’ and a slight
liam and Sadye Taylor, were think
“ Male officers have been real
118 lbs. wears a gun belt as do all
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