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EDITORIAL/OPINION
None but the best
Six m ajor adm inistrators have retired from
the P ortland School D istrict including James
Fenwick and Area Superintendent Don James.
When Dr. Matthew Prophet accepted the Su­
perintendency he did not bring additional ad­
ministrators with him as is often the case. (Blan­
chard brought Donald M cElroy, fo r example.)
It is customary for any administrator to have the
opportunity to surround himself with people he
has learned to trust and respect.
P ortland needs an in je ctio n o f new people
and new experiences. Even though the Superin­
tendent is black, Portland has and has always
had a great shortage o f talented black adminis-
trators. Through the years the adm inistration
did not make training and experience available
to black people w ho could have moved in to
more responsible positions and did not recruit
black administrators and specialists.
The vacancies le ft by the retirem ents and
other vacancies that w ill occur in the administra­
tion should allow Dr. Prophet to bring in the
people he feels would contribute most to the
School D is tric t and its children. Oregonians
often have a prejudice against bringing "o u tsid ­
ers” into local positions but often the expertise,
experience, and enthusiasm can only be found
elsewhere.
Frank passes the gun
M a yo r Frank Ivancie is losing his war on
crime so he is passing the shotgun to M ildred
Schwab.
Ivancie grabbed the gun from Charles Jordan
for a shot at the limelight. His efforts to protect
the Police Bureau from public interference has
failed—the voters approved a new citizen police
audit committee.
His blast at petty crime and vagrancy failed—
his o ve rkill ordinances have been found to be
unconstitutional by nearly everyone but his mer­
cenary attorney. Seeing the great popular suc­
cess o f Jordan’s horses, he tried dogs. But even
the dogs were rejected.
Now Frank has gone o ff to the war on unem­
ployment and left Commissioner Schwab to deal
w ith the c rim in a ls — u n ifo rm e d and pla in-
clothed.
The jo b o f Police C om m issioner is an ex­
tremely im portant and sensitive one. Commis­
sioner Schwab has a tendency to identify closely
w ith her bureaus and to reject criticism . We
hope she w ill remember all those things she said
about the Police Bureau when it belonged to
Ivancie, and act accordingly. The people—and
especially black people and other m inorities—
must feel (hat they can get a second o p in io n
when it comes to encounters with the police.
If our race is to survive, we must
im m ediately begin to deprogram
our minds and our children’s minds
from institutionalized "whiteness."
Nowhere in the planet earth does
there collectively exist a people who
think, act. dress, and speak exactly
as their enemies and oppressors. We
have been enslaved, denatured, re­
trained. and transformed into im ita­
tion caucasoid people. F o r this,
even caucasoid A m erikan s who
expect us to ag itate and struggle
against their oppression, hold us in
contempt.
O u r minds have been p ro ­
grammed to hate ourselves and all
w ho look lik e us. In essence, we
have been program m ed to act out
the violence and hatred which cau­
casoid people n atu ra lly have fo r
people of color, especially their anti­
thesis in black. The result of this re­
strained n a'ure is the m onum ental
surge o f black on-black crime even
after so-called integration and better
job», which most of us can’t find.
The most respected o f our black
leaders were those who challenged
the status quo and sounded the
trumpet for change. Today we have
been appointed leaders, who often­
times are unaccountable to black
people, nothing more than trained
watchdogs who bark in case o f pre­
sent danger to master and mistress.
Caucasoids figh t amongst th em ­
selves to get rid o f ineffective para
sites, but when we fight, we always
get rid o f those who w ill do us the
most collective good.
Marcus G arv ey , one o f the first
and finest o f true black leadership.
was first slaughtered n the minds ot
other jealo us and envious black
men. These same black men went to
the government to conspire with the
state on how to crucify M r. Garvey.
He came unto his own and his own
received him not.
E lija h M u h a m m a d and his stu ­
dent M alcolm X received a tremen­
dous amount of hassle from cauca­
soid A m e rik a . W o u ld it be above
co n jectu re to say that both were
weaned endlessly by the attacks, from
other black people? M a lc o lm , as
you know , was shot down in cold
blood by black government agents.
Leaders which caucasoid A m eri­
ka pick fo r us are acceptable be­
cause these leaders will in fact con­
tinue to render us defenseless and
powerless in a w o rld b uilt on de­
fense and p ow er. Leaders whom
The Suprem e Architect sends, we
collectively seem to reject because
they will awaken our higher selves to
a way o f life many o f us seem to be
afraid o f — independence and self-
sutficiency. Therefore, I challenge
us to begin new re-education and re­
development which w ill be depen­
dent on new thoughts, values, and
progressive action. Too often what
we pass o f f as black progressive
values are merely caucasoid values
painted black.
We must first and foremost intro­
duce affirm ative action among o ur­
selves; a ffirm in g our own special
beauty and heritage, culture! The
m inds o f our ch ild re n must be
taught from birth to propagate and
reproduce our own kind and work
for our own kind.
Black wom en, reinforce in your
young black boys the necessity o f
m a rryin g and h on o ring black
The N A A C P has a new leader.
Hazel Hays, the venerable chairper­
son o f the O reg o n P a ro le B o ard ,
was elected president on Sunday,
December 12. She defeated Bernard
Richardson, who has long been ac­
tive in N A A C P a ffa irs and works
for the P o rtla n d G en eral E lectric
Company.
M s. H ays was n o m in a te d fro m
the floor during a meeting at which
the m antle o f leadership was sup­
posed to be passed without fan fair
from Lucious (tie rs tu M r. Richard­
son. The challenge was unexpected.
It may be that B n n a rd Richardson
was a victim o f the frustration with
the N A A C P ’s leadership. In ad d i­
tion. he w as no doubt hampered by
the gro w in g concern th at the
N A A C P has been in filtra te d by
large energy com panies. A t any
rate, the Portland N A A C P may be
on the verge o f a new era o f leader­
ship— and thank goodnes for that.
In almost every measure, Lucious
H icks was a d is a p p o in tm e n t. H is
tenure as president o f the N A A C P
was welcomed with anticipation and
the hope o f active leadership. At the
time the community was smack dab
in the m id d le o f the struggle to
change the so-called integration pro­
gram in the public schools. C o m ­
posed and c o n fid e n t, H ic k s a p ­
peared on television threatening that
the N A A C P might take the district
to court. " W e want some accounta­
bility,” he said.
A fter a rather bitter victory over
Reverend John Jackson, the elec­
tion o f Hicks was like the changing
o f the guard. I was one o f those op­
timistic ones. In 1 9 7 9 ,1 wrote, " L u -
cious Hicks has a vision for the lo­
cal branch o f the N A A C P . It is a vi­
sion which is developing and taking
positive shape. As he gains the ap­
preciation o f more and more in the
black co m m u n ity . . he w ill get his
p ro gram m oving and those w ho
have been reluctant to join in the re­
a liz a tio n o f that vision can com e
a b o a rd ." As much as I hate to ad­
mit it, my words were wishful th in k­
ing, a tendency which I must con­
sta n tly guard ag ain st. T h e hope
was misplaced— like expecting the
tooth fairy to put fifty dollars under
your pillow when your parents make
an income far below the poverty lev­
el.
Lucious Hicks could not pull the
elements o f the N A A C P together.
H e could not execute his plans. He
tried to be the "e n tire tea m " when
the basic foundation o f the N A A C P
became alienated fro m him . " H e
did not have the drive to bring in the
young and he lost the o ld ," one ob­
server noted.
U nfortunately, perhaps, Bernard
R ichardson was the vic tim o f the
frustration members and people in
the co m m u n ity fe lt w ith Lucious
H ic k s . But R ichardson carried
another liability as well. There is a
g ro w in g concern th at the energy
companies are m aking a concerted
effort to influence the direction o f
the N A A C P . both nationally and
locally. True or not. Bernard Rich­
ardson, who works for P G E, suf­
fered from the impression. The fact
that Lucious Hicks went to work for
Pacific Power and Light Company
furthered the impression.
B ern ard R ich ardso n w ould not
have made a poor president in cer­
tain specific ways. H e w ould have
brought the th o u g h tfu l process o f
research and deliberation that p ro ­
vides issues to the m ore aggressive
organizations. He may have spoken
out in a surprising manner. This role
would have given him (he platform.
I think he has the courage.
Thus, what was expected by the
present leadership to be an easy
transfer o f power ultimately became
a d ifficu lt uphill battle when Hazel
Hays was nominated from the floor
at the N A A C P m eeting several
weeks ago. Hazel Hays has been in­
volved in the N A A C P since she was
17 years old. In her professional and
civic life, she has defended the poor
and struggling side o f American life.
She is known for her candor and her
extraordinary energy. She may not
be the to w er o f o rg a n iza tio n and
process which the local branch bad­
ly needs, but she will be known for
her articulate voice, her courage to
speak forthrightly on the issues, and
her com m itm ent to im proving the
black condition.
T wish her well.
Reagan "revolution" attacks poor
by Prank Goheen
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
by Herb L. Cawthorne
w om anhood. Let them know that
marrying out o f the race also takes
money out of the black community.
If a black man, who has been raised
and disciplined by the labor and per­
severance o f a black w om an, later
becomes successful and takes a cau­
casoid wife, with the rate o f black-
on-black crime, what happens to the
money, property, and assets of that
black man should something h ap ­
pen to him? O f course the cauca­
soid woman becomes rich and the
money goes back into the caucasoid
community.
B roth er Ron H e rn d o n w ould
agree, a ffirm a tiv e , independent
black institutions will teach our peo­
ple that self-preservation is (he first
law o f nature. The Mormons teach
their own, as do the Italians in New
Jersey, the Irish in Chicago, the cau
casoid Jews, and o f course the
Anglo-Saxons. W hy can’ t Portland
be that authentic cultural mecca to
Blacks?
Needless to say, black people
are taught by everybody but o u r­
selves and we end up fighting for the
lib eration from oppression for ev­
eryone but ourselves and our kind.
The master don't send us to South
Africa to fight for the liberation of
black people. W hy? Case in point,
black men fight harder for the liber­
a tio n o f caucasoid wom en from
caucasoid men, while black women
still rem ain oppressed and at the
bottom o f everybody's ladder.
U n d er scientific slavery and ra ­
cism, if a highly technologici/ed so­
ciety, just control the mind, and the
body will follow.
D r. Jamil Cherovee
Portland Observer
We know that Ronald Reagan has
vowed to b rin g ab o u t a " fr e e
m a rk e t" so-called re v o lu tio n in
America and everywhere else in the
world he can. Culling the quack eco­
nomics of M ilto n Friedm an, Repre­
sentative Jack Kemp, and numerous
others for what he can to add to his
own crac kp o t ideas, Reagan has
brought misery to at least 12 million
households in America through the
scourge of unemployment, and even
greater misery to the people o f the
favored dictatorships abroad (hat
receive money and the sophisticated
instrum ents o f w ar fo r use, not
against aggressors, but th eir own
population. In C h ile, where Fried-
m anite econom ics have been im ­
posed on an unwilling population by
a brutal p ro -U .S . dictatorship, un­
employment is 25 percent and infla­
tion, for all that, is still over 40 per­
cent. T h e re is no u nem p lo ym en t
co m p en sation or social secu rity.
Q u ite sim p ly, those w ith o u t work
either beg fo r a living or starve to
death. W hile it is doubtful Reagan
and his wealthy cronies would bring
such a thing to pass in the U n ited
States, there can be little doubt that
they serve the interests o f the privil­
eged classes, and no one else.
W e have reason enough to know
that high unemployment brings mis­
ery in its wake, even with unemploy­
ment com pensation and social se­
c u rity . Thanks to R onald Reagan
and his m in ia tu re co u nterp arts in
O reg o n and W a s h in g to n , G o v e r­
nors A tiy e h and S p e llm a n , the
Northw est knows double-digit un­
employment with no relief in sight
and the pressures on fam ily stability
growing ever greater. Several thou­
sand people have committed suicide
nationwide because o f their inability
to find work in the Reagan-induced
recession. I guess that makes Presi­
dent Reagan accessory to several
thousand violent and tragic deaths.
We should not suppose that people
in high offices, surrounded by plush
carpets and attended to by batteries
o f aides and computers are incapa­
ble o f great crimes Ronald Reagan
does not have to worry about where
his next meal comes fro m , but in a
city in F lo rid a the " la w -a b id in g "
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city council actually discusses a re­
solution to spray rat poison on the
garbage cans in which the homeless
were rummaging for food. Reagan
can spout o f f ab o ut free m arkets
and free enterprise because he does
not have to see the m illio n s w ho
have no work, no hope, and no shel­
ter. Safely and snuggly cloistered in
the W hite House, he and wife N a n ­
cy can enjoy their privileged exist­
ence while posing as great guardians
of morality, decency and the A m eri­
can W ay of Life.
It is no wonder President Reagan,
Secretary o f State George Schultz,
and all o f th at w ild bunch are so
enamored o f the pitiless and selfish
dictatorships o f Central and South
America: secretly, deep down, they
would like to bring about something
similar in the United States, and the
legacy o f over a hundred years o f re­
fo rm can be dam n ed . W e can go
back to the days o f R u th erfo rd B.
Hayes or W illiam McKinley, and all
w ill be well with the world and the
stock m arkets. Reaganom ics has
been the operative principle o f eco­
nomics in L a tin A m eric a fo r 500
years, and we can discern its effect
on the people o f that region. Even
here in our own N o rth w est, th o u ­
sands are allowed to fall through the
so-called "s a fe ty n e t" because the
rest o f society— the " p o lit e ” and
the "decent" people of the r e g io n -
have theirs, and w ill be damned if
they w ill share w ith anyone else.
This is in the richest nation in the
world. In poor nations such as those
run by the people Reagan admires,
the poor sim ply starve or die o f
some preventable disease. W e are
headed for an era o f darkness and
m isery such as we have not seen
since the 1950s, and the social fabric-
w ill unravel. Messrs. Spellman and
A tiyeh, toadies and servants o f big
business, as Reagan is, are shoving
down our throats the economics o f
death and suffering fo r the m u lti­
tudes w hile the tin y m in o rity o f
w ealth y wax fat and sassy o f f o f
everyone else.
Ronald Reagan's "re v o lu tio n " is
not characterized by firin g squads
and g u illo tin e s o f m a ln u tritio n .
homelessness, increased crime, and
m isery fo r everyone w ho d o e sn 't
have a friend in the closed circle o f
oligarchs around Reagan. O h, some
are getting rich who aren’t really bo­
som pals o f Reagan, but they are a
small m in o rity . F or the rest o f us,
the reality o f Reaganism is 12 m il­
lion unem ployed, 1.6 m illio n who
have given up looking for work, and
6 m illion who work only short hours
because that is all there is available.
Unem ployment is the highest it has
been in 42 years because both
Jim m y C a rter and Ronald Reagan
wanted it that way. ( I play no poli­
tical favorites, fo r both parties are
responsible fo r our economic m a l­
aise.) A ll to fight " in fla tio n ,” you
know . In a kind o f survival o f the
fitte s t, the weak and the disabled
will be shoved o ff the dole to get out
and " w o r k ." U n fo rtu n ately, there
is no work for anyone who has less
than a Ph D ., or a desire to snuggle
up to the bosom o f a m ultinational
c o rp o ra tio n whose ethics w ould
m ake L a Cosa N o stra blush w ith
shame were they revealed for all the
world to see.
Is it any wonder that the starving
and diseased multitudes o f Brazil—
the 60 or 70 m illion who live below
the m in im u m subsistence le v e l—
are less im portant in Reagan’s eyes
than the few hundred m a r tin i­
sipping bankers and businessper­
sons in the Sao P ao lo au d ito riu m
where he spoke during his journey?
He cares nothing for the poor o f his
own nation, so why should he care
about the even greater numbers of
poor in a land far away with a gov­
ernm ent he agrees w ith? The tim e
has come to cast away and forget
about the idea that Ronald Reagan
is a "n ic e" guy, as are Spellman and
A tiy e h . A ll three are apostles o f
misery, servitude, poverty, selfish­
ness, and decay. N o other conclu­
sion is possible. T o see their handi­
w o rk , all you have to do is look
around you and gaze at the lines of
unemployed and the homeless peo­
ple who sleep over heating vents and
in p u b lic lav ato ries because they
have nowhere else to go.
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