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Portland Observar, January 25, 1964 Page 3
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METROPOLITAN
Chevytown
Pl
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Forum discusses mass media
by Lamia Dube
Crassrool News, N . W. — P o rt
land's mass media »as charged » ith
insensitivity and creating negative
images and they responded with an
open door policy of "reach out and
let us know."
This is the dialogue that occurred
Saturday, January 21st, at the Ore
gon Assembly for Black A ffa irs
morning forum entitled, "Press:
Both electronic and print coverage
o f political activities o f Oregon's
Black community."
The panelists represented the full
circle o f media— print, visual and
radio. They were: W illiam A. H il
liard, Executive Editor of The Ore
gonian-, Jeb Blandine, Editor and
Oregon Newspaper Publishing As
sociation’s Treasurer; Art Alexan
der, Black Channel C oordinator,
Rogers Cablesystems; Ray Watson,
General Manager, K XL Radio; Car
olyn Leonard, O A B A V ice-P re
sident; M a rtin B rantly, General
M anager, K P T V -1 2 ; Paul Sands,
News M anager, K G W -T V 8; and
A.R. (Skip) Collier, Western Region
M anager, Professional T raining
Systems.
Although the coverage of political
activities in Oregon’s Black commu
nity was advertised as a premise for
discussion, the overriding concern
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Forum on tha media Included Lanlta Duke.
Qraaaroot News: A.R. (Skip) Collier, Ray Watson,
KXL Radio: William Hilliard, The Oregonian; Martin
Brantley, KPTV-12; Jeb Bladlne. McMinnville
News-Kegister; Carolyn Leonard. OABA: Art Alex
ander, Rogers Cabls Systems.
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
moved to Salem, one youngster ex
pected my daughter to be illiterate, a
prostitute, and for us (parents) to be
on welfare. These were assumptions
they developed because the only
contact they had with Black people
was what they saw on T .V . and read
in the newspapers."
Leonard said, "People’s percep
tions of what you ought toi be over
ride what they see. The kinds of cov
erage we get in the media super
imposes the value of the superstruc
ture onto a given people.”
The example Leonard gave was
the belief that all Black people are
on welfare. “ If you do a story about
welfare, you hunt out the first Black
woman you see on the streets and
ask her, ‘ How w ill this affect
you?’ ”
Alexander wants a requirement
written into a reporter's job descrip
tion that they must know the history
of Asian-, Afro- and Hispanic Am
ericans.
o f those present was the lack of
knowledgeable reporters and Afro-
American reporters, and the insensi
tive »ay the media used its image
making power.
One observer said, “ When I first
He also stated, "There appears to
be a revolving door among Black re
porters. They seem to only rise so
far and after a point they move on
to another market.”
H illia rd said his paper lost two
Black reporters who left for finan
cial reasons or wanted a bigger mar
ket. He also said he believed The
Oregonian never would intentional
ly project a negative image o f
Blacks. " I f you perceive that just let
us know.”
K X L 's Watson said his station
covers all press conferences called
by the Black United Front. " K X L
was at the forefront of the coverage
of the 7-U p company refusing to
hire Blacks. The fact that they
planned to hire no Blacks was news
worthy and we got on and stayed on
the story until it was resolved."
C o llie r urged the audience to
write letters to the editors of various
media, they, in turn, promised to re
spond.
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Dr. Adolphua Turkaon, profaaaor of African and Afro-American
mualc. and Profaaaor Damarl Wakungu. who teaches Swahili, die
cuaa PSU Black Studlea Program.
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
PSU Black Studies
faces new threats
by Nathaniel Scon
Portland State U niversity’ s 15-
member University committee, re
focusing recommendation to Joseph
C. Blumel, president, according to
Darrell M illn e r, Chairman o f the
Black Studies Departm ent, “ very
thinly conceals the insinuation that
the Departm ent |Black Studies|
should be dismantled."
The report, made public January
19th, recommends among other
things that the Black Studies D e
partment be studied for reorganiza
tion, "including possible incorpora
tion into another adm inistrative
area.”
What is the fate o f the Black
Studies Department? And is there
an attempt to rid the state of Black
Studies in the higher institutional
setting?
Professor D am ari W akungu,
Black Studies D epartm ent, is re
questing "$ 1 ,0 0 0 for Swahili lan
guage courses" at PSU.
W akungu has been a faculty
member since academic year 1978-
79. She said during that time she has
taught Swahili, sometimes on a vol
untary basis, "w ith hopes the U ni
versity would pick up the course.”
It didn't.
M illn e r said the Foreign L an
guage Department never did pay for
Swahili courses— Black Studies did.
and when the budget crunch hit the
Department last academic year,
"S w ah ili was one o f a number of
programs we had to sacrifice.”
Wakungu's frustration borders
on anger. Why? In part, because she
teaches Swahili at Tubman Middle
School, and also, because o f the
natural progression o f things. She
said, " It (Swahili) should be offered
in the University.”
Budget cutting problems and the
lack of funding by discipline area,
coupled with “ reorganization” rec
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ommendations, cast dark shadows
over the strides being made by the
Black Studies Department.
Dr. Adolphus Turkson provides
an example o f services the Black
Studies Department is providing for
the academic community.
D r. Turkson has been a PSU
faculty member since 1981. His
main area of teaching is African and
Afro-American Music. But of equal
im portance, it would seem, is his
writing ability: music and academic-
papers.
Since coming to PSU, Dr. T u rk
son has presented in excess o f six
scholarly papers. His latest, a paper
on the C ultu ral Element in Black
Studies— »hat Black Studies stands
fo r— will be presented to the Third
Annual Conference of the National
Council for Black Studies Pacific
Northwest Region. February 2nd,
3rd and 4th. at Eastern Washington
University, Cheney, Washington.
Dr. Turkson’s musical composi
tions are o f the classical variety.
“ Some have very strong African ele
ments in their rhythm and melody
elements," he said. Blacks must not
neglect their culture; their music,
drama and art. I f Blacks neglect
those elements, “ there is nothing to
say what Black Studies is all
ab o u t.” He added that Black art,
drama and music should be the basis
o f all Black Studies. "T ho se ele
ments one might consider the cul
ture of people.”
Regarding Black Studies at PSU,
the next logical question is, what
happens next? Darrell Millner’» ans
wer is to take it to the top. He said.
" T h is report is to the president
(Blum el) and doesn’ t represent
University policy. Secondly, the re
port stopped short of making an ex
plicit recommendation, but the lan
guage the report used to explain the
study of the Department very thinly
conceals the insinuation that the De
partment be dismantled.”
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