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Page 4. Portland Observer, November 27, 1986 WARM SOMEONE’S W INTER METROPOLITAN Contribute to Pacific Power'* Project HELP. Ilk Pi l »pii . l l l ’. l i l l l i P u l l i I VV.IIII III III Ip lll . l k l '•n i i in i ■ u n ei n ' iv i l In m l I k a l i l i i ' \i i n k i I H . i l * II III I I I lit 1 1 li i|k ll I’ll i | i i I I d I I * . 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' . i ' I in I i ui n < n k I i n 11 i.il i i ' i i l In liv .il a n 'k li in i I i u n i-- a i i d i ' I n n ' i 11 h i i l k 11 n n i i il i In i k ' 111.nit p a \ . ilili I " I i n I i k a l t i ' i n u i ilil k ' p i i n n il n g ' i l l u v >. m i .m ¡u i .■ m m 'iip |x n i In i t ntling u hal i i 11 m u i a n a l l i H11 I 11 mi ' I In ' HHI m m ui i I k I P H I l i l i l í ill III.Il II III III l lll P l l l | l i l I I I I P t l l l l l " t x l u l l II l u i d ill m i l l P .k i l k P u i n i lu ll K, un i n l x 'i P a i iin P u in i 'im khulili ix m il Panel p a rticip a n ts w ere (le ft to rig h t) m oderator R obert Lamb, Penny Harrington, Lee P Brown, and Alberto Guardiola Mata Your donation is tax d ed u ctib le. (P hoto Richard J B row n) THE PEOPLE AT PACIFIC POWER Panel discusses law enforcement and and the ethnic community 7>g Jerry Garner “ The biggest need in the p olite department is to change attitudes," said Portland Police C hief Penny H arrington. H arrington made this comment during the final session of a three-day conference o f the North west Regional I9K5 Ethnic M inority Conference III The conference was sponsored hi the N orth/N ortheast Com m unity Mental Health C enters, Inc ot Port land It was the third such conference to he held in Portland since I9H2. Besides Harrington, the Saturday The Royal Esquire Club's Community Service Statement by A.D.S. From time to time we highlight individuals in our comm unity who stand taller than others at the time On Wednesday, November 20, 1985, I met with James Berry and Michele Albert, but before I say much about them let roe see if you can remember as far back as the late 60s, say 1968 or 1969 or 1970 (the model cities days, so to speak) OK. so you do or you do not, but anyway, un (for the model cities programs many programs were started using federal dollars to organize and administrate the program (or concepts) One such program was the M inority Contractors Association, known to us as the Albina Contractors Association Later there was the Northwest Contrac tors Assn and Contractors Management Assn, and also later and under a d iffe re n t d ire ctiv e there were tw o or three fo rm s o f the N ational Association of Minority Contractors None of these organizations exist as a viable force today. A pp ro xim a te ly five years ago James Berry and M ichele A lbert opened the Northeast Business Center in a building on Union Ave in Northeast Portland which they renovated themselves They represent the only minority contractor plan center in our com mutiny Presently, they bought a building on North Killirigsworth Street still in the heart of our community, which they will name Kilhngsworth Plaza The building at present, which they are continuing to renovate is the offices of the N E Business Center, and the offices of Business Wook N o rth w e st, w hich is a television program h ig h lig h tin g businesses primarily located in our community (Albina) I was to ta lly impressed, w ith the com m itm ent and diligence of James and Michelle I could see the spirit of the 60s in their eyes helping the "little guy " While I was there, I saw several contractors, or I guess some would call them handy men' , but nevertheless, they were looking for honest work, and James was able to heln them, moreover he gave them hope and pride which is what our people need I remember a few years ago, I used Robin Mayfield and Al Winefield and th e y in turn hired o ther w orkers; betw een the tw o men they renovated and painted the entire buildings of Exodus from 16th and Alberta to 17th and Alberta, and the building on 15th and Kilhngsworth These tw o men w ore p roud o f their w o rk, and I was proud o f our relationship Some of my funding sources were not very happy with my internal comm unity involvement and my nepotism My belief is that all across America you can see real economic development by looking at the internal pride and com m itm ent from w ithin a particular com m unity or neighborhood O bviously, I w o u ld like to see m ore u n ity as far as econom ic development is concerned within our community I think an alliance be tween Representative Carter, Senator McCoy, Skip and Grace, would be good I further think an alliance between James and Michele, Skip, Grace, Anita, George Page and Art Alexander would he good And fur ther, I th in k that an alliance betw een the Black U n ite d Front, the NAACP, and the Urban League would be good Economic development is a lot different from social development In social and political develop ment. the pooling of ideas and service is mostly all that's needed, but in economic development, the pooling of resources is what's needed Under the title of Economic Development Phase I Albina, I would like to see a meeting happen between at least the above m entioned people, but not limited to |ust them If our com m unity is to develop economically there must he clear communication between the people who represent our community, and our community services, and the pooling of our resources to provide real lobs, services and products panel included Houston, Texas Police Chief and former Multnomah ( ounti Sheriff I ee P Brown, and Alberto G Mala, Jr . Ph I) . an assistant professor ol Social Work and Mexican Ainencan Studies ( enter, U niversity ol Icxas, Austin The panel moderator was Robert I anib. Regional Director lor Com m unity Relations, I S Department ot Justice, Region Hl. Seattle. W A Biown told tile 65 ot so indiiiduals at the Red I ion M o lo i Inn lanl/en Beach that his reseaiih Ironi 19^6 to I9S2 on the National M inorite Ad usury ( ouncil on M inority luslice task torce, indicated that America was a paradox in which a Huge segment ot the minority population feel left out ot the mainstream ot American life Brown also stated that "p o lic e need to learn to not only deliver our services, hut to preserve and advance the principles ol oui democracy the ( onstitutional lights ot tlieindividu.il 1 his would create an atmosphere conducive to im proim g relations between the police and the m in ority c o m m u n ity ," Brown said, adding, "th e n police would not use excessive or deadly tor ce " Chiet Biown described a program he has implemented in which police are assigned to certain neighboi hoods to research conununit v needs I he police sene as a "lin k a g e " between the citizens and the city government Chief Harrington said that com m unication would improve the problems between police and ethnic minorities in Portland Harrington said another element that retards the communication between the police and ethnic minorities are issues " I he issues may be real, hut they do not help solve the problem." She said that we frequently get tied up with the issue ol racism. "Racism is a d iffic u lt thing to prove, we can suspect it, you can think that it's going on. hut to actually point to someone and say that a person is racist or that practice is racist, leads to a big conversation on racism." H arrington said that instead ol this, we should have conversations about behaviors and rules that arc al feeling our lives; that we need to change. "A ttitu d e s aren't easy to change, hut we can change behavior fairly easy Behavior is governed by rules; so you can set up rules to say what the behavior should be," said Harrington. "B y adopting rules that make the system more tair, and by hiring and recuritm g Ironi every ethnic background in our society." she said, eventually altitudes w ill change In addition, good police work 1 should he recognized, she said Dt Mata spoke on m inority groups' invisibility in mainstream society Mata said that a lack ot ,u countability is worse than racism "W e 're producing and controlling services lor some, and keeping others out." Dt Mata has done work on street lite and voting people Police, health and teaching prolessions could provide "lin k in g in s titu tio n s " to assist all segments ol society, said Mata I oi the Inst time, the conference addressed Asian Americans as a minority I his group will receive more attention at the next conterence ten lativelv scheduled lor Dec 4 6. 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