Page 2, Portland Observer, May 14, 1986
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EDITORIAL/OPINION
The Southern Regional Primary”
A /o z tg f b Color L in t by Dr. Manning Marable
With the sole exception o f Jimmy Carter, no
politics, however, the Southern Regional Primary
other U S president has been elected from the
provides a golden opportunity for activists to im
Deep South in the twentieth century White South
plement
a "d ivid e and conquer" strategy Unlike
The recent flurry o f criticisms directed at Port
the Bureau should operate has resulted in "d irty
ern
Democrats
have
to
go
all
the
way
back
to
IX4X
in
19X4,
there is no single prospective presidential
land Mayor Bud Clark and Police Chief Penny
p o litic s ." Especially by the Portland Police As
to
find
another
successful
presidential
candidate
candidate
— other than Jesse Jackson — which
Harrington by some disgruntled members o f the
sociât ion.
from
their
region
—
Zachary
Taylor
o
f
Luisiana.
a
w
ill
dominate
ihe left wing o f Democratic politics
Police Bureau and private citizens is unwarranted
Since the Clark administration took office.
Whig This historical fact has produced a kind o f
Last time around, many o f the white peace activists
Police Union President Stan Peters has been on a
Although Clark and Harrington have made a lew
Southern political paranoia, prompting white
and
liberals clustered behind George McGovern
personal crusade to attack both the Mayor and
mistakes since assuming their respected offices;
politicians to stage a minirevolt o f sorts "Io w a
and
Alan Cranston Neither Cuomo, Hart, nor
Chief Harrington
overall, both have done an adequate job during
and New Hampshire (w ill) no longer tell us who
other
would-be candidates like Missouri Con
rhe Chief has been the victim of sexism by some
their brief tenure in office
the nominee is going to h e ," recently blustered
gtessman
Richard Gephardt and Charles Robb
officers in the Bureau, who believe that a woman
Hie majority o f this unwarranted criticism
Bert l ance, Jimmy Carter's old pal and the former
have established deep roots with fanners, peace
shouldn't be the head of the Bureau Information
against the two has come from the Police Union
chairman of Georgia's Democratic party. "W hen
groups,
feminists, Hispanics, Native Americans,
alledging misconduct against persons close to
and a lew upper-level managers w ithin the Bureau
your dog bites you four or five times,” lamented
and/or
Blacks
The Rainbow Coalition o f Jackson
( lark and Harrington's office have been given to
Dick laxlge, Tennessee's Democratic slate chair
could
make
gains
in all o f these areas, if the polifi
The Portland Police Union believes that the
the press Many of these allegations were cleared
man. " I t 's lime to get a new dog We've been
Union should control the Bureau, and the Bureau
cal
vacuum
isn't
filled
by some liberal white can
years ago through the police-owned Internal Inves
bitten
and
it's
time
for,he
South
toge,
a
new
dog
"
didate.
should be a secret organization that should not he
tigations Division and the Multnomah County Dis
Their ‘ 'so lu tion " or "new d o g ," in Lodge's
held accountable to the public in which it serves
Jackson's best prospects in 19XX actually exist in
trict Attorney Office
terms,
is
the
Southern
Regional
Primary
,
which
is
the
South In Tennessee. Jackson was the 19X4
On the other hand, Clark and Harrington believe
Decent citizens o f Portland should rally around
scheduled
to
be
held
on
the
second
Tuesday
in
the M ic e Bureau should be run by the Chief o f
primary
vote w inner in the state's four larges, cities
Mayor Clark and Chief Harrington and give them
March A, least ten Southern and border states w ill
Police through the Mayor's office and the public
Memphis,
Nashville. Knoxville, and Chai
support during this d ifficult period By supporting
probably hold their presidential primary elections
should have the right to know what the Police
tanooga
Jackson
canted Louisville, Kentucky's
them, you w ill be proving Portland's image as a
on this date Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Virginia
Bureau is doing I his difference in opinion on how
Democratic caucus with 5 1 percent o f the vote He
city which listens to its citizenry.
and Kentucky have already committed themselves
won the Louisiana primary election with 42 per
to March X. and others w ill soon follow The reg
cent o f the vote, and carried popular majorities in
ion's most prominent Democratic politician,
Mississippi. South Carolina, Virginia and the Dis
former Virginia Governor Charles Robb, asserts
trie,
o f Columbia The white Democratic estab
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that Ihe super primary w ill "require that any candi
lishment isn't blind to Jackson's potential threat,
"Black Moses"
date appeal to a broader base" than labor or the
and its already attempted to undermine it. Two
so-called "special interest” groups
In retrospect. Marcus Moziah Gar
Amerika now find it safe to embrace
startling in its rejverc ussions. inspiring
months ago, the Democratic National Committee-
vey has not failed Slowly, bui surely
Garveyism under a new name and dis
in sentiment and in tact
The basic strategy behind ihe Southern Regional
passed a rule to deny any delegates to candidates
the clouds o f prejudice, jealousy, ig
pense it fearlessly to a race stranded in
In any assessment of Marcus Gar
Primary is to blackmail the national Democratic
who don't receive a minimum o f 15 percent o f u
norance and inertia are lading from the
the wilderness o f Prophetic Symbolical
vey's program for economic liberation
party
into
selecting
a
"c
e
n
tris
t"
or
"conservative
racial horizon I he harriers ot injustice
state's primary vote This arbitrary threshold lot
Babylon "A m enkan C iviliza tio n " he
of Ihe Black masses one should he care
and the obstacles to change, though
cause of the treachery, hyjxxucy and
IX-mocral" as its presidential nominee As things
ful when draw ing conclusions about the
delegates is blatantly anti-democratic and dis
steadfast in their adamance and tough to
duplicity o f a people who have
economic aspects separate from the
stand at the moment, however, the South doesn't
criminatory.
as it eliminates legitimate challenges
die. are losing ground The Black
throughout their history, oppressed
greater, long run implications o f Gar
really
have
a
potential
candidate
who
could
win
Ihe
from
minority
constituencies or subgroups within
man s hitter experiences with rugged
non-caucavud people Garvey exposed
vey and Garvey ism (he economic. so
Ainerikanisn, plus the untold suffering
I9XX Demoratic presidential nomination The two
the problems o f Black people to the
cial. cultural and political components
the party.
he has w ithslood have pros ided an inde
world He defied Blackness and fos
ot Garveyism were so closely related
most likely candidates, Gary Hart and Mario
Despite these and other petty maneuvers, the
lihle reminder that Garvey was not a
tcred a racial consciousness never he
and overlapjx-d so much that it is very
Cuomo,
aren't
Southerners
One
distinct
possibil
Democratic Party w ill no, retard the continued
charlatan, a devil, or an '"outside
lore attained Garvey's clarion cry of
d ifficu lt Io distinguish one from the
ity is that the Southern w hite electorate could throw
agitator'' hut a Iriend and a harbinger
"A frik a lor A frikans" at home and ab
growth ot the Rainbow Coalition And by adopting
other and almost iiujiossible Io |udge
who came to serve his people "B lack
its support behind a marginal candidate who pos
road, gave more publicity to A frika and
them separately Moreover, an honest
the Southern Regional Primary scheme, the proba
Moses" business enterprises and gen
the descendants ol Afrikans in the Un
attempt should be made to objectively
sessed little support outside ot the region Even
ble
beneficiary w ill be its major nemesis, Jesse
eral organization o f U N I A. provided
tied Slates than any event since then de
evaluate the man s ideas apart from his
I.odge
admits
that
the
South
might
"waste
its
polit
Jackson.
employment for large numbers of
jure emancipation, following the war
personality
ical capital on somebody who does not have na
people, estimated at one lime to he
between the Stales Garvey sold the
fo be sure, all ol Garvey's business
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W«/*»*/>/<- f<'<*< Art
<*/ t*H f<,/*»yt n i
f iin r n ir \ ;
more than one thousand in the United
Black man to himself with the same
tional appeal
enterprises were failures in the sense
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4/< m » v ih r ( <»/<» I nit
appeal \ in m r r 140 ztrtt t/,<*/>r* >
States alone These business enter
zealous enthusiasm as Englishmen,
that they did not last more than a year or
f rom the vanlagcpoml of progressive and Black
intern al n n tall\
Mayor and Chief Deserve Citizens Support
Letters to the Editor
prises buoyed the Black man's disav
owed self respect and made the masses
resolute Io the future "B la ck Moses"
provided an organizational model for
Black peoples o f the world Daddy
Grace, f ather Divine and Amerika's
Black Muslams all followed the exam
pie set by Garvey Lest we forget, le s i
we lorget, Garvey ism is now omnipre
sent in the daily lives of people o f A fri
kan descent everywhere The form
might be different but the substance is
the same II might he camouflaged by
new and different names or fragmented
into many different organization but it
is Garveyism just the same Brother
Garvey
projected
a dynam ic
philosophy o f racial solidarity and Af-
rikan autonomy in Aik ebu Ian ( A trika l
which disgusted conservative, accom
modaliomst Blacks and amazed im
perialists frustrated Black masses
throughout the Black reservation of
Dear Editor:
I come before you as the voice ol
<400 plus) Black own confined in the
Oregon Stale Penitentiary, who deal
with separation and ostracism from our
Brothers and Sisters in the tree six iety
and the Blac k Community This fact of
present reality weighs painfully with
the Black population of O S P
The Uhum SA SA Organization
which is the life and breath o f the
Blacks confined within this Institution,
has the obligation o f nurturing the
nunds and souls o f each and every
Black that enters this Penitentiary
Which is a challenging struggle and yet
an obligation, which becomes less ob
tainable without some support from the
outside Blac k Community I present Io
you just as Uhuru SA SA has an obliga
lion to its membership, said obligation
belongs to every Black Man. Woman
and child for as a jveople we can never
separate ourselves from each other For
our plight is your plight just as our sue
cess is your success
Uhuru SA SA has made an effort to
reach beyond the walls ol () S P to the
Black community in the hojies of relm
ing it's self with outside Black society
without much success It is undershxxf
that Prison and those incarcerated
w ith in arc rejected under the
philosophy, that "prison is the place for
crim inals" and society is safe without
Frenchmen, Italians, Irish and tier-
mans who are concrete examples of
pluralism in the United Stales at work
Garvey's philosophy of a Black culture
is a milestone for bringing Black people
around the world also greater intimate
fellowship and communion with the
motherland Alrika
Garvey gave something Io Black
people w hich neither tune nor place can
eradicate He brought Black people
throughout Ihediasjxira into one family
through the propagation ot a program
which gave birth to an international
comity between them Garvey cmphai
ically demonstrated that Ihe Black mas
ses were eager to respond with co n fi
dence and support Io creative leader
ship
To be sure. Garvey erred, but his
errors laded into insignificance before
the concrete contributions be made to
Black thought and culture He espoused
a Black Philosophy, profound in depth.
two I here were man reasons for failure
not the least ot which was Garvey's
harassment by the United States (iov
emment. tlx- highly dubious grounds on
which he was convicted and his
polemic incarceration in the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta Nevertheless,
in the lace ot these specific failure,
Garvey illustrated through bold exper
iments with the Black Star l ine and
Negro lac tones corporation, Ihe poten
tial ol the Black race in Ihe fields o f
commerce and industry
I rue leaders like Marcus Moziah
Garvey triumphed over almost unbe
lievable obstacles Dr Martin Luther
King was a Christian in a sea ot in
tidels. an egalitarian among aristocrats,
and a dcm ixr.it among tyrants Until
the volume of human history shall he
sealed and delivered to die Omnipotent
Judge. We shall continue Io fight lor
justice
Dr Jamil Cherovee
obligation to law breakers I ask you are
those w ho are confined beyond change ’
Also those you lix k away today w ill
return someday, therefore it is your ob
ligation as it is Uhum SA SA's to see
that when the Blacks return to you they
are better lor their time away And this
can only happen through a unified ef
fort on b ith not by you as our commun
ity ostracizing us from You Ihe bind
ot Blackness must be granted new life.
We as Bl.uk Men are seeking tlx- bind
ol kinsmanship with you We believe as
Black Men that Io survive we needeach
other as a nation of Black People
Lor Uhuru SA SA to nurture the
minds and souls ot the () S P Black
population with true success, we need
you I say to you as Black People. con
demn us not tor what we did, but hold
us accountable for what we do in the
future What has b-en done can never
be changed and should b- regarded as
past the future holds a change when
given a chance Uhuru SA SA is tor
change “ Are You
Thank You,
Warren C, Eddins.
Uixirdinator Uhuru SA SA
2b-12, w ill have an impact on not only
the quality ot education that we stu
dents w ill receive, but tb- quantity ot
education
f ailure of t b May 2tHh vole w ill
cause this schixil to cut back on many
important programs, trim the number ot
instructors, and reduce the courses that
w ill b- available
Passage w ill not only mean t b con
tinued high quality o f education, but
w ill allow for tb- improvements neces
sary to keep P C C in t b foreground
ot h ig b r education
Quality instructor!, who arecontinu
ing to update t b i r knowledge and skills
Io meet t b changing times, and a Qual
ily Educational System that is continu
ing to improve in order to provide t b
necessary support to t b educational
growth of each student, is a right that all
students should expect to receive when
they enroll at any college or university
No student should b- forced Io lixik
elsewhere tor this quality when a col
lege or university may he within t b i r
own honx- town
( ollege is not just t b simple continue
lion ol an education, but t b preparation
ol each stixlent to either pnxeed out
into t b job world with the proper tools
that w ill enable him or her to actively
compete in an open market, allow a
student to take courses that w ill give
Iixla y, Portland Community Col
lege stands at the crossroads o f educa
tion and the signs arc clear The May
2<Hh vole on the new lax bise. Measure
¡PORTLAND OBSERVER
Healthwatch
by Steven Bailey N. D.
If
Z iix is .in essential mineral that is
emerging in the Mil's as an important
adjunct to American health Recently
tlx- role ol znx in prostate conditions
lias become common knowledge, yet
many ot zinc's other tunc lions are only
now leaching the public eve
Zinc inadequacy has been shown to
lx- asstx i.ited with growth retardation,
birth delects, ban loss, anemia, as well
as many ««her impaired prixesses Zinc
is also assixiated with hundreds ol en
zyme activities, including protein
breakdown. DNA and RNA repnxluc
lion, thymidine breakdown, lactate
hreakdwn aixl alcohol metabolism In
adequate Zinc levels may impair any ot
tlx- above tunc lions interfering with the
digestion, cell repnxluction. immune
lu ix lio n cerebral activity aixl a mul
litudc ol enzymalcd pathways
( )nc ot the problems in assessing zinc
I
him or her that personal satisfaction ot
accomplishment, or enable a student to
transfer to a lour year school to attain a
bachelor degree
As students, we should not and can
not allow the quality ol education to
One ol the interesting sides to this
discussion is the small level o f zinc-
needed to insure adequate cellular
levels While many people are taking
hundreds o f milligrams a day, 15 mg a
clay is adequate, providing you are ab
sorbing it This can he aided by begin
ning with a zinc sullate solution lor 3
days, followed by zinc picohnic ta
highly absorbable form I and then 15 mg
maintenance levels thereafter ‘ You
need the adequate level intereel lu larly
to absorb standard forms o f zine
supplementation
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a trained physician for d»»\jgcx and pro
kx.ol
deteriorate hack to the IKOO's where
education was only lor Ihe rich, not tor
Ihe common person We cannot afford
Io allow voier ajulhy or student apathy
to become the local point o f the elec
tion We must get out and vote We
must get the people out to v««e Our
voices can he the biggest ally for the
new tax base
Fred M Davis, Jr
Student
F f C.-Cascade Campus
lowest rate per thousand of any com
mumty college in the state
We w ill continue Io have available in
our community, classes at the lowest
cost per stixlent o f any major educa
tional institution in Ihe state
We cannot afford to let the college's
$66 m illion investment in buildings de
cline W'e need to supjxin ihe continued
opportunity (or district residents to get
job training, basic education and lower
division transfer courses at a reasonable
cost
Please join me in supporting stable
funding (or P C C Vote YES on May
20
Alcena E Bixizer
6505 N F Bmadwav
Support P.C.C.
To the Editor
Our community needs to support
Portland Community College by voting
YES for the tax base increase May
2(11 h
Portland Community College has
served us for 25 years and has been a
continuing example o f an efficiently
run operation Even with the requested
$22.tilt).000 increase, we w ill pay the
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levels has been Ihe problems assixiated
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because you consume large amixints of
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that you are getting the mineral into the
Ixxly, especially since zinc is as
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