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EDITORIAL
OREGON S OLDEST AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLICATION
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If you are eligible for health care, public assistance, or social services,
you cannot be denied these benefits because of your race, color, national
origin, or because you are handicapped. That's the law. Title VI of the |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects you against discrimination because of your
race, color or national origin. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 |
protects you against discrimination because of your handicap.
These two laws mean that regardless of your race, color, national origin,
or handicap, you have the right to receive and participate In any program,
activity, service, or benefit that receives Federal financial assistance from
the U S Department of Health and Human Services. Some of the institu­
tions or programs that may be covered by the nondiscrimination provisions
of Title VI and Section 504 are: nursing homes; hospitals; home health
care; Medicaid; Medicare Part A; community mental health centers; alcohol
and drug treatment centers; family health centers and clinics; State and
local public assistance agencies; day care centers; senior citizen centers;
and nutrition programs.
There are many forms of discimination based on race, color, national
origin, or handicap. The Department of Health and Human Services has
regulations which prohibit such discrimination, including:
• Denying services, financial aid or other benefits provided as a part of
health or social services programs;
• Providing different service, financial aid or other benefits in a different
manner than that provided to others under the program;
• Segregating or separately treating individuals in any matter related to
I the receipt of any service, financial aid or other benefits,
Treating individuals differently in the determination of their eligibility
| for services;
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Denying individuals the opportunity to participate in a program by
I providing them a different program;
Selecting sites for the delivery of service in a manner which has the
I effect of excluding individuals from services,
Denying an individual the opportunity to participate as a member of a
I planning or advisory board;
Using criteria or methods of administering programs which have the
I effect of subjecting individuals to discrimination.
Discrimination usually has a significant adverse effect on the opportunity
of minorities and handicapped persons to gain equal access to services.
Although discrimination is often subtle and difficult to single out as a factor
limiting equal access to services, the following are some clearcut examples
of discriminatory treatment:
• A local office of a state welfare agency did not provide adequate bi­
lingual services to persons with little or no English speaking skills, even
though the office was located In an area with a significant number of Spa­
nish-speaking persons. This had the effect of denying services to such]
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A hospital did not have a telecommunication device for the deat 11 i y >
I in operation during all hours. This had the effect of denying services over
the telephone to persons with impaired hearing.
• A Mexican-American teenager and his white friend were injured in a
car accident. The white friend was admitted to a nearby private hospital.
The Mexican-American was sent to a county facility one hour s drive away
when there was no medically-related reason for doing so.
• A family health care center held its pre-natal classes on the third floor|
of a building without elevators. This had the effect of excluding handicap­
ped persons from participation in the classes.
A nursing home placed only Black patients in the older wing of the
I facility.
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To assist individuals to understand and secure their rights, technical assi­
stance is available from the Office of Civil Rights. If you need assistance
understanding your rights, you can contact the Office of Civil Rights and|
ask for assistance.
■ If you feel that you have been discriminated against on the basis of
race, color, national origin, or handicap by a social service agency,
hospital, physician, health clinic or any other institution receiving
Federal financial assistance from the Department of Health and
Human Services, and you want to file a complaint, write to the
Regional Manager of the Office of Civil Rights at the address given
below. You must file a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights in
/writing within six months from the time you were subjected to
Jiscrimination. When you file a complaint, be sure to include the
following information in your letter:
If you live in Alaska, Oregon, Washington or Idaho, you should mail your
letter to: Regional Manager, Office of Civil Rights, Region X, U.S. Depart­
ment of Health and Human Services, 2901 Third Avenue, M /S 510, Seattle,
Washington, 98121, Phone: voice (206) 442-0473 or TTY (206) 442-7486.
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O PIN IO N
The Greatest Cover-Up In U.S. History
PORTLfiMb'Ò&ERVER
Alfred L. Henderson Publisher
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tudents at Cal State in Fresno were
__i concerned about a report by Japa­
nese pilots of a huge so-called UFO over
Alaska on the first day of last year. I told
the students, such sightings have be­
come increasingly the experience of an
ever growing number of people-world
wide.
Hardly a week goes by that some
people are not seeing and reporting
sightings of these so-called UFOs. Arti-
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the ridiculous. However the source of
the objects of such articles are neither
ridiculous nor unknown. The UFOs are
not unidentified. Does the Amerikan
government believe that those who built
and fly such craft are ignorant of what
they built and fly? Are the planes un­
known to those who fly them?
As it was reported during a Larry King television program,
Amerika is involved in a cover-up that makes that which former Presi­
dent Nixon was involved look like child's play. It makes the talk of the
current so-called Iran Contra-Arms-Money etc. problem of the present
administration, seem insignificant.
Deeper, however, both the Nixon and the Reagan administrations,
as well as every administration from Franklin D. Roosevelts to the
present, have been and are involved in concealing from the Amerikan
public what they know of this plane. What they hate to admit in that USA
nor the USSR control the destinies of men and nations. That huge plane
in the sky, and its fifteen hundred smaller bombing planes, are just
some of the indicators that we have arrived or lived to see a brand new
V Just imagine a plane approximately 500-600 feet more than
double the height of the Empire State Building, if it was placed on one
edge Now imagine it going up over the skyline of, let us say New York
or Chicago. Now picture it settling horizonally up over either of those
two big cities. Let us say that we are looking at New York City from the
New Jersey side, or at downtown Chicago from 50th on the lake, and
you see this huge plane over tall buildings. Frightening, isn’t it. This
plane is the reality that Ezekiel saw in vision.
Blacks, Land
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CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNAL
Reagan’s Supreme Court
by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
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lthough we are witnessing the last days of the Reagan presidency,
one of the lingering consequences of this administration will be
the continued ultra conservative rulings of the Supreme Court of tfie
United States. Human rights, civil rights and racial justice groups
throughout the nation are alarmed at the series of recent rulings by the
Supreme Court. Many of these rulings infringe upon basic human and
civil rights.
For example, the issue of unjustified, and in some cases illegal,
search and seizure by the police has always been of great concern
particularly to the African-American and other racial and ethnic cofp-
munities. During the last 30 years both state and federal statutes have
been made into law protecting the rights of citizens from unwarranted
searches and seizure of property by the police. Yet, from the days of the
Nixon administration to now during the Reagan administration the ac­
tivities of different police agencies concerning this issue have been
varied in terms of protecting basic civil liberties. Recently, the Supreme
Court rendered a split decision, 4-to-3, that encourages illegal searches
by the police.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia writing for the majority
opinion attempted to rationalize and to make legal the admission of
evidence that was secured in an illegal police search. Justice Scalia's
opinion rested on the view that not to permit this type of evidence into
court during the trial would place the prosecution “ in a worse position”
than had the illegal search not taken place. In other words, the Supreme
Court’s recent ruling places the needs of the prosecutor above the
rights of the defendant or above the rights of the person who has been
violated by an illegal search and seizure.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall writing for the minority
opinion stated “ this ruling lends itself to easy abuse, and offers dh
incentive to bypass the constitutional requirement that probable cause
be assessed by a neutral and detached magistrate before the police in­
vade an individual’s privacy.” Justice Marshall knows all too well tHe
history of police abuse when it comes to the issue of the privacy of
one’s person and property. The African-American community, during
the Reagan administration, has been violated time and time again ih
nearly every region of the nation by unwarranted police searches and
abuse. It is our hope that this latest ruling by the Supreme Court will nett
result in increasing police misconduct toward the African-American and
other racial and ethnic communities.
The civil rights movement in the United States should be ever
vigilant to guard against further encroachments of the rights of citizens
by the police. We are thankful that Justice Marshall continues to be a
voice crying out in the judicial wilderness of Reagan’s Supreme Court.
The 1988 presidential election has profound implications for the
future of this nation and of the world. A nation that lessens its regard fdr
the rights of its own citizens is a nation that will lower its regard for the
rights of all people in the global community. Therefore, we must serve
notice to the Reagan Court that their rulings will not go unchallenged.
A
he Federal Communications
for Oregon's paiticipation in a
Commission (FCC) has given
federal program called "Link-Up
th e O regon P u b lic U tility America."
Commission approval to launch
Information about any of the
two rew telephone assistance
telephone assistance programs
programs.
administered by the PUC is avail­
able by calling a statewide toll-
The FCC approved operating
free number, 1-800-848-4442, or ip
rules for the Oregon Telephone
the Salem area, 373-7171.
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This government should know that it is extremely dangerous, to
the health to Amerika, to continue her covert effort to destroy the poor.
I believe, it was Albert Einstein who once warned that "The split­
ting of the atom has changed everything save our mode of thinking and
thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe He and many others,
have, and still observe the fact that although there has been rapid
growth in the grasp of many aspects of the physical side of science, and
in its application, there has been very little development in the spiritual
and moral realm. So we have a great many in high offices, in positions of
great power, throughout the world, who in many respects act like
children, who are not concerned with stimulating the spiritual and moral
aspects of our humanity. As we proceed let us ponder the significance
of the news stories reporting that Israel have over a hundred nuclear
weapons. If we are approaching World War III, and we are, and if it is to
break out in this decade, and it may, what then?
No wonder Mr. Reagan presses on his Star Wars Defense
Initiative! He wants to put a platform out in space from which he can
launch an attack on this plane! The sighting of a giant UFO twice the
size of any aircraft carrier” and two smaller craft by a Japanese commer­
cial pilot was widely reported, and the radar sightings were confirmed
by Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials.
The present whell-shaped plane known as the Mother of Planes is
one half-mile by a half-mile and is the largest mechanical man-made
object in the sky. It’s a small human planet, made here on earth for a pur-
pose.
On a routine flight from Iceland to Tokyo, Japanese pilot Kenju
Terachi and two crewmen saw three strange crafts which first appeared
as three lights following their Japan airlines jumbo jet, Flight 1628. As
the jet crossed into Alaska from Canada at an altitude of 35,000 feet on a
clear evening, the pilot said he saw three lights eight miles in front of
him.
“ They were flying parallel and then suddenly approached very
close,” said Capt. Terauchi, a veteran pilot of 29 years. The objects
darted quickly and occasionally stopped suddenly, once in front of the
cockpit. He saw Black pilots. Terauchi said he actually was a silhouette
of the largest object, "it was a very big one-two times bigger than an air­
craft carrier,” he said.
Originally the FAA and the Air Force confirmed the large UFO
appeared on the air traffic controllers’ radar screens within five miles of
the cargo jet, and officials admitted that the identity of the craft remain­
ed a puzzle after six weeks of investigation. It’s one of the greatest
wonders of man, in making military weapons, by Black Scientists.
Perspectives
BAN PROPERTY. There were a
few successes before and during
World War II, with Blacks owning
some real estate on the west side;
Mr. Fair with a multi-storied build­
ing on S.W. Washington (or
Aider?) — and a Black group own­
ing a hotel, restaurant, bar and
barber shop near the west end of
the Steel Bridge; along the W il­
lamette River in the direction of
‘John’s Landing,’ Blacks owned a
number of waterfront proper­
tie s — and may still own some of
these (Mrs. Katherine Bogle, a lo­
by Professor McKinley Burt
cal historian, is an authority on
this early history).
I am most familiar with the
Northeast community where, be­
ginning in 1946,1 was the accoun­
Part
tant for many Black as well as
white property-owning individuals
et me thank the readers for
and corporations. Most of these
their very favorable response
equities were wiped out by the Ur­
to this series on ‘Lands and Fami­
ban Renewal Programs (Urban
lies’. It is rewarding to have chos­
REMOVAL), Black investments
en a subject that has proven to be
being replaced by Freeways, The
of such intense interest. I have
Coliseum, and by white, privately-
been led to explore the possibility
owned commercial enterprise.
of sponsoring (with the help of
Gone were the many apartments
this newspaper) A LAND AND
owned by the Acme Business
FAMILY SEMINAR this fall. This
Club and The Fraternal Hall, along
event would bring to Portland
with the businesses owned by
several individuals who have had
these groups of railroad workers
notable success in pursuing
and fraternal organizations. Gone
these types of economic goals.
were the millions of dollars in
Suggestions from readers would
properties on N.E. Union and on
be greatly appreciated.
N.E. Grand owned by a Black man
I will cite some specifics rela­
who
developed his wealth by
tive to our own city but, first, let
circumventing
prohibition (now
me refer to another ‘Southern
la b o ra to rie s and fa st food
Model'. In Southwest Georgia we
franchises).
have New Communities Inc., “ the
Soon to follow were the Black
largest single mass of land in the
properties taken over by the
United States owned and oper­
Emanuel Hospital Complex, sup­
ated by Blacks.’’ New Communi­
ported by tax dollars via the
ties was the brainchild of Rev.
federal Taylor Act, among others.
Charles Sherrod, an intense
Later, Model Cities — funded by
young Baptist m inister who
the government to ‘‘ESCALATE
shares management of the farm
THE
OUALITY OF LIFE OF THE
with Mr. Harrison Miller, a 23 year
MINORITY POOR” — gave the
veteran extension agent of the
Department of Agriculture. A vari­ multi-million dollar complex, now
the ‘Cascade College Campus’, to
ety of funding sources under­
Portland Community College for
wrote this venture; seven chur­
$1.00.
ches and individuals hold bonds
And later, the school adminis­
to ta lin g $315,000, Broadway
tration preceding this one, obtain­
United Church of Christ in New
ed other Northeast lands —
York City holds a $50,000 bond,
obstensiby for a warehouse, but
Prudential Life Insurance Co.
which ended up as the commer­
holds a $625,000 mortgage on the
cial property of corporations. The
land. Additional monies were se­
former owners of the land, of
cured from 50 foundations, and
course, received only the value at
from other churches. This is just
public condemnation. Was this
one of possible models.
planned from the get-go'? It has
Here in Portland there are few if
happened before!
any such models — even with UR-
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