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By Professor McKinley Burl ,
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If I tell you a
grasshop­
per’s a
lawyer, look
under his
wing for a
brief case!
I’ve always loved that famous boast
by the “ greatest” , Muhammed Ali. I
think you are going to find me right on
target here as well.
Its that time of year again, time for
me to provide you with some excellent
sources for books, texts and guides-
information that can make a difference
whatever your job, avocation, business
or area of study or lifestyle. All are
obtained by mailorder with an average
wait of fifteen days. The first group
given. A, feature ‘discount prices’. You
will also find that many of these books
are unobtainable in Portland at any price.
Consider, too, that wile the shipping
charge may be three or four dollars for a
package of books, you’re going to spend
more than that for gas, parking and time
shopping around town for hard to gel
volumes which may not have been avail­
able in the first place. And often you will
find that a book has been written by a
‘European author’ who will not have the
same racial hangups of many American
authors- and find new perspectives pro­
vided that open up whole vistas of infor­
mation.
When readers voice the query,
"where does McKinley get all that pre­
viously undisclosed and documented in­
form ation- such as found in my ‘Island
Series’, led by ‘ ‘ Hawaii, America’s Best
Kept secret” or my citations of the fabu­
lous cultural contributions of the famed
African “ Dumas Family” -- these sources
are part of the answer. Not only is there
direct information, but carefully selected
books often furnish valuable leads to
additional sources, not the least of which
may be extensive bibligraphies.
Order a catalog today (free)! Con­
sider that a book makes a Xmas, birthday
or anniversary gift parexcellece— not to
mention a useful ‘motivational present
at anytime for the students in your life.
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Greenwood Press Inc, 51 Riverside
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University Press, 136 South Broadway,
Irvington, NY 10533.
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Marcus Book Store Club, 1712
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Black Classic Press , PO Box 79414,
Baltimore, MD 21203; Third World Press,
PO Box 730, 7524 S. Cottage Grove
Ave., Chicago, II. 60619. Journal of Af­
rican Civilizations, Ivan van Sertima,
Editor Journal of African Civilizations,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
08903
Group D: Subscriptions For the
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Black Enterprise, PO Box 11602,
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60649, $14.95 (this last firm also sells
the annual “ Black Book” , a very com­
prehensive listings of African American
organizations, professionals, conferences,
exhibits, conventions, cultural institu­
tions and the like. Last issue was $ 12.95).
To Be Equal
by John E. Jacob
LET’S DO A RECOUNT
The 1990 Census tried to count us
all. But despite the Census Bureau’s best
efforts, it didn’t. And it hasn’t in dec­
ades. This year’s undercount may well
be the biggest in history.
In 1980 the undercount came to about
9 million people-or more than the popu­
lation of eleven states. In 1990, critics
say it will be a lot higher..
There’s overcounting, too. But the
overcount is a lot smaller than the under­
count. And more of the overcounted are
affluent-people with homes in different
states, for example-while the bulk of the
undercounted are poor.
The census also works against big
cities, whose people are far more diverse
and harder for census enumerators to
reach.
Many large cities are home to un­
documented immigrants who won’t
cooperate with census takers out of fear
of deportation. They have large housing
projects in which poor families double
up and fear eviction. And they have
many people who are simply not con­
nected to the mainstream life and are not
counted.
That’ sw hyN ew Y orkandotherbig
cities challenge the results.
New York was in the federal courts
trying to get the Census Bureau to cor­
rect what the city claims is the under-
countofabout450,000residents in 1980.
And it will be back to claim a bigger
undercount for 1990.
It’s not doing this for the sheer van­
ity of adding to its official population
figures.
Since the census population figures
are used to help determine allocation of
funds for many federal programs, the
city estimates that the 1980 undercount
cost it over $600 million during the decade.
And it says a similar undercount in
1990 will result in a loss of $900 million
over the next ten years.
Also at stake is political districting
for offices ranging from the U.S. Con­
gress to local boards.
Since most of the undercount is in
poor neighborhoods, that means the dis­
advantage lose the full political repre­
sentation to which they’re entitled.
The Census Bureau tries to come up
with an accurate count by cooperating
with community-based organizations and
conducting media campaigns. Its enu­
merators tried to go to places where the
homeless congregate.
But the techniques of headcounting
and sending mail forms are no longer
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effective.
The undercount persists, with tre­
mendous damage to the financial and
political life of large urban centers that
are already burdened by disadvantage.
There has to be a better way, and
there is.
Statisticians have developed sophis­
ticated mathematical tools thatcan make
population estimates that may be even
more accurate than today’s faulty nose­
counting procedures.
Scientists make accurate estimates
of the stars in the sky and the fish in the
sea by using such mathematical model­
ing techniques. Larger corporations do
the same to estimate market size and
other key business factors.
So now its time for government to
do the same with the critical census task
of determining how many people live in
our country and where they are.
A fair and accurate census count is
an economic, political, and civil rights
issue of the first magnitude. It’s time for
a recount-but not with the old methods
that no longer work.
The government should go back to
the drawing boards and assemble the
best scientific tools available to develop
a recount that no longer shortchanges
cities and the poor.
’’Homework
Stewardship to the Earth and its Environment
Hotline”
his Word and ¡pply all of his precepts to
Broadcast Begins
Dr. A . Lee Henderson
“ Homework Hotline” , ex­
panded to four weekdays, on Monday,
October 1, began its fifth season of live
school-year assistance to students in
Portland and east Multnomah County.
Produces by Portland Public
Schools and Portland Assn, of Teachers,
the Monday-through-Thursday series is
cablecast from 4:30-6 p.m. on Channel
31 of the Paragon and TCI systems.
On Mondays, Tuesdays and
Thursdays, Portland teachers in studios
at Jefferson High answer viewer ques­
tions telephoned to 280-5252.
Resuming October 17 and us­
ing the same number, the Wednesday
programs produced by Multnomah Cable
Access feature students from east county
high schools answering questions in
studios at Mt. Hood Community Col­
lege.
An estimated 50-60 questions
are fielded on the air or over the phone
during each program, according to Jill
Habemigg, coordinator of the T.V. Serv­
ice DepL for Portland Public Schools.
Gas Prices Level Off
The average price of gasoline
in Oregon appeared to be leveling off
this week, according to the most recent
Oregon AAA fuel price survey.
The average price, which is an
average of full service and mini service
grades, rose 0.8 of a cent in the past
week, the survey showed. The national
average (for self service unleaded regu­
lar) increased by 2.1 cents per gallon
over the same period of time.
Retail gasoline prices have been
increasing steadily since the Iraqi inva­
sion of Kuwait in early August. The last
ime prices leveled off was during the
interval between August 8 and August
15.
The highest price found in this
week’s survey was $1.719 for full serv­
ice super unleaded in Portland. The
lowest price was $1.239 for mini service
regular, found in Salem.
Prices are listed by grade be­
low:
FULL SERVICE
Regular: $1.352
Unleaded: $1.486
Super Unleaded: $1.550
MINI SERVICE
Regular: $1.290
Unleaded: $1.310
Super Unleaded: $1.557
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Brenda D. Williams, who works in
the human resources office of the Eman­
uel Hospital and Health Center, has been
selected to the Board of Directors of the
Garlington Center for Community men­
tal health in North and Northeast Port­
land.
Williams, long active in the com­
munity, is a member of the Northeast
Kiwanis. She has been a member of the
American Association of Radiologic
Technologists.
The Garlington Center, 4950 N.E.
MLK Jr. Blvd., with an annual budget of
nearly S3 million, provides mental health
services to adults and children in North
and Northeast Portland.
PCDC to
Hold Auction
Port City Development Cen­
ter, a non-profit organization that is
designed to train adults with develop­
mental disabilities in different types of
productive work, will be sponsoring their
Third Annual Auction, on Saturday,
October thirteenth, starting at 7:30 p.m.,
to help raise funds for their facility. A
preview of the items that will be auc­
tioned off will be held beforehand, be­
ginning at 6 p.m. Appetizers and coffee
will be served.
The auction will be held at the
Northwest Service Center, located at
1819 N.W. Everett in Portland, and a
donation of $5.00 per person is asked.
For more information, please cal, the
Center at 248-2235.
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Every man takes the limits of his own
field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Schopenhauer
No longer can we afford to limit our
vision, and thereby, constrain our con­
science from stewardship to the earth and
its environment.
We are too ready to give lip service to
the necessity of Saving the Planet without
advancing toward realistic goals to imple­
ment these objectives.
Our stewardship from within the heart
of the A . M E. Church is rooted in Genesis
1:28
And God blessed them, and God said
unto them. Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air; and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
We were given, by God, a a Steward­
ship to the Earth and its Environment.
■Replenish the earth’, says the Lord.
How little attention have we given to
that admonition, caught up in the civilized
mechanics of plastic products, disposable
rubbish that is not bio-degradable. Nuclear
waste and infant diapers are partners to
pollution that is casting a shadow of doom
as dark as the prospect of the greenhouse
effect which endangers mankind and the
seas and the birds and the animal life that
is part of our dom inion.. our steward­
ship.
Replenish the earth, says the Lord.
Recycling the end products of our
material wealth will be long-range effec­
tive when each and everyone of us adheres
to ecological guidelines circulated among
us daily.
What we also need to ‘replenish’ our
religious fiber and moral commitment to
the word of Jesus, so that we take him at
Statement of Mayor
J.E. Bud Clark
We have the opportunity over the next few weeks to show the rest of
the nation what the values of our community are. When Tom Metzger goes on
trial here in two weeks for allegedly contributing to the death of Mulugeta
Seraw, we will have the chance to show that the people of Portland reject the
racism and violence that his philosophy represents.
I know thta there will be demonstrations to proclaim our community’s
support for human dignity and diversity. In fact, I intend to participate in the
march on October 7. We will need to show the rest of the country that we also
believe in marches that can combine passion for our cause with non-violence
and dignity.
The job of the police is to maintain order, regardless of the cause at
hand; whether it’s politics or personalities. Both demonstrators and police are
under great stress in such situation and have to act appropriately. The Police
Bureau will be conducting a thorough review of police operations at Monday’s
demonstration. If anyone has evidence of specific asts of police misconduct, he
or she should call Internal Investigations at 796-3236.
Meanwhile, I urge everyone who intends to express our community’s
value for human dignity and diversity to act in accordance with that value.
From the office of Mayor J.E. Bud Clark,
September 25, 1990
GANGS (CRIPS AND BLOODS) BLACKS
KILLING BLACKS
our young people killing each other.
They are getting rid of our Black race
every week. There is more of our Black
race being eliminated. We are to help
each other, not kill each other off of this
earth. If we a proud Black race, we will
have to let our young ones know. They
seem to not understand that we should
not kill our own people. We are sup­
posed to love each other to the fullest.
We should help each other out when ever
possible. If our Black youth keep killing
each other, who will be around to keep
our Black race around?
We are also being called Black
African Americans but, that doesn’t seem
to stop the killing of our own race. Our
Black people are even attacking us walk­
ing down the streets and other places.
When will this killing end? How many
Black people will be left in the years to
come? With all this killing you would
think that our Black youth hate each
other. Love is not in their minds at all.
Why arc our Black kids getting rid of
each other? W hat’s the point to the kill­
ings? It is a very bad thing for this to be
happening to our Black young people
but, it looks like we can not stop it. It will
just keep happen ing until our youth come
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therefore we can obligate ourselves to
discharge the service to earth and to our
environment by allocating—time first to
think, and then to act upon our planning.
Whether you are able to spare com­
munity time in addition to private home
time, to the work needed, is entirely your
choice. Yet I remind you that the choice
you make will have a direct connection to
the quality of survival ahead of us in this
critical cosmic dilemma.
At home you can proceed to apply
special considerations to things that you
used to take for granted. You can’t afford
that stupidity any longer.
Intelligence is an obligatory choice in
every household and office to safeguard
us in the products we buy and the ways
and means we discard them.
Stewardship dem ands that we
•Replenish the e a rth ...’ Stewardship
demands that we contribute to the com­
munity action plans needed by organizing
or joining those around us.
Stewardship demands that we charge
our children locally to act with us as a
biblical brigade bringing salvation of
universal power to the ends of the
earth. . . before the earth ends, not of
God’s doing, but our doing.
Stewardship demands that we re-invest
our faith in God’s will by willfully attack­
ing man's willfulness which has brought
us to acts of complicity in stripping the
earth and stifling our air, killing off en­
tire species of wildlife that God ordered
us to ‘Replenish...’ in our dominion.
We have reached that dreadful dread­
nought of discovery. . disobedience has
brought us, like the children of Israel, lace
to face with our own mortality, our own
survival as a species.
Desecration of the earth and the en­
vironment shall be of our own doing.
Devotion to the earth and the environment
shall be of God’s doing. ‘Replenish the
earth. . . ’ says the Lord. Stewardship to the
earth and to the environment is our only
salvation!
n Regarding Human Rights’ March □
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cleaning up our own act. Creating a per­
son of integrity will go a long way toward
guaranteeing the commitments needed to
clean up the planet!
Stewardship implies service, and
to love one another like we are supposed
to do. Maybe our young people are kill­
ing each other to feel important.
It is not safe to sit on the porch
anymore. It is not safe to walk down the
streets at night anymore. I just wonder
what will happen next year?
Our teenage youth are wiping each
other off of this earth like flies on the
wall. They are making sure that there
will be but a few of us left to carry on our
Black race! A long time ago when I was
a young person, the gangs back then just
had fights with their fists, but these days
the gangs have to use guns and knives.
Back then the gangs proved who was the
best man one on one, not three or four
youths jumping on one person.
Sometimes I wonder what is our
Black race proud of? Killing is nothing
to be proud of. Most o f us are parents and
we love our children very much. We
wonder if one of our children will turn
out to be a gang member or not! They all
learn the slang words so fast. My chil­
dren surely know all of them and it
makes me really afraid. They know all of
the signs too! They also knew some of
the young kids that have been killed.
Isn’t there anything that wc can do
to help our Black youth out of this mess?
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Prayer is one of the things that can help
us and our children. Love is the other
important solution to our problem. Being
patient with our children can help them
too.
Talking with our youths will help us
to know what they want to do with their
lives. We parents will just have to try
harder to help our kids! If only our black
youths could solve their problems over
the things they disagree on. But, I know
that is easier to say when they hate one
another instead of loving one another!
Hate is more easier to show than love.
Some of our children do not receive love
at home and that is why most of our
children turn to the streets and to other
ways of getting back at us parents. I
admit that some of the parents do try
hard to love and help our kids, and
sometimes that docs not help.BuL we
can always try to do our best for our kids.
The kids that are in the gangs should be
loved also.
If only we could get them out of the
gangs, but sometimes they will not listen
to us. But we should keep try ing anyway.
Our youth always need our help, at all
times.