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*^'HrHVvr*vi^A^Vvv*irwv,vvyvw*> a **-’- "R1M1 ■r V o lu m n X X II, N u m b e r 2 T he E yes an d E a rs o f the C om m u n ity* .lanttiin H, 1992 * 9 . ’*■ 250 • V (> • : »• - V Dr. King Honored Through Memorial Blood Drive A merican Red Cross and the Albina M inisterial Alliance are hosting a blood drive dedicated to Dr. M artin Luther King Jr. on W ednesday, January 15, 1992, from 4 to 8 p.m ., at the Immaculate Heart Catholic Church M ulti-Purpose Room, 2926 North Williams. All blood donors can sign commermorative scrolls that will be sent to Coretta Scott King in A tlanta, Georgia. K ing’s dream was that one day people would rise up and realize we are to live together as brothers. This drive provides an opportunity to carry out K ing’s dream by meeting the trans fusion needs o f hospital patients. Blood Drive Volunteer Chairman, Charles Stoudam ire, Red Cross Safety & Health Education director, encour ages all people, particularly African Am ericans, to give blood on this day. “ As African Am ericans, we can make a special contribution to the com m unity and to all Americans who need blood, ’’ Stoudam ire said. w e can m ake a special contribu tion to the our com m unity and to all Americans who need blood,” Stou dam ire said. A ccording to Stoudam ire, differ ent ethnic groups have different blood types. Twenty percent o f all African Americans have type B blood, com pared to 11 percent o f white A m eri cans. Almost tw ice as many black A m ericans need type B blood if they have to be transfused. For exam ple, persons with sickle cell anem ia, which is often treated with blood transfusions, may need blood from type B donors, but only 11 per cent o f a population o f all white donors needed, they’ll donate blood regularly. will have type B blood. This differ Additional needs exist for bone marrow ence can result in shortages of type B and pheresis donors: Pheresis is a spe blood when the black community does cial type o f blood donation in which not donate in proprtion to the numbers only platelets, the blood components of black patients requiring transfusions. used to control bleeding, are donated. W hen this shortage occurs, all patients As part o f this celebration, North will have problem s because the blood east Portland merchants, including Star types they need may not be available. buck’s Coffee, N ature’s Fresh North Stoudam ire hopes that if African west, W onder Bread Bakery and Doris Americans learn how much they are Cafe, are donating canteen refreshments. W.E.B. Du Bois Joins Black Heritage Stamp Series William Edward Burghardt DuBois, noted writer, historian, scholar, and educator, is the 15th addition to the Black Heritage Series of stamps, join ing a distinguished list that includes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriet Tubman, and A. Philip Randolph. The 29-cent Du Bois com memorative stamp will be offi cially dedicated on January 31, during first day o f issue cere monies at the W oodruff L i brary on the campus o f “ Clark Atlanta University, 111 James P. Brawley Drive. Du Bois spent nearly 25 years at Atlanta U niver sity (now Clark Atlanta University), first as professor of economics and history and later as pro fessor o f sociology. A leader in the early movement for equality for Americans of African de scent, Du Bois founded the Niagara Move ment in 1905. This organization evolved into the National Association for the Advancement o f (colored People (NAACP) in 1910. From 1910-1932 Du Bois served as editor o f the N A ACP’s pe riodical, Crisis. The Du Bois c o m m e m o ra tiv e stamp is the second design by Higgins Bond of Teaneck, New Jersey, who also designed last year’s Black Heritage stamp honoring inventor Jan Matzeliger. The 1992 de sign features a large head- and-shoulders portrait o f Du Bois. A smaller picture o f the subject, working diligently at a typewriter, is superim posed in the low er left corner. The The N ovem ber 1991 issue of “ Nature,” the most respected and widely circulated science journal in the world, opened a terrifying window on some long-suspected activities of the research arm o f the medical profession (Vol. 354, 9/28/91); “ Aids, Monkeys and M alaria,” p.252. Dr. Charles G ilkcs, professor of clinical medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford England, has thor oughly docum ented that, once again, reckless and racist experim enters hid ing behind that worn out aegis, * * for the advancem ent of science” have prac ticed their vicious vocation upon in digenous A FRICA N ’S and American Prison Inmates. For those who may have been brainwashed by denigrating allegations and inferences that AIDS has suddenly developed from sexual intercourse between Africans and a certain “ Sooty mangabey chipanzec,” Earvin "Magic" Johnson, who recently announced he has tested positive as a carrier of the HIV virus, is now a spokesman about AIDS prevention. Perspectives Special guests and scheduled donors include M ultnomah County Com m is sioner Gladys McCoy, Portland City Councilman Dick Bogle, Congress man Ron Wyden and members of Portland’s Black Firefighters Asso ciation. Interested donors must be at least 17 years o f age, in good health and weigh at least 110 pounds. Call 2.80- 1459, to schedule an appointm ent Dr. Gilkes offers meticulous research to the contrary. “ The mechanism o f Cross-Spe cies Transfer proposed does not offer a plausible unifying hypothesis to ex plain the THREE outbreaks’ ’ [Central Africa, Europe and North America]. “ Direct inoculation of FRESH BLOOD is the most efficient way to transfer the Aids V irus.” “ The MALARIA literature de scribes many instances in which H U M A N S w ere in je c te d w ith PRIM ATE blood....” [From 1922 to 1939 “ Blacklock, Adler and Rodhain” experimented in the Belgian Congo; In 1971 The U.S. D epartment o f Health reported its experim ents on prisoners, [“ Coatney, G.R. et al, The Primate M alarias” ]. O ur suspicions about the origins o f the AIDS epidemic are also rather well supported and reinforced by two well documented and disastrous medi Governor Roberts has named Martha O. Pagel to be the new director of the Oregon Departm ent o f W ater Resources, pending Senate confirm a tion. Citing Pagel’s background in policy development and administration, Roberts said she expects Pagel to lead the department through increasing complex w ater m anagement issues. “ O regon’s growing population, increased agricultural and industrial needs, recreational use, environmental concerns, and six years o f drought have stretched this resource to its lim it,” Roberts said. “ M artha will work with all o f the various groups and interests concerned with water issues to find a sustainable, responsible balance." Pagel, 38, became natural resource senior policy advisor to the governor when Governor Roberts took office in January o f 1991. Prior to that she had served as director o f the Division of State Lands since 1988. She began her career in state government as an assis tant attorney general with the D epart ment o f Justice in 1983 before becom ing deputy director o f State Lands in 1986. Pagel will remain in the gover nor’s office until her replacement is hired. The natural resources senior cal experiments perpetrated against black peoples by Europeans. Both of these terrifying exercises in genocide involved the diseases o f SYPHILIS and MA LARIA. W e cite first the most recent o f these exercises in depravity since the criminals are highly respected Am eri can medical professionals, those who on their oath we are given to place our lives at their gentle m inistrations. The following is from that famous article by colum ist ‘ ‘Tony Brow n,’ ’ published nationally in April, 1989. “ For example, for 40 years from 1932 until 1972 the U.S. Public Health Services, and later the Centers for Dis ease control in A tlanta, conducted the m ost atrociously unethical and racist experim ent in our history, black people with syphilis in Tuskegee, Ala., were intentionally not treated to test the de structive path of advanced syphilis. Even when penicillin was discovered as a treatm entitw asw ithheld. D uringthose African National Congress Advances In South Africa byMcKInley Burt by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Page 2 policy advisor will be hired by early April, following an open hiring proc ess. Bill Young will stay on as direc tor o f the Department o f W ater R e sources until Pagel assum es the office. The G overnor’s Task Force on State government is considering re structuring proposals that would sig nificantly alter the shape o f the state’s natural resources agencies, including a plan to merge the Department of W ater Resources into a new D epart ment o f Lands & W ater. The Task Force is expected to deliver its recom mendations to the G overnor later this month. NEWS SPORTS 2 ENTERTAINMENT 2 5 6 • ? .. X.’.. ’ v*‘ - 4. -. X • • .'4 1 ; .* • .v *" - as earners. In 1684 a Portuguese writer in Brazil recommended a cure for syphi lis: “ Buy a virgin black girl off a ship, and lie with her for a month, and the cure will be affected.” A piece o f cruel, self-indulgent nonsense, the modem reader will no doubt say. But he or she would be wrong. Between 1920 and 1950; when the first effec tive antibiotics became available, the cure for tertiary syphilis was, surpris ingly enough, induced malaria. If a man had bought a black girl in 1684, and she had been a virgin (and there fore free from venereal disease), he would have acquired malaria from her which would have cured his syphilis. But there is never aught for nought in this world. The girl would in return have been infected with syphilis, and unless he had some quinine at hand, the man might have died o f malaria. continued on page 4 by Mattle Ann Calller-Spears ENTERTAINMENT ■ ■ 'V e, j i , - í»<j. '•'X V.» **-X‘ .* »•. •»■.■» -A'.’ 'fe.'.í*',' í Be Of Good Courage Page 6 EDITORIAL / ‘ i- •i/*» ' Religion Top PRCA Pro Rodio Auction Page 2 • years, this experiment was reported in 13 major medical journals, read by over 100,000 doctors and discussed at conferences. It was an open secret.” (Can such a closed-mouth medical community be the very same one that vociferously objects to a nationalized health plan for the poor?) Does it also occur to you that we may well ask where the hell were our black physicians and health profes sionals on this “ open secret” ? But hold that for now, because we may have to ask such a question again! Below is an excerpt from the book, “ Seeds of Change” by Henry Hob- house, Harper & Row, 1986; Chapter on “ Quinine,” p.28. “ The latest think ing on antimalarial therapy brings us full circle back to the seventeenth century. Negroes, suffer from a type of anem ia known as the sickle-cell condition, which prevents them from having malaria although they may act Sports News *♦»;»,*****' À'? *5* ’ Governor Taps Pagel To Head Water Resources Education Is Still The Priority • » •1 * * *. •- words “ Black Heritage U SA ” are printed in large white letters across the bottom o f the stamp. In conjunction with the first day o f issue o f the Du Bois commemorative stamp and the start o f Black History Month, the Postal Service also will is sue I Have A Dream, a collection of Black Americans on U.S. postage stamps. This 68-page deluxe hardcover book contains 28 full color illustrations, 14 stamps and supporting text on the 15 Black Heritage Series stamp subjects. Paintings o f other African Americans who have appeared on stamps, includ ing Duke Ellington, Ralph Bunche, Dr. Charles Drew and Jesse Ow ens, are also featured. The illustrations are by artist Thomas Blackshear, desig n ero f several Black Heritage Series stamps. Roots author Alex Haley provides the intro duction to I Have A Dream, which goes on sale on February 1, at post offices nationwide. The Origin And Spread Of Aids Is Finally Revealed BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT V. * ■ YÂ’T.- ; Page 8 CLASSIFIEDS * z tfs & í ’ ■ f- ■