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“Serving the community through cultural diversity."
Volumn XXIII. Number 29
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July 21. 1993
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I Have A Dream”: Eighth Graders Go To College
Twenty-seven “ I Have A Dream
eighth grade students from the Class I
Project, left for a three week college
experience at W hitm an College on
July 12th w ith their project coordina
tor Ada Reed-Tellis.
Dreamer participants were repre
sentatives o fH B. Lee, Ockley Green,
Celebrate
Diversity
Oregon Association
Of Minority
Entrepreneurs
The Oregon Association o fM i-
noritv Entrepreneurs (O AM E) w ill
hold its m o n th ly “ Coffee and
Issues" forum Friday, July 30,1993,
7am to 8am at OAME/Cascade
Plaza, 4134 N. Vancouver. The
featured speaker w ill be L in a
Garcia-Seabold from T ri-M e t,
discussing “ M in o rity U tilization
on the Westside L ig ht R ail.” The
public is welcome. O A M E w ill also
unveil its 1993 M inority Business
Directory. 249-7744.
Open House
Saturday, July 24, 1993
12:00 to 3:00 pm
Please jo in us as we celebrate
our thirteenth year
o f serving the number one re
source in our community , the ch il
dren.
Our Open House w ill prov ide
you, our supporters, an opportunity
to meet Mariah Tay lor, the woman
whose dedication makes our organi
zation possible It w ill also give us
an opportunity to thank you person
ally for your continued support
Your $20 tax-deductible dona
tion, or any donation you can make,
w ill provide desperately needed ser
vices to the homeless and medically
indigent children in the Portland
Metropolitan area
Thank You For Your Support
, V a. s • • 4
W hitaker, Beaumont and Tubman
M iddle Schools Classes included
Language Arts. W riting, Science and
Studio A rt, taught by faculty o f
W hitman College and Portland Pub-
lie Schools.
The project, is fimded bv Meyer IHad Foundation o f Portland antici-
Memorial Trust and Whitman Col- pate that the project w ill become an on
lege. Both Whitman College and the going partnership and that the Sum-
mer program w ill eventually serve as
a model for sim ilar effort around the
country.
oorstin Denounces Hyphenated Americans
(Historian Stresses Importance o f
Fostering a Sense o f C om m unity
Among A ll Americans; Opposes B i
lingual Education)
Denouncing the notion o f a hy
phenated American as “ un-Am eri
can,” Pulitzer Prize-winning histo
rian Daniel J. Boorstin declared, “ I
object to the belief that it is more
important that we belong to some
particular small group than to the
human race.”
In an interview to be published
this Sunday in “ Parade” magazine,
Boorstin declared, “ I believe there arc
only Americans Polish-Americans,
Italian-Americans or African-A m eri
cans are an emphasis that is not fer
tile.”
“ There has been so much empha
sis recently on the diversity o f our
peoples,” he added “ I think i t ’s time
that we reaffirmed the fact that what
has built our country' is community
and that community is not dependent
on government It's dependent on the
willingness o f people to build to
gether.”
Stressing the importance o f this
sense o f community. Boorstin said.
“ The menace to America today is in
the emphasis on what separates us
rather than on what brings us to-
g cthcr-thc separations o f race, o f re
ligious dogma, o f religious practice,
o f origins, o f language ”
Asked about attempts to intro
duce b ilin q u a lis m to A m e rican
school,s Boorstin said, “ I am against
imposing language uniform ity by law
Bilingual teaching tends to restrict
opportunities for the very people w ho
need the opportunity toenter the main
stream o f American life.”
“ Broken English (is) perhaps ihc
only thoroughly American language.”
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he added. “ I f we had a native Am eri
can language, we might have been
more chauvinistic about it. But we
have an i mported language along with
a population o f imported people.”
The son o f a Russian immigrant,
Boorstin said that imm igration is an
important feature o f the American
tradition and urged that we should
continue to find ways to accommodate
and provide opportunities for people
from everywhere.
Discussing slavery and racism,
Boorstin said we must put both into a
broader historical perspective. He
emphasized that w hile Am erica’ s
“ only c iv il war” was fought partly to
preserve the Union, it also was fought
against slavery. “ I think Americans
continue to have a deep sense o f guilt
over the inheritance o f the institution
o f slavery,” he said. “ But that guilt
should not be embodied in our current
institutions We must give everybody
a fresh start and not try to compensate
for past injustices by creating present
injustices.”
“ For us to try to crawl back
into our roots w ould be a great
mistake.” he added “ I th ink wc
should seize th is o pp ortu nity o f
sharing a great tradition That is
why I ’d be w ary o f attempts to create
ethnic ghettos I t ’s an abomination.
We must try to come together and
learn to share what wc arc lucky
enough to possess ”
The author o f 20 books on the
h is to ry o f A m e rican and w orld
civ ilization. Boorstin is also Librar
ian E m e ritu s o f the L ib ra ry o f
Congress, a title created especially
for him through a special Act o f
Congress He had served as Librarian
o f Congress for 12 years until his
retirement in 1987
"The menace to America today is in the emphasis on what separates us rather
than on what brings us together—the separations of race, o f religious dogma, of religious
practice, o f origins, o f language. "