J anuary 11, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver
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As chancellor of the N ew York City school system, Dr. Richard R. Green meets the challenge of
running the iargest school system in the country.
1994 Described As “Year Of
The Angry White Male”
by prof .
M c K inley B vrt
How angry w ere they? W ell,
let’s put it this way; Talk Radio, the
shrill, harsh voice o f so m any o f the
genre, has m ade Rush Lim baugh the
g o dfather o f rig h tw in g .in v ec tiv e
though his show is televised. H ave
you ever checked out that strait-laced,
giggle on-cue audience o f this; d efi
nitely 1990 N orm an Rockwell. All
o f the shows w ent into an orgastic
frenzy when Jocelyn Elders, the U.S.
Surgeon G eneral whom the talk show
d isc jo c k e y s h a v e la b e le d th e
“condom queen”, m ade her unfortu
nate reference to m asturbation'.
Favorite topics and buzz w ords
also center around gays in the m ili
tary, federally subsidized m idnight
basketball. A ffirm ative A ction and
crim e-in-the-streets. O ne might n o
tice in this fervent dem onology that
truly lucrative and rew arding crim e
is alm ost totally ignored; like the
savings and loan rascals who got
away w ith those hundreds o f billions
o f dollars, and then bought back in at
distressed prices, ju st in tim e for
their biggest profits ever the last co u
ple o f years. And, o f course, it is out
o f the question that their tirades over
the airw aves would include the tens
o f billions in subsidies received by
U.S. in d u stry -th at, you see, is w el
fare for w hite folks, a cherished and
sacrosanct A m erican tradition.
In that vein, we have certainly
become aware o f the great resurgence
o f anti-affirmative action rhetoric a id
litigation. An acquaintance o f mine
who is in his eighties says these times
o f economic downturn reminds him o f
his early days in the deep south when
similar circumstances meant an in
crease in lynchings, evictions and
house-burnings. 1 had to give a wry
smile when , talking to no one in par
ticular, he made the case that “we
always been way behind, last hired,
dirtiest job, lowest skill, meaningless
seniority, first fired, and barred from
the craft unions, And, now, they' are
yelling discrimination, unfair hiring
practices and are asking f o r' dem ocra
cy’” . He shook his head.
I was th ink ing. ‘ but m ay be w e ' re
lucky to even be here; You know the
Indian is ju st about w iped out and,
further, they fight him for a share o f
the fish that are left, his tim ber is
stolen, he is still cheated o f m ineral
rights and native A m erican lawyers
and engineers are kept busy policing
the operations o f the oil com panies
with leasing rights on their lands.
To itlverrise In
flu ì tl.tni» (Obervurv
Life was never fair and perhaps the
best we can say is that these children
o f the E uropean im m igrants, many
o f w hom have salvaged this land and
its people, will eventually grow up
and visualize and seek an equity in
hum an existence -- before its too
late. W ill ’th ey ’ ever get that angry?
H ow ever, w ith the ever-increas
ing crescendo o f layoffs o f the ‘prop-
er-kind-of-A m ericans’ as corporate
A m erica strives to better that “bot
tom line” the stockholders love to
see. there have already been some
hesitant realizations that the w elfare
rolls are gaining new blood. N ot that
w hite w elfare recipients d id n 't al
w ays outnum ber blacks by a large
m argin; except in the m edia tape and
print files w here hordes o f black ste
reo-types aw ait the station m anag
e r ’s cue. This is com ing as a shock to
m any O regonians w ho have ju st b e
gun to realize how many thousands
have been put on the w elfare rolls by
the dow nturn in the tim b er industry -
- and the indirect businesses that are
going to the w all in consequence.
The K night-R idder N ew s Ser
vice has featured a num ber o f articles
this past m onth describing a ‘w hite
m ale' w hose “status as a bread w in
ner" is seeing som e very shaky times.
O ne w -iter states that the m ale is
searching frantically for that prim al
instinct exhibited by the fam iliar
im age o f the lioness protecting her
cubs— “now the m ale m ust learn to
concentrate his m ind and his will to
protect his jo b , his status as provider,
his tu rf'. Though the articles cite
recent m ovies that d epict such con
tem porary threats to the w hite male
psyche, “ D isclo su re” o r “ L ost In
A m erica” , I alw ays reflect back to
that great classic, “T he D eath O f A
Salesm an” . You know , it ju st might
be apropos!
T h re e c o lle g e -b o u n d O r e
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