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Can we afford to do less today?
BX M < K IM t X J k K i
railroad. Can it happen again?
T h is article firs t appeared in the
Portland Observer on June 26, 1991,
title d “ Show A nd T e ll.”
N ow , isn’ t that unbelievable? That
A reader supplied the title fo r this
w eek’ s article when m y b r ie f m en
tio n o f “ A tla n ta E x p o s itio n " p ro
a century ago we were no, o n ly ‘ dem
onstra tin g ’ o u r technical genius but
also doing an adept and sophisticat
ed jo b o f p u b lic iz in g our a b ilitie s to
all the w orld. N o t to mention d e ve l
voked her com m ent that A fric a n
oping an e ffe ctive structure fo r f i
Am ericans have comm ent that A f r i
nancial gain It was not lost upon our
readers that were A fric a n Am ericans
can Am ericans have to do a better jo b
o f “ showing and te llin g our genius.”
creating s im ila r ‘ stages’ today fo r
their wares and innovations, “ E C O
N O M IC D E V E L O P M E N T ” w ould
take on new m eaning fo r the race.
N obody is going to do it fo r us.” She,
too, was depressed at our p iti ful show
ing in the graduation cerem onies at
Oregon U niversities, especially in
the sciences Let me repeat that
though-provoking citation.
“ 100 years ago blacks put on the
‘ A tlanta Cotton States and Interna
tional E xp o sitio n ’ , September 18,
1895 (see the Congressional record,
5 3 rd Congress, Second Session,
p.8382). People from a ll o ve r the
w o rld came to see and buy the inven
tions o f A frica n Am erican engineers,
ago o f the 1978 West Coast meeting
o fth e B lack Scientists and Engineers
w hich I attended as a representative
o f Portland State U n ive rsity. The
convention was designed and im p le
mented by tw o black female engi
neers. It was a marvel o f operational
structure, logistics and telecom m u
n ic a tio n s . A n d Y O U T H W A S
S E R V E D as scores upon scores o f
black youth were flo w n in to be en
tranced and m otivated by the inven
tions o f the black engineers.
For the moment, let us return to
that 1895 "A tla n ta E xp o sitio n .” it
Her further com m ent was that it went
w ithout saying, “ C om plete new ave
nues fo r the technical education and
m otivation o f our youth w ould be
opened up.”
w ould seem that most o f our readers
id e n tified that great event o n ly w ith
that famous speech opening day by
A gain, we are rem inded o f how
dependent we are upon the percep
tions and com m itm ent o f the black
female i f we are to succeed in the
exposition ever o f black technical
(and cu ltu ra l) genius. This was the
stoves locom otives, steam engines,
struggle to ‘ re g a in ’ a credible posi
tio n in the scheme o f things. I w ould
im m ediately rem ind you o f the de
im provements to farm, factory and
scrip tio n I gave here several years
B ooker T. W ashington o f Tuskegee
fame - certainly not w ith the greatest
occasion o f the frequently quoted
adm onition, “ L E T D O W N Y O U R
B U C K E T W H ER E Y O U A R E ,” and
“ Pull yourselfup by your bootstraps.”
A lo n g w ith this advice that the races
Shuttle USA Today Endorses
services Medical Marijuana
Eugene
U S A Today, the n a tio n ’ s most
w id e ly read d a ily newspaper, has
endorsed access to medical m a ri
juana. The endorsement stemmed
S huttle by U nited w ill land in
from a U SA Today e d ito ria l e n ti
Eugene Oct. 31 when the unique
short-haul c a rrie r expands to six
tled “ A n ti-d ru g focus keeps m a ri
juana from the i l l ” and came ju s t
more citie s in the U.S. West. U sing
B737 je ts , the Shuttle w ill operate
four d a ily ro u n d trip flig h ts between
tw o days after the newspaper fea
tured a m a jo r a rticle on a C a lifo rn ia
b a llo t in itia tiv e that w o u ld a llo w
Eugene and San Francisco, and add
service fro m San Francisco to B o i
seriously ill patients to use m a riju a
na as a therapeutic agent w ith a
d o c to r’ s recom mendation.
se, M e d fo rd , Salt Lake C ity , Santa
Barbara and Spokane.
“ The S h u ttle ’ s lo w fares and co n
sistent re lia b ility have been applaud
the w o rld ," the e d ito ria l cited both
ed by a g ro w in g num ber o f travelers
m a riju a n a ’ s re la tive safety when
across the W est,” says Bob Thom as,
U n ite d A irlin e s General M anager-
C ustom er Service at Eugene. “ T h is
S h u ttle expansion also s o lid ifie s
U n ite d 's long-term com m itm ent as
a m em ber o f the Eugene c o m m u n i
ty .”
W ith the new service. S huttle by
U nited w ill o ffe r 410 d a ily depar
tures to 18 cities in C a lifo rn ia and
across the Western U.S.
S in c e it was d e v e lo p e d and
launched by employees tw o years
ago, the Shuttle has doubled the num
ber o f citie s it serves and its d a ily
departures have risen 125 percent.
C a llin g m arijuana “ one o f the
least to x ic m edical compounds in
compared to other legal drugs and
medicines and decades o f scientific
and anecdotal research m aintaining
its m edical efficacy.
“ I, is entirely possible to fig h t the
drug w ar w ithout harm ing innocent
c iv ilia n s in the process,” concluded
the U SA Today. “ But lawmakers
zens in favor o f the M edical M a ri
juana In itia tiv e ,” stated N O R M L
D eputy D ire cto r A lle n St. Pierre.
state com petition com m ittee to o r
ganize its F a ll C lassic Games,
scheduled for N ovem ber 2 -3 ,1 9 9 6
in the Portland area.
awards presentations, volunteer re
cruitment, meal preparation and spe
cial events. M ore than 1,200 athletes
with mental retardation from across
Oregon, as welI as hundreds ofcoach-
A planning meeting is set for 6
es and volunteer are expected to at
tend. Competition includes aquatics,
p.m., Thursday, August 15, at 3325
N .W . Yeon, Oregon Special O lym
pics’ chapter headquarters. OSO is
soccer, ro lle r skating and bowling.
T o RSVP the meeting o r to find
especially looking fo r people who
w ill plan the fo llo w in g activities:
out more, call K ris W ilson, sports
co m p e titio n d ire cto r, (5 0 3 ) 248-
0600 o r (8 0 0 ) 452-6079.
Citizens can sue CA drug dealers
The C a lifo rn ia state Senate has
unanim ously approved a sweeping
b ill (S.B. 1754) that w ould a llo w
private parties to sue drug dealers fo r
damages even i f the defendant had
liable for injuries throughout the state,
w h ile those who sold less than 50
a pattern" participated in the market
fo r that drug w ith in the same c ity or
grams can be held liable fo r injuries
in the country where the sales oc
country. The latter is defined to mean
that they provided the same illic it
curred.
drug on at least tw o instances, w ith a
least one co n victio n. C u ltiv a tio n o f
nothing to do w ith the specific drugs
or incident that caused the damage.
Under the D rug Dealer L ia b ility
A ct, introduced by Sen. Charles
Calderon (D -W h ittie r)a n d co-spon
sored by A tto rn e y G eneral Dan
Lungren, drug dealers could be sued
in ci vi I court for any damages caused
by the same kind o f drug elsewhere
in the same c ity n r country, regard
less o f who actually furnished it,
in d ivid u a ls exposed in utero to an
illegal substance; and persons in
ju re d as a result o f the w illfu l, reck
less, o r negligent actions o f an indi
vidual substance user.
U n io n ( A C L U ) in W ashington, D C.,
in a recent W a ll Street Journal a rti
cle. K a p p e lh o ff maintained that add
ing c iv il judgm ents to crim in a l pros
ecution and c iv il fo rfe itu re could be
using a radical, new “ market p a rtic
ipation” lia b ility doctrine.
“ I t ’ s a w ay o f fig h tin g (drug deal
ers) by h ittin g them rig h t in the pock
Forexample, underthe provisions
of a sim ilar law in M ichigan, dealers
who can be shown to have sold 650
grams o f a controlled substance are
et,” said a ctorC arroll O ’ Connor, who
has lobbied fo r the measure.
Defendants could be sued i f they
(1 ) provided the drug o r (2 ) had “ as
tantamount to co n stitu tio n a lly cruel
o r unusual punishm ent o r double
jeopardy.
Those allow ed to sue under the
C a lifo rn ia proposal w ould include:
parents o r fa m ily members o f users;
em ployers o f users; medical fa c ili
ties, insurers, or other institutions
that fund drug treatment programs;
under 25 m arijuana plants w ould not
count as an offense.
“ W hen is enough, enough?” asked
M a rk K appe lh o ff, legislative coun
sel o fth e A m erican C iv il Liberties
The C a lifo rn ia state assembly is
expected to approve the measure by
the end o f August.
Trow defends school funding
Senate Dem ocratic Leader C li f f
T ro w (D -C o rv a llis ) c ritic iz e d the
to the Senate President’ s big corpo
ration tax break agenda tim e and
turnaround in Gordon S m ith ’ s p rio r
ities after the announcement that the
tim e again.”
Senate President was w illin g to call a
special session to spend extra money
fo r schools this fa ll
“ The Senate President had his
chance to help schools du rin g the
regular legislative session,” said Sen
ator T ro w “ A n y special session
Senator T ro w said that Senate
Democrats have always been in fu ll
support o f adequate, stable school
funding. W h ile S e n a to rT ro w g e n e r
a lly agreed that the Senate Presi
d ent’ s plan to infuse schools w ith
$32 m illio n is a p o sitive step it
w o u ld n ’ t end the need fo r stable fund
ing.
w ould only lead to a special boost to
G o rd o n ’ s campaign, not fo r the sta
ble funding o f schools.”
Three bills that cost schools
money:
Senator T ro w points to ju s t three
o f the b ills that the Senate passed,
1. SB 323 - Capital Gains Tax
Break for the Wealthy
w ith Senate President S m ith’ s Lead
ership, that preempted any p o ssib il
ity o f adequate school funding. “ Sen
SB 323 reduces the General Fund
by $14 m illio n this biennium and $58
m illio n in 1997-1999. The worst part
is that Oregonians who incomes over
$200,000 a year w ill get over h a lf o f
ate Democrats challenge these b ills
tim e after tim e in order to save scarce
revenue fo r schools,” said Senator
this tax break.
Trow . “ O ur arguments came up short,
and schools came up a distant second
2. HB 2202 - Corporate Kicker
Tax Windfall
H B 2202 enabled $167 m illio n in
income tax to be refunded to large
business w ho pay the corporate tax
rate. This amounted to over 50% o f
the total corporate tax responsibility
to Oregon. T his had the effect o f
cutting the taxes o f the largest corpo
ration down to nearly 3%.
what other people can do We have
proven that we can w ork as much and
as w ell as other people. We have
proven that we can learn as w e ll as
other people. We have proven that
can Am ericans from every w alk o f
life to make the spectacle possible in
the first place. W’e need not wonder,
do we, w hy racists. U ncle Toms (and
the brainwashed) have not dwelled
we can fight as w ell as other people,
as was demonstrated in the late [C iv
il] war. There are s till, however, tra-
ducers and slanderers o f our race
who claim that we are not equal to
others because we have failed to pro
duce inventors...
upon the w onderful, positive nature
o f the greatest "S how and T e ll" in
our history.
I hat citation to the Congressional
Record is fo r the August 10, 1894
speech by B la ck C ongressm an,
George H. M urray from South Caro
lina, and ex-slave who spent two
...I hold in my hand a statement
prepared by one o f the assistants in
the Patent O ffice, showing the inven
tions that have been made by colored
men w ith in the past few years...
This statement shows that colored
years at the State U n ive rsity until all
blacks were expelled in 1876. Elect
men have taken out patents upon
O ffic ia ls from T ri-M e t and light
rail car manufacturer Siemens Trans
portation Systems celebrated the ar
rival o f the na tio n ’ s first low floor
lig h t ra il v e h ic le at T r i- M e t ’ s
Elm onica operations fa cility along
the Westside M A X line in Aloha.
W illiam s today demonstrated the use
o f short ramps that extend from the
middle doors o f the new cars to pro
vide roll-on entry fo r wheelchairs,
shopping carts and bicycles. The new
ry, on the railroad, in the mine, in
almost every department o f labor,
and some o f the most im portant im
provements that go to make up that
great m otive power o f modern indus
tria l machinery, the steam engine,
have been produced by colored men...
M r. Speaker, the colored people
o f this country' want an opportunity
to show that the progress, that the
c iv iliz a tio n w hich is now admired
the w o rld over, that the c iv iliz a tio n
w hich is now leading the w orld, that
the c iv iliz a tio n w hich all the nations
o f the w o rld look up to an imitate -the
colored people. I say, want an o p por
tu n ity to show that they, too, are part
and parcel ofth e g re a tciviliza tio n ...”
A nd there was also the “Paris E x
p o sitio n " o f 1906 and the "E m a n ci
pation E xp o sitio n ” at Philadelphia
in 1913.
“ This is an historic day fo r m o b il
ity in the Portland region,” said Tom
go in to s e r v ic e ,” sa id N ita
Brueggeman. Brueggeman, a T ri-M e t
board member who is liaison to the
Committee on Accessible Transpor
tation (C A T ), has long been an advo
cate o f low flo o r cars.
“ The cars mean we w ill be able to
remove the clum sy lifts that hoist
people in wheelchairs up to the flo o r
level of today's M A X cars,” she said.
C A T committee chairman Sterling
In a press release, they stated,“ T ri-
M et ordered 46 low floor light rail cars
from Siemens Duewag in June 1993 at
cars can accommodate four wheel
chairs; today’s M A X cars hold only
tw o wheelchairs per two-car train.
By fall 1998, when the Westside
line opens, T ri-M e t w ill operate fu lly
can be extended from the m iddle two
d o o rs fo r w h e e lc h a irs , b ike s
accessible through service from G re
sham to H illsb o ro by coupling old
for convenient boarding... A short ramp
cars to new cars.
etc. .Interior steps lead to seating areas
and operator’s cabs over the powered
wheel assemblies at each end o f the
Forty-six o f the cars are on order
from Siemens.
car. The cars w ill be air-conditioned...
The new cars w ill run singly, in pairs,
Siemens shipped Car 2 0 1, first o f
the Westside order, on July 5. The
or coupled w ith one o f the existing
M A X ca rs...T ra in s w ill p ro v id e
through service from Gresham to
car traveled slow ly by rail on a flatbed
car and arrived at the Westside M A X
fa c ility yesterday.
H illsboro when the Westside lines
Car 201 w ill undergo a month o f
tests inside the shop before it moves
out to the test track behind Elm onica
fo r several more months o f dynamic
testing. The extensive testing pro
gram is necessary to assure this car,
the prototype fo r its 45 siblings, meets
T ri-M e t specifications.
opens in September 1998...The “ lifts” •
for passenger in wheelchairs along
Eastside M A X w ill be removed, speed
ing train operations for al I riders... Each
car has 19 microprocessors and 30
m i les o f w ire ... Th irteen more cars no w
are being assembled at the Siemens
plant in Sacramento.. . The next car w il I
arrive in Portland this fall.”
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they shouldn’ t have to be paid to do.
T otal price tag: $13 m illio n in 1995-
1997, $34 m illio n d u rin g the next
tw o years.
ventions and improvements in the
workshop, on the farm, in the facto
a cost o f $2.5 m illio n per car ...The
middle two-thirds o f each car has a low
flo o r-4 " above platform and 14" above
ra il...A ll for doors are in this section
3. HB 2255 - Tax Credits for
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exchange for a certain practice.
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almost everything, from a cooking
stove to a locom otive Patents have
been granted to colored men fo r in
New MAX car is born
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“ The com m unity o f individuals
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"W e have proven in almost every
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Am erican blacks and whites alike -
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ca’ s views toward this issue and
own eight patented agricultural in
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pressed upon the consciousness o f
Walsh, T ri-M e t general manager.
“ These new cars w ill provide quick,
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Today in support o f medical access
to therapeutic m arijuana should
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