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Fight the fear
P age A 3
Economic Deveolpment-Criminal Justice Style, Part 2
by
P rof . M c K inley
Bt kt
One W ith Heart, located at 4231
A real estate broker has inquired
SE H aw thorne B lvd., presents
o f me, “do you see this. ’Criminal
Fight the Fear Self-D efense for
ju stic e ’ style o f econom ic develop­
Every W oman
ment as a second phase o f Urban
* Six W eek C ourse - Starts
R enew al?” (This of course is a pro­
M onday, Septem ber 16, 1996.
cess that has been better described as
M eets M onday and W ednes­
“ urban re m o v a l” in areas w here
day evenings, 7:30-9:00.
blacks were displaced from huge sec­
* Follow -up C ourse - Starts
tors o f innercities, losing not only
Thursday, Septem ber 19, 1996.
hom es but irreplaceab le b u sin ess
M e e ts T h u rs d a y e v e n in g s ,
operations and com m ercial sites.
7:30-9:00,
“It is obvious,” I replied, “for if
L earn p h y sical se lf-d e fe n se
you have this wholesale incarcera­
skills - striking to primary targets,
tion process operating in consort with
defenses against attacks. Find out
an inefficient and inadequate educa­
about p re-assaultive strategies.
tion system - as has clearly hap­
Learn what your verbal self-de­
pened — you are not going to develop
fense options are, too! Feel a new
a cardre of black males (or fem ales)
sense of safety in your life. Il’s
in the appropriate age group or eco­
inspiring and it’s fun!
nomic circum stance that can effec­
Call 231-1999 for inform ation
tively redevelop their own com m u­
and registration.
nity. A nd did I mention the affec­
tiv e’? From social skills to m otiva­
tion? All lost in a dysfunctional at­
m osphere” .
Boy accused of
murdering
mother
A 13-year-old Dallas boy has been
charged with murdering his adoptive
m other over the w eekend, police said
M onday.
M argaret M cC ullough, 55, w as
found dead in her hom e Saturday
with gunshot w ounds to the head.
Police, who at first thought her son
had been kidnapped, found him Sun­
day with a friend in his m other’s car
in O klahom a and arrested him. A
shotgun and a .357 handgun were
found in the car.
A police spokesm an said the boy
was being questioned. "They are talk­
ing to him now about the motive and
everything else.”
M cCullough had adopted the boy,
shortly after his birth but neighbors
said they often had loud arguments.
"C onsequently”, and I went on at
som e length to cite the rapid intlux of
m onied investors and experienced
entrepreneurs into those sections of
the m etropolitan Statistical A rea for­
merly known as the black innercity
(som eone in the room ju st snickered,
“formerly known as Prince"). "And
these people with their portable m on­
e y ’ com e not only from different
U.S. States looking for a place to
park it, but from Europe, Australia.
Japan, Hongkong, V ietnam ,etc."A nd
since race, per se, is not the principal
or driving force behind these incur­
sions by other ethnics, it is very dif­
ficult for blacks to mount a dialogue
with the newcomers. The system is
driven by a num ber o f seem ingly
unrelated forces, from drugs and the
CIA to prison overcrow ding, from
the im p o sitio n o f u rban g ro w th
boundaries to the escalating costs of
higher education. The new im m i­
grants are not attuned to institutional
racism , only com m erce, A m erican
style.
The situation is quite like W illiam
Langeweische describes in his new
book, Sahara Unveiled, "The Sahara
is not cruel, but it is indifferent.” And
so the urban process may be, incor­
porating all the cold inhuman ele­
ments that it does. But w hether you
entertain the conspiracy theory’ or
not — that the justice system and the
crack/cocaine lords are operating in
tandem to clear the urban h in ter­
lands of undesirable - be sure to
read, “The G eography of N ow here"
by James Howard Kunstler, 1993.
The subtitle of this T ouchstone
publication is "The Rise and Decline
of A m erica’s M an-made Landscape"
The book describes the destruction
of Am erica excellent m ass transit
system beginning in the 1930s, d e­
tailing the unholy com bination o f the
auto and tire m anufacturers and the
oil com p an ies to build a suburbia
dependent on freew ays and astro­
nomical gas consumption.
C ould this process produce a pris­
on process that becam e black in many
jurisdiction? Could and did! - those
m ajor corporations pushed a “F eder­
al H ighw ay A ct" through Congress,
nailing the A m erican taxpayer for all
the expense o f enlarging their m on­
ey-m aking machine. This freew ay’
legislation caused the destruction of
huge tracks of innercity land where
blacks had lived and prospered for a
century - paved the expressw ays to
take the W hite Folks A nd T he Tax
Base right out o f town.
O f course, we know the rest (some
o f us). Model Cities and T he Great
Society created a euphoria that blind­
ed the many to what was really hap­
pening. With the tax bases hitting the
highw ays, the urban infrastructures.
sewers, the sanitation departm ents,
the schools, the recreation facilities.
Jobs evaporated and welfare loads
increased as new plants opened up
where the ‘folks’ had gone, leaving
blacks behind.
U nder these circum stances, hard
crime, juvenile delinquency and bro­
ken hom es escalated with a v en ­
geance. And it was through this ’w in­
dow o f opportunity’ that The CIA
and the Contras leaped to fund their
war against N iearauga. As the m edia
headlines and colum nists finally spell
it out. Uncle Sam becam e (he nations
biggest drug dealer, tunneling tons
of crack/cocaine through black youths
- prisons becam e a grow th industry.
Crimestoppers: vandalism
Portland Police, in cooperation
with Crim e Stoppers, are asking for
your help in identifying and appre­
hending the suspect or suspects who
have caused extensive dam age to an
autom obile dealership.
On Thursday, July 25, 1996, at
4:30 in the morning, the large front
w indow s at the Ron Tonkin Gran
T urism o, 203 NE 122nd A venue,
were dam aged by som eone appar­
ently using a BB or pellet gun.
On M onday, July 29, 1996 at 4:00
in the morning, the same windows
were again shot out by som eone us­
ing a BB or pellet gun
. Only this time, the shattered glass
dam aged an extrem ely expensive
Ferrari autom obile that was inside
N. Portland resident shot, killed
On M onday, A ugust 26, 1996, at
ap p ro x im ately 2:00 am , P ortland
Police responded to 4404 N. Kerby
on an apparent homicide. W hen of­
ficers arrived they found a 23 year
old black male shot to death.
It appears that this subject was
seated inside the residence at 4404
N. Kerby, along with several others,
when the suspect(s) approached. The
su sp ect(s) en tered onto the front
porch area and apparently shot sev-
. ;.., .
eral rounds through a window at the
victim. The victim was struck sever­
al times and died at the scene. No one
else was shot. It appears that the
victim was the intended target o f this
action.
Police have no suspects at this
tim e although there does appear to be
som e indication that the shooting
could be gang related. D etectives K.
Ferrell and J. Rhodes are the investi­
gators.
the showroom.
If you have any information re­
garding this case, call the Crim e Stop­
pers program.
C rim e Stoppers, is offering a cash
reward o f up to $1,000 for informa-
lion, reported to Crim e Stoppers, that
leads to an arrest in this case, or any
unsolved felony crime, and you do
not have to give your name.
Call Crim e Stoppers at (503) 823-
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Victim shot outside Safeway
On Sunday evening, A ugust 25,
1996, at approxim ately 9:15 pm,
Portland Police responded to the
Safeway Store at 8(X)2 N. Burlington
on a shooting.
At that location police discov­
ered a H ispanic male in his 20’s
suffering from a shotgun injury to
his upper torso.
It appears that the suspect, also a
H ispanic m ale in his 2 0 ’s w aited for
the victim to exit the Safeway Store
and fired tw o shotgun rounds at
him. The victim was struck once.
He was tran sp o rted to Em anuel
Hospital for treatm ent, where he is
reported to be in good condition.
The suspect ran and was not ap­
prehended. P olice recovered the
shotgun several blocks away.
This shooting is being investi­
gated as a gang-related shooting.
Aid police on homocide
On Sunday, August 25, 1996, at
approximately I :(X) am, police respond­
ed to Woodlawn Park on a call of a
woman being beaten.
The caller refused to give any other
infymiati on »»police. At the location,
Edith ^\nn Mosqueda, an Hispanic
face areas causing her death. Her txxly
was found partially clothed and it is
unknown how she came to the park
location.
Police are asking anyone with infor­
mation regarding Iter known residence,
•hereabouts prior to the homiciACbr'
woman, with a date of birth of February
08, 1952, was found dead. She had
suffered severe injuries to the head and
suspect information, to contact Detec­
tives Tom Nelson or Leon Lefebvre at
823-0400.
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