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February 12. 2003
(Jarrett A. Morgan was a
progressive business man
and scientific inventor in
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protest against the hate she sees in
her neighborhood. She said it de
lighted her to see such a multi-cul
tural turnout.
“It’s no longer about black and
white,” Scaife said. “When you see
all these different skin colors it
shows that this is about everyone.”
Sisters in Action member Cassie
Holloway, 13, echoed Scaife’s de
sire to see different cultures unite
against hatred.
“T hat’s the only way people will
be treated equally and not differ
ently,” she said.
While NAACP President Robert
Larry said he was pleased with the
community turnout, he was disap
pointed with the lack of participa
tion from local elected officials. He
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P ortland O bserver
Rosalyn Scaife holds a heart shaped sign in protest o f hate during a
march down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and along the route o f a
recent racially motivated shooting spree in northeast Portland. “I came
to say that enough is enough," she said. "/ came to say we aren ’f going
to stand for it anymore."
said that when various civic and re
ligious leaders do not show up to
support an event to counter racism
the message they send by their ab
sence is counter productive.
“We are living in a white-washed
town and I’m disappointed in the
amount of true leadership in this
town,” Larry said. “Some of these so-
called leaders are not truly leaders
because they are in shackles.”
He blamed the white establish
ment for perpetuating the silence of
black leaders and said that while many
people know the truth, all too few are
willing to stand up for it.
At least the communities affected
by the January shootings showed by
Saturday’s turnout that they are will
ing to band together and speak out
against racism even in the absence of
what Larry called true leadership.
/ want it acknowledged that yes, we
deserve to he paid for our ancestors
enslavement. Yes, it is due.
— Reparations ad uxate Billie Jean McCray
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would come and get me and it never
happened.”
tions.
Radical Women member Emma
The opposition may agree on prin
Allen recognized that African-Ameri
ciple, but sees the details such as
can women have a critical role in the
who is accountable, who is entitled
reparations fight because they are
to payment and what is the price of discriminated against on both a so
enslavement as too complex a mat cial and legal level.
ter to attempt solving.
“Women of color are the most dy
“R eparations is the kind
namic force for promoting change
of issue that generates a
because they’re the most exploited
lot o f em otions on both
under the system,” she said. “They
sides,” said Darrell Millner,
would have the most to gain from a
a professor teaching his
revolutionary change.”
tory at Portland State U ni
According to Millner, w om en's
versity since 1975. “As the
voices are prominent in the current
idea becomes more visible
debate.
and m o re w id e ly d i s
For McCray, this is no accident.
cussed, both sides are find She sees women as the leaders and
ing more support.”
spokespeople of the movement.
As a 59-year-old African-
“W e’ve had to carry the B lack man
American woman, McCray's
for a long, long time,” she said. “The
life’s work has been bring
image of the African American male
ing social struggles into the
has been stigmatized through the
public consciousness.
years, so it's up to us. That’s why the
A fte r
fig h tin g
for
women are up front.”
w om en's rights, McCray
She will discuss her recent experi
suffered disappointm ent
ence working for reparations at 7 p.m.
from a movement that she
on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at the Radi
said didn’t embrace her.
cal Women meeting at the Bread and
“I was crushed when the
Roses Center in North Portland.
doors were opened and only
F or m ore in fo rm a tio n .about
the C a u c a sia n w om en
M cCray's lecture, call the Radical
walked through,” McCray
Women Fem inistCenterat 503-240-
said. “They told me they
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