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Before 16-year-old Andrew Forrest Jenkins
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Juneteenth Tennis Classic at Irving Park.
“ I’m making this tournam ent the first of
my sum m er tour because my dad (Forrest
Jenkins) is one o f its directors with my Port
land coach, Don Johnson. Both o f these men
have w orked very hard to show case a tennis
tournam ent in north and northeast Portland
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to represent Portland and our com m unity,”
Jenkins said.
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Andrew Forrest J en kin s II pra ctices ten n is
recently in preparation for h is s u m m e r
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C lub in C learlake, Texas. Prior to arriving in
Portland for the Juneteenth C lassic, he will
play one more prep tournam ent at the W ichita
Falls Open.
This summer Jenkins will embark on a mission
where he will test his game against some of the
best players in the United States. He' 11 spend the
greater part o f his summer playing in the National
Tennis Tournament sponsored by the United
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Is This the America
We Want?
Police brutality nationwide and
gunning down Black America at
will? It is a system of murder not
seen since the great prophet. Dr.
Martin Luther King coming to
America, crying “Let my people
go!" All this so that America could
begin to live in true repentance
from the act of enslaving a human
being, who is reflected in over 40
million law abiding Black Ameri
cans. with mixed races including
about 50 million.
Well, Dr King is gone and his
message is getting dimmer. Is this
the America we want? Some po
litical scientists have positioned
that a small group of racists have
penetrated into the Portland Po
lice and police forces around the
nation, thus increasing police
shooting of Black A m ericans-in
hopes of starting a race war. Theo
logically, the problem is: the spirit
o f murder doesn’t know color, and
whites are falling to police shootings
as well. When a state oppresses
any o f its people based on the
agenda of a few, that’s dangerous.
Is this the America we want?
In Portland we have a fine police
chief in Derrick Foxworth. But this
is not a police chief problem - it is
an American problem, with several
police shootings of African Ameri
cans over a space o f a short time
killing: unarmed motorist, Jahar
Perez; precious Kendra James; and
African American Vernon (Duane)
Allen.
Allen was possibly homeless, just
out of jail trying to resituate himself
- as if being homeless was a reason
toput atotal of six bullets in him, fired
by trained gunmen who are sup
posed to manhandle aggression or
who have the option of using a tazer.
Is this the America we want?
As a political scientist, let me
stateadim view. Although I uphold
the message of Dr. Martin Luther
King, some don’t. If these people
have their way and continue to
gun down African and white
Americans as well, succeed in
causing a civil war (God forbid),
and have the power to continue
to trample the people, here is an
educated guess to how it would
look: chaos in the street; plain
clothed guerilla fighters sending
small bands out to bomb both our
suburbs an inner cities; and na
tional guards policemen, our ci
vilian population and our fami
lies will to often know the stain of
death. In this situation America
will become overwhelmed within.
Russia will feel this would be the
best time to further bring Ameri
cans dow n in retaliatio n o f
A m e ric a ’s in v o lv e m e n t in
Uzbekistan and other Russian
territory, launching a conven
tional war. Is this the America we
want? I don't. Together we can
make Dr. King more than a
dreamer.