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M a rtin L u th e r K in g jR .and R o s a P a r k s 0 0 0 s p e c i a l e d i t i o n ____ Page B 14 J a n u a ry 1 1 ,2 0 0 6 The Three Evils 21st Annual — W W "Keep Alive The Dream " Racism, war and poverty plague the United States Tribute to! Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. society, it means ultimately coming to see /Vow, when I say questioning the whole that the problem o f racism, the problem o f economic exploitation, and the problem o f war are all tied together. Mondayjamary 16th, 2006 12:06P.M.-6:00P.M. Where? Jefferson High School School o f Champions ~ School o f Pride The Robert G. Ford M emorial Theater 5210 N. Kerby, Portland, Oregon • Nationally acclaimed, Dennis Springer, Janice Scroggins, Linda Hombuckle, Jeffrey Minnieweather and Friends Live Broadcast/Simulcast Portland Community Media (PCM) to be saved. Jesus didn't get hogged down on the kind o f isolated approach o f what you shouldn 't do. Jesus didn't say, "Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, now you must not commit adultery.” He didn't say, "Now Nicodemus, you must stop cheating if you are doing that." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, you must stop drinking liquor if you are doing that excessively." He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something • A Royal Priesthood (Seattle, WA) looked at him and said, "Nicodemus, you must he horn again." • University o f Oregon Gospel Choir • Inspirational Sound (Eugene, OR) KBOO 90.7 FM night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do basic: that if a man will lie, he will steal. A nd if a man will steal, he • Kukatonon Woodlawn Elementary School Television Dept. / Television Services (PPS), Channel 28 A nd i f you will let me he a preacher ju st a little hit. One day, one • Eddie Faye Gates (Civil Rights, holocaust and political economic speaker) • Jefferson Dancers Jefferson High School These are the triple evils that are interrelated. • Kappa Steppers will kill. So instead o f ju st getting hogged down on one thing, Jesus In other words, "Your whole structure must he changed. "A nation that will keep people in slavery fo r 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. A nd a nation that will exploit eco nomically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, Donation: $3.00 or 3 cans of non-perishable food Sponsors include: and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All o f these Portland Public Schools, Portland Association of Teachers, problems are tied together. — M a rtin L u th e r K in g Jr. McDonald's of Oregon and SW Washington, Dignity Memorial For program information & event schedule log onto: Locations, Safeco Insurance, Oregon Education Association, www.worldartsfoundation.org Providence Health System, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Portland General Electric, African American Chamber of Commerce Blackand Beautiful King prom oted racial pride and equality Where do we go fro m here ? First, we m ust Can a global corporation make a différence in our community? m assively assert o ur d ig n ity a n d worth. We m ust sta n d up a m id a system that still oppresses us a n d develop an unassailable and m ajestic sense o f values. We m ust no longer be a sh a m ed o f being black. The jo b o f arousing m anhood w ithin a p eo p le that have been taught f o r so m any centuries that they are nobody is not easy. Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In R o g et’s Thesaurus there are som e 120 synonym s fo r blackness and at least sixty o f them are offensive, such words as blot, soot, grim, devil, and foul. A nd there are some 134 synonym s fo r whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity, and innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The m ost degenerate m em ber o f a fa m ily is the “black sheep. ” Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be fo rced to teach the Negro child sixty ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate his fa lse sense o f inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself, and thereby perpetuate bis fa lse sense o f superiority. The tendency to ignore the Negro’s contribution to American life and strip him o f his personhood is as old ds o f o u r e m p lo y e e s > local s c h o o ls a n d $5 d o n a tio n s to m ath and a m s, Intel is h e lp in g t g e t an e d u c a tio n th a t them fo r th e fu tu re . as the earliest history’ books and as contemporary as the m orning’v newspaper. To offset this cultural homicide, the Negro m ust rise up with an affirmation o f his own Olympian manhood. Any m ovem ent fo r the N eg ro ’s freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried. A s long as the m ind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom , a firm sense o f self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night o f physical slavery. No Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation, no Johnsonian civil rights bill can totally bring this kind o f freedom. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths o f bis own being and signs with Helping schools is just one w ay Intel Oregon supports local com m unities. Learn m ore a t w w w .in te l.c o m /c o m m u n ity /o re g o n the pen and ink o f assertive m anhood his own emancipation proclamation. A nd with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro m ust boldly throw o ff the manacles o f self-abnegation and say to him self and to the world, “I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and noble history, however painful and exploited that history has been. Yes, / was a slave through my foreparents, and now I ’m not asham ed o f that. Em asham ed o f the people who were so sinful to make me a slave. ’’ Yes, yes, we m ust stand up and say, “Em black, but I ’m black and beautiful. ” t ?006 intat Corporation Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries m the United Slates and other countries All rights reserved — M arlin Luther King Jr., excerpted from “ Where do we go from here?” August 16, 1967
