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‘ 53ortlanù ©bseruer Page A2 luly 4. 2007 Democratic Candidates Address Inequities Debate raises black community issues D em ocratic P residential h o p e fu l S e n . B a ra ck O bam a, D- III., g r e e ts a crow d o f su p p o r te r s a s h e a rrives for a te le v is e d D em o cratic p re sid e n tia l c a n d id a te s d e b a te a t H ow ard Univer s ity in W a sh in g to n , D.C. (AP p h o to ) (A P ) — If Bill C lin to n w as the for D em ocratic candidates, w hich "first b lack p re sid e n t,” his w ife w as why all the p resid en tial c a n and B arack O bam a are vying to d id ates w ere sure to take part in a be the second. d eb ate focu sed en tirely on is O bam a. the only black running sues facing the black co m m unity. for the W hite House, cam e into a P olls show that blacks are clo sely d eb a te at p red o m in an tly black d iv id e d b e tw e e n O b a m a an d H ow ard U niversity Thursday night C lin to n , w ith o th e r ca n d id a tes with the crow d on his side, chant gath erin g less support. ing his nam e as all eight Democratic D em ocratic strateg ist D onna candidates posed for pictures on B razile, w ho serv ed as D em ocrat stage. But Hillary Rodham Clinton A1 G ore's cam p aig n m an ag er in appeared to win m any o f them over 2000, said the debate gave O bam a in an im passioned perform ance that an op p o rtu n ity to in tro d u ce h im addressed th e iran g ero v er inequal se lf to m any b lack v o ters w ho ity. aren't fam iliar w ith him after he "If H IV /A ID S w ere the leading served ju s t 2 1/2 years in W a sh ca u se o f d eath o f w h ite w om en ington. "H e d id n 't knock it o u t o f b etw een the ages o f 25 and 34, the park," B razile said, ad ding th e re w ould be an o u trag e d o u t that C lin to n w as a standout. cry in th is co u n try ," C lin to n said "She clearly u n d ersto o d that in the b iggest ap p lau se line o f the these issues d eserv e u rgent a t night, bringing audience m em bers ten tio n . and she co n n ected on to th e ir feet. that," Brazile said o f the New York B lack voters are a loyal base sen ato r. S e n . Hillary C linton, D-N. Y. She also is m arried to form er President C linton, so w ildly popu lar am ong black voters that n o v elist T oni M orrison dubbed him "the first black p resid en t" in a 1998 essay. W hile the tw o p rev io u s d e b ates focused larg ely on Iraq, there w ere no q u estio n s about the w ar this tim e. S om e c a n d i d ates in jected Iraq into th eir an 1 < \ n h c r r i h p t 503-288-00331 lju m w iu c . I Fill Out & Send To: I i [ Fills school auditorium Attm Subscriptions. PO Box 3137. Portland OR 97208 | j s u b s c r i p t i o n s a re j u s t $ 6 0 p e r y e a r I (please include check with this subscription form) j I • N ame : _____________________________ 1 T elephone : ________ A ddress : J ___ J I ------------------------------------------------------- 1 | prc/nm/.subscriptions@ portlandobserver.com L_ — | ——————— Have you seen me? Missing and Exploited Children E d w ard s said. S aid O bam a: "It starts from b irth ." O bam a, who is the son of a black Kenyan man and a w hite Kansas w om an, shared a bond with the largely black audience that no other candidate could claim . All the can didates decried the Suprem e Court ruling earlier in the day that rejected school diversity plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., saying it turned back the prom ise o f integrated schools that the court laid out 53 years ago in its landm ark decision in Brown v. Board o f Education. O bam a o ffered h im self as a pow erful exam ple o f a beneficiary o f B row n. "If it h ad n 't been for them , I w ould not be standing here today," the Illin o is sen ato r said. Presidential Candidate Speaks at Benson I IJorthmb (Dhsmier sw ers, saying they w ould use the m oney spent on the w ar on d o m estic p rio rities and w inning a p p lau se for the prom ise. The debate's m oderator, T avis Sm iley, steered the candidates to other issues that m atter to black America. In turn, the candidates said those issues m attered to them. "T h is is s u e o f p o v e r ty in A m erica is the cau se o f my life," by R aymond R endi . eman T he P ortland O bserver Presidential candidate Dennis K ucinich made a point out o f visit ing Benson High School Sunday, a cam paign event that packed the Benson auditorium . C a m p a ig n o ffic ia ls said the northeast Portland school was se lected as the site for the rally to highlight K ucinich’s com m itm ent to diversity. The O hio D em ocrat sees the nation is at its strongest in diverse neighborhoods like those that sur round Benson, w here there are many kinds o f hom es, businesses and other uses m ixed together. He en v isio n s su ch n e ig h b o rh o o d s across the country w orking to gether towards a peaceful and sus tainable world. He also finds a place for O regon’s rural areas in his worldview , point ing out the positive attributes of P o rtlan d ’s b u rgeoning farm er’s markets. “ Y ou see in som e o f the farm er’s m arkets throughout the state that people in the cities are able to gain access to the agricultural produc tion o f the nearby com m unities, and that’s really im portant because it enables the saving o f fuel,” he says. Curbing gasoline consum ption is key for Kucinich since he sees the w ar in the M iddle East as a w ar U .S. R ep . D en n is K ucinich foroil. Cam paigning heavily in O r egon, w hich was one o f the few states w here he won a sixth o f the Democratic primary vote in 2004, he hopes to be in a stronger position to push for environm ental innova tions and subsidies as U.S. Presi dent. “Oregon understands ‘green,” ’ Kueinieh says, “it's a very beauti ful and green state, but neither O r egon nor any other state wi 11 be able to protect itself if there are n 't na tional policies with international participation to save the globe.” But d o n ’t label him left-of-cen- ter, or he will rem ind you o f the direction that the co u n try 's o ut look is taking. “Every position that I’ve taken in the last five years is supported by the m ainstream o f A m erica, w hether it’s getting out o f Iraq or providing health care for all,” he says. 1-800-THE-LOST First iPhones Bring About Buyer Frenzy Endangered Missing (Non-Family Abductions) Reyna (Gaby) Carrera (AP) --Techies, exhibitionists and luminaries— even the co-founder of Apple and the m ayorof Philadelphia — were among the inaugural group of iPhone customers. The latest m ust-have, cutting edge piece o f techno-wizardry went on the market for the first time Friday. “ I ju st love getting new stuff,” said retiree Len Edgerly, who ar rived at 3 a.m. to be first in line outside an Apple store in C am bridge, Mass. "It’s the best new Keacheile Smith Current Age: 15 Date Missing: May 6 .2 0 0 7 Missing From: N orcross, GA Current Age: 4 Date Missing: May 17,2(XK> Missing From: Minot, ND Gaby was last seen with an unknown male. Reachelle disappeared under suspicious circumstances from her home. Surrounded by cheering Apple Store employees, one o f the first iPhone buyers leaves the store on Fifth Avenue in New York. 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He helped keep order in the line outside the A pple store at Santa C lara's Valley Fair Mall. W ozniak said the device would redefine cell phone design and use. “Look how great the iPod turned out,” he said. Apple is indeed banking that its new , do-everything phone with a to u ch -sen sitiv e screen for te le phone calls, Internet, email and music will becom e its third core business next to its m oneym aking iPod music players and M acintosh com puters. School Assignment Ruling Denounced T he N ational U rban L eague and its affiliates in L ouisville and S eattle ex p ressed dism ay in the 5-4 ruling by the U.S. S uprem e C ourt that struck dow n the use o f race in sc h o o l-assig n m en t plans. L ast w ee k ’s d ecisio n strik in g dow n sc h o o l-a ssig n m en t plans in public sch o o ls in S eattle and L o u isv ille sets a very u n fo rtu nate p recedent that co uld end up leg alizin g re-seg reg atio n n a tio n w ide by raising the bar for ach iev ing racial d iv ersity , said N ational U rban L eague President and CE O M arc H. M orial. “T h e n a tio n ’s h ig h est co u rt seem s h ell-b en t on p en alizin g co m m u n ities such as L ouisville that have m ade great progress in breaking dow n racial b arriers and found a co n sen su al and v o lu n tary w ay to m aintain racial d iv e r sity in th eir sch o o ls, g iving all stu d en ts - not ju st ones in a fflu ent n eig h b o rh o o d s - g rea ter a c cess to quality ed u catio n ,” M orial o b se rv e d . Seattle Urban League President andC E O Jam es Kelly said the deci sion "will not deter our efforts in Seattle to ensure that every child gets an equal chance at an equally good education. O ur nation cannot expect to get to that goal in one- size-fits-all plans so we must co n tinue to persevere and form ulate the best solution possible for our ow n com m unities.” Libraries Make Reading Fun K ids are keeping track o f their reading tim e on gam e boards to earn prizes and o th er incentives this su m m er at local b ranches o f the M ultnom ah C ounty L ibrary. L ast year, nearly 5 7 ,0 0 0 kids and teens p articipated in the S u m m er R eading p rogram w hich e n co u rag es students to keep read ing w hen school is out, stren g th en in g skills learned in the cla ss room that can be lost o v er the su m m er. T he library hosts fun S um m er R eading ev en ts th ro u g h o u t the sum m er, every th in g from Pirate M aps to S w ing D ancing to B i cy c le M a in te n an ce fo r T een s. C a re g iv e rs can w in p rizes for pre-read ers, too. by reading to them . Learn m ore at the S u m m er R eading w ebsite at m ultcolib.org/ su m m er. I