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O ctober 19, 2011 Jîortlani» (Dbseruer Page 5 Woman Parent's Corner . ; V in R < > \ H i K\i><>\ ■ ä ® tices suffered by blacks, including slavery, segrega tion, and patterns o f murderous violence are not sufficient to gain real relief from any branch o f government. America never...(passed) an anti-lynch ing law despite literally thousands o f blacks mur dered over several decades. “Relief from racial discrimination, when it comes, requires that (National) policy makers perceive the racial relief will provide a clear benefit for the nation. Even then, the relief is more symbolic than real and is not enforced when the nation's interests have been served “The Brown decision, like the Emancipation Proc lamation a century earlier, did launch major (Black) self-help efforts that made serious inroads into the racial status quo. Is it not precisely because o f their unstinting faith in this country's ideals that black people deserve better than an expression o f benign paternalism, no matter how well intended? Symbolism has served as sad substitute for the needed empathy of action called for when a history o f racial subordi nation is to be undone. ” Ron Herndon is a long-time advocate fo r educa tional opportunities fo r African-American chil dren. He has served as director o f Head Start in Portland since 1975. Derrick Bell, a civil rights scholar who became Harvard’s first black tenured law school professor, died Oct. 5. In last week’s issue, I wrote about Bell’s advocacy to end Portland Public School’s racist policy of busing only black children to accom plish its warped notions of school integration. Another little known Portland community con nection with Bell is the fictional character he used in many essays and books about race relations known as professor Geneva Crenshaw. 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