Clinton St _____Quarterly_____ VOL. 6, NO. 4 WINTER 1984 STAFF Co-Editors David Milholland Jim Blashfield Lenny Dee Peggy Lindquist Design and Production Jim Blashfield Production Assistants David Milholland Sharon Niemcyzk Camerawork Laura DiTrapani Proofreaders Stan Sitnick Betty Smith Marketing Director Anne Hughes Ad Production Stacey Fletcher Beverly Wong Ad Sales — Portland-Eugene Lenny Dee Anne Hughes Dru Duniway Neil Street Sandy Wallsmith Ad Sales — Seattle Joe Racek Christopher Mascis Contributing Artists Michael Cacy, Claudia Cave, Fay Jones, Tom Prochaska, Barbara Sekurka, Isaac Shamsud-Din, Steve Winkenwerder Contributing Photographers Doniphan Blair, Lynn Darroch, Eric Edwards, Janice Pierce Gus Van Sant Typesetting Archetype, Richard Francis, Marmilmar, Pendragon Graphics, Sherry Swain, Jill Wilson Printing Tualatin-Yamhill Press Public Relations Cramer/Hulse Thanks Linda Ballantine, John Bennett, Michael Coan, Lorna Dawson, Stephanie Denyer, Bill Fletcher, Stuart Landefeld, Tyra Lindquist, Paul Loeb, Melissa Marsland, Laurie McClain, DNA, Brad Shaw, Kay Sohl, Jim Styskel, Sue Jane Widder EDITORIAL Intolerance and prejudice are frightening, tracing back to fear of the unknown and the desire to protect one’s own. While few of us admit comfortably to such unseemly character flaws, fewer still could claim to have banished them from their innermost being. It is still, however, shocking to come across blind intolerance in our “civilized” culture. And despite its seeming universality, no excuses can be made for behavior which makes minority groups into scapegoats and worse. Although immigrants from around the world have met prejudice, and sometimes violence on their arrival here, the U.S. experiment in developing a multi-ethnic culture is paralleled in few other countries on the planet. People have flocked here for the economic opportunity, the overall lack of repression and a chance to begin again. Few imagine the rigors they will face in this land of free enterprise. But though some return home, most settle in and adjust, and a few succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Here in the Northwest, our lives have been enriched a thousand-fold by the successive waves of Latinos, Asians, Africans, Europeans Scene from Bill Plympton and Jules Feiffer’s animated film, Boomtown. and even immigrants from other regions of the U.S. Yet an insularity remains, a nativism which has shown a “dark side” too frequently in recent years. A few years ago there were the Iranians, appearing nightly in our homes to pour out years of pent-up resentment against the U.S. and the suffering they’d experienced under our quisling, the Shah. No one wished to see our overseas personnel held, but the reaction quickly turned ugly. Iranian-Americans experienced incidents that left them shaken. Americans had an easy target, and they went for the jugular, no less here than elsewhere. Recent S.E. Asian and Latin American refugees have often been targeted, as immigrants of earlier eras had been, with the charge that they were taking away jobs that could have gone to “Americans. ” The fact of the matter is that our jobs are currently being exported by even mid-size U.S. companies eager to become multinational. Many refugees of necessity have created their own opportunities, turning their industry and social cohesion into economic stability, ifnot success, and have found social acceptance more readily than black residents of long-standing. No less here than elsewhere, blacks have had to organize and struggle for the small peice of the action they’ve obtained. And while it was heartening to see Jesse Jackson receive the media attention and voter recognition he obtained, it is still clear that most Americans found it difficult to look beyond his racial background to the true qualities of leadership and vision he offered. And on the community level, blacks still face discrimination in the job market, in access to housing and adequate schools, and especially in the eyes of law enforcement officials. In the wake of the Reagan victory, it is even more incumbent that the needs of blacks and all minorities are kept high on the agendas of state and local government. The noble experiment to meld together people of all nations and viewpoints, into "one nation unto all” is one of the greatest challenges we face as citizens. It requires forebearance, tolerance, understanding and vision.We look forleaders to help lead us along this path, and we must hope they emerge. But the real task rests with all of us, in our hearts and in our actions. 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