Oregon Advance Times_1968-02-15

February 15, 1968 The Oregon Advance TIMES Page 7 Community Problem Voiced at Meeting Auditions Set for Singers (Continued from Page 1) treat each person as a per– son. Whatever we think we can say about a group of Indians or Jews or Germans or Negroes or teen-agers or mothers or teachers or stu– dents, can always be found to be unture and false when we get to know people as people and persons as per– sons. NATiiAN PROBY, Police– man, black: Recommenda– tions to the Portland Police Bureau - to put more Negro police in the Albina area; to start a program with young men 18 years of age and let them learn just what the responsibilities of a police– man are: to have Police on the beat talk with parents of the potential problem boy or girl, to become interested; t;; have two young men each weekend accompany a ser- geant or lieutenant to learn what goes on in their neigh– borhood; to let a boy or girl sit in each Position in the city council one day a month to become familiar with the processes of city govern– and the tuture of my brother and how he can use the jobs and industry of tomorrow. ANCIL NANCE, teacher at Jeff, white: To the white liberal: Has Brotherhood Week been enough for you? To the Black Power rebel– leader: You know economic Power is the only real power: how much of it can you de– liver? Tell your followers your real goals. Do you know? Do you care? All your efforts are in vain if your black power does not lead to economic power •... To City Hall: Start acting on the suggestions of respon– sible citizens. For instance, you can start with an , inter– group relations director. To the Uncle Toms: Take off your happy masks. You know things aren't all right. To news reporters: Can your mind ever understand what your eyes see? What do you know about black history? To teachers: Are your students learning only to forget or are they learning to be free, to be resPonsible? To school administrators: You are not in a boat so don't be afraid ment: to have an olderPolice- to rock. man and a younger one work as a team; to put men in the area not because they are police but because they are people, dealing with other people. JOAN HATTEN, teacher, white: 1n different cultures a given signal or word may have different meanings. Boise (Boise grade school) children often use exaggera– tion or negatives to express a Positive. They'll say, "That's a crummy dress" to mean they really dig what you've got on. You can imagine the kind of reaction there is going to be when a black child says this to his new white friend • • . . . • • • Effective cooperation between races will not occur until they can understand the nuances of meaning in the expressions and actions of the other .•.. The cur– ciculum must accept dialect as a vital and exciting way of communicating, allowing the black child pride in the linguistic inventiveness of his people ••. Imagine what first grade must be like for a dialect-speaking child. He is confronted with a white teacher and her white aide. She talks funny and he has to concentrate real hard to understand her. Not only does she say words dif– ferently than the people he knows, but she doesn't put ROBERT E, COCHRAN, social worker, black: Negro history must be in a city– wide program, must be in the curriculum of all grade schools, and must not be a separate course but be inte– grated into history, eco– nomics and American prob– lems. MRS. LIZZIE SHEPPARD, Community Service worker, black: Most people are un– prepared for parenthood and although well meaning are in– adequate because of the in– adequacies of their own per– sonalities•••• Parents com– municate prejudices by their actions and hate by their re– marks • • •• Parents need to know that life is a series of problems and that parenthood is a continuous process of problem-solving.••• Schools can help correct the damage Student Wants Try At College by RAYMOND JOE C-CAP Student first entered C-CAP in February of '67 and I have been attending school there since. I like it there and I learn something there. We attend school there in the the words in the same order, morning and work in the af– But he is expected to read ternoon. We do different jobs and write the way she talks. like delivering wood, hauling JIM MILLER, president of trash, cutting lawns and Lincoln High School student moving people, Most of the body, white: Negroes are kids who are down there want combating people who don't to learn but they don't have to. listen, people who don't care, At C-Cap they don't make and people who will not you attend classes. They can recognize that any problem walk out and go home if they exists. • , · Some white stu- want to. Kids walk in and dents did not believe they out all during the day. I were prejudiced even when it think C-CAP is good for the was obvious. Some Negroes students that attend it. What– also blamed everything on ever we do, we do learn. prejudice against their skin, when their actions would A lot ~f people in the neigh– have turned away their borhood think that C-CAP isn't brother , . . . ls there an teaching the students right, official city-wide channel for but these people are really questions or complaints about not aware of what is going the government? If there on. I intend to graduate from isn't there should be. C-CAP and go on to college I because I know I can make WALTER MORRIS, postal it. employe, black: The most alien people who have been sPokesman for the black race is the alien Negro who lives from 10 to 20 miles away from the people . . •. We are a disenfranchised and not a disadvantaged people... Black history I agree should be in all schools but there is a limit. I am more con– cerned myself about today Everyone at C-CAP can make it if they really try, and a lot of them will. The staff at C-CAP does a lot to help us and we appreciate it. There are about 52 students enrolled at C-CAP but all of them don't show up. Frank Fair is our leader and I'm sure he will lead us on to something good at C-CAP. by hiring non-prejudiced teachers who can instruct children in the ways of clear thinking. . •• Colleges should exPose the student to the home and community, to the slum • • • • The student should act as a big sister or brother to a disen– franchised child by attending meetings, helping the child with his homework and having coffee with the family. It is essential that those who would be teachers be exposed to these conditions while in college • . . • The teacher must be aware that al·most every child has at least one special ability. ROBERT E, NELSON, businessman, white: Re- cruiting of Negro teachers for the entire Portland school system needs to be a matter of intention and urgency. Qualified Negro teachers need to be sought out, not just waited for •..• Special skills are needed for inner– city schools and teachers should be recruited inten– tionally for this area. • . •• Teachers need to learn how to use the language common to the area and students need to learn to use the language common to the larger area in which they eventually will seek employment. The school system should name an inter-group rela– tions director on the as– sistant superintendent level; it is not enough to say the Model Schools director can handle it. It is a fulltime, 60-hour-a-week job • • . . The problem of hall students, who do not go to class, can perhaps be met by the C-CAP Opportunity School pattern to fit their need and allow upgrading of the per– formance of those who re– main ••.• We are talking about lives and long term investment. Society is going to pay the bill now or later. A career in opera may be awaiting a resident of our area. Young singers of pro– fessional caliber may now enter the 1968 San Francisco Opera Auditions, by filing an application before Feb. 23. These applications may be obtained from the City Bureau of Parks, 1107 S.W. 4th Ave. Auditions are open to women between the ages of 20 and 32 and men between 22 and 34. Regional finals will be held in Portland early this spring. The winner from this area will compete on June 24 and 25 in San Francisco in a JXJb– lic appearance with members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House. The first winner will re– ceive $1,000. The second win– ner will receive $750. A deserving contestant will re– ceive $500. Winners will be presented in a concert with members of the San Francisco Symphony and will be considered for contract with the San Fran– cisco Opera. 1n addition, all entrants in the competition will be con– sidered for participation in the Merola Opera Program for a private seven week training course. 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