The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 66, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1987 Page: 1 of 18
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Lakey said, under a redistricting
March and much more.
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in which no arrests were made
because police assessed them as
parties. In one a person was knifed.
In the other, two persons were shot-
one a 15-year-old boy.
Evidently it’s OK for the local
torney bill compiled by someone br- 1982, said violations of voting rights
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change our form of government ed, “I still don't,want to go to court
While Gardner voiced the
suasion), by mutuality and
recourse, we force it violently. We
threat, manipulate, blackmail im-
banker and the outlaw to face each prison, harass, intimidate, insult. at-
other on the Town Square and shoot
it out. Sounds like another time and
place, doesn’t it? Like some TV
Tulsa’s neighborhoods are just
another “O.K Corral" where gun-
fights are fair game
The primary roots of violence lay
in a philosophical and social value
system that approves the
dominance syndrome. In fact, our
system not only approves it, it sup-
who were covering the South at the
time.
Among the items to be discussed
are: The Brown Decision; the Mon-
tgomery Bus Boycott; the
Assassinations of Medgar Evers,
John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and j
was bad, banks failing, we were
‘raising cain.”
Thomas and other board members
in retrospect, have every right to
boast about their success. The finan-
cial situation required swift and
firm management decisions, as well
as, implementing some built-in in-
dustry measures.
Much credit for the success can be
attributed to a change in personnel.
Thomas points to two areas which
are measures of their 1966 success;
their reported net income on assets
of an average of 1.69 percent and
return on equity of 24 percent. Ac-
ON THE CAMPUS of Howard University, Isabelle R. .
Hammond, 91, stands out as the oldest undergraduate at
the university - if not the oldest undergraduate in
America. She strolls to class amid students who are
young enough to be her great-grandchildren. (Photo by
Harlee Little)
fair opportunity to serve in govern-
ment or elect a member to office.
Finn says, she hasn't made up her
mind about what she would like to
see done, but feels a reconvening of
the Charter Review Committee is in
order because just on the surface it
appears the city may be in violation
of the Voting Rights Act.
The Tulsa law professor said there
are unconfirmed reports that have
reached her which claim the Spr-
ingfield opinion final order was
issued. According to Finn, the II-
April is Stop Violence Month
The Stop Violence Steering Committee kicked off Stop Violence
Month Wednesday, April 1, at noon on Bartlett Square.
The kick off ceremony signaled a month long focus on solutions to
The theme for this April observance is "Stop...Violence In The
Name of Love."
STOP VIOLENCE MONTH WEEKLY FOCUS
April 1, Noon, Bartlett Square KICK OFF Ceremony, Stop Violence
Committee, McLain High School Choir.
April 5-ll.ROOTS OF VIOLENCE, Violence Indicator Test. April 2 -
The Oklahoma Eagle and April 5 - The Tulsa World.
April 12-18 - VIOLENCE OUTSIDE-INSIDE THE HOME, April 13,8-10
a.m. -Breakfast Seminar at ONEOK, Assembly Room, Ixiwer vc.
April 19-25 ABUSE IN THE FAMILY; April 23-24 - Conference:
Doubletree Hotel.
April 26-30 DRUGS AND VIOLENCE - April 29 Program for Youth and
Parents, 6:30 - 8.30 p.m. First Baptist Church North Tulsa, 1414 North
Greenwood.
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City,
“We make America better u hen u e aid
study of French tortures of Algerian
revolutionaries in “The Wretched of
the Earth’, a primer of the peace
movement of the 60’s. He
documented case by case the
destruction of personalities and 11 ves
of those who did the torturing of the
What we'taU [^understand is that pose’s have also been written about
other racist and dominance syn-
drome groups such as the Ku Klux
Klan and the John Birth Society and
research is surfacing on the
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fanaticism in America in the 80 s
that is similar.
The Way Out
bat") as a way of problem-solving.
We have begun to do this. We have
passed some watershed laws recent-
ly that have begun to stem the terri-
ble tide of domestic violence. But we
need more laws
Laws must focus on providing and
assuring civil and social rights and
justice for all. All the millions of
dollars spent by governments in at-
tempts to study both domestic and
international terrorism could have
been spent on schools and adequate
medical services for all Americans.
I already known the answer to the
problem of terrorism: the answer is
justice. Provide terrorists with some
other forum for airing their
grievances, and terrorism will end.
A people who believe that others
care and will help if they only know,
is not a people who randomly
murder and torture.
From the Universal to the Individual
It is a time when our state and na-
tional legislatures are considering
laws that address many of these con-
cerns. Let each of us as individuals
this I-enten and Passover season
make a vow to do the following: I
will consider and treat all persons as
equals, regardless of their race, sex.
get out of this age, economic condition, nationali-
ty, religion, politics, or anything
else; I will not resort to violence in
any form (verbal, physical, or
psychological) against any other
or thing; For every "Ram-
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assure that we also see a ‘ ‘Salvador "
or a “Children of a Lesser God", or a
"Mission"; I will discourage sup-
movies about massacres and
unspeakable horrors as forms of
positive entertainment, and will en-
possibie; I will seek skills through
abilities in coping, communicating,
fighting fair, respecting self and
others in order to develop creative
and healthy outlets for life’s in-
evitable stresses and frustrations; 1
will actively promote in my com-
munity financial support for those
agencies and servives that seek to
eliminate violence (DVIS. CA11-
RAPE, Parents Anonymous, drug
and alcohol programs. Child Abuse
Registry, etc.), and will try to pro-
vide some volunteer assistance for
such programs in my busy schedule;
I will actively educate myself on
laws and advocate for those which
move toward peaceful solutions of
national and international pro-
blems, especially those that promote
justice and human rights. In par-
ticular, I will write Senator David
Boren and urge him to co-sponsor
and strongly support the Civil Rights
Restoration Act.
If each citizen in Tulsa would
agree to these simple goals, we
would be able to stop violence in
Tulsa this year
(Editor’s Note: Mary McAnally is
a Presbyterian clergywoman, social
worker, educator, and writer living
in Tulsa with her two children. She is
the editor of a book titled "Family
Violence: Poems on the Pathology"
(La Jolla, CA: Moonlight Publica-
tions, 1982), and has been involved in
peace and social justice issues all
her lifetime. She organized the onh
Freedom Bus from Oklahoma that
went south in 1966 to help with lunch
counter sit-ins and voter reghtra-
tion. studied passive nonresistance
with King and Gandhi, helped
organize Clergy and Laity Against
the Vietnam War, and has written
extensively on peace and justice
issues).
Dixie Cleaners, 2616 North Peoria, is
L. . ^ for sale. She says as soon as she sells
bank^Tobins-on also joined the business she is going into semi-
retirement and plans on "sewing a
little.”
plan proposed in the early seventies
north Tulsa could have two to three
seats on a seven man council.
Totality
, The totality of circumstances is a
will have to pay, according to court term participants will find
records obtained by The Oklahoma themselves using in the future in
Eagle. The city of Springfield has in- deciding the merits of changing
surance to cover the attorney fees. Tulsa City government.
Watts said, Tulsa has no insurance in section two of the Voting Rights
policy which would cover the at- Action of 1965, as amended June 29.
torney bill compiled by someone br- 1982, said violations of voting rights
inging suit against the city and add- are generally proved by the "totality
- ‘ “I of circumstances.” It has to be pro-
over this form of government.” ven to a federal judge’s satisfaction
Lakey wants change the "processes" leading to the elec-
The city of Tulsa has had one tion of officials prevent participation
black city commissioner and Tulsa of particular races or groups from a
... Urban League president, Rev.
one” in "arguing for a change of Lawrence Lakey Mid, he wants to
Watts said at the management
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Al U1C ..... x __a »» Twu Qrsw_ <M»at in ritv onvpmmpnt I Jikpv said.
critioue of the Springfield opinion, ingfield case the plaintiffs who filed
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weekly city management meeting
last Friday.
The attorney said to The
Oklahoma Eagle, he “knew of no
study which outlined the kind of data
found in the Springfield opinion”
which showed the city through its
system of government discriminates
against minorities. McNeill said the
opinion is not a precedent setting
legal document and it may have
swung the other way with another
federal judge.
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who~chaired the subcommittee
firiahnma Eagle, ’’I think the city
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the problem to determine whether or
our people."
VOLUME 66 NUMBER 14
deemed a "loser”. And, if someone
tries to change the rules of the game
(so that everyone wins, for exam-
ple), that person is accused of wan-
ting to “beat" everyone else by play-
ing by “their own” rules. (For ex-
.'' : men seem fixated in the
dominance paradigm to the extent
that they believe the women’s move-
ment is nothing but an attempt by
women to dominate-to reverse roles
within the dominance paradigm. No
wonder they fear and hate it!)
Everyone Loses
no one wins tn the dominance syn-
drome. Although it may feel that
way, or appear that way on the sur-
face, everyone in fact loses.
Psychologists and sociologists are patholug}
quick to agree that the victimizer is *
just as damaged (or moreso) as the
victim. See Franz Fanon's excellent
By Louis Gray
Managing Editor
In light of the Springfield, Illinois rights of blacks."
opinion which forces that city to “ ’■*
change its form of government
because L — -' 1 ~Z ‘
blacks and other minorities, Mayor
Dick Crawford may “reconvene” a
study group which recently filed a „---- - „
report on possible changes in the Police Commissioner Roy Gardner
city's charter. " * ■*“"* *“ *"
Opinion debated
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with attorneys studying the much
nothing “compelling” in the opinion
v....... . ——— — — . —
its charter despite the similar
who advised the mayor was City At-
torney Neal E. McNeill.
Terry Simonson, McNeill wrote a
seek it through violence. Those with
power maintain it with violence or
the threat of violence. This is the
n .. ~ case with marriage partners, with
Eagle reported two cases of violence business competitors, with nation-
in which no arrests were made states, and with ideologies. „
because police assessed them as If we cannot “get our way by
some kind of fair “combat” by both good communication (friendly per-
- — - ’ ? —*——d com-
promise, by legal and healthy
recourse, we force it violently. We
threat, manipulate, blackmail, im-
tack, batter, beat, assault, rape,
violate, torture, mutilate, maim,
- • terrorize, and kill We abandon in-
show or movie of the wild, wild west, telligence and reason and resort to
the physical and emotional. Seldom
do we walk away. Seldom do we stay
it dht “to the bitter end”, til someone
"wins” and someone "loses” and
the rules stay intact. Such an end is
indeed bitter
The saddest part of all is that if so-
■.j, .,.,,. , L _, r meone leaves the game rather than
ports, enhances, encourages, and playing by the rules, that person is
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Some psychologists and
sociologists talk about the roots of
violence as being social isolation,
frustration, lark of controls, stress,
poor coping mechanisms, dysfunc-
tional families, poor communication ample:
skills, low boiling points, genera- J
tional cycles, and low self-esteem.
All these factors are involved, but
themselves are not the primary
cause of violence. If we lived in a
society or world that values peace
and harmony over and above power
and heeemonv. there would be other
ways we would act out our frustra-
uons. our low »eil-e»use4u, vur lack
of skill in social relations that are
not violent ways.
Power Plays
All violence is related to the
dynamics of power and
oowerlessness. Those without power
Journalists rehash movement
The first large scale meeting of ment as it progressed. C-SPAN will city ^uid appeal the opi-
joumalists who covered the civil supplement its conference coverage nl0n until the final order was releas-
rights movement will be telecast with live interviews and viewer call- CHANGE 9
live over the C-SPAN Cable Network in programs, featuring rfeP°^rs
this weekend. “Covering the South: - - ““ c~“‘ “
A National Symposium in the Media
and the Civil Rights Movement” will
nerai luune ** telecast on April 4 from 8 a.m. to
Tulsa Law Professor Judith Finn 5:30 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to
!<® 12:30 p.m. (14 hours of live
should be aware of the law and study Mississippi in Oxford. P“e]
the problem to determine whether or discussion participants wiUexamme
not the city is violating the voting the impact of the press in the move-
American State Bank rebounds
T. -ia-. _* . wan had banks failing, we were cording to Thomas, both are above
the industry average.
"We are also proud to announce
the promotion of two of our
employees, Valletta Thomas,
former cashier, promoted to vice
president of cashiersand Gregory
Robinson, former bank trainee, pro-
moted to an assistant cashier bank
officer’s position,” said Thomas.
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years ago as a cashier Her previous
ATTwrience included president of a
How do we
dilemma?
When a massive re-education is
required to formulate new values
that serve all members of society
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suns and bombs) and privileges ".»»<»». , . — ———»
don’t want to give any up. and since port of cultural expressions sucn as
no one else nas mg enough guns and
— .... bombs to force them to do so, we are
that underlies religious left with reason as our only weapon. wav
We must find nonviolent ways to courage the finer arts m every way
“enforce" a value system that possible; I will seek skills through
refuses to accept violence (“com- counseling, reading, worships, and
Charter group may reconvene
See related editorial on page 18
1900,000 in attorney fees that the city
records obtained by The Oklahoma
surance to cover the attorney fees.
Watts said, Tulsa has no insurance
Finn said, “Using the criteria of
the Springfield case, we’d probably
it discriminates against find we are very similar.”
The most vocal city official
against any charter change at the ci-
ty management meeting, Fire and
said, “I'm not about to vote to
Crawford'said in his discussions because of this action.”
■ ‘i While Gardner voiced the
debated opinion, be felt there was strongest argument against change,
nothing “compelling” in the opinion Finance and Revenue Commis-
yhirh would force the city to change sioner Gary Watts was a “cult of
inake\ip of both cities. The counsel government. see the charter change to give nor-
- - -----— ** Watts said at the management thside residents equal representa-
meeting, “I don’t want to spend one tion. When asked if they change the
sion) of goverment.” In the Spr- seat in city government, Lakey said,
«•____ai. mkzv “mvo mo that nna «pat ”
McNeW presentedtiiTopinion at the the class action suit had over
In the midst of a depressed
Oklahoma economy and 16 bank
failures in 1966, American State
Bank completed a highly successful
year.
According to American State’s
Board chairman, Leroy Thomas,
“1985 was a dismal year. We ex-
perienced our first loss in over 10
years. The losses were primarily
due to abnormally high loan defaults
«”J, lr‘"3 b’ —• ",r”'r “«*«•
«vwyuyw. MW WM XXS'.’SISTXTSd American State two years ago as a
an outstanding year for American of an average or percent iuiu trainRa
State, when Oklahoma’s economy return on equity of 24 percent. Ac-
Local dergywoman looks at the roots of violence
Kot", o. a w^rfnmhlem-solving. other educational forums to develop
by Mary McAnally
Contributing Writer
AFTER 47 YEARS in the cleaning
business, Janeata Daniels is ready
life.* ThomaTjoined tire bank two to call it quits. She announces that
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