Show Rotarians Hear Of Plight Of American Minorities Richard professor of The Institute of Ethnic Studies at Weber State College presented the plight of ethnic groups in American Culture and suggested some way out for these HE SPOKE to Rotarians of the Bountiful Club Thursday So thought-provoking was his discussion that questions ran a full half hour of Club President Wilson White had to invoke to stop the BECAUSE of physical differences America's melting pot has been unable to absorb four of our ethnic groups into its mainstream as it has all of its other he These are the Indians and THROUGH the shameful practices of the black slavery and with our present welfare especially supporting fatherless have made it impossible for there to be a father present in the We have forced the American Indian into slavery onto the poverty riden lands of a depriving him of his rights to liberty and the pursuit of He felt we had done little more for the Chicano and American Indian and yet he said both these groups were inhabitants of the American continent before the colonization of the United THREE of the four ethnic groups in our culture in this land suffered all the vicissitudes of These he pointed have not shared in the and the creation of the with its tremendous growth and change brought about especially through the frontier experiences that have made America what it FOR MANY years our minority groups made a persistent effort to be he For our black people made great effort to look like us in hair expending much money to flatten and make straight highly curled black Other groups tried likewise to conform to the American These have not so today our black people want to be which they so indicate in their present practice of is CHICANOS want to be Indians want to be Indians and Orientals to be He reminded Rotarians that so much of Indian revolts are centered RICHARD around the Indians right to be himself and to exercise the right granted to all under the When questioned as to possible solutions to the great dilemma of minority Ulibarri said we can most likely approach the solution through giving our minority groups equal educational and economic opportunities and allowing them to operate in their own IN SPEAKING of educational opportunities he said in our medical and law training less than one percent of those students were ever even though minority groups make up 15 percent of our |