Society scorns even hard-working, law-abiding blacks Re: “President Obama deserves the nation’s respect,” From Readers, Sept. 15
I’m responding to the reader who says that we need to rally around President Obama because he deserves the nation’s respect. Being a black man myself, I don’t feel that I’m respected by society because there’s a stigma that black people are all the same.
That’s not the case. There are some hard-working and law-abiding black people in this society, so don’t look down on us like we shouldn’t be here. I don’t know why we are hated, but we’ve learned how to survive — even in this mean and nasty world.
William Hampton
Oxon Hill
Supporting Planned Parenthood does not prevent breast cancer
Re: “Mitchell uses diagnosis for the cause,” Sept. 9
Andrea Mitchell is breast cancer-free and we hope she remains so, but she is at cross purposes in her promotion of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s fundraising if she wants to prevent more women from getting this disease.
In 2009-2010 Komen contributed $629,159 to Planned Parenthood, which sells abortion and birth control pills, both of which raise a women’s risk of breast cancer. In the past, Komen claimed they gave PP the money for mammograms, but we learned this year that PP doesn’t do mammograms.
Richard A. Retta
Rockville
Rubio defending wrong side in Balkan conflict
As a Jewish conservative who vigorously defended Cuban-Americans during the Elian Gonzalez siege, I am sickened that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., would smear another maligned people as he did in a Sept. 13 speech at the Jesse Helms Center where he said, “The American armed forces … stopped Nazism and Communism and other evils such as Serbian ethnic cleansing.”
A year after our leaders lied to us in 1999 about the mythical “Operation Horseshoe” (the ethnic cleansing plan subsequently shown to have been a Croatian-assisted concoction by a resurgent Germany delivering payback to Serbs for World War II), it was the Miami Cubans’ turn to be depicted as wild extremists and “kidnappers” for merely expecting due process.
The fact that Elian’s father, Juan Gonzalez, wanted asylum for both himself and the boy came out in a belatedly revealed INS memo that was ordered destroyed by then-Commissioner Doris Meissner.
The Balkans are an example of where the American military was the opposite of “a force of good,” giving wings to a state ruled by fear by an elite that is above the law, and where prosecution witnesses either drop out — or drop dead.
Julia Gorin
Las Vegas
