Passage of Proposition 63
I think your editorial reading (Nov. 7) of voter motivation prompting the passage of Proposition 63 is Pollyannish at best.
I believe that this xenophobically derived proposition presented the voter with a “safe and logical” means to act on conscious (and unconscious) prejudices and personal frustrations, fueled, to some degree, by a perception that “foreigners” are not only taking over America--but are doing it without having to learn our native tongue!
As an educator and psychologist who is in constant intimate contact with a broad range of people, I assure you that voter motivation was hardly as benign as you make it out to be.
JAN MICHAEL SHERMAN
North Hollywood
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