The Final Days of the Fall Presidential Campaign
The column “Blacks Can Shake Off Their Taken-For-Granted Status” (by Mitchell F. Crusto, Op-Ed Page, Oct. 25), was a most refreshing article. For months, I have been thinking of shifting from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. It was a very frightening thought to me, let alone the action itself. Like Crusto, I was born black, and by nature or genes (so I thought) a Democrat. But, upon a closer look at both parties, I can’t see what the Democratic Party is offering blacks in this campaign.
I listened to the conventions and was very moved by Vice President George Bush’s acceptance speech. Specifically, his line referencing “. . . Being a quiet man, but listening to the quiet people.”
I was very glad to read Crusto’s article and be enlightened about Bush’s political history and the vice president’s support of civil rights, the Philadelphia Plan, Project Head Start; his wife’s trusteeship of the Morehouse School of Medicine and the vice president’s chairing a fund-raising drive for the United Negro College Fund.
I, too, maintain, as Crusto pointed out, that a Bush Administration would not deny blacks a major voice given black voters support him for President.
GENEVA M. HARPER
Los Angeles
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