Lee and Njeri, Part 4

In his letter July 21, as part of the continuing discussion of Itabari Njeri’s critique of Spike Lee, Jack Chansler said I was attempting in my earlier letter to “absolve slavery in America.”

I do not believe that two wrongs make a right. My intention--in saying that blacks made slaves of blacks--was to point out that many of the problems in the black community are caused by and can be solved by itself. And that history shows that the guilt for our racial problems should be shared. Trying to solve the situation by pointing at one side will not get it done.

ALAN STANFILL

Upland