Interracial Tensions

In response to the article on recent efforts undertaken by the mayor’s office to quell heightening racial conflicts between members of the African-American community and Korean merchants in South-Central:

Let all interested parties rest assured that both boycotts and “violence” will continue until some system of social and economic parity is firmly put in place.

Blacks have long perceived the very actual and pervasive bias held against them by social and political entities, which on a daily basis work overtime to commit them to a status as America’s permanent underclass. Therefore, there is nothing new in South-Central as we witness the economic life’s blood of a predominantly black and brown community monopolized and exploited mercilessly by a group of outsiders with no vested interest in the betterment and self-reliance of that community. As for our illustrious mayor, he has chosen sides: the side of the haves.

D. ELAINE RUGLEY, Los Angeles