LIFE, DEATH IN L.A.
In “Words to Live or Die By” (May 31), Itabari Njeri implies that the real cause of the L.A. riots (or “riots,” as she would have it) was actually a lack of political correctness, and that the way to prevent any future problems of the sort is to employ less “oppressive” language.
Allow me to offer some suggestions for the healing process: Looters should henceforth be referred to as “Acquisitional-Americans.” So-called “thugs,” actually being cause-motivated and oppressed freedom fighters, should from now on be called “Sado-Americans” so as not to distract from their righteous struggle. Perhaps if we call physical torture “political activism” then Reginald Denny’s wounds would conveniently disappear.
Finally, let me thank Njeri for laying bare the cold truth that the omnipresent and evil white European taskmasters are the sole purveyors of racism and can be proved so by referring to the politically correct definition of racism that she endorses.
THOMAS X. MORRISON
Los Angeles
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