Racial Unrest in L.A. Schools

North Hollywood High School principal Catherine Lum is living in a dream world, as she fails to see the animosity between blacks and Hispanics, not only in school but throughout society (Oct. 28).

As a black American, I am stunned by the insensitivity of white America. Race conflicts will increase with time due to this country’s blind immigration policies. We are flooded with minorities and the interests of America’s former slaves have been effectively pushed aside. And blacks must compete with newcomers from around the world for scarce resources, which get scarcer all of the time. Our myopic immigration policies have no relation to what we should be doing: decreasing immigration, not increasing it! Racial conflict is, thus, inevitable and guaranteed.

As cowardly politicians shy away from the controversial immigration issue, we come closer to our own version of Yugoslavia. The tragedy: America refuses to address this racial time bomb waiting to explode. Unless the deaf government, which pretends to represent us, awakens to the danger and inevitable societal chaos of our present path, the downfall of America will, like that of the Soviet Union, be more a product of its own internal moral bankruptcy than to any outside threat, whether real or perceived.

REUBEN VAUGHN GREENE III, Los Angeles