WINNIE’S WAY
“Winnie Mandela Woos the Masses” (by Scott Kraft, Oct. 25) portrays Winnie and Nelson Mandela as riding in separate cars on the same train, Nelson being the statesman and Winnie the warrior.
In the 1960s, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were also moving toward the same goal, but one was a a warrior and the other a statesman. As long as there is racism, oppression, apartheid and any other form of racial injustice in the world, warriors and statesmen are needed to fight it.
Today, more than ever, we need more Martin Luther Kings and Malcolm Xs, more Nelson and Winnie Mandelas.
ERIK JON HOFFMANN
Huntington Beach
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