Jimmy Carter
Former President Jimmy Carter’s statement before impressionable Watts schoolchildren that “it might be good that disturbance or riots took place in Los Angeles” (Nov. 25) shocks the conscience.
No doubt hundreds of severely beaten riot victims and suddenly impoverished shopkeepers will have a different opinion.
Carter decries the “hopelessness” of the inner city and the creation of two Americas--”the rich” (middle class on up) and “the poor.” Yet he, Bill Clinton and others seek to allow the influx of tens of thousands of impoverished, uneducated, non-English-speaking Haitians into our country to swell the inner-city welfare rolls.
It is no wonder Carter was thrown out of office by the voters. I pray Clinton acts with a clearer head.
ALAN V. WEINBERG
Woodland Hills
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