Bob Dole
As I read Bob Dole’s column (Commentary, Nov. 19) supporting the “California civil rights initiative,” I can’t help but wonder what planet he’s living on. In order to ensure equal access, affirmative action programs must be kept in place for women and people of color.
The very existence of this country was based on preferences and still is. With close to 95% of all federal contracts going to white-male-owned firms and 80% of Congress made up of white males, what makes him think people of color are getting all this preferential treatment?
VALENCIA RONER
Los Angeles
* Is it just my imagination or did Dole favor us with his Wilsonesque white-supremacist take on California’s vulgar racial politics, as embodied in the so-called “civil rights initiative,” just when the pundits decided Dole was unexciting and old, and not leading by as much as he should be?
How’s that for youthful vigor? Let us wish him the same success our governor enjoyed in his white-rights rabble rousing.
BRIAN HUDSON
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