Affirmative Action
Let me see if I have this right. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1862. Over 100 years later, in 1965, it was still necessary to pass a battery of civil rights legislation so people of color could use the same bathrooms and drinking fountains, eat in the same restaurants and stay in the same hotels as people who are white. Now suddenly, 32 years later, we have come so far and become so enlightened, affirmative action is unnecessary because the playing field is level.
Thinking like this is naive and will slow or reverse the progress we have made.
JIM ANGERMAN
Pasadena
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