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* Re “The Courts of Ethnic Identity,” July 14: I read with disgust of the Community Youth Council’s decision to kick a 13-year-old Latino kid off the Montebello Jets Corsairs basketball team because he wasn’t of Japanese descent. When I was a kid, my friends and I were all colorblind and race made no difference. Leave it to the adults involved in Japanese American basketball leagues to send a hypocritical message to their impressionable children: It’s OK for us to discriminate to preserve cultural identity, but it’s not OK for others to discriminate against us!
What basketball has to do with preserving culture, I haven’t the faintest clue. Perhaps they have conveniently forgotten that over 100,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned in relocation camps during WWII because of their heritage!
HENRY SAKAIDA
Temple City
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