Reparations for African Americans
After a generation or more of affirmative action, some African Americans now seek reparations (“Black Reparations Idea Builds at UCLA Meeting,” May 12). In reality, African Americans should view themselves as among the most fortunate people in the world to be in the United States rather than in sub-Saharan Africa, where yearly incomes of most people are under $2,000.
David Hewson
Coronado
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I am not opposed to reparations for various groups that have been discriminated against or worse--brought to this country in chains, for example.
If the government is to consider reparations of any group, however, women should be included. Their plight is both historical and of the present--labor unpaid or underpaid and the larger part of violence and abuse directed against them.
Ann Maupin
Los Angeles
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