A giant cultural step forward
RE “These Walls Do Talk” [Dec. 8]: While Los Angeles was heatedly debating whether Stanley Tookie Williams should be executed, The Times ran a story about an African American couple who is living the American dream and preserving African and American history.
An upshot of the story is that an American family of color can acquire wealth and use those resources to advance the culture from whence they came. As the article notes, the Kinseys use their home to raise money for worthy causes.
Our society will be better served by this form of enlightenment; our young people need to be exposed to the possibilities of a good life achieved through hard work, sacrifice and teamwork -- that is what the walls in Bernard and Shirley Kinsey’s magnificent home are telling us.
BOBBY GLANTON SMITH
Los Angeles
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