THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 17, 1994 TAG: 9406170018
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A18 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Short
DATELINE: 940617 LENGTH:
1. Where would one find a white with a list of felonies on his record being awarded $3.8 million by a jury, as happened to Rodney King?
{REST} 2. Do elderly black women in general have to fear entering an elevator or going to other places because white hoodlums may assault them and then listen to excuses from a white leadership that the white hoodlums had been victims of black racism?
3. Where could a lone white congressman could bend a predominantly black Congress to his demands and will as Ron Dellums, a black, did in respect to sanctions against South Africa? Or tell me where one white freshman female senator would stand a chance of having a predominantly black U.S. Senate deny a black women's organization renewal of a patent for its logo, as Sen. Carole Moseley-Braun, a black, did to the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Like Bert Wetzel (``Racism? What racism?'' letter, May 29), I, too, have to ask from which direction does this racism and racial elitism originate?
As a white and also as a former Marine, I did not fight in two wars to have special rights given to any group or race at the expense of the rest of this nation, thereby creating a situation of racial elitism.
BILL PARRAM
Norfolk, June 13, 1994 by CNB