THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, June 19, 1995 TAG: 9506170006
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
Regarding ``Memorial Day racism'' (letter, June 9):
Did the newspaper say that we should honor ``white soldiers''? Did the paper say that black soldiers should not be remembered? If so, I must have missed it.
Memorial Day is not meant to separate black soldiers from white soldiers or among any other lines of discrimination. Soldiers are soldiers - period. Those who fight together in the United States armed forces do not consider the race, color or creed of the people within their unit and neither should you.
I'm sick of people (not just black individuals) crying for equality and then screaming for separatism. I am not a black American, nor am I a white American. I am simply, and proudly, an American.
Stop bickering over whose pictures are and are not printed in the newspaper and try working on legitimate issues.
``I will continue to read your paper if only so I can be aware of the blatant (separatism and immaturity) displayed'' by some fellow readers.
TERRI A. WHANGER
Norfolk, June 9, 1995
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