THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, December 11, 1995 TAG: 9512090023
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
The secret is finally out: ``The pope is a Polack'' (``Oh dear! Ann puts her foot in her mouth with pope remark,'' news, Dec. 1), and Ann Landers is guilty of a politically incorrect comment.
It seems that ``minorities'' are climbing on the bandwagon, screeching about ethnic slurs. The majority of minorities were born in the United States and are Americans. Their ancestors may have been born in a foreign country, but that ethnicity has been assimilated into the American mainstream generations ago.
We are all proud of our ethnicity; however, we should remember that many of our ancestral homelands are still oppressive and the United States is the place to be.
We ``minorities'' have contributed mightily to the building of this nation and we should be proud to be ``ethnic'' Americans.
I forgive Ann Landers for calling Il Pape a ``Polack,'' for my Mama always said, ``Don't spend yourself in idle words.'' But I do take umbrage at Ms. Landers' remark that Polacks are ``very anti-woman.''
EDWARD KOPANSKI
Chesapeake, Dec. 1, 1995 by CNB