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Be taught fact about Value
earlier than judging her
Re: “Value’s messy street to reform” (Web page A1, Could 7).
Don’t consider every little thing you learn. Correction: Don’t consider every little thing the conservatives say. Alameda County District Legal professional Pamela Value just isn't the villain right here; she is simply the sufferer of poor PR.
Value’s addressing of racism’s overreaction to felony sentencing, which devastated communities of colour, has left some individuals believing she is lenient towards crime. False narratives declare she just isn't charging enhancements, when in truth her workplace has charged enhancements.
Please do some investigation and go to the DA’s web site (www.alcoda.org). Learn the press releases and think about the posted interviews.
Readers owe it to themselves to find the info earlier than judging her.
Rene Clever
Fremont
A’s group ought to
fireplace Kuiper for remark
Re: “A’s announcer Glen Kuiper apologizes for showing to say n-word on-air” (Could 5).
Not too long ago Glen Kuiper, the TV play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics, blurted out the n-word throughout a pre-game chat with an affiliate.
Kuiper later provided an on-air apology, however is it sufficient? He definitely should know of the racism on this nation and the way thousands and thousands of Black individuals have died from lynchings by some White individuals who hated them for no different motive apart from the colour of their pores and skin. And the very last thing they heard was the n-word that Kuiper reportedly blurted out in such a cavalier method.
What was he considering? Whereas psychologists ponder that, the Oakland Athletics ought to fireplace him.
Joe Hargrove
Fremont
Pathway to fairness
higher than funds
I believe we are able to all agree that slavery is a nasty factor. That mentioned I don't consider reparations to people 150 years after the tip of slavery in the USA are acceptable.
A greater strategy can be to create and fund public packages designed to handle the historic wants of these impacted by slavery. Main amongst these needs to be a path to handle financial deficits, particularly these attributable to an absence of alternative and schooling. These could possibly be packages that embody subsidies to offer meals, housing, know-how (together with residence web) and youngster care to make ongoing schooling attainable. Additional, grants and reasonably priced loans to encourage small companies could possibly be made out there.
I don't consider making $800 billion in funds to people can be efficient in night the scales, however funding a path to equality of alternative is perhaps.
Darcy Johnson
Antioch
Crimson-flag legal guidelines are
wise gun management
With all of the shootings which are happening in our nation, and gun laws at a stalemate, we should nonetheless act.
I consider that those that argue for banning weapons are having the mistaken argument as that struggle has been misplaced. Politically and culturally the outright banning of sure weapons appears moot. I consider political capital needs to be used on red-flag legal guidelines for future purchases. Presently when a brand new gun is being bought solely a felony background is finished. Nobody asks these with speedy contact with the particular person in the event that they really feel secure with that particular person proudly owning a gun.
Each new gun buy ought to require a psychological analysis, references from anybody who the particular person lives with, and at the least two co-workers/classmates. Placing the legal responsibility on the vendor will trigger due diligence on each gun sale. This motion would cease shootings like Uvalde, and lots of others.
Eduardo Escobar
Hayward
Indifference to gun
violence is insane
I can always remember the day of the “Sandy Hook Faculty taking pictures.” A younger man, mad at his mom, shot his method by way of a just lately put in safety door and massacred 20 first-graders and eight adults making an attempt to guard them. Some our bodies have been so ripped aside, dad and mom couldn’t even determine their very own youngsters’ stays.
The feelings I felt have been indescribable. That day, I mentioned to myself, at the least, now … lastly … Congress must tackle assault weapons on our streets. The keenness on the GOP facet of Congress lasted about at some point, then rapidly evaporated. Now assault weapon mass shootings occur nearly every day in America. Crimson states appear to be making an attempt to outdo one another loosening gun legal guidelines.
Final week, a younger man went to a Texas mall in tactical gear carrying an assault rifle. He didn’t even violate the regulation till he truly began killing individuals. That is insane.
Jim Peterson
Walnut Creek