We must stop seeing color in life

To the editor:

The loony left wants to punish motivated, hard-working, gifted and intelligent students by eliminating their special programs and forcefully integrating them with boring teachers and mediocre classmates.

Once again, leftists believe that the only criteria that should matter concerning government employment, promotions, educational scholarships, government-subsidized loans, set-aside labor contracts for small- and medium-sized businesses, should be solely based on race and gender.

In my opinion, judging people outside of the criteria that Martin Luther King once articulated as “not judging people by the color of their skin, but the content of their character” is one of the most significant statements made of the 20th century.

It is perhaps one of the greatest definitions of racism ever articulated in our century.

As concerns another popular expression during the heady decade of the 1960s and 1970s, “Power to the people” in that our last national presidential election, 40 percent of registered voters failed to show up at their polling places.

In the last mayoral election in New York City, only 25 percent of eligible citizens bothered to vote.

What good is it for people to have power when they fail to use it?

I now hope and pray that I will be watching the collapse of our great democracy in another country, be dead, or just be living in a clean nursing home too doddering to know or care what’s going on outside my bubble world.

Lou DeHolczer

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