With people such as Jeanette Williams running the state NAACP, prejudice will win out.

Her remarks as reported in the newspapers seem rather thoughtless to say the least. She stated, "The judge was out of place, the reason they (the police officers) were there was to be sentenced. If they were law-abiding citizens, they wouldn't have allowed the beating of Rodney King."She then goes on to state she's sure there won't be two trials for the blacks who pulled a (completely innocent white) truck driver out of his vehicle and beat him. In her judgement, these two blacks should get "no more time than the officers."

Thank goodness she's not the judge trying the cases. How can she even compare the two cases? Rodney King was aggressive. The truck driver was not. The officers stopped King because he was breaking the law. The truck driver was obeying the law.

Mrs. Williams is implying those who beat the truck driver were law-abiding citizens.

It appears to me that Williams' real disappointment is that the sentencing didn't incite another riot so that more innocent non-blacks could enjoy the blessings of having the blacks who have her attitude run amok among them.

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I've taught school in Southern California for 30 years and have had many nationalities in my classroom. For 10 of those years, I've had nearly as many blacks as non-blacks. People are people. The sooner organizations such as the NAACP are run by people who are in it to promote and preserve cultural identity, rather than racial biases, the better off all Americans will be.

Oh yes, the black gentleman who stopped those blacks from beating the truck driver further should be running the NAACP. He's a real hero and in most likelihood saved the man's life. Chalk one up on the side of right.

Eldon L. Miller

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