To the editor: My great-grandfather was a freed slave. I was born in 1933, and after my 90th birthday, it seemed like we black people were finally moving toward equality in this great nation. (“Why rolling back diversity programs shows pure cowardice,” Opinion, June 6)
We now face the reality that schools, businesses, government agencies, and individuals oppose diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
Meanwhile, as governments consider suggestions for reparations, critical diversity initiatives are being dismantled across our country.
The remedy we need is not compensation, but rather inclusion, equality, and the safeguarding of the rights other Americans enjoy. Those rights are access to education, employment, housing, health care and justice.
Barbara Doss, Hawthorne
