Letters to the Editor
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‘Trinity School Plans for Apartment Building Are Resisted’
Bravo to The New York Sun for covering the opposition to the planned conversion of Trinity School housing [New York, “Trinity School Plans for Apartment Building Are Resisted,” December 10, 2007].
I believe that Manhattan dies a little each time middle and working class housing is lost to planned luxury condominium development. Without diversity, which has always made New York special, Manhattan will shortly become a dull sprawling bedroom community for celebrities, Wall Street financiers, rich out-of-towners, and foreign investors. The transformation, unfortunately, seems almost complete.
RIMA FINZI-STRAUSS
New York, N.Y.
‘Stop the Black KKK’
Part of what I enjoy about John McWhorter is that as a public school educated South Side of Chicago, I usually find myself in agreement with the overall thrust of his opeds while there is usually something in his argument that I can quibble with. In this way I can engage with his thoughts rather than simply passively absorb them.
In his Thursday, December 6 column on the murder of Washington Redskin Sean Taylor, Mr. McWhorter repeatedly quotes Jason Whitlock’s use of the term Black KKK to describe the staggering rate of black on black crime in America [Oped, “Stop the Black KKK,” December 6, 2007].
It’s a catchy phrase that I’ve used before but to be accurate I think that term should be reserved exclusively for crimes where African American criminals specifically target their victims because they are not African American. The nation’s press and police departments have a tendency to sweep the cause of those crimes under the rug already, and I don’t think they need any more encouragement.
ALEXANDER DALE
New York, N.Y.
‘Polish Hero Who Sought To Save Jews Is Honored’
Jan Karski was never able to meet with FDR [New York, “Polish Hero Who Sought To Save Jews Is Honored,” November 12, 2007].
He was able to meet with Judge Frankfurter, however. At the end of his presentation, the judge walked to the window overlooking the Christmas festive lights and murmured, “I don’t believe it.”
The Polish ambassador of the government in exile expostulated and stated that his government stands behind this young man’s report.
Frankfurter responded: “I said I don’t believe it; I didn’t say it wasn’t true.”
ELLIOT EISENBACH
New York, N.Y.
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