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Racially based hit pieces are intolerable
October 26, 2001
LETTERS TO THE WEST COUNTY TIMES

On Oct. 19, we received racially motivated campaign literature from Black Men and Women, which attacked a candidate for mayor.

I know it is typical for hit pieces to appear shortly before municipal elections, and I know former City Council members have played the race card in the past -- but this is the worst piece I have seen in my 12 years living here.

My wife, Sara, and I have been involved in the civil rights movement since 1961. In fact, I met Sara on a picket line at Woolworth's while protesting segregation of its lunch counters in the South. And Sara was instrumental in opening up off-campus housing at UC Berkeley to students of color.

Richmond is supposed to be the "City of Pride and Purpose" and a millennial city. We even had a racial harmony conference in Richmond last month.

And now we have this hit piece that makes a mockery of racial harmony and is an insult to everyone in our diverse community.

I urge residents and voters of Richmond and members of our City Council to create a climate where disgusting, outrageous pieces such as this one will no longer be tolerated.

Peter O. Clevelamd
Richmond
 

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