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Diverstiy alone is
no panacea for state
“Recruiting a Legislature that appears like California (lastly)” (Web page A6, Dec. 16) promotes the profoundly un-American rip-off that Californians should place gender, nationwide origin, race and sexual orientation forward of competence, management, creativeness and integrity in selecting public officers.
It’s this type of considering — electing leaders by genetics and gender — that retains many Individuals from shifting from the poisonous Trumpian Republican celebration to a Democratic one enmeshed in toxic identification politics.
That Black individuals are “over-represented” (admittedly, a ridiculous idea) in state management in contrast with their 6% of California’s inhabitants, and 42% of the Legislature are already ladies, isn’t sufficient for op-ed creator Delano, who makes use of the grossly deceptive, all-encompassing idea “individuals of shade” — anybody whose ancestry isn’t 100% White Caucasian European — to outline acceptable legislative candidates if already bearing the twin stigmas of heterosexual male.
If “range” answered our issues, this state can be in seventh heaven.
Steve Koppman
Oakland
COVID guidelines enforced
erratically, unfairly
Tales on the identical web page on Dec. 2 reported that Calvary Chapel in San Jose was not fined for violating a Santa Clara County prohibition of indoor providers through the pandemic (“Church received’t must pay county COVID fines,” Web page B8) and {that a} Napa physician was sentenced to a few years in jail for offering faux COVID-19 vaccination playing cards (“Naturopathic physician will get practically 3 years in jail“).
Guidelines about indoor providers and false vaccination playing cards are supposed to defend public well being. But one was enforced and one wasn’t.
Karen Lee Cohen
Walnut Creek
COVID catastrophe architects
returned to energy
Many East Bay Occasions readers have commented on the horrible results on youngsters, significantly in lower-income neighborhoods, brought on by those that insisted that public faculties have to be closed throughout 2020 and 2021.
The COVID-related impacts have been nationwide, however most dramatically in states with prolonged college shutdowns. President Biden’s Schooling Secretary Miguel Cardona referred to as these tutorial setbacks “heartbreaking,” however stopped wanting noting precisely who induced them, though that’s fairly clear.
Now we study that two out of three California college students didn’t meet state math requirements this yr, reflecting sizable drops in efficiency in comparison with the yr earlier than the pandemic. The California outcomes are even worse for Black college students (84% not assembly state requirements) and Latino college students (79%).
The election outcomes had been each superb and unhappy, as lots of the identical politicians who promoted college lockdowns had been reelected. One wonders what voters had been considering.
Mike Heller
Walnut Creek
Biden laptop computer story
is not any ‘nothingburger’
Reader Rob Vorkapich presumes the Hunter Biden laptop computer story is a “nothingburger” as a result of “if there have been something to report, absolutely it might have come out by now.” A key a part of the story, although, is its suppression, together with its blocking on Twitter, presumably with authorities collusion, to maintain it from changing into an “October shock.”
The provenance of the laptop computer just isn’t “murky.” Hunter Biden took it right into a restore store, then deserted it, making it property of the store. An impartial forensic evaluation discovered no proof that the person knowledge, turned over to the FBI beneath subpoena, had not been modified, fabricated or tampered with.
The “scandalous contents,” Hunter Biden making the most of work as a board member with a Ukrainian agency accused of bribery, and with a Chinese language businessman now accused of fraud, have certainly been reported.
Beth Elliott
Oakland
Farewell to Pitts
and his column
I’m sorry to see that Leonard Pitts is retiring from his column.
I’ll miss his wonderful and poignant writing, his clear-headedness, his humor and extra. I look ahead to studying his ebook.
Greatest needs to him.
Naomi Karlin
Walnut Creek
Sure, we must always, however
don’t, study from historical past
Concerning “Historical past teaches one can’t appease dictators” (PageA16, Dec. 4), attempt telling that to the White Home. We received’t assist protests in Iran lest we danger pursuit of that ludicrous Iran nuclear pact.
