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Study fact about Worth
earlier than judging her

Re: “Worth’s messy highway to reform” (Web page A1, Could 7).

Don’t imagine every little thing you learn. Correction: Don’t imagine every little thing the conservatives say. Alameda County District Lawyer Pamela Worth will not be the villain right here; she is simply the sufferer of poor PR.

Worth’s addressing of racism’s overreaction to legal sentencing, which devastated communities of coloration, has left some folks believing she is lenient towards crime. False narratives declare she will not be charging enhancements, when in truth her workplace has charged enhancements.

Please do some investigation and go to the DA’s web site (www.alcoda.org). Learn the press releases and think about the posted interviews.

Readers owe it to themselves to find the info earlier than judging her.

Rene Smart
Fremont

A’s group ought to
fireplace Kuiper for remark

Re: “A’s announcer Glen Kuiper apologizes for showing to say n-word on-air” (Could 5).

Lately Glen Kuiper, the TV play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics, blurted out the n-word throughout a pre-game chat with an affiliate.

Kuiper later supplied an on-air apology, however is it sufficient? He definitely should know of the racism on this nation and the way hundreds of thousands of Black folks have died from lynchings by some White individuals who hated them for no different cause apart from the colour of their pores and skin. And the very last thing they heard was the n-word that Kuiper reportedly blurted out in such a cavalier manner.

What was he pondering? Whereas psychologists ponder that, the Oakland Athletics ought to fireplace him.

Joe Hargrove
Fremont

Pathway to fairness
higher than funds

I feel we will all agree that slavery is a foul factor. That mentioned I don’t imagine reparations to people 150 years after the top of slavery in america are acceptable.

A greater method could be to create and fund public applications designed to handle the historic wants of these impacted by slavery. Main amongst these ought to be a path to handle financial deficits, particularly these attributable to an absence of alternative and schooling. These could possibly be applications that embrace subsidies to supply meals, housing, know-how (together with residence web) and little one care to make ongoing schooling attainable. Additional, grants and inexpensive loans to encourage small companies could possibly be made out there.

I don’t imagine making $800 billion in funds to people could be efficient in night the scales, however funding a path to equality of alternative is likely to be.

Darcy Johnson
Antioch

Crimson-flag legal guidelines are
wise gun management

With all of the shootings which might be going down in our nation, and gun laws at a stalemate, we should nonetheless act.

I imagine that those that argue for banning weapons are having the improper argument as that battle has been misplaced. Politically and culturally the outright banning of sure weapons appears moot. I imagine political capital ought to be used on red-flag legal guidelines for future purchases. At present when a brand new gun is being bought solely a legal background is finished. Nobody asks these with quick contact with the individual in the event that they really feel protected with that individual proudly owning a gun.

Each new gun buy ought to require a psychological analysis, references from anybody who the individual lives with, and at the very least two co-workers/classmates. Placing the legal responsibility on the vendor will trigger due diligence on each gun sale. This motion would cease shootings like Uvalde, and lots of others.

Eduardo Escobar
Hayward

Indifference to gun
violence is insane

I can always remember the day of the “Sandy Hook Faculty capturing.” A younger man, mad at his mom, shot his manner by means of a just lately put in safety door and massacred 20 first-graders and eight