Letters: Race unrelated to Fattah's fall
ISSUE | CORRUPTION Fattah's fall Editorial page editor Harold Jackson's lament over former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah's criminal conviction was well put, expressing dismay and disappointment coupled with his additional sorrow as an African American ("Fattah's downfall dismaying - and pe
ISSUE | CORRUPTION
Fattah's fall
Editorial page editor Harold Jackson's lament over former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah's criminal conviction was well put, expressing dismay and disappointment coupled with his additional sorrow as an African American ("Fattah's downfall dismaying - and personal," Sunday). This sad event, however, presents a lesson for all of us and our children: We are all human beings, equally susceptible to the vagaries of the human condition, including greed, power, and ego.
Fattah's unintended lesson was to exhibit and confirm our "sameness" in fighting the battle for virtue. Skin color has never been more irrelevant.
|Joseph Ridgway, Marlton