I can appreciate Lavonia Allison, Donald Hughes and Jackie Wagstaff voicing their concerns regarding voting districts for school board elections.
However, the critical point here is people have the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice.
For many years, we have witnessed several revisions of district lines to reflect and empower minority-laden areas.
The bottom line is people need to get out and vote. To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr., I would like to see a day when a candidate is judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
One group's constant bleating only results in further dividing much progress already made between blacks and whites in Durham.
MIKE A. HALL
Durham
Corporate speech?
Was it Franklin D. Roosevelt who was responsible for the Great Depression? Well, I guess so. Was it Barack Obama who brought about our economic crisis? Funny, I thought the economy tanked in November of 2008, after eight years of Republican administration.
President Bush, however, was good at planning ahead, in stacking the Supreme Court. And what strange fruit his hopes have produced, now that the American way can really blossom even further into plutocracy. Goodbye, democracy? It remains to be seen whether our electorate can be so richly brainwashed by the minds of the corporation "persons."
On the TV there is a particularly offensive advertisement from Chevron about how richly green they have become.
This corporate "person" fails to mention all the garbage, chemicals, oil they have left on the Amazon River basin, an area only the size of Rhode Island, leaving the inhabitants to suffer or die But then, and again, what good are Indians, rain forests and headwaters, anyway?
SARAH FREEDMAN
Durham
Unfair coverage
I would just like to know why that every time I open the paper to the sports section that the University of North Carolina men's basketball team is always plastered over the entire page if they get a win. For example, Carolina's win over N.C. State on Jan. 26 took up well over half of the page while the others sports teams settled for a small article or no coverage at all. I think the sports writers of The Herald-Sun are being completely biased toward the other teams. It's obvious that these writers are all for Carolina.
How about covering other teams such as Duke or other local teams when they get wins like you do, Carolina? Because it's just getting ridiculous.
CAITLYN NOBLITT
Durham
