Your editorial condemning President Clinton’s “foot-dragging on civil rights” (Dec. 24) is a disservice to civil rights in America. You praise the president for appointing Mary Frances Berry to chair the Civil Rights Commission-clearly a blunder. For years she has opposed equal opportunity for all and openly advocated discrimination against white men.
You wrongly assert that Lani Guinier was “unfairly maligned” when Clinton proposed, and then withdrew, her nomination to the Justice Department. Guinier demands that legislatures “reflect” the population, rather than represent the people.
Democracy in America is stronger, civil rights in America is more secure, without the radical advocates of anti-white discrimination and “reflective” quotas, like Guinier and Berry, making policy. Better foot-dragging than moves in the wrong direction.
