Whites Suffer From Bigotry

The comments about the (LAPD) and changing the police to different ethnic groups (Dec. 27) to satisfy the change that has come in the city is good to an extent, but I think it’s shallow and it affects people’s lives terribly.

I think that the people that have been in charge for a long time are probably white because the Police Department is where they started out. I too am white. But I have really suffered in the last 20 years from being white. I try not to be anything but exactly what I want to be, which is work for all races to make this a wonderful country and a wonderful city.

But I’ve been shot, I’ve been almost stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors, I’ve had a straight razor plunged into my hand, I’ve been called (derogatory names), I’ve been hit--I’ve had all these of things happen because people of other races are bigoted toward whites and I’m really tired of it.

I’m really tired of the whole scene in which there is not equality for everyone.

This is what I’ve been working for. And I’ve worked in some very tough areas. I’m a teacher. I’ve been shot and I’ve been hit and the people who do it think it’s OK because I’m blond and white.

I wish you would reorient your thinking, because black people and brown people and white people can all be bigots and they can all be wonderful.

Sometimes the minorities think the white people never have wanted equality. They have fought and died for it. My people did, they fought in the Civil War, they were pioneers. They did a lot of great things for this country, and I think we better look at this.

C. STIGNEY

Koreatown