REBUTTAL

Pride is something we all want on the Westside (“Mailbag: Reader would

not be surprised if a name change is proposed for city,” Dec. 7).

Apparently, Bill Ngo thinks that because we want a better ratio between

renters and single-family dwellings, we are considered against the

Latinos. That is patently false. The Latinos have been here for as long

as Ngo’s so-called “white” people have been. In fact, they were here

second, the American Indians being first.

Has Ngo something against “white” people? This country was founded by

them, and we have taken in every country in the world. Our world is

homogenous. It’s the melting pot, and if Ngo finds that distasteful, it

is his prejudice not mine.

Since I have never seen or heard Ngo at City Council nor met him at

any meeting concerning the welfare of this city, and since he so

obviously doesn’t know me, then he really is part of the problem and not

the solution.

I give Ngo an A-plus for the courage in writing in and a D-minus in

knowledge of the subject and the will and spirit of the people of Costa

Mesa, who gave Chris Steel the overwhelming majority of votes.

I suggest that he start attending City Council meetings and get

involved before he judges others he has never met or knows nothing about.

City Council meetings are the first and third Mondays of each month at

6:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Welcome to the real world.

JANICE DAVIDSON

Costa Mesa