Opinion: In today’s pages: Justice Hillary Clinton, Lee Baca on racial violence
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca says race is central to understanding the county’s violence:
We have a serious interracial violence problem in this county involving blacks and Latinos. Some people deny it. They say that race is not a factor in L.A.’s gang crisis; the problem, they say, is not one of blacks versus Latinos and Latinos versus blacks but merely one of gang members killing other gang members (and yes, they acknowledge, sometimes the gangs are race-based). But they’re wrong.
Author David A. Nichols asks if Barack Obama should neutralize Hillary Clinton by offering her a spot on the Supreme Court. Columnist Rosa Brooks knows which candidate could best handle high gas price (hint: not the one who sang ‘bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran’). And columnist Patt Morrison heads to Bakersfield to find out what people are saying about the gay and straight marriage stoppage in Kern County.
The editorial board looks at two state measures that would weaken the security of prescription records, and urges readers not to drive with dogs in their laps. And editorial writer Karin Klein hears former Bishop Geoffrey Robinson speak about sex abuse in the church.
On the letters page, readers react to LAUSD’s teacher walkout and the budget crisis. Sherman Oaks’ Joe Tishkoff says, ‘Our children did not create this budget crisis, so why should they have to pay for it?’
*Cartoon by Joel Pett, Lexington Herald-Leader