Lee not the answerfor Oakland mayor
Re: “Leaders courting Bay Area progressive for mayor” (Web page A1, Nov. 16).
Barbara Lee has served us properly as a consultant.
So did Ron Dellums. He was not an efficient mayor, and I don’t suppose Lee can be both. It’s time to discover a robust new chief centered on Oakland’s many points, one who has the power to steer Oakland.
There are different candidates moreover Lee who’ve the integrity to do that. Let’s help certainly one of them.
Judith UbsdellOakland
RFK Jr. may flip backclock to earlier than vaccines
Re: “Trump picks RFK Jr. to lead Dept. of Health and Human Services” (Web page A1, Nov. 15).
Do we wish vaccine-denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to go HHS? I don’t suppose so.
Most individuals within the nation now haven’t any reminiscence of dwelling with childhood communicable ailments, however not me. I suffered by measles, rooster pox, mumps and rubella as a result of there have been no vaccines for these throughout my childhood.
Nonetheless, I did miss the worst scourge of all — polio. Each winter throughout the early Fifties my mom lived in worry that I might contract polio and find yourself paralyzed or in an iron lung. She went door to door yearly accumulating for the March of Dimes supporting analysis for a vaccine. When the Salk vaccine got here out after I was 6 years outdated, she had me on the well being division ASAP for the shot.
So, do we actually need to return to pre-vaccine days? If we don’t study from historical past, we’re doomed to repeat it.
Peggy MoyersOakland
Cruelty towards migrantsreplaces compassion
Re: “We must learn from our history, reject Trump ‘mass deportation’” (Web page A6, Nov. 7).
California state Sen. Josh Becker warns President-elect Donald Trump’s deliberate mass deportation “ is a dangerous idea with potential to tear apart families, disrupt communities and inflict lasting trauma.”
In 1954, throughout Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, “Operation Wetback” was carried out. Over 1 million Mexicans have been deported again to Mexico after having come to our border searching for work. Navy-style ways have been inflicted on these immigrants by Border Management, and the trauma this inhabitants skilled nonetheless reverberates to today.
Most Individuals are descendants of immigrants. Take into consideration what a round-up and separation of your individual household would feel and appear like. Furthermore, nobody leaves residence except their very survival is at stake. Take into consideration why your forebears left their nation of origin.
Sadly, compassion has gone out the window and cruelty has changed it.
Sharon BrownWalnut Creek
