To the editor: Visitor contributor Bee Vang’s op-ed was spot on (“What Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’ obtained proper — and what America refused to study,” Feb. 4). America’s authentic sin, systemic racism, has by no means been totally acknowledged by our political or media class. And that willful ignorance gave us the racist management of President Trump and his present minions within the Republican Celebration.
The message of racial/ethnic pluralism, reflective in Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece “Gran Torino,” was evidently misplaced on the white inhabitants that seen it. This nation is now in deep jeopardy of shedding its democratic constructions because of the deadly viruses of prejudice and bigotry that haven’t abated because the inception of this society in 1776. One has to ponder what the U.S. will likely be honoring on July 4 of this yr, as we “have a good time” our 250-year anniversary. Maybe we ought to be genuine to ourselves and cancel the proceedings.
Bob Teigan, Santa Susana
