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DAILY NEWS
Sunday, April 30, 1989
EDITORIALS & LETTERS
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Humans, not wolves...
claimed. It is because of their
lack of sorrow and concern for a
fellow human being.
Rita Ross
Manhattan: Your use of the phrase "wolf pack"
to describe the recent Central Park predators Wrong responses
was understandable but inappropriate. Wolves
hunt for food. Dogs instinctively chase whatever
Ringwood, N.J.: Only one thing
was more appalling than the
beating, attempted murder and
runs by. Only humans willfully inflict suffering rape of the young woman in Cen-
and even death because they're bored but tral Park. That was the comment
of a woman from the neighbor-
hood of the punks who are ac-
eused of the crime. She was
Judith Player quoted as saying, "If it was a
biack woman in our neighbor-
hood, no one would care."
Where was this woman during
the past year? Does the name
Tawana Brawley ring a belI?
That woman should ask, "What
the hell is going on in my neigh-
borhood when not one of these
punks has said, T'm sorry'? Why
would we expect that from them
when the attitude of some adults
is, "What's the big
Jim Mastrangelo
haven't the brains to do something constructive.
"Wilding" indeed! Wild creatures have better
sense.
... wolves are peaceful
Manhattan: Referring to the
gang of marauders in Central mal," and understandably so
Park as a "wolf pack" is an in-
sult to wolves! The wolf is shy
and peaceful.
came from an affluent back
ground, was also called an "ani-
Like the marauders in Central
Park, Bundy enjoyed beating,
torturing and raping women.
Unfortunately, such "animals"
have plagued humankind since
time immemorial, and uniess
M. Hamilton
About the victim
East Rockaway: Re Antron there is a drastic change in hu-
McCray's comment, "She wasn't
nothing": That's right, she was
not nothing. She was something
- a hard-working, decent and The Sharpton angle
caring person.
man nature, they always will.
Bruce Adams
in their
deal?"
Richmond Hill: After this hei-
nous crime in Central Park,
what sickens one is that the law-
yers asked for their elients to be
released. Everyone is entitled to
legal representation, but how
any lawyer can take this case
and make anything good come
Manhattan: No, Mr. Sharpton, out of it is beyond me. All of
them should be put away for
eternity, never to see the light of
day again, to breathe the air or
Pat Whalen
Linda Donovan
Floral Park, LI: How about a
Day of Outrage over the attack
on that poor girl in Central
Who's to blame?
Brooklyn: Why would eight indi-
viduals decide to hurt another Park? Where's the Rev. Al
human being in such a brutal Sharpton now? Eleanor Nancusi
and barbarie manner? Who
taught them
anger in such a way? The an-
swers are plain. Society as a
whole has taught a whole gener-
ation that the way to live is to be
brutal. The world that mankind
has created is filled with hate
and violence. The young lady
who was raped and brutalized is
a vietim. My heart goes out to
her and the countless other vic-
tims. Those young men are also
vietims because they see death
and decay all around them. They
see no love, no compassion. I am
a vietim because fear is instilled
in my heart because I know and
feel that the world is decaying in
front of my eyes. We are all vic-
tims.
express rage and
those boys who are suspects in
the vicious Central Park rape
are not treated with venom be-
cause they are black, as you smell the flowers.
The media inflame tensions
Manhattan: As a Baptist minister serv-
PARK ing a church in Harlem whose mem-
bership exceeds 4,000, it would be
grossly irresponsible of me if I did not
comment on the recent attack on the
woman jogger in Central Park by eight.
young men. I am viscerally disturbed
by this act of violence and by the as-
sailants' profound disregard for hu-
man life and moral principles. As a
parent, I can imagine the horror and
anxiety that this tragedy imposed upon
the hearts of the woman's parents and the hearts of the fam-
ilies of the young men. I have prayed for the recovery of the
woman. I have prayed also that her parents will not become
bitter, and I have prayed that the parents and surrogate par-
ents of the boys repel the temptation to accept blame for
their children's capriciousness and cruelty. In no manner
am I convinced that this incident was racially inspired. Not
all, but most media coverage of this event has been irre-
sponsible. The headlines and stories will only serve to en-
gender greater polarization of the races and further ad-
vance racial intolerance. Hardly anyone would deny that
CENTR
L. Koenigsberg
Is it about race?
Hillsdale, NJ.: Earl Caldwell
("Reclaiming our youth tops
black agenda," April 24) seems
to feel that this vicious assault
and rape would not have oc-
curred if only we all lived in
some kind of utopia where pov-
erty and racism did not exist.
branded animals, and that's the
kind of language that arouses
what is already here: fear and
racism," he writes. The late Ted
Bundy, who was white and who
"The kids involved are. being rocism in this city continues to grow, but in this particular
case, it was a group of young people expressing some revul-
of sion at life in general. What the media are doing with the
Rev. Dr. Calvin 0. Batts 3d
tragedy is dangerous.
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