Thank you for your front page article on Kent State. However, inadvertently you perpetuate a divide that persists to this day. The staff writer devotes only one sentence to the demonstrators killed at Jackson State College, a historically Black college. In 1970 most newspapers across the country did not even mention the Mississippi demonstration. During those years I was a draft counselor and engaged to a Latinx-African American draft resister serving a five-year prison sentence because he could not ethically kill. The court system often gave longer sentences to People of Color protesting the war than to their white counterparts (and racial disparity in sentencing persists to this day). Whom do we see? Whose lives do we value?
Rev. Dr. Adele Smith-Penniman
Wendell