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Letters | READERS HAVE A FEW BONES TO PICK WITH DN

I'M TIRED of hearing all the degradation of our forefathers over the slavery issue. Slaves were sold by their own people to the American people - that was a normal lifestyle, if you could afford it. People act as if they just discovered this.

I'M TIRED of hearing all the degradation of our forefathers over the slavery issue. Slaves were sold by their own people to the American people - that was a normal lifestyle, if you could afford it. People act as if they just discovered this.

William DeHart

Albion (Pa.) State Prison

Whiteout?

I find it interesting that the Daily News always manages to have pictures of the perpetrators of a crime and usually have them splattered all over the first few pages when they are black. (See July 11, Page 4).

There is nothing wrong with that if they are the ones who committed the crimes. But it seems you never can find the space on those pages if it is a white person.

Prime example: Front page, July 16, headline "Too Young," with a picture of a black 14-year-old. I read the story on Page 3 in detail about how a 18-year-old shot him because he didn't move his bicycle fast enough.

What a shame, another child killed. But not until the 5 p.m. Fox 29 news did I see the picture of the 18-year-old Charles Meyer - surprise, surprise, he is white!

Beatrice Webb, Wyncote

Sports critique

With all due respect, columnist Rich Hoffmann is stone cold wrong about Michael Vick.

Vick should not be permitted to enjoy any of the privileges and opportunities of being a professional athlete anymore - he should be suspended immediately on an indefinite basis without pay. And if convicted, he should be permanently banished from the NFL.

Stephen Niksa

Washington, D.C.

Re Bill Conlin column:

Even recognizing that exaggeration can be an effective form of argument, untrue defamatory statements have no place in the news media.

Your column states: "Right to Life activists have a history of blowing up abortion clinics and reaching 'out-of- court' settlements with pro-choicers that, in some cases, involve extreme prejudice."

Philadelphia has a strong right-to-life heritage that includes many of the area's leading citizens. You managed to defame all of us in one sentence.

Outrageous!

Gerard J. St. John

Drexel Hill

Black family

Mr. J.R. Wolfington:

I resent your statement on violence that "the problem in Philadelphia is the collapse of the black family." Not one of the seven people arrested on July 18 are black. If other races would stop stealing and selling illegal guns in black neighborhoods, the murder rate will go down.

Toney de Leine, Philadelphia