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Letters: Race unrelated to Fattah's fall

ISSUE | CORRUPTION Fattah's fall Editorial page editor Harold Jackson's lament over former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah's criminal conviction was well put, expressing dismay and disappointment coupled with his additional sorrow as an African American ("Fattah's downfall dismaying - and pe

After his corruption conviction, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah tried to arrange a way to stay in office through October. He changed his mind a few days later and resigned immediately.
After his corruption conviction, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah tried to arrange a way to stay in office through October. He changed his mind a few days later and resigned immediately.Read moreSTEVEN M. FALK / File Photograph
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ISSUE | CORRUPTION

Fattah's fall

Editorial page editor Harold Jackson's lament over former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah's criminal conviction was well put, expressing dismay and disappointment coupled with his additional sorrow as an African American ("Fattah's downfall dismaying - and personal," Sunday). This sad event, however, presents a lesson for all of us and our children: We are all human beings, equally susceptible to the vagaries of the human condition, including greed, power, and ego.

Fattah's unintended lesson was to exhibit and confirm our "sameness" in fighting the battle for virtue. Skin color has never been more irrelevant.

|Joseph Ridgway, Marlton