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lothe editor:
After the court ruling in the Lopez case I had thought the matter would be laid to rest. I regret that your intemperate editorial makes that impossible. I write not only as a 1 friend of Mr. Lopez but a journalist of 30 years experience.
Everyone I have met who knows Mr. Lopez personally, through work or social contact, considers him to be of uncommonly high moral character — hard working, responsible, honest, modest, soft-spoken and family loving. He is, in short, a gentleman. I could not recognize him in your editorial.
Have you ever read Mark Twain, or seen the films of Charley Chaplin, or even watched a Black sit-com on television? There is a common thread running through all of them which is the tribulations of people trying to make their way in a strange language, culture and society.
I don’t want to go into the details of the Lopez affair here, except to say that a diligent and fair reporter would have found much that Twain, Chaplin or Cosby would have understood immediately.
However, I would like to address the contribution that a newspaper can and ought to make in a small corner of our national society on its way from rural to suburban life-style. I feel a real newspaper would have asked the following questions:
How could such a decent man, unfamiliar with our customs, get into such a mess? How might we have been protected before the com
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