Friday, October 2, 1998
Letters
What’s love got to do with it?
I find that Stacy Lee’s claim of "love" in the article "All UCLA
needs is love of education, life"(Viewpoint, Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 1998)
to be fully ironic. Quite the contrary to this little outburst are
the actions of herself and of groups that she voluntarily both
associates with and helps to lead.
The first irony is what she calls "the praxis of love," calling
Praxis "reflection and action." A more appropriate definition of
Praxis, the way she truly uses it, is "delusion and
distraction."
Praxis was the slate that Lee headed at the last student
elections. During the election night returns, her group of
hate-mongers gave voice to racism and hatred.
She also denounced Chancellor Carnesale for wanting to uphold
the law (i.e. Proposition 209), and she wrote that he is upholding
repression and elitism, when all the chancellor was doing was
fighting for justice and equality by supporting the legality of a
law which prohibits discrimination and preferences.
At the chancellor’s inauguration, she and her cohorts protested.
Myself and a friend stood against the protesters by doing nothing
more then holding up an American flag (as a sign of unity over
their divisiveness). My friend (who is half Pilipino) was verbally
attacked by being called a "sell-out," and I was physically
attacked (though the attacker was restrained). I was also spit
upon, while others tried to hide us from the students passing
by.
She and her cohorts also invited racists to speak for them, who
then called my friend and others "coconuts" and "oreos" (brown on
the outside, white on the inside). Her various cohorts shouted
other equally vile, racist remarks.
She condemns Ward Connerly as a sellout in her article because
he does not think the way she believes he should and because he
doesn’t adhere to the stereotype supported by Praxis.
Connerly is a person who believes that we should be judged as
individuals and not racial classifications. He also believes that
we should be uniting people in our commonalities (after all,
America is a land of all races) while fighting against the
divisiveness upon which Lee thrives. Lee’s band of cohorts (Praxis,
Affirmative Action Coalition and others) has always stood for
divisiveness, hatred and continual attacks on intellectual
diversity. It is quite offensive for her to proclaim love while
fighting for institutionalized injustice.
Daniel B. Rego
Third-year
Pre-political science
Rego is a member of Young
Americans for Freedom and is also Secretary of the Bruin
Republicans
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