Latin School debate

I read with great interest Paul R. Murphy's letter in the Boston

    Globe this morning : " Don't penalize white-working class kids at Latin "

    (Dec. 29 ) .

         A number of cogent editorials in our Providence Journal , I believe,

    lean toward Mr. Murphy's position : " It was only admission into Latin

    School that gave me a chance at a decent secondary education ". It is

    noteworthy that Mr. Murphy " as an Air Force pilot in Desert Storm "

    never felt the fear he did as working class kid in Boston's disastrous

    busing experiment. The elitist-Left just ignored the plain truth that

    white-working class kids also " struggle for excellence ".

           I must admit that I joined pro-busing demonstrations at the

    time. I did indeed observe the most vile hatred for blacks on the

    part of South Boston whites. Even the American Nazi party joined the

    the Boston bussing circus !

          But for a long time now I have believed that the political Left

    - despite much honest good will - played an opportunist role in the

    school desegregation controversy. And they often showed complete

    contempt for the white working class - " infected with racism ".

          If you study left-wing publications today like " The People's

    Weekly World " and " The Militant " you will find along with the

    healthy dissenting points of view  on big social questions, a little

    too much pandering to RACE .

           You would think that even Karl Marx was no friend of the

    " privileged " white working class.

        Was not the socialist position  on education for years simply

    that it was a universal human right - not something for working

    people of different races to fight over - like hungry dogs over

    the same puny bone  ?

             Lies can never serve the working class !