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Dear Sir,

I found Dr. Grant Gibbons' recent remarks on race interesting for several reasons.

Neither Dr. Martin Luther King nor Nelson Mandela were responsible for racism/segregation and therefore they could not eradicate it.

Martin Luther King was assassinated and while there is no longer Government sponsored segregation and despite high flyers like Condolizza Rice and Colin Powell the black masses and the average black person in the U.S. still face many of the disadvantages imposed by racism, particularly in terms of housing and racism.

Fortunately for Mandela much of the rest of the world (with the exception of Margaret Thatcher) came to his aid and political change came to South Africa.

But anyone who visits South Africa today very quickly learns that in terms of one's daily life Whites continue to live with luxurious excesses of wealth while the vast majority continue to live with degrading poverty and Whites show no interest in changing this tremendous economic disparity.

Remarks by the Premier may or may not be helpful but it seems to me that Dr. Gibbons, as a white man, might address the white community to consider how they might bring economic balance to our community since our history of racism and segregation has ensure that Whites are still enjoying all of the benefits that they derived from our past, while the majority of Blacks still suffer from the numerous disadvantages imposed by racism and segregation.

Especially since those of us who have lived much of our lives with Government sponsored racism, segregation, denial and exclusion will never be compensated or find justice.

Eva A. Hodgson

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