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VOICES | Issue: "Ashcroft 2000?" October 11, 1997

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LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Federal Testing
September 13, 1997

Underground news

I enjoyed Joel Belz's column, "Granola,not pablum" (Sept. 6), but you missed two important points. First, reading is down dramatically because we are turning out more and more illiterates from our public schools. The statistics are staggering: Approximately one-third of our population is totally illiterate or functionally illiterate, and that number is growing. Second, of those of us who can read fluently, many of us choose to get our information from underground presses rather than subscribe to the secular ones. They tell the truth from a conservative viewpoint that the liberal secular media chooses to ignore. - Donna Wyeth Thibodeau, Minneapolis, Minn.

Welfare not to blame

To pretend that the problems of Native American people can be blamed on welfare is so short-sighted I don't know where to begin ("A 50-year dance with Washington's wolves," Sept. 6). We lied, murdered, cheated, and forced Native Americans onto reservations. It is truly the grace of God that any of them could see past our hypocrisy to Christ. Are you saying we should cut them off and watch them starve? - Darren Davick, Chicago, Ill.

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