LETTER: Get Ready, America!

To the Editor: I was in a predominantly black area of town the other day and noticed bars on all the windows. It was horrible! And then I thought, "Not every person here is a thief. Why should the building owners assume that just because it's a neighborhood inhabited by black people, there is going to be crime?" I remembered walking through what was considered a very nice neighborhood and also one where the percentage of black people was lower, and sure enough, there were no bars on the windows! Is this not blatant racism? Why should the black people have to feel like they are walking around a P.O.W. camp, while the white people don't have to feel like second-class citizens at all? That is why I ask you to join in my crusade to put bars on all the windows in every city and every town in this country! Who cares if the bars that are there serve a purpose while the new bars will not? We've got to make everything fair! But returning to the issue of the music store, some people would say they had no better choice. Some would say doing nothing would allow the theft to continue, and that replacing all the inserts would be costly, inconvenient and serve no purpose -- assuming it's true the vast majority of thefts were of a specific type of disc. Some would say the real tragedy is that this pattern of theft happens, not that stores have to react to it. Some might say the store was just protecting its interest in the most practical way possible, but I know that those Discovery Discs people are just a bunch of racist pigs! So get ready, America! The bars are going up, and we're starting with Discovery Discs! JOSHUA GREENE Wharton '96 BRETT HALSEY College '96