American apartheid.

• Author: Quintero, David
• Position: WE HEAR YOU - Letter to the editor

Remember when apartheid was the law of the land in South Africa, and the white masters stationed police forces throughout the country to protect themselves against unarmed blacks?

Although camouflaged by the disguise of "equality for all" here in the United States, that same architecture of racial bigotry remains entrenched in our own society ("South Carolina's Police State," June issue).

What other reason can account for the deployment of military weapons to police squads that are patrolling our cities' streets, where multitudes of blacks live in hopeless...