LETTERS.

Elder Evictions

Bill Lueders: Your article "I Want to Go Home" (February/March issue) is a personally powerful piece of investigative journalism. Heartbreaking, as you noted. Your mom sounds like a tremendous lady, a real fighter. I'm glad I got to know her, at least a bit, through her loving son's powerful writing. Also glad to read that she is adjusting to her new residence. You're absolutely right. This issue needs a local and national spotlight. God bless you, your family, and your extraordinary mother.

--Matt Kittle

Executive Director

Empower Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

When I read the eye-opening, heart-wrenching piece by Bill Lueders about the tragic eviction of his mother from a senior residence in New Berlin, I was stunned. It is unacceptable--and downright criminal--how senior care facilities are evicting people with no notice, causing chaos for all involved. The seniors in our society deserve much better. We need to care for the most vulnerable in our communities.

--Claudia Wood

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Bill Lueders's in-depth article on his family's personal crisis is in the highest spirit of Fighting Bob La Follette and the progressive movement. May it help shed light on the need for strong governmental and citizen intervention, regulation, public policy reform, and enforcement of the law. The incredible bloated salaries of health care administrators is well documented in this comprehensive public service story. Health care and elder care in America is a right and a public responsibility!

--Terry Testolin

Richland Center, Wisconsin

Outraged and Ashamed

Thank you for publishing Rann Miller's article "Why Schools Must Teach About Racism" (February/March issue). The more I learn about the racist history of America, the more shocked and outraged and ashamed I am.

The idea that white students should never be made to feel "uncomfortable" by what they learn in school is dangerous nonsense. Black children have felt worse than uncomfortable, whether they were in integrated schools with white children or considered unacceptable and given very little education in segregated schools.

America can never be whole until we understand our racist history and take responsibility for it. That includes the genocide of Native Americans. And we have to be thinking about reparations in some form.

Keep educating Americans and reminding us that much of our past was not honorable or worth glorifying.

--Linda Sleffel

Columbus, Ohio

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