Today s letters: Readers comment on the Juneteenth vote, the GOP and a recent editorial Ocala Star-Banner
More bipartisan votes
Congress passed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday on a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote (all U.S. senators and all but 14 Republican members of the House of Representatives). The bill commemorates the end of the Civil War’s root cause: slavery in the confederate states.
How did such a bipartisan vote happen, and can it happen again? There are important issues facing our country, and Congress was elected to address them. We need agreement on rebuilding infrastructure, addressing climate change, gun control and, most important, voter rights.
Suffolk housing task force calls for undercover testing program
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State Legislature approves bills to curb housing discrimination
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LI civil rights leaders criticize Ryder comments on lack of diversity Email
Four Long Island civil rights leaders said that Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder relied on negative stereotypes of Black and Hispanic families to explain in a Newsday interview his department’s failure to attract greater numbers of minority hiring candidates.
Two of the leaders – NAACP Long Island Regional Director Tracey Edwards and Luis Mendez, formerly Nassau’s deputy director of minority affairs urged County Executive Laura Curran to ask for Ryder’s resignation.
“As a daughter of a Black police officer and proud aunt of a Black doctor, I am totally disgusted by the police commissioner’s ethnic stereotypes and blind ignorance,” Edwards said, adding: