Brown Palace employee
Re: “Painful end to 45 years of service,” Oct. 26 Jim Spencer column.
In his column, human-rights busybody Jim Spencer jeopardizes Tom Baines’ possible re-employment at the Brown Palace. By publicizing an employer-employee situation that should remain private, Spencer makes it uninvitingly awkward for Baines if the Brown Palace asks him to return.
Way to go, caped crusader. Oh and by the way, Jim – should you no longer be able to type, write or dictate a column, your employment at The Denver Post might be terminated. Would that make them evil?
Jerry Witt, Wheat Ridge
Honoring Rosa Parks
This country will and should acknowledge and reflect on the heroic life of Rosa Parks. She took her stand – sitting down, as it were – and launched a movement to begin to bring this country’s stated values to all citizens.
Tuesday night’s World Series game lasted more than five hours. In that time, watching as closely as possible the fleeting camera shots, I did not see one African-American face in the crowd at Houston’s Minute Maid Park. It seemed there were no African-Americans sitting down in those coveted seats close to the field. I thought of Rosa Parks. And sadly I drew the connection and wondered if implicit segregation – economic, social or otherwise – continues in that grand Texas city and our country.
Jim Sigman, Denver
President’s frustrations
Re: “Staffers: Events frustrating Bush,” Oct. 25 news story.
Let’s see: half of the voters didn’t vote for him; he surrounds himself with sycophants and toadies and refuses dissenting opinions; and seems to be unswerving in his belief that everyone is out of step but him. No wonder President Bush is frustrated. Are we in for three more years of lame-duck pouting, finger-pointing and “frustration”?
W.F. Meiklejohn, Olney Springs
Naming rape victims
Re: “Record of Hodge’s accuser includes perjury,” Oct. 27 news story.
So, the public cannot be trusted to know the name of the woman who accused a Denver Nugget of sexual assault, even though she’s a convicted criminal, simply because she alleges she was sexually assaulted. On the other hand, even though he’s not been charged nor arrested, we can be trusted to know the name of the accused, even though revealing that name will likely harm his career and reputation. Sure, he’s a public figure, but the accuser’s name is hidden even when the accused is an ordinary citizen.
I say, reveal both names or reveal neither name. That’s fair and equal treatment, which everyone says they want.
Paul C. Robbins, Arvada
