Re: Jan. 23 news story.
I was appalled and horrified to read about the allegations of racial and sexual discrimination taking place at Jackson National Life Insurance Company. The company and employees involved in such uncivilized, demoralizing behavior should be slapped with the most severe punishment available under our laws. Those who have bought insurance should remove their assets and take their business elsewhere. There is no excuse for such behavior, and our tolerance should be zero.
The Women’s March on Saturday clearly demonstrated that we are fed up with unequal justice and the lack of civil rights for all. If these claims are true, I’d like to see the company closed down completely and those who have experienced discrimination offered jobs elsewhere in companies that will appreciate their talents, skills and diversity. Those guilty need to take a turn on their knees begging for forgiveness.
Mariann Storck, Wheat Ridge
Re: Jan. 22 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Steve Kaeuper succinctly countered Peter Bruno’s Jan. 18 letter, which stated that it was Democrats who fought against integration in the South. It is important that the facts are put out there about Nixon’s Southern strategy to appeal to Southern racists in the Democratic Party after the 1964 and 1965 Voting Rights Acts, thus turning the South into a Republican stronghold, opposing the voting and personal rights of black American citizens. Fifty years later, it’s time we come together to oppose all injustices.
And yet, today we read that black employees at Jackson National Life Insurance Company are suing for racial and sexual discrimination right here in Denver. These and other historical causes of discrimination throughout the United States are exactly why women and men were marching in the streets of Denver on Saturday.
Janet Johnson, Golden
