Where's mayor?

NO RESIDENT CAN walk the streets of Oakland safely either day or night. Where is the mayor?

When you request his presence at a citizen gathering he is nowhere to be seen. We are told he is studying the problem. When does studying stop and action happen?

Where is this model city the mayor promised? The model city has come to represent failed hope, failed promises, failed leadership, failed involvement, failed acoutnability, failed action and failed availability.

When people are heard, there is hope. But the mayor does not want to hear our pain, let alone feel our pain.

The combined failed score is zero, which means to me that we need new leadership.

Edna Pucci

Oakland

The Wright tact

UNABLE TO HELP myself at the time, I was born Caucasian. And I believe in God, but don't like religion although it is often entertaining.

However, I certainly do not find the Rev. Jeremiah Wright racially divisive as an April 30 front-page article, "Obama takes firm stand against pastor," suggests. I like Wright. Long may he wave.

Compared to that gutsy church-man, Obama comes in a very poor second. I'd much rather have Wright as president than Obama — and I almost voted for the senator.

Wright comes across as honest, brave, humorous, intelligent and better (by far) educated than his

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erstwhile parishioner. (Obama made a grammatical error while righteously denouncing his superior.)

Viva Rev. Wright — and Bill Moyers for giving him good air time.

And a bah to the short-attention span media mavens who weren't bright enough to pick up on what Wright said.

K.M. Sullivan

Oakland