HOW TO HONOR CECIL MOORE
Brooks Gray, in his guest opinion column Feb. 17, suggests changing the name of Columbia Avenue to honor Cecil B. Moore.
Changing the name of Girard College to Cecil B. Moore College would be more apprpriate. Opening that school to all fatherless boys should be long remembered.
And you still have the opportunity of changing an avenue name. Why not change Osage Avenue to Wilson Goode Avenue? After the homes are completed, of course.
Stanley Piasecki
Reading
I vote Yes for Cecil B. Moore Avenue in Philadelphia. Long overdue.
Larking G. Scott
Philadelphia
Brooks E. Gray's column was right on. Cecil B. Moore ranks along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his fight for racial equality for blacks. The reason blacks were accepted in the Marine Corps was because this country was preparing to fight World War II. They needed us to help fight the Japanese.
Nevertheless, black servicemen - in uniform - were refused service in some white places of business because of their color.
Ernest Wilson
PENN RACIST, SPECIE-IST
It is appropriate that the same institution should support both racism and speciesism, since they are two forms of the same thing.
Racism: the belief that one race of humans, usually one's own, is superior to all others.
Speciesism: the belief that one species, usually one's own, is superior to all others.
Each espouses the idea that members of the chosen race or species can make free use of members of other races or species for their own benefit, and each is equally lacking in justification in either religion or science. By evading the question of giving up investments in South Africa and trying to reopen the Head Injury Research Laboratory, the University of Pennsylvania supports racism and speciesism.
William S. Woodard
EVERYONE'S RIGHTS, ANATOLY?
Now that Anatoly Scharansky, the human rights champion, has taken up residence in Israel, I am wondering whether he will champion the human rights of the Palestinians. I doubt it, since his wife associates with the most
violent anti-Arab elements in Israel.
Paul Gavin
AVALON ON BOURBON STREET
Avalon String Band expresses its appreciation to the Daily News for its coverage of our efforts to attend the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. We would especially like to thank Ron Goldwyn, whose articles helped spur interest in our trip, and Kit Konolige, who covered our parades in New Orleans.
