Elwood B. Harmon. Recent news coverage regarding child slavery in Africa has brought the issue of modern slavery to our national attention. Genetic research is showing that Europeans are descended from a few hundred Africans and that the human race has the genetic variation of a few tens of thousands. Evidently we are all brothers and sisters, or at least cousins. We, the citizens of the United States of America, are so blessed with our freedoms.
Slavery is a terrible thing.
We should do all we can to stamp out this despicable practice. Charlyne Cox. south hill. One of your youth correspondents put his finger on why affirmative action is wrong. His outrage is misplaced. He should be outraged that our affirmative-action racialpreference system characterizes people by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character.