Love column was full of hatred





Jason Love’s column offers a young, somewhat irreverent point of view. In a newspaper crammed with advertising and political issues, his page may be the one thing that young people read.


Some may even consider him a role model. But the privilege of airing his musings in public should be guided, if not by editorial policy, then by basic social responsibility. He may consider it amusing to spend his influence and space on his and his girlfriend’s bathroom habits, but it is appalling that he should so unabashedly spew forth his racism, homophobia and xenophobia.


When Love’s twisted mind ventures outside the confines of our white-bread city to Inglewood, a little girl in a window is viewed as living in a brothel.


Two men sitting on a porch must obviously be both lazy and unemployed.


Neighbors walking in the street are returning from "their crack binges." All the black men he sees are compared to apes whose eyes he must avoid.


He may be a spoiled white boy, as he proudly proclaims, but comparing an entire neighboring city to a zoo, its black and Spanish-speaking inhabitants as no different than animals, is a bit much, don’t you think?


Ron Suppa


Westlake Village



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