Stanley Crouch on Louis Farrakhan

As a black Vietnam veteran, I find it incredible that a “professional cultural critic” such as Stanley Crouch would try to interpret and distort the articulate words of Louis Farrakhan in order to further his own agenda (“To look upon Farrakhan As Any Kind of Solution Is Condescending,” Sept. 30).

In the 66 years of the Nation of Islam, there is no history of violence against whites of any persuasion. Any comparison of Farrakhan to David Duke, who led the Ku Klux Klan and identified with the Nazis, is absurd. These groups are notorious for committing murderous acts against blacks, Jews and anyone else they don’t like.

I say to Crouch: If Farrakhan has made statements you don’t approve of, specifically show facts that repudiate him as a liar rather than complaining and whining about his freedom of religion and subjects you’re uncomfortable with because they don’t meet your standards of political correctness.

ROBERTO ROSS

Moorpark