Historic Notes for Sears Employees

Re “Suit Alleges Bias in Response to Big Cash Payment,” May 25, where employees of the Sears store in South Coast Plaza reported a “dark-skinned man with an accent” to the police as a drug dealer because he paid off his credit card charges with $5,000 in cash and a check for $4,789:

Perhaps these employees need schooling in the history of their own company which includes:

(1) An early owner of Sears, Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish man, giving millions to Tuskegee Institute and other educational facilities to help educate black children;

(2) the Sears Co., that with only a bit of a push from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1968 began one of the best affirmative action programs in the country.

To paraphrase the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., it is now well past the time to stop judging people by their appearance, but instead by considering the content of their character!

MARTHA ABELL

Seal Beach