Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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As you read this, keep in mind that Donald Trump is usually five steps ahead of people like Chuck Schumer.

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Despite the fantasy that apologist Jeffrey Scott Shapiro would like us to embrace, White House advisor Stephen K. Bannon is not the good guy. He’s the self-professed alt-right (which is code for white nationalist) former Breitbart publisher who proudly offered his website as a platform for haters, attracting racist followers with headlines like, “Hoist it High and Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage.” (“I'm a Jewish American who worked with Steve Bannon. He is not a racist or an anti-Semite,” Opinion, March 2)

Remember, Bannon advises President Trump, whose executive order banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries effectively targets all brown people in America, judging by some of the reports of how it has been enforced in U.S. airports. Heck, anyone with a Santa Monica beach tan suspected of a minor crime like driving in a house coat if you’re a woman or driving too slowly on the 405 Freeway should fear persecution.

Forget due process. Rip up the U.S. Constitution. Bannon has arrived with his dystopian vision for a whiter America.

Marcy Winograd, Santa Monica

Note from KBJ: How does this woman get through the day with her paranoid fantasies?

Who was it that secretly said to Russian President, "Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?" @foxandfriends

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2017

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Animal Logic (1989). If I had to limit myself to one year's worth of music, it would be 1989. Animal Logic consisted of drummer Stewart Copeland (from The Police), vocalist and songwriter Deborah Holland, and bass player Stanley Clarke.

Undocumented workers being hounded by the White House came long ago as a result of our own economic policies leading toward greater globalization and, in the case of Mexico, greater economic integration. Without these policies they wouldn’t have come, my ancestors included.

These folks do not stand at busy street corners holding up a dog-eared sign asking for a handout. Like my parents, they stay busy, working long hours at minimum wage, on jobs the panhandlers tend to avoid as much as you and I do. I don’t want those jobs for my own children or grandchildren, and neither do you.

Still, we need our fruit harvested, our lawns maintained and new shingling on our roofs. Who will do this work after President Donald Trump scares these hard workers away?

Some of us might say, “These people are breaking our laws.” Yes, but laws are political constructions. Turning in a runaway slave in the 1850s would have been legal, but would it have been right? The same with reporting a mixed race couple living together the 1950s. Was banning same-sex marriage right a few years ago?

Let us reject miserly, un-Christian policies that are also wholly impractical.

Carlos B. Gil, Ph.D., Kenmore

Note from KBJ: For "undocumented workers," read "illegal aliens."

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