In response to The Day's coverage of events at East Lyme High School, Students to protest East Lyme High Schools handling of racism, (Nov. 15):<\/p>\n
I discern that Vice Principal Henry Kidd has spoken wisely and well in this article and I think the students are wise to call a non-violent action to bring attention to their experiences of racial oppression.<\/p>\n
Having grown up in East Lyme where I was born in 1945, I can say we never saw a person of color in school, or in town. Because East Lyme had no high school we went on to New London High and just then my mother advised me that I would be meeting \"colored children\" (the term used in those days, around 1960) and, she stated, \"In our family we do not discriminate.\"<\/p>\n
My mom was Fran Fraser, the Day's Flanders correspondent and I am proud of her for many reasons especially her guidance on living by the Golden Rule and treating all others as kin.<\/p>\n
East Lyme is now considered \"the place to live\" and I believe The Day does a service in shining a light on the shadow side of that once humble farming town now morphed\/mutated into what too often appears to be a bastion of upper middle-class self-satisfaction. The light of journalism helps us recognize what we need to attend to.<\/p>\n
Sue Fraser Frankewicz<\/p>\n
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