Vet angered at Alvarado’s actions

Julie Sharp’s article, "Sex, gender, race no longer an issue" (Sept. 4) has shown the university community once again that Karen Alvarado is allowed to have an intense bias against white males.

Every affirmative action-related article containing quotes from Alvarado that I have read over the past several years has repeatedly and negatively criticized the white males in our society.

Alvarado continually fails to recognize the contributions made by the conscientious white males who have created the very programs she speaks of. Examples of the white male’s contribution are: the woman’s right to vote, the Voting Act, the right to have a legal abortion and the affirmative action policy programs. Alvarado has consistently shown biases against the very class that has enabled her to have her freedom, liberty and successful employment.

If it were not for the affirmative action programs the white males created, Alvarado would not even be employed as the director of the Office of Affirmative Action at Cal State Long Beach in the first place!

The Office of Affirmative Action, directed by Alvarado, has continually, willfully and knowingly violated affirmative action policy programs guidelines mandated by the Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment and Assistance Act of 1974 by discriminating and excluding the disabled and Vietnam veterans at CSULB from any such entitlement program presently offered to women and minorities.

Statistics from the United States Department of Defense show that 88.4 percent of all men who actually served in Vietnam were white males, 86.3 percent of all men who were killed as a result of hostile action were white males, 61 percent of all men killed in Vietnam were 21 years of age or younger and 50,478 of the 58,479 killed in Vietnam were white males.

These statistics show the composition of the gender and race of the disabled and Vietnam veterans that Alvarado, CSULB and the California State University system have a bias against. Maybe this is why the white males are being discriminated against and excluded from the affirmative action programs presently offered for women and minorities at CSULB. These are the same white males of whom many made the supreme sacrifice with their lives or became permanently disabled to promote liberty and justice for all in the United States of America.

CSULB claims that it has a "unique cultural diversity" atmosphere on the campus. Yet I wonder how it is possible, for Alvarado is knowingly allowed by the university’s administrators to willfully discriminate and exclude the disabled and Vietnam veterans who have contributed to the very foundation of which the entitlement program rests upon. These are the same programs that the women and minorities are presently being offered and are taking advantage of at CSULB.

The administration at CSULB is acting illegally, heinously and disgracefully for knowingly allowing Alvarado to continue her policy of discriminating against and excluding the disabled and Vietnam veterans regardless of race, color or gender from the entitlement opportunities created by the Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment and Assistance Act of 1974 and is violation of their civil rights.

Ray Renaud