Readers sound off on DEI backlash, special interests and a beloved bar’s end

Corporate enactment suffers without immoderate spine

Olivebridge, N.Y.: American euphony video manager Robby Starbuck has threatened large corporations with a boycott if they bash not abandon/repudiate diversity, equity and inclusion. To date, the enactment of Tractor Supply Company, Lowe’s, John Deere, Harley Davidson and present Ford person publically announced the extremity of their DEI efforts.

You person to question the enactment of these corporations. What is incorrect with diversity, equity and inclusion successful the workplace? I situation not inquire if this means that these good organizations volition present instrumentality the other values. The contented itself is little important than the caliber of enactment successful these organizations. The quality of enactment is astatine the halfway of this. Courage is the astir important prime of leadership. Without it, each different qualities go irrelevant.

The enactment of these companies primitively made the determination to negociate their organizations by having a divers workforce, to administer policies successful a just and equitable way, and to see each groups erstwhile hiring and promoting. All this changed due to the fact that an American euphony video manager successful an obscure workplace determination has threatened them with a boycott. Does this idiosyncratic privation america to instrumentality to an all-white antheral workforce? When promotions went to achromatic males? There was a clip successful American manufacture erstwhile that was the case. Is that what our euphony video manager wants? With timid leadership, helium whitethorn get his way.

I person to deliberation that these companies are making different decisions with this aforesaid weak-willed, timid decision-making process. Does this aforesaid enactment benignant permeate their organizations? How volition it impact them successful the future? And boycotts plaything some ways. Warren Davis

At your disposal

Brooklyn: On Sunday, the Sanitation Department hosted an electronics and solvents recycling lawsuit successful Sunset Park. While I was capable to locomotion with a manus motortruck from my location to dispose of aged overgarment and a television, determination were galore who came by car. The car enactment was long, and I was precise impressed with however everyone made specified an effort to safely dispose of products that would beryllium harmful if successful the regular trash. Thank you to DSNY unit and the galore others who showed what New Yorkers are each about. Finally, a bully quality story. Jack La Torre

Newborn recruits

Parkland, Fla.: I work wherever Russia has passed a instrumentality making it amerciable for couples to garbage to person children. Completely understandable, arsenic they person mislaid hundreds of thousands of young men successful the Ukraine War and are successful dire request of the adjacent procreation of cannon fodder. John Squicciarini

Self-policing

Charlotte, N.C.: So, Democratic Mayor Adams was indicted by a Democratic administration. It would beryllium bully if the “law and order” enactment could bash that with their ain people. But I conjecture that’s conscionable excessively hard for them. Ron Turek

Holiday wishes

Manhattan: “Eric Adams Christmas” (to the tune of “White Christmas”): I’m dreaming of a chill politician / Clad successful $6,000 suits / With a boastful swagger / But plans that stagger / And funds the FBI pursues / I’m dreaming of a chill politician / Who imports immigrants wholesale / Merry Christmas, Eric, and hail / May you walk your Christmas Eve successful jail. Susan M. Silver

We’ve seen overmuch worse

Manhattan: Perhaps it’s our shared Queens background, but I similar Mayor Adams. He’s handled an influx of much than 200,000 migrants with precise constricted assistance from Albany oregon Washington. He’s a full-time mayor, moving hard and disposable time and night. The indictment seems hardly a slam dunk for the government. A caller politician was starting his time astatine noon aft a motorcade from Gracie Mansion to a Brooklyn YMCA for a two-hour gym session, past to a bakery to marque calls seeking donations, done for the time astatine 5-ish and hidden successful Gracie. I wonderment what happened to the $850 cardinal allocated to his wife’s favored project, ThriveNYC, which produced zero results. Could NYC person utilized a intelligence wellness outreach program? Were phones and laptops seized by the authorities from ThriveNYC personnel? The erstwhile politician walked a tightrope of corruption but escaped. Robert J. Katz

One-note nominee

Monroe, N.J.: Listening to the galore speeches Donald Trump has precocious given, I tin spot that his feeble caput tin lone grip 1 taxable wherever helium goes. Everything helium is asked astir oregon tries to contiguous to organizations is deflected and laced with lies. Economic plans? Immigration. Women’s rights? Immigration. Gun control? Immigration. He has large policies planned, mostly “concepts” that volition beryllium “released successful a fewer weeks,” arsenic helium stated successful the past statement weeks ago. Maybe helium either can’t comprehend it oregon avoids it, but his policies are spelled retired successful Project 2025. Perhaps helium tin find an audio mentation of it. Katherine A. Moloney

Sip of truth

Smithfield, R.I.: I americium gonna beryllium successful implicit disagreement with Voicer Mary Caggiano from Crazytown. Voicer Anne Slamka sees intelligibly and isn’t drinking immoderate Kool-Aid. She’s drinking world cider. She knows Orange Jeff Davis is simply a fraudulent felon and has despotic tendencies and desires. She remembers the chaos of his archetypal term. Many of Don’s word mates aren’t endorsing him. By the way, what happened to Mike Pence? Oh yeah, and John Bolton, Betsy DeVos, Anthony Scaramucci, erstwhile Chief of Staff John Kelly? They and Liz Cheney cognize that the orangish menace is incompetent. They each cognize orangish R. Kelly is lone retired for himself and his family. And I americium advising against buying immoderate of his anserine watches oregon his coins. Anne, convey you for enlightening us. Keep enjoying your world cider and Honest Tea. And acknowledgment for sharing your astute observations. Stephen De Falco

Fair deal

East Meadow, L.I.: No 1 who enters this state illegally should ever beryllium allowed to go a citizen. If they tendency to “come retired of the shadows,” the reply should beryllium conditional imperishable nonmigratory presumption without the accidental to gain citizenship. I’d accidental that’s a beauteous compassionate compromise. Greg Hecht

Selfish agendas

Kew Gardens: Regarding Voicer Rose Mary Lancaster’s letter, which she felt whitethorn not beryllium excessively “learned,” she really deed the nail connected the head. For arsenic agelong arsenic I remember, our authorities has not addressed the needs of its people. For excessively long, if a Republican is elected, the wealth and taxation breaks spell to the affluent and corporations. If a Democrat is elected, the monies spell to the highly poor. The erstwhile mediate people oregon moving people gets nothing. This has been going connected for much than 40 years. Now religion has entered the election, with the spiritual close calling for a full prohibition connected abortion. Our leaders person successfully pitted america against 1 another. It is my considered sentiment that arsenic of close now, the 2 worst and astir unsafe groups successful this state are self-involved, self-promoting politicians and the spiritual right. Jeff Pullen

Socialism sometimes

Brooklyn: It truly is absorbing however Republicans successful states devastated by storms that person intensified due to the fact that of clime alteration outcry for assistance from the national government! Socialism is not lone bully erstwhile storms hit! Harvey Kaplan

Watering spread farewell

Delray Beach, Fla.: Glacken’s Bar and Grill, serving customers since 1940, has closed its doors, different unfortunate of the mode NYC makes it intolerable for a tiny barroom to thrive. This was a family-owned bar, and nary substance who you were, what your concern was, achromatic oregon Black, you were treated with respect and treated similar family. The autobus lanes, the restrictions connected parking, the COVID pandemic with the ridiculous laws made it intolerable for the barroom to bash business. I americium present 67 and person been going to Glacken’s since 1987. Going to a Yankees game, you had to marque a halt there. Knowing the full household makes it adjacent much difficult. In fact, Tommy Glacken came to my daughter’s wedding, and I volition ever cherish that memory. The closing of this barroom is similar a bittersweet funeral, and going to Yankees games volition ne'er person the aforesaid meaning. Manny Agostini