DFCS will not eliminate suffering of children
Yes, DFCS has a lot of shortcomings which need to be turned around (“DFCS: Gaps led to deaths,” Feb 9). The agency’s performance over the years has been abysmal. However DFCS personnel did not kill the 169 Georgia children who died in 2014. Let’s put the blame exactly where it belongs. On their irresponsible self absorbed parents and/or care givers. There are far too many people conceiving babies who are ill suited and ill equipped to properly care and nurture children. Women having children out of wedlock; irresponsible males who have no intentions of being fathers; people whose priority is scoring drugs. Making DFCS a model agency (which should be done) will not eliminate this inhumane treatment of children. Loving and caring treatment of children will come about only with the change of individual priorities.
P.D. GOSSAGE, JOHNS CREEK
We can learn from difference ethnicities
Celebrating Black History month in February is an opportunity to learn of the struggles and achievements of African Americans, the largest racial minority in the US. Many years ago, a wise man once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” This wise man was a true hero who lost his life trying to better the lives of African Americans. Just like other great heroes such as Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King challenged racism and changed the ways we once perceived it to be. But even before the rise of Martin Luther King, Holy Prophet Muhammad challenged racism. The Prophet Muhammad said: “Allah has made you brethren one to another, so be not divided. An Arab has no preference over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab over an Arab; nor is a white one to be preferred to a dark one, nor a dark one to a white one.”
The existence of different races and ethnicities is in fact a means of learning from each other. It is realizing the similarities that will unite us.
MEHWISH PALL, LAWRENCEVILLE
