LETTER: Legislator’s comments disturbing

To the Editor:

Recent news accounts report Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman staged a one-person protest against a legislative resolution honoring Alaska’s black soldiers who helped build the Alaska Highway. Mr. Eastman was quoted as saying, “the state should not enter into the practice of choosing winners and losers, especially on matters of race.”

Mr. Eastman’s actions and statement leave me almost speechless. Unless he is a white supremacist, since when is honoring our black soldiers, picking winners and losers on racial issues? Why is this “representative” wasting state resources with such divisive drivel? And how does Wasilla manage to put such an unthinking, arrogant politician into office?

— Kevin Harun

Anchorage