Remark was not intended to offend

To the editor:

Peter — neighbor, friend — I absolutely agree with you. If my comment was taken to insult black people then I should, and do, apologize to the whole world.

What I meant to imply as a “lesson to be learned” in the context of civil rights (and my opening sentence started by indicating that MLK Day piggy-backed on the already existing National Civil Rights Day) is that Roe v. Wade discriminated against the black population.

The numbers will support that and I have even seen statements that Planned Parenthood intended it that way. Of the 55 million innocent victims of Roe v Wade, the large majority were black. My understanding is that the disproportionate genocide continues today.

That is discrimination and racism at its worst. My referencing it was an intended lamentation and declaration that we still have a civil rights problem in this nation.

Larry DeVilbiss

Lazy Mountain

Editor’s note: Mat-Su Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss sent this letter to the editor to the Frontiersman in reply to a letter to the editor printed Jan. 25, which was in response to his comments at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Wasilla Jan. 21.