Editor,
I am writing in response to the letter from James Brickey regarding cell phones and the poor published in the July 12-18 Daily Lobo. Is he kidding? I mean, really, is he kidding?
I have never in my life read such a completely ridiculous letter, and I wonder how on earth it ever got printed. I am quite certain the “poor lady with kids in a jalopy and an old cell phone” will not get a ticket if she is calling for help while stranded beside the road.
Don’t you think that if a police officer stops to question her about using it, she could explain to him that she needs help? Maybe she could even have the officer help her?
The poor are discriminated against in so many ways that I find it disgusting that this guy is commenting on whether the poor have access to hands-free cell phones! If you want to work on something a little more substantial, then I suggest anything but cell phone access — like maybe homelessness, health care, rape awareness, education for the poor, food for children, the globalization of our consumer economy, environmental racism, homophobia, sexis, classism, to name a few.
Please do us all a favor and find something worthwhile to get so worked up about. Really, cell phone discrimination?
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-Viki Elkey
Undergraduate student
