To the editor: It’s time for California’s elected leaders to have a severe dialogue about how Californians can withhold our federal tax {dollars}. (“How California schools, colleges are responding to Trump’s DEI crackdown,” Feb. 25)
Sufficient is sufficient. When Democrats have been in workplace, they didn’t lower off cash to Florida and different crimson states that banned sure books in colleges or banned abortion. How dare the Trump administration threaten to chop funds to our public colleges as a result of we acknowledge that curriculum and insurance policies that acknowledge and train in regards to the numerous communities in our state are vital?
After we went to varsity within the late Seventies and ‘80s, there have been hard-fought struggles to create ladies’s research, African American research and different applications recognizing that the historical past of the world isn’t just about white males.
Particular person California taxpayers ship greater than $230 billion to the federal authorities, about 15% of the nationwide complete. We pay for the companies supplied to much less rich crimson states that may be pleased to have us punished for our values. Sufficient is sufficient.
Leslie Simon and Marc Bender, Woodland Hills
