To the Editor:
During these confusing and troubling times our country is going through, maybe a lesson taken from professional sports may help. The best gets to play. The rest are rejected or ride the bench. They are striving for excellence on the court, gridiron, and diamond. That’s how championships are won. Equity may find its place somewhere in the front office.
We can’t allow excellence to prevail only in sports. Doctoring involves life or death. Lawyering involves justice or injustice. Teaching involves awareness or ignorance. Piloting involves safe arrival or tragedy.
No nation can survive and sustain itself if it allows excellence to fall by the wayside. Excellence in any endeavor demands preparation. That is what a true democracy is all about. It allows anyone an equal opportunity to prepare himself or herself, regardless of race, sex, color or creed, the same opportunity to prepare for excellence.
I don’t care who my surgeon is. If they can remove that brain tumor, which might be about to kill me, let’s get it on.
