I am appalled by the lawsuit being brought against MUSD that I read about in Friday’s Tribune, and would like to express several thoughts for your consideration.

Personally, I do not care about anyone’s skin color (they could be purple for all I care) just as long as they are doing a good job of being fair and spending our tax dollars wisely at MUSD. Based on the lawsuit, however, it would appear that some of our Hispanic community is not too happy with how our board is elected and/or running things.

I say this because as we all know our present board is comprised of white males and an African-American woman. I am not sure what more our present board could have done to help the folks that are filing the lawsuit. After all, during the last five years all they have done is build one new high school, one new middle school and four new grammar schools. All of these have been south of Howard Road and east of Highway 99, and no new schools have been built in the northwest part of town

I am also disturbed by the quote from Mr. Uranga about his being qualified to run for the board, yet he felt it was to “daunting” to do so. Perhaps he should take a lesson from our most recent election when an African-American woman was able to get elected after only spending about $1,000. This just goes to show you that in Madera we are willing to elect a women or man who only represents less than 5 percent of our population (not the 60 percent plus of the Hispanic community) if they are qualified.

I hope that the people that are involved in the filing of this lawsuit will reconsider their actions. I say this because I do not think they represent the bulk of any segment of Madera. Asking to be put in a position that one is not qualified for and trying to “shake down” the school board for money is not consistent with the Hispanic community in Madera that I know, and will only serve to create more friction in a town that needs to better learn to all get along.

Let’s recognize this action for what it really is: a small group of citizens and a group of money-hungry attorney’s trying to extort money from us all.

Kevin Herman,
Madera

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