I’m writing to you because of the “Putting down the pistol” article. I’m extremely offended that we were made to be these immigrants who speak “broken English” and were “confused,” as if we’re against an initiative to end violence in the community.
As a matter of fact, NOBODY employed at this establishment speaks broken English. We have been in this neighborhood for 26 years and know everybody in the neighborhood. Everybody employed in this store is college-educated and was born and raised in this country (minus my father, who has been in this country for over 35 years), so it is impossible for anybody here to speak “broken English.”
S. Abdelaziz
St. Louis
Editor’s note: The reporter thought she heard broken English spoken by the person working the counter at your store and reported that. As for the confusion she reported, the story states the clerk was confused because a neighborhood thug was trying to promote non-violence.