When black women object to Wake County school board member John Tedesco's claims that dating women of color proves his enlightened attitudes, Tedesco replies, "They're searching for anything they can find about me, and it's sad" ("Tedesco's comments called degrading," June 29 news article).
God bless Tedesco, but we did not dig up this claim that dating shows his good intentions. He sent it to the media, remember? And if he were right, Strom Thurmond would have become the president of the NAACP. Thurmond, an "after-hours integrationist," spewed the same neighborhood schools and forced busing talk that Tedesco embraces.
It was not Thurmond's secret love life, but his education policies that made him the enemy of African-American mothers like me. Tedesco raised this dating issue, not us. My sisters and I are not impressed or even interested in his love life. As my kids say, "Too much information."
