Sink port ballpark idea

As children we are taught that violence is not productive way to solve a disagreement. We are also taught not to disparage or mock people who are different from us. I have a different perspective on the Will Smith-Chris Rock incident from that of woman who has been living with alopecia since the age of 3.

Jada Pinkett Smith has boldly taken charge of her alopecia areata and has been an amazing role model. When Rock disparaged her with his snarky wit and indirectly called out her different appearance, it seemed to have hurt her, as it would hurt any of us (especially women) living with alopecia.

To be clear I’m not condoning violence, but I completely understand Will’s predisposition to protect his family. I only wish Jada could have got out of her seat, walked up on stage and talked about her brave journey, how alopecia is not something to be mocked or gawked, but something that just is. Now that would have been great television!

Chris Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss led to her husband, Will Smith, slapping Rock during the Oscars ceremony on March 27.

their opinion because it is different from your own and cloaking it behind a mask of free speech and the First Amendment is underhanded and insidious. The First Amendment is about everyone having the right to voice their opinion and for that opinion to be heard.

In Murphy’s world of “free speech,” no one’s opinion will be heard because everyone’s view will be shouted down by those who disagree with their opinion. Is that why the architects of the Constitution put free speech in the First Amendment? So that everyone would have the right to shout down suppress and stifle any opinion they don’t share?

Regarding “Owner Fisher’s secret plan for A’s uncovered” (Sporting Green, March 31): Scott Ostler’s column is especially brilliant and hilarious in exposing the A’s owner’s 15-point master plan for maximizing his profits at the expense of Oakland’s citizens, the city and the A’s, by not simply redeveloping a new ballpark at the Coliseum site.

The Port of Oakland is simply too important for the city and its citizens and port workers, and the state, to disrupt it and downtown Oakland by plopping a stadium at the Howard Terminal. Finally deciding on a new ballpark at the Coliseum might even get the City Council re-elected.