Attempts to Ban Vietnamese Art

* When the Vietnamese American community achieved the ouster of one of their own for displaying a photo of Ho Chi Minh, I didn’t protest.

I understood their pain and their fears. And besides, it was in their neighborhood.

Now, however, members of this group are attempting to restrict my right to view art in what I consider to be everyone’s neighborhood: the Bowers Museum.

Don’t they get it? They came here for freedom, but won’t allow me to exercise mine? My apologies to the ACLU for having let my membership lapse. I’m renewing it today.

ANNEKE MENDIOLA

Santa Ana

* I find the reasoning of the protesters to be absurd.

They are concerned that the American audience will get the wrong idea about communism in Vietnam if we are allowed to see works of art which depict communism in a positive light.

Are they assuming that we are so easily influenced? Are they assuming that we cannot view propaganda and appreciate it as such?

MITCHEL FARIS

Orange