Periodicals such as the Daily News that meet deadlines on a daily basis are bound to contain errors in grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, etc. because of the many different procedures and “hands” that are applied to their stress-ridden production processes.

I understand that; nevertheless, as an African-American teacher of English and department chair, I hold myself to a high standard. Because I am currently teaching my students a unit on parallelism and penalize them harshly when they fail to apply such instruction to their own writing, I read with horror the glaring mistake in parallel structure the Daily News made in my letter to the editor April 24 on Sen. Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in paragraph five.

Also, I became fearful that the response, “There’s no way to justify Wright’s rhetoric,” by Ed Caston on Tuesday that read “Us Folks,” (your word) would be misread and attributed to me.

Because of my particular situation, the Daily News graciously agreed to run a notice accepting responsibility for those errors or to allow me to submit a letter addressing the same. I chose the latter.

Despite recent portrayals of these two outstanding and obviously capable American leaders (Obama and Wright), I stand firmly behind every single word I espoused in that letter, and I am very grateful to the Daily News for accommodating me in clarifying the fact that I was not the one who made those syntactical errors.

Angela Townsend

Bowling Green