Latinos Say Panel on Race Is Not Inclusive

Activists criticized the makeup of a panel for this week’s White House town hall meeting on race and sports because only one member is Latino. Felipe Lopez, a 23-year-old Dominican basketball player at St. John’s University in New York, is the only Latino on the 11-member panel, which also includes President Clinton and nine other athletic figures--six blacks and three whites. “It just shows you the lack of sensitivity on the issue as far as equality of the Hispanics,” said Johnny Mata, spokesman for the Houston chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Tuesday’s meeting will be televised on ESPN.