To: letters@nytimes.com
Re: In defence of racial diversity
Date: Thursday, 28 April 05

 

 
Dear Nicholas,
 
I believe the world to be a much more interesting place for its diversity - including its racial diversity. But judging by your recent op-ed, "Blacks, Whites and Love", you would rather see this diversity, which Nature spent 10's of 1000's of years creating, destroyed.
 
A bit of healthy (i.e. non-racist) racial discrimination is good for diversity and I would much rather you didn't discourage it.
 
Instead of confounding, blurring or denying racial differences, I wish that intellectuals like yourself would help cultivate them in a humane and civilised fashion.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Roger Hicks