Sometimes, I wonder if the point of the Daily’s opinion section is to simply solicit angry opinion letters. It certainly seemed that way to me as I opened the pages of the Daily and read Ayrel Clark’s “Oscars not colorblind after all”.

Is this girl serious?

How dare she imply that black actors are promoting the separation of the races by acknowledging the color of their own skin? Does she think if the actors hadn’t mentioned their skin color the fact might have gone unnoticed?

Maybe in the perfect world of Johnston where Ayrel is from, people are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, but here in the real world that idea remains just a hopeful dream.

It would indeed be a wonderful world if everyone was really colorblind, but it is insulting to ask the people who feel the glare of racism not to mention it.

My suggestion is that Clark fulfill her international perspective diversity credit, travel more than 60 miles from her hometown, and speak to at least one of the 10 black people in her next lecture class, before she writes another article about racism.

I’m glad Ayrel has a “friend” of Mexican descent, but I hate to be the person to inform her that she is one “minority-friend” short of knowing what she is talking about.

Valerie Goodman

Sophomore

English education