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Reader Would Like a Colorblind Society

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Political worker Charles Stewart chooses to call himself a black American. But by insisting that everyone of mixed African parentage be officially classified as black, he takes that personal choice away from others.

Why should my children be forced to deny their white father? To acknowledge society’s wrongheaded prejudices? To give Stewart’s friends a few more demographic points of political clout?

It is traumatic for such children that our society stuffs our wonderfully diverse population into a few racial pigeonholes: white, black, Asian, Latino. But manipulative politicians like Stewart are not merely recognizing that problem. They are helping cause it.

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WILLIAM SOFTKY

Los Angeles

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