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Don’t generalize about race issues

Don’t generalize about race issues

To the Editor:

It’s appalling that you only include a singular view by Michael Boatwright about the current reality involving race and police brutality.

The current reality is that black people discriminate against non-Blacks as was proven by the FBI statistics on racial violence against Asians, where the vast majority of perpetrators were Black people. Does that make all Blacks racist, No, just like individual cases of police brutality doesn’t make all police officers biased against Black people! Michael Boatwright might be a professor of education but he needs some education himself about generalization.

Gino De Neef

Franklin

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