Barbara Jordan
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James Steele (“Jordan’s Words Seen as a Shock to Blacks,” July 16) and those who agree with him say that “black Americans are incapable of exercising racist views because they lack the power to put whites at a disadvantage.” I would assert that racism is treating a person differently because of her or his race, something of which anyone can be guilty.
MICHAEL S. KLEIN, Los Angeles
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