Bill Lann Lee
In regard to John Lewis’ Nov. 19 commentary on Bill Lann Lee, I would like to ask a simple question: What is fair? For all of Lewis’ talk of “fairness,” does it strike him as ironic that the very program of racial preferences that he is lauding would put Lee’s children at a distinct disadvantage when they apply to college simply because they are of the wrong color? No matter that Asians in general, and Chinese in particular, have suffered from horrendous amounts of racism in this country’s history, they are now the ones being told to attend lesser schools so that spaces may be made for equally or less qualified, but underrepresented, blacks and Hispanics.
Equality starts when you stop judging people as members of broad racial groups and start seeing them for the individuals that they are. Do racial preferences get us to this goal?
BENJAMIN LU
New York
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