‘Birth’ of a controversy

Aaron McGRUDER seemed to unfairly get about 90% of the page space in the interesting round-table discussion of the controversy surrounding the screening of D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” (“The Worth of ‘A Nation,’ ” Sept. 19), but I didn’t really mind because he seemed to come up with some valid points regarding the hatred and violence of racism, and how we might not have come as far as we thought in the last hundred years or so.

Then he said: “I’d have dragged all the filmmakers out in the street and shot them.”

I guess hatred and violence are colorblind.

James Beaton

Burbank