Michael Hsu's point (""Colorblind society ignores distinctions,"" April 8) was poignant though misled until he wrote, ""Few Caucasians will ever understand ...,"" when his credibility flew out of the window. I hope he doesn't think 150 million ""Caucasians"" in America have always been ""Caucasians,"" or maybe he knows a little better than a second-generation ""Irish"" or ""Italian,"" because they're all ""Caucasians."" I guess it's OK if I wanted shove chopsticks in little Fu's hands, because I'll be damned if he eats like a whitie. Is assimilation racism? Not according to my dictionary. Rather, it's something far more subtle, far more difficult for Mr. Hsu to accept.
Frankly, I don't believe we'll see any serious progress until we stop labeling people with words like ""black,"" ""white"" and ""minority"" and all the other ridiculous terms that we've all become so used to. Those stupid, imprecise words don't do anything to bring us together, and it seems likely to me that instead they only separate us. Race exists and does matter, but since when is it OK to call a ""black"" Republican a sellout because he doesn't agree with majority of his ""race"" or suspend debate because a ""race"" of people don't ""understand.""
