Why Must It be About Race?

Editor,

Some people just cant help themselves. In his letters to the editor last week Gregory Newman, in one sentence takes away from from everything he tried to say of his friend and made it about race and politics. Total backfire... He said "the one beauty that stands out to me as a black man is that he never made any reference to race" as a black man? Why couldnt you just say "as a MAN" or not even that..kind of sounds "tribal" when someone insert their race. It just perpetuates the very thing you're friend did not like.

–Brian Thomas, Castro Valley