Letter to the editor
(03/23/17 5:43am)
We, as a society, all too easily forget just how recently we recognized the equal abilities of people of color. Only at the turn of the 20th century, did scholarship sufficiently recognize that minority peoples were not inferior, but equally capable and deserving of rights. This idea led to tectonic shifts. Nations were freed from colonization, and granted autonomy. Minorities in countries around the world were freed from their legal status as inferior. Too many people died and sacrificed to promote this radical idea of equality. Achievements by minorities, especially black people, in all arenas have shattered the notion that they are inferior in anyway, intellectually or otherwise.