Thank to The Sun for putting our dirty laundry out on the line — er, front page — for all the world to see. Racism in Baltimore is nothing new, unfortunately ("Baltimore leaders agree: City has a race problem," March 14).
Many people of all skin shades are sincerely working hard to rein in the bigoted attitudes we see every day. Your articles spotlighted the problem in a way that makes it difficult to avoid, and that's a good thing.
Lack of education and plain hypocrisy play huge roles in racially-charged events, policies and much of the flat-out hatred around the world. Researchers who collected DNA samples from all over the world have found that between 60,000 and 80,000 years ago, a population of approximately 2,000 people in West-Central Africa had the genetic markers of everyone alive on Earth today. Everyone on the planet today can trace their ancestry back to that core population of 2,000 Africans.
The point is, we are all descended from African peoples who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. If you are racist bigot of any color or culture, your anger and ignorance have no place in modern society. We must learn to respect each other as equal creations of Nature or God.
Unless you are just a hater, there's no place for the divisiveness caused by race, skin color or ethnic origin. These are aspects of our lives that none of us orchestrated tens of thousands of years ago, no matter what, when, where or how our ancestors passed through on their way to here and now.
Edgar C. Ludwig