Newspaper, Ulman care more about skin than ideas

It didn't take long for your Aug. 4 editorial to show the folly of racial diversity for diversity's sake. "One cannot legislate that voters must elect a board that is three parts white, one part Asian, one part black and one part Latino. That would be discriminatory and definitely illegal." Why would what County Executive Ken Ulman wants to do — exactly that — be illegal if "there is more to diversity than skin color," and "groups … always benefit when the membership comes from a variety of places, ethnicities, experiences, cultures and philosophies."

Ironic that your and Ulman's concern is not a dearth of ideas, but solely skin color. No one seriously complains the current board cannot represent the electorate; rather, the complaint is by a few minority members who do not believe people who do not look like them can represent them. Ulman and you must believe that it takes a minority to understand or represent another member. Minorities think differently than other people, you see. You assume people are quite different depending on their melanin content/national origin, and these differences cannot be learned or taught on the job.

"They all think alike," your editorial intimates. How demeaning to us all.

Douglas Dribben

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