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What's Race Got to Do With the D.C. Cabinet?
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As our society evolves, we should be working toward colorblindness, toward a condition where being black, white, Asian, etc., doesn't matter. Didn't Martin Luther King Jr. dream of a time when people would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character?
-- Mitchell Stearn
Bethesda
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While Courtland Milloy acknowledged that Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's cabinet includes a Korean American, he failed to note that two Indian Americans, Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi and Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra, also play vital roles in the administration.
Apparently, to Milloy, only African Americans qualify as people of color.
More important, I suspect that District residents are more concerned with education, crime and health care than with racial aesthetics. Fenty should be judged by whether his appointments deliver on these and other important services, not whether he complies with Milloy's limited and distracting concept of color.
-- Dawinder S. Sidhu
Washington
