Letter: Racial preference of any kind violates MLK's dream

I believe Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the best ever made in the history of the United States. It expresses, perhaps better than any other speech, the ideal of a color-blind society in which no one is treated differently on the basis of his or her race of skin color, and to me that is still the ideal. Regardless of which race a person is, he or she should not have any advantages or disadvantages because of his or her race.

Today, that color-blind ideal is threatened not only by white supremacists and racists who always wanted to treat people of color as inferiors, but also by many non-whites who think that people of color should have special advantages because of the disadvantages their ancestors, or people who looked like them, suffered in the past.

In other words, there are some who believe, unfortunately, that because whites were favored in the past, that non-whites should be favored today. I disagree with them.

Racial preferences and discrimination are wrong regardless of which race is being affected, regardless of which race was victimized in the past, and are a contradiction of the ideals of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Daniel Haulman, Montgomery

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