RyanM

Dear Mr.Aronson, I thought your book was well written and I learned of many instances of racial discrimination I did not know about before reading it. However, there were a few things that were unclear to me. One of these points was whether or not race is a genetic trait. You stated several times that it isn’t, but you also stated that it is. So, is it genetic or not? You seemed to be leaning towards it not being a genetic trait at all, with which I strongly disagree. If races aren’t genetic then how come they’re passed down through the parents? In //Race// and also from other sources I have heard that there is a difference between physical traits of a population, which there are common genes for, and races, which there aren’t common genes for. However, aren’t races based on the physical traits of a group of people? Also, if race isn’t genetic then parents of any race could have children of any race. However, this doesn’t happen. How interesting. Though there were other points made in your book that I did not understand or agree with, there were also many things that I thought were very well put or very interesting. One of the things that I liked very much about your writing was the things that you emphasized. The best part about your emphasis was that, unlike every other book on this topic that I’ve read, you only talked briefly on the events everyone knows a lot about. For instance, you could have spent chapters talking about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. or the Holocaust but you didn’t because you could safely assume that everyone has already learned about these things. Instead, you put the emphasis of your book on the deeper meanings of things, which made your book much more personal and interesting. Overall, despite the fact that your book had some inconsistencies and I didn’t agree with everything you said, I enjoyed reading your book and thought it had a good message. Sincerely, Ryan McAllister