Katie

Dear Mr. Aronson,

I found your book very revealing about how we think of race, and our prejudices against others. Showing how even science is distorted by the ideas of race and prejudice, an in the example you gave on page 127 with the drug BiDil, and how it was specifically prescribed for African-Americans with heart failure. With this example you can see that science like many things can be distorted by prejudice. BiDil should not have just been specifically prescribed for African-Americans, because they are not different from other populations biologically. Instead it should have been prescribed to everyone with heart failure, and as a foot note, or add on it should have been mentioned that it seems to work better with African- Americans than with any other population. For all the things that I enjoyed and found intriguing in //Race//, there were some things that I did not like. The fact that you openly stated your prejudice against Germans was something that I thought was interesting. On the other hand, in //Race// you can tell that you are also prejudiced against Southerners since most of them were for slavery, but you never stated that in the way that you stated your prejudice against Germans. To me that seems strange because if you were planning to be open with us, then how come you weren’t open about your assumed prejudice against Southerners? Also in the introduction you admitted that you are prejudiced, and this just reinforces my earlier question. Except for those few flaws, I thought that //Race// was intriguing, and wonder what you are working on next.

Sincerely, Katie Cox