Dear Editor

Monday night reminded us that the BIU has been the most consistent and effective agent of change in our racially divided society.

There is undoubtedly value in being reminded of how very far we have come from those overtly brutally racist and oppressive days and the costly sacrifice that were made by some.

But those who were imprisoned should remember that so were men like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.

There is no shame in being imprisoned by a shamefully unjust, racist and oppressive Government because one is in a struggle for a more just society.

Perhaps it is because we have come so far from a time that was so dark and evil that real racial progress has come to an end. It has come to an end because so many in the black community choose to ignore the fact that we are still a two-tiered society in order to maintain the concept of white supremacy.

As a consequence, our young black men have so little sense of self-worth that they continue to recklessly destroy themselves by guns and on the road and those in the black community turn on each other in a way that those in no other community does.

As long as blacks themselves look for any other reason but the continuation of old-fashioned racism, less overt, more subtle, for our continuing divide and ongoing conflict, the two tiered structure of our society will continue and we will never attain the collaboration and cooperation so consistently called for by columnist John Barritt.

Yours sincerely, Eva N Hodgson