To the Editor:
With a Ph.D. in psychology, Brent Staples of The New York Times, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing on Monday, writes about race with the knowledge that most whites don’t live near African-Americans, seldom socialize with them and haven’t been taught an in-depth course on the adverse effects of race in our country’s history.
Probably because of Mr. Staples’s scholarly training, his editorials on race are at once disturbing, informative and captivating, but also digestible and influential to the masses who’ve never given serious thought to race or racial history.
As an African-American who grew up in the rural South, I especially appreciate his bridging that “social racial distance” to the uninformed millions with erudite and compelling editorials on race. It is direly needed in our volatile atmosphere. He is most deserving of a Pulitzer Prize.
David L. Evans
Cambridge, Mass.
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To the Editor:
With a Ph.D. in psychology, Brent Staples of The New York Times, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing on Monday, writes about race with the knowledge that most whites don’t live near African-Americans, seldom socialize with them and haven’t been taught an in-depth course on the adverse effects of race in our country’s history.
Probably because of Mr. Staples’s scholarly training, his editorials on race are at once disturbing, informative and captivating, but also digestible and influential to the masses who’ve never given serious thought to race or racial history.
As an African-American who grew up in the rural South, I especially appreciate his bridging that “social racial distance” to the uninformed millions with erudite and compelling editorials on race. It is direly needed in our volatile atmosphere. He is most deserving of a Pulitzer Prize.
David L. Evans
Cambridge, Mass.
Source: Read Full Article