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5:38 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Re “Sammy Sosa now a whiter shade of male,” Nov. 19: Leonard Pitts’ diatribe against Sammy Sosa for his altered skin color reveals Pitts as a shameless racist who harbors a seething hatred for whites.

Sosa’s lighter complexion prompted Pitts to berate Sosa for having “a white man inside you trying to get out.”

Those remarks and the balance of his column clearly indicate that Pitts not only judges people largely by the color of their skin, but that he also believes that lighter skin is an affront to his race.

I am extremely disappointed that the DDN would print Pitts’ racist comments. Had a white columnist made similar comparisons about blacks, the paper would not have printed the column.

Pitts has written that a member of a minority cannot be racist by virtue of minority status, but he is wrong. Anyone can be a racist — as Pitts amply demonstrated in his statements about Sammy Sosa.

Fred Akers

Springboro

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