He’s just so defensive

Poor Bradley Gitz. I feel so sorry for your angst that whites might be labeled racist that I’ll kneel in prayer for you. Oops, you claim kneeling is degrading, so I’ll stand.

I’ll pray you stop being so defensive and learn it’s possible to be racist without realizing it. I’ll pray you’ll notice that no protester has called every white person in America racist. You’re doing that to further your own agenda.

If you have a niggling discomfort when around people of color, it’s only human to wonder if you’re racist. Or is that impossible for people with your ego based on centuries of being white atop our socioeconomic hierarchy?

Statistical analyses showing Blacks receive harsher sentences than whites for the same crime are liberal fantasies, right? This, and numerous other examples, can’t possibly be evidence of systemic racism when you’re blinded by arrogance.

You call those who use private schools or live in mainly white neighborhoods hypocrites for questioning the status quo. Who needs self-analysis when you’re always white, er, right? Republicans are never hypocrites.

Finally, you can’t believe Blacks have the audacity to trumpet that Black Lives Matter because of blackon-black crime. It’s not your fault Blacks are redlined and have no outlets for upward mobility. So what if few hire felons or if probationers who can’t pay fines are jailed again for being poor?

Yes, I feel sorry for you, Mr. Gitz. But I don’t think my prayers will be enough to overcome your overblown hubris.

DEBORAH HIGGINS Little Rock