Thank you, Rebecca Haskell, for putting into words what I have often wanted to say but couldn’t, because my rage would get in the way of making a nonemotional, articulate rejoinder [Letters, April 3-10]. I, too, am sick of being expected to fit into a certain set of beliefs and go along with some really racist views just because I happen to be white or one of “you”, whoever the hell “you” think you are.

I am not one of “you”; I am “me”, and I consider this to be another form of racism, in that I am judged that I should have the same (racist) mindset as “you” just because I have a similar “white” appearance to you. Well, I don’t belong to “your” crowd, and I think it’s long overdue that either you get a life or, preferably, emigrate to another planet and leave the rest of us to get on in peace. Or at least grow up! Thank you.

> Anne P. Hoddy / Vancouver