Letter: Accepting others as they are takes work

I’ve spent a lot of time lifelong working to understand, get comfortable with and value people who are different than me in skin color, or sexual preference, or socioeconomic level, and it’s been hard work. My profession, social work, demanded it.The religion I grew up in, I thought, expected its members to do this. My generation, 1960s and 1970s baby boomers, also adopted this as the way it’s done. We came up fighting for equality.Looking back over the years, and looking at ri