Letter: What type of racist do I choose to be?

Solving any problem is a three-step process: awareness, acceptance and action. Addicts can’t address their addiction unless they are aware of it, accept it and take action.So it is with racism. Many think racism is someone else’s problem, not accepting that we may be the problem. We have difficulty being aware that we are racist, let alone accepting it. But as Leonard Pitts stated recently, it is not so much a character defect as the “water in which we swim.” Like a fish,