There is more to race than just skin color
By Concetta Lowery
Published on Wednesday, February 14, 2007
To the Editor:
I was both appalled and offended after I read the recent article by Nathan Bruschi '10 (Affirmative Action Too Skin Deep?, Feb. 13). In the piece, he proposed that Native Americans who do not have the "typical" Native American features should not receive the benefits of affirmative action because they had not been victims of direct racial discrimination. I could not believe that someone would take the time to think of something so absurd. Being Native American is not based on what one looks like. Our Native American heritage is part of who we are, its part of our history and our spirit. It has nothing to do with whether we are "light" or "dark." Simply put, Bruschi's article was very insulting.