It has been a longstanding axiom that those who stand for nothing will fall for anything, especially in this present climate of racial shaming.

Therefore, the Lewiston School Committee would do well to proceed very slowly in adopting an “anti-racism” policy when more than semantics are at issue here; racism as a free-standing construct or concept is a myth.

There is only one race, the human race, and any attempt to memorialize a myth is tantamount to embracing and perpetuating a lie. Committee members should stand on their convictions and not be bullied into adopting what will eventually come around to shame them even more.

Controversies involving different ethnicities are what need to be addressed. These ethnic differences can be managed effectively without employing hammer and tong methods, as it does no good to continue to beat equal rights on the anvil of racism to reshape our schools and our nation.

That effort is only lining the pockets of those who profit from ethnic bigotry and bias, and fuels the engine of those who want to dismantle, not enhance, our nation’s foundational principles of equal justice under the law for undemocratic political gain.

Whether we learn to live with one another is better left to the religious community and enforcement of current civil rights laws. The goal should be teaching well language arts, math and science.

If anything, the new policy should be entitled, “One Race, One Goal: Learning.”

Mark Wood, Poland

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