Dovina22 Dec 2005

After your wife-absorbed absence, I am normalized and racially content to find you back in the old style. And I do agree that another argument about race is pointless. Your explanation of geneticist’s contention in (1) is more precise than my poetic one, “But they were all the same race,” no argument there. But aren’t we really both saying the same thing?

I have used stereotypical adjectives in describing the four races in the poem, as you say. That does not mean that other adjectives could not be used, it only means that I was making the nostalgic point that each race contributes differently to the harmony of the “quartet.” It’s a kind of yuletide bringing together of the races.

Usually, you project my responses with some accuracy, but here, almost everything you ascribe to DOVINA, I would not say.

I still contend, not for argument’s sake, but for the record, that I am not racist. (Notice my initial comment)