P. Dalcoe's letter to the editor describing an alleged racial encounter with a local doctor perplexes me.

Nowhere in the writer's diatribe is an attempt made to explain why this encounter was actually considered racial.

I do not know who the redheaded Jewish doctor is, as P. Dalcoe chooses to describe him, but it's probable that a significant percentage of the doctor's patients belong to minority groups. It seems doubtful that a physician can survive by alienating so many people.

Perhaps this encounter was caused by something other than race to precipitate such a hostile response by both parties.

I assume that P. Dalcoe is an African-American because it is mentioned in the letter that “the God I love and serve has no color.”

Prejudice works both ways, however. By the tone of this letter, P. Dalcoe is a hypocrite. I wonder if P. Dalcoe objects to the anti-Semitism of Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?

And by the way, I've seen many redheaded Jews.

L. Sherman
Peachtree City

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