Dear Editor:
The letters by Dr. Michael Karol and Dr. George Baranowskyj (July 26) calling the Black Lives Matter movement Marxist are clearly written from a place of deep fear. This is understandable given Soviet history, but the writers also betray their deep ignorance of American capitalism. The prejudice and structural racism faced by non-white people in America flies in the face of the so-called American values of self-reliance, equality and justice for all, and hurts the American Dream.