Dear Editor:
Two commentaries in the August 2 edition of The Weekly continued our community’s lively discussion on the volatile issue of race relations. The writers, Ihor Mirchuk and Myron Kuropas, seem to be suggesting that Ukrainian Americans should play no role in addressing America’s problems with racial inequality. This is a bit puzzling since they both implicitly acknowledge that racism does indeed exist but, since in their view Ukrainian Americans have played no active role on creating these abuses, they argue that we should be excused from any responsibility for ending them.