Too-broad strokes

In a textbook example of pot-meets-kettle, reader Christopher Josh Giese condemns “upper-class bourgeois whites” for their hypocritical support of Kara Walker [Letters, March 23]. According to Giese, residents of Bel-Air, Westwood and Brentwood have only a pecuniary interest in Walker’s art, and harbor “latent racist values.”

Fair play and social justice aren’t isolated by race or ZIP code. Study your American history, Mr. Giese; you’ll find instances of black-and-white, dirt-poor and well-to-do activists sacrificing their lives for the cause of civil rights. Your flip comments are an insult to all of them.

Bonnie Sloane

Los Angeles