Dear Editor: It was an interesting juxtaposition of Joe Heller’s political cartoon about the stresses of Christmas shopping on one side of the paper and a letter to the editor agreeing with the commentary of Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta about how racism is a disease.

Why are the only two black people out of eight shoppers, depicted as aggressors – the male blatantly taking a toy from a defenseless white woman and a female forcefully pushing away a white male in the face?

Or to put it another way, why are two thirds of the vignettes depicted showing blacks behaving poorly?

The sooner we look at these implicit representations of racism and call them out every time these occur, the sooner we get to a cure for racism.

BERNICE-THERESA ACEVEDO

Cambria Heights