This is my response to a Cynthia Tucker editorial in the April 16 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"Of course, research shows that black Americans use drugs at a lesser rate than white Americans." That may very well be true, yet ask a random person on the street in which community more drug use will be found, and, like it or not, we all know what answer you will get most of the time. That is an unfair and, apparantely untrue, stereotype, just the point that Barbara Cubin tried to make before she was rudely cut off by a left-winger, a democrat that probably spent most of the last month whining with Tim Robbins about the lack of free-speech rights in this country. If you don't let someone finish making a point, it is unfair to condemn them for it. "But bigotry never did depend on research." Left-wing attacks never did depend on what anyone else actually meant, just on what the best spin is.