I found your blog after googling the incorrect spelling of my name.

Sadly, you've misconstrued my letter to support anti-liberal rhetoric. If you read it again, you'll see that I'm questioning why people can have so much anger related to certain causes. Often times this anger is projected. And if you knew me, you'd know that this was mostly a reference to the very angry protests I witnessed while at Berkeley. I'd recommend reading Franz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth." In it he discusses how disenfranchised Blacks in colonized South Africa fought against one another instead of recognizing that their real oppression came from the White colonist. This is not psycho-babble as you'd like to claim, but rather a substantiated historical pattern in human behavior.

Furthermore, I believe you must have some anger you're dealing with that you have projected onto me. Why else would you reference me so pejoratively when you have nothing upon which to base your knowledge of me?

I'm a pragmatist who believe's there is a balance between personal responsibility and social responsibility. Am I really such an awful person and so worthy of your disdain, because I believe that people should be more tolerant of one another? Don't you think all this mocking is a bit juvenile?

In fact, I was keeping time for a presidential debate forum on campus my sophomore year and I abrubtly walked out because the audience was being so rude to the representative from the Berkeley Republican group.

I'm just trying to get at the fact that hostility and mudslinging accomplishes nothing. No matter what you're political affiliation. And the truth is, I think you know that as well as I do. So, why do you or anyone sink to it? ...my letter was just trying to give a possible explanation and a solution, however idealistic.

So, feel free to laugh at me all you want, and espouse the usual puerile hyperbole. You just prove my point. But rather, I challenge you to unclench your fists. Afterall, it's only our own hubris that prevents us from understanding others.