Beverley Herrero-Hart: Does your race or your car make you special?

Re “Non-Caucasian drivers beware” (Letters, Jan. 2): You have an inclination or liking for speeding. You’re white, middle-age and you drive a new, mid-priced sedan and knew the police chief by name. How special do you think this has made you?

You point out that your co-worker was non-Caucasian. There are so many reasons this all sounds so wrong. Can you not see how such statements start more problems for the police officers who are on the road?

I don’t know what is more disturbing, your attitude concerning the reason you have never been stopped for speeding (you’re white, well-to-do and drive a nice car) or that you have friends on the police force. Then you suggest that non-Caucasians have white friends drive them.

This is why there is so much racism resurfacing from those who feel they are some sort of elite race or group and give a helping hand to fix whatever problem arises.

Helping others is not the problem; pointing out how privileged you are and that you were doing a non-Caucasian a great favor is.

This story was originally published January 8, 2015 at 5:54 PM with the headline "Beverley Herrero-Hart: Does your race or your car make you special?."