Dear Mr. Tira:

Concerning Mr. Tom Fiedler's recent remarks about the Cuban-American community, I bow my head, shuffle my feet and hurrumph.....

Excuse me, sir. (shuffle, shuffle...).   Surely, you know damn well  that "chihuahua" is another word for "spic." Oops.  Pardon me, but your editor's bigotry is showing.  Perhaps also your newspaper's.

I weep for Mr. Fiedler, as I do for Herr Hitler and Comrade Stalin and the entire Ku Klux Klan.   An immortal soul is a terrible thing to waste.

So are trees, when it comes to the Herald.

Carlos M. N. Eire
T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies
Chair, Renaissance Studies Program
Yale University
Winner, 2003 National Book Award, nonfiction