Dear editor:

In Oct. 30’s Lake Report, Yakira Mukendi wrote an elegant, racist letter decrying the casting of a “Black kid” — the bad kid — who was redeemed to save his “white siblings” from the wicked White Witch (“Letter: The lion, the witch and the weight of representation”).

I would suggest that the mother could teach her racially mixed kids some useful coping mechanisms: “Not to judge the book by its cover”; “We are all shades of brown”; “Sibling jealousy is documented through the centuries and still present.”

And we all should practice “kind love against hatred” and doing one’s best. My late husband (racially mixed) did this.

I compliment Shaw director Tim Carroll for having the non-racist courage to cast the actor based on ability.

Elizabeth Oliver-Malone
NOTL