It's kind of ludicrous for Armond White's piece on The Da Vinci Code ("Misplaced Faith," May 24-30) to compare the Passion of the Christ, which was made by a devout Catholic attempting to portray what 'really happened' to The Da Vinci Code-a work of fiction...
Dan Shuman,
Brooklyn, NY
So Tray Butler is spending daddy's trust fund at IKEA in Elizabeth ("Yellow Is The Color Of Fear," May 31-June 6) and doesn't care much for the great unwashed of New Jersey? Talk about a New York stereotype. Silly yuppie. Please tell him that he's welcome to visit the IKEA in Brooklyn with his hipster ilk and leave the three percent sales tax and cool views of Newark Airport to us Jerseyans, who prefer "industrial blight" to overheated real estate and materialistic and pretentious little pricks like Tray taking up space in our furniture stores.
Jeff Jotz
Rahway, NJ
Although Larry Brown and Stephon Marbury aren't blameless ("The Decline And Fall Of The Knicks," May 31-June 6), most of what ails the Knicks can be laid at the feet of Isaiah Thomas, the prototype of the corporate executive who fails upward (see Pacers, Indiana, and Raptors, Toronto). My dismay with Isaiah dates back to the final game of the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals, when the Bulls swept the Pistons in four games, and Thomas and company skulked off the court in the closing seconds, refusing to congratulate the winners. That moment captured Thomas' personality perfectly and helps to explain all of the poor sports, cry-babies and losers he's accumulated on the Knicks. He selected them because they're exactly like him.
Tim W. Brown,
Westchester, NY
I'm an Asian-American male living in NYC ("Finding The Face Of Asian NYC," May 10-16), and I experience racism daily from many Blacks and Hispanics when I'm with my Caucasian girlfriend in public. While I understand that most Blacks and Hispanics are not racists, the ones that are, are worse than the Nazis or the KKK because of how open they are about their racist attitudes in public. I hear these people saying things like "Look at that Chinese guy with the white girl." It'd be a wholly different situation if the Whites were allowed to curse out Blacks and Hispanics the way I get treated by Black and Hispanic racists. I believe this is a direct result of having the ignorant belief that Blacks and Hispanics cannot be racists. How can anyone let such bigots get away in this civilized society? People need to be educated that racism does not have any racial boundaries.
Jeremy,
New York, NY