Carolyn Hax’s take on handling racial prejudice is safe but ineffective (“Father-in-law sends hostile text to reader,” Star-Advertiser, Aug. 15), primarily because most adults with such strong personal views believe they are not only correct, but entitled.

They, after all, have the power, position, money, competence and experience. They can afford to patronize because they perceive their superiority as a natural evolution of the human species. This attitude has poisoned and propelled the politics of ambitious people for thousands of years and is grossly and proudly exhibited by the present administration.

It is why and how President Donald Trump and his supporters can do and say the nasty things they do with seeming impunity. It is why Native Hawaiians are encamped at the base of Mauna Kea. It’s the same old, same old: The powerful rule and everyone else tries to make do.

Trump is only doing blatantly what others do privately to preserve and enhance their sense of entitlement in spite of the way it tramples others and devastates our national character.

Mark Yasuhara

Aiea

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