The title The State News chose to give Adrienne Broaddus' column ("Interracial dating should not be a societal taboo," SN 1/17) was disheartening at least and ignorant at best, especially considering the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was to be celebrated just three days later.

There is no such thing as "interracial" dating, unless a member of the human race decides to date a member of another race (i.e. an animal, an alien, a U-M fan, etc.).

How sad the media continues to drive a wedge between people who happen to be of varying skin tones in the name of the socio-economic and political needs of the left. What next, you'll be calling the unity of Lutherans and Episcopalians "interfaith marriages?"

Knock off the useless PC crap and get on with life. It's a much easier transition if you do it before graduation.

Ted O'Neil
1989 graduate