I am responding to Billy Kelly's statement concerning slavery and segregation never existing in Michigan ("SN editorials should be more objective," SN 6/21). I hate to burst your bubble, but segregation and slavery both existed in Michigan.

Maybe he needs to take a class in African-American history. Maybe he would see that segregation was prevalent in the Detroit. Why he would think that segregation and slavery only existed in the south is beyond me. Just remember affirmative action would not have to exist if a certain race would have been fair from the beginning.

Jasmine Aja Suber
pre-law junior