'I Would Like to Differ'

Editor:

I appreciate the column that Jennifer Fumiko Cahill wrote for the Nov. 21 NCJ (“Food Will Not Bring Us Together”). It is good to be reminded of the different life experiences of those we know and admire. However, I would like to differ with your advice to fellow Americans to not sit at the table and break bread with those whom we may differ with politically.

This is a perilous time for the United States, and another Civil War is indeed a possibility. Is it not better to engage in acts that enable a recognition of each other as fellow human beings and Americans, rather than to fan the flames of hurt and anger engendered by the differences between ourselves and others we may come across?

Kathryn Corbett, Eureka