Your article and pictures “A send-off prayer” (April 19), about the black colleges was very nice, but I cannot help think that this is a form of discrimination. Why is it OK to have a "black college" but, there is not a "white college" or Native American or Korean, or Japanese or a multitude of other races, having their own type of college?

I am not against any ethnic group, and we are all the same as human beings in my estimation, but I still think it is wrong to allow this type of discriminatory naming of a college to exist. I don't know if it is only for black folks, but if it is, then that is even worse. I think it is time to lose that title.

Doris Wickerd

Stonington

Editor's note: All historically black colleges, created when blacks were denied access to mainstream universities, are integrated, and on average about one in four students at these colleges is of a different race. There are also 38 tribal colleges serving American Indians.