True Upper Class Never Needs to Defend Itself

Re “Question of Class” by Lynell George, May 10:

One of the nicer things about the true upper class, black or otherwise, is its total lack of self-consciousness. The genuine product doesn’t need to defend itself in a gratuitous volume of 400-plus pages (“Our Kind of People,” by Lawrence Otis Graham), then defend itself and the book in open forum. Those who are truly of that class are at ease with themselves; therefore, the rest of the world is at ease with them. The Eso Won Bookstore debate-discussion would be declasse.

KENNETH W. LIVINGSTON

Chatsworth