Yesterday’s column in the Ventura County Star has created quite an email storm.

In brief, I address the issue of an ad campaign that attacks white males. The emails I received ran about 8-1 in favor of the column. Most of the supportive emails took the “It’s about time” approach. Quite a few readers, male and female, felt that it’s about time that we stop picking on white males.

The handful of responses that were negative ranged from calling me racist and anti-Semitic (which will come as a surprise to my Jewish wife) to some very thoughtful communication. Those varied, starting with, since white males have historically controlled most of corporate and political America, we are responsible for most of the countries ills and should accept this as part of our penance, to, since white males still control most of America, we should just shut up and take this and finally, to – you’ve got to be kidding, you don’t have anything more important to think about☺

I write my columns as a way of expressing my point of view, as an effort to start conversations, as a way to engage with people who are kind enough to read what I write, but mostly – to learn. With this column, I learned quite a bit about the range of emotions that people have on this issue. Thank you to all of those who took the time to read the column and respond. Please keep it up.