‘Othello’ outrage

Have we all become so thinskinned that we cannot hear or see a world that is less than ideal (“Prof loses class over ‘Othello’ blackface,” Oct. 10)?

A renowned professor at the University of Michigan was replaced from a class he was teaching for showing the 1965 film “Othello,” starring Laurence Olivier in blackface. What a perfect opportunity to discuss that Hollywood culture took quite some time to open up to inclusion and parallel that to strides that continue today.

Universities were made for discourse. Hopefully the university will reconsider in the spirit of showing how much we have progressed since the 1960s — with more room to grow.