Sir, - How good to know you now have a long-distance clinical psychologist (September 18th) who can diagnose and prescribe for Ardoyne parents at a distance of over 100 miles! And what a pity the people who cry out in mock horror at these parents were not in Little Rock in 1957. The black people would still be at the back of the buses and insulted in the streets, but how clinically comfortable and psychologically adjusted they would be!
As for the cries that parents should be protecting their children, that is precisely what the Belfast parents were doing as they walked through choruses of "Fenian whores" and "Scum". They were showing their children they would protect them in any circumstances, not by fleeing real life but by confronting it.
Would the clinical psychologists now suggest we solve race and class problems by all buildings having back entrances for tradesmen, blacks, Muslims, Jews and Catholics? That, after all, is the real question. - Yours, etc.,
Desmond Wilson, Springhill Close, Belfast 12.