WRONG ANALOGY

In Chris Willman’s piece on “White Man’s Burden” (“Turnabout of Foul Play,” March 19), he explains that it “takes place in an alternate universe nearly identical to ours but for the fact that in this doppelganger America the black culture is the dominant one, socially and economically, and whites are primarily a patronized underclass.”

Willman says the “nearest parallel in terms of such a major twist might be ‘Fatherland,’ the novel and TV movie whose post-World War II story took place against the precept that Germany won the war.”

That’s kind of a weird way to look at it. Is he saying that Nazis today are an oppressed class because they cannot express their true feelings as Nazis by inflicting a reign of terror on the rest of us?

There is a much closer parallel, and that would be “Planet of the Apes.”STEVE BURIAN

Los Angeles