Read this excerpt from a letter from physicists here. The letter was open for only 3 days in December 2015, and over 2,400 physicists and astrophysicists signed it. Pick one part of the letter to reflect on in 3-4 sentences. Was there something written that surprised you? Angered you? Something that resonated with your own ideas, or went counter to them? Describe your thoughts below. "Justice Roberts asked, "what unique perspective does a minority student bring to physics class?" and "What [are] the benefits of diversity... in that situation?" Before addressing these questions directly, we note that it is important to call attention to questions that weren't asked by the justices, such as, "What unique perspectives do white students bring to a physics class?" and "What are the benefits of homogeneity in that situation?" We reject the premise that the presence of minority students and the existence of diversity need to be justified, but meanwhile segregation in physics is tacitly accepted as normal or good. Instead, we embrace the assumption that minority physics students are brilliant [6] and ask, "Why does physics education routinely fail brilliant minority students?" This is what we see when we look at a minority student in a majority-white physics class: determination and an ability to overcome obstacles and work hard in stressful environments. We see this because we know that many students from minority backgrounds are subjected to social and political stress from institutionalized racism (past and present), a history of economic oppression, and societal abuse from both micro-aggressions and subtle racism. We believe that it is these qualities that make minority students able to succeed as physics researchers. The implication that physics or "hard sciences" are somehow divorced from the social realities of racism in our society is completely fallacious. The exclusion of people from physics solely on the basis of the color of their skin is an outrageous outcome that ought to be a top priority for rectification. The rhetorical pretense that including everyone in physics class is somehow irrelevant to the practice of physics ignores the fact that we have learned and discovered all the amazing facts about the universe through working together in a community. The benefits of inclusivity and equity are the same for physics as they are for every other aspect of our world. The purpose of seeking out talented and otherwise overlooked minority students to fill physics classrooms is to offset the institutionalized imbalance of power and preference that has traditionally gone and continues to go towards white students. Minority students in a classroom are not there to be at the service of enhancing the experience of white students. We ask that you take these considerations seriously in your deliberations and join us physicists and astrophysicists in the work of achieving full integration and removing the pernicious vestiges of racism and white supremacy from our world