Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 4 Editor's Choice: 3
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright - Patriot!!
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gary, although I know this wasn’t really the focus of your article, I must take this opportunity to address a point you mention and one that so many right wing pundants have highlighted in their arguments against Rev. Wright, and that is the sermon that expressed Rev. Wright’s feelings that the AIDS virus could have been created by the government and unleashed on the Black Community purposefully. Everyone, even those of you who seem to present yourselves as more open minded regarding issues of race, like to point to this particular sermon as it sounds so outlandish as to be considered particularly extremist. Maybe I’d feel that way as well if I didn’t know this country’s history. I find it quite disturbing that the right wing pundants don’t know the history themselves, but maybe they do and it just doesn’t fit their particular means at this point. I’m more disturbed by the fact that the history rarely makes it into the discussion at all, even among more liberal pundants.
Please research the Tuskegee Experiment and learn how from 1932 to 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service sponsored a “scientific experiment” whereby 399 African-American men, infected with syphilis, were treated like laboratory animals, were not told they had the disease, were not treated, were left to infect their wives (40 wives were infected) and their children (19 children were born with the disease), all to determine how syphilis affected blacks in comparison to whites.
Learn the history - start with this link to the Tuskegee University website: http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/Story.asp?s=1207586
I believe that African-Americans of Rev. Wright generation are extremely patriotic. I don't know that I could be if I'd lived through what they did.
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Not the Republicans Fault
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please don't give the republicans credit for my decision. Hillary has given me many reasons not to vote for her without any help from republicans.
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She Won't Get Mine
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As an African American female, I came into this presidential race with an open mind for either candidate. I'd met Obama when he visited Ohio to campaign for Democratic Candidates in 2006 and although impressed with him, I looked forward to an exciting primary season where I assumed I'd be satisfied with either candidate the process would put forward. My disgust for Hillary however, occured right before Iowa, when I caught a quick comment from her when she effectively dismissed Obama with a comment something like "People can say who they'll vote for in the open, but when they get behind the curtain......." I interpreted this comment to suggest that she didn't expect white folk to vote for Barack, and seemed pleased at the prospect that they might show up for a rally but never pull the lever in his favor. She has proven, by the things that she and Bill and their surrogates have said throughout this race, that she intended to benefit from white racist attitutes. This is why I will never vote for her. She has clearly dismissed the importance of the black vote, betting instead on the uneducated white masses to save her ass. That is the worst kind of racism, and I for one will not honor these tactics with my vote!!
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Who is Hillary Clinton?
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find it hard not to be insulted by all the letters from Hillary supporters suggesting that 1)African Americans are automatically voting for Barack because he is black or 2)That African Americans that have been turned off by the tactics of the Clintons have been manipulated by either the Obama campaign or the MSM to feel the way we do. I for one am able to think for myself and don't need white folks to tell me how I should feel or for whom I should vote. I vote for the candidate I feel most represents the ideals I hold dear and whose policies are aligned with what I think is important. Hillary, in her despiration to do anything to become President has adjusted her stance to appeal to the lowest common denominator - the undeducated white masses. In the process she has morphed into a Redneck, Republican, Warmonger. She has sold herself out to such a degree she no longer even fits her own demographic.