Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 266 Editor's Choice: 8
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@KStone
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]See white people! Not all black people love Obama! (You are black, right?)
You know, I do have to agree with you about the whole vote for me aspect of his speech, but it is a campaign speech. Heck, even his own wife says he's pretty self-absorbed. And he's cocky.
However, I disagree with you about the whole "pretty words" and not doing the "hard work." I don't want to resort to Obama talking points, but don't you think speeches like I Have a Dream, chock full of pretty words, galvanized a lot of people? If one white suburban youth who heard the speech decided to volunteer during Freedom Summer because of MLK's words, wouldn't that negate the whole idea of just pretty words and not backing it up with action?
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Kstone
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Obama supporters who work on his campaign do consider themselvs part of a movement...a movement to get Obama elected.
I know you don't see it as a movement, but what exactly constitutes a movement?; can we in the eye of a movement actually tell that we are part of a movement? If a movement falls in the forest does it make a sound... and all that crap.
Sorry. Look, the fact is that all of the canidates can talk about what they plan on doing if they get elected, but once they are, who knows what the heck is going to happen. I'm sure Bush wasn't planning on September 11.
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@Chris Sinnard
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And are your really comparing what Rev. Wright said (not did, but said) to raping boys and girls?
Heck, it might have been better IF the Catholic Church advocated man-boy-love...at least those poor kids would have had a heads up!
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All of the "You must be an idiot to watch TV News" posts are silly
[Read the article: How local TV embraced fake news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All of you assume everyone has 1) access to the internet at their jobs. Newsflash - some people work construction, or in factories, at retail stores, etc. or aren't allowed to surf the web at their jobs 2) The money to pay for internet access, a new computer, an ipod, or internet access on their phones at home and ALSO the time to sit and surf through the web for the best news sites.
Spending 30 minutes a night before bed, or watching in the morning before you go to work is sometimes the only time people have to watch the news. I think it's really sad that TV news has turned into what it has; I did a two year stint at a Bay Area television station and I was shocked at how cheap our parent corporation was. I never dealt with those "On Your Side" segments, but now I'm really curious as to how many of those were PVNs. Or whatever their called.
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I know there hasn't been a lot of letters
[Read the article: Modern slaves]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But look...most of them talk about sex slavery. Dear lord, did you read the article? I know its literally the "sexy" face of slavery (especially since a lot of them are white or Asian) but it's not all about fucking!
I remember several years ago, I was watching a news segment, and the correspondent was in an African country (which one I don't remember.) He spoke to a man who was looking for his family. The man said, through an interpreter, that he had been a slave, but that he escaped from the diamond mines or coal factory where he'd been working. What I remember the most about the segment was how the reporter made sure to say that man could be lying about being a slave or that he could be exaggerating. He even said that it might be a mistranslation! I mean, c'mon. Africa has a long history of slavery; I don't think the translator would be confused by a common word like that.
But the reporter, like me, couldn't wrap his head around the fact that there are actual slaves (NOT! sex slaves) out there forced to work by their government for large multinational corporations. Maybe we can't do anything about the governments or the soldiers, but we can certainly do something about corporations who employ slave labor. And I call bullshit on any company who says it doesn't know what is happening.