Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
[Read the article: One of Instapundit's favorite blogs speaks on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Back in 1968, when I was senior in high school, I wanted to see the end of institutional racism and sexism in our country. I wanted very much for black Americans to enjoy the civil rights that the majority of us took for granted every day. And, of course, I wanted to see an end to the sexist behavior and double standards that often barred women from enjoying the full freedoms of our country too. I also expected and demanded a government that was honest and worked for all Americans,too.
How very disappointed I am today with what America has become:
1. Young girls who have no self-respect with how they act, look, and behave. And who breed indiscriminately with different men who take no responsibility for their behavior or fatherhood.
2. Young girls, of all races, who don't aspire to be anything more than having their breasts bigger and their lipstick last all day.
3. Young black males who don't bother to stay in school, although they know the probably outcome if they drop out, and walk around looking for bragging rights over some imagined fiefdom while their trousers hang down around their knees.
4. An estimated 25% of teenage girls with some form of STD - although there's been more sex education in this country than at any other time in our history.
5. Young men who worship and imitate the violent hip-hop world while the creators of this vile entertainment laugh at them all the way to the bank.
6. A Madison Avenue that perverts the music of the 60's and 70's and the owners who sell out to the largest contract.
7. A crass, media-driven, corporate greed that seeps into every crack and crevice of our society, manages to normalize the abnormal, and keeps pushing to internationalize the United States of America into yet another balkanized mess.
8. A Wal-Mart economy based upon producing nothing and consuming everything until the walls fall down around us.
9. An internet that feeds the ego-driven, narcissist world that is America today (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, etc.).
10. A dumber, ignorant, value-less mix of people who are no longer connected to any common threads because even our U.S. Constitution is subject to being trashed by unchecked government thugs.
11. A government is that lazier, more hypocritical, more dishonest, and less open than at any given time in our history.
We might very well need another Revolutionary War to free this country again.
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WHO AGREED TO GIVE THE CHINESE THE OLYMPICS ANYWAY?
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What dunce, or set of them, is responsible for giving the Chinese the Olympics this year or any other year? Does anyone think that building skyscrapers is some kind of sign of a civilized society - or just the mirage that Western idiots need to see?
Although enough for me, it's not just the eating of dogs and cats, the violence in Tibet, the way the peasants are treated, the indifferent fouling of the environment that should leave China out of the Olympic hosting equation. It's also the spying, the way companies treat the workers that built the skylines, and the way they treat unemployed and homeless citizens (they are not permitted to be in the cities!). Companies can deny a worker up to a year's wages for whatever reason they want and the worker has little options for remedy.
Tell me again why anyone in his/her right mind would want to go to the Olympics this year, spend their valueless dollars, and act like this is some kind of celebration of the international community?