Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 4
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Hillary so against all odds
[Read the article: Making sense of Super Tuesday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for standing up for Hillary! In the media frenzy that flocks overwhelmingly to Obama's candidacy, you remain one of the few mavericks who have the guts to not go with the flow. MSNBC, CNN are so indulged in their concerted efforts, both implicitly and explicitly, to be the cheerleaders for Obama that they appear to be Obama's mouthpieces (except probably Dan Abrams who makes attempts to balance the skewed views of his other Obama-loving, Hillary-bashing colleagues and commentators from Newsweek). I thank you for this shot of fresh air amid the suffocating anti-Hillary halitosis.
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let the truth be told about Tibet
[Read the article: Seduced by the Dalai Lama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am Chinese and I am condemning any attempt by any western bias to deny the very fact that Tibet has always been and is an integral part of China. Go take a look at Wikipedia and pick up a little history if your obesseion with Tibet falls short of any objective understanding of the facts. Below is an excerpt:
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While the ancient Sino-Tibetan relationships are complex, there can be no question regarding the subordination of Tibet to Manchu-ruled China following the chaotic era of the 6th and 7th Dalai Lamas in the first decades of the 18th century.[33] In 1751, the Manchu (Qing) Emperor Qianlong established the Dalai Lama as both the spiritual leader and political leader of Tibet who lead a government (Kashag) with four Kalöns in it.[34]
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Many Western powers have always descended onto Tibet for their territorial ambition such as Great Britain by way of India and Tsarist Russia from the north. The intricate and geographical relationship between China and Tibet have grown inseparable over the last millenium and this is an indisputable fact. Only those, including the author of this article, who out of a misplaced and misguided "sympathy" for the Tibetans and their outsized reverence towards the current Dalai Lama, are erroneously seeing China as the occupier. Your disdain of China will not alter the fact that Tibet is a part of China. The current Dalai Lama, in all due respect, has done a good hell of public relation work in keeping the issue on world stage while the media are happy to go along.
To provoke any further secessionist sentiments among the restless Tibetans will not only exacerbate the tension between the two peoples but will also jeopardise the livelihood of millions of Tibetans and Chinese in the regions. The bottomline is that China is a unified country composed of five major ethnic groups---the Han, Manchu, Mongols, Muslims and Tibetans after the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1911 and a republic was established. This is a fact no nation on earth has denied.
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It's all racially driven for blacks to back Obama
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All these talks of Hillary's losing the block of black vote is her own undoing is ludicrous. Before the result of Iowa primary came out, African Americans doubted if one of their own could ever be favored by the whites. Immediately after that, for the first time in the history of this nation, a truly viable black candidate has become highly viable and electable with the unanticipated support of white voters. Then came the frenzy to defect from overwhelmingly supporting Hillary to becoming solid block of Obama backers. It's all about identifying one candidate through an emotionally-driven perspective along racial line. What Obama has done for the black community is peanut compared to what the Clintons have achieved over the last 18 years. This distorted, misguided and misplaced loyalty towards Obama by over 90% of African-Americans because of his skin color show how the black community is so eager to reverse the pain and humiliation by flocking to one of their own and hoping to push him to the top never mind how much Obama has done for them or if he is genuinely a white man in disguise of a black. It's a vast and powerful political capital to claim to be black or white whenever and wherever it fits. The truth is, no matter what the Clintons say or do over the course of this campaign, these perfidious and naive African Americans will switch to Obama in droves anyway, just as those self-professed intellectuals and gullible college kids did over their overrated idealism and elitism. So don't blame the Clintons for the black mutiny. The African-Americans have every right to choose side though I strongly disagree with them. What has Obama done to deserve their unreserved and overwhelming support beside his skin color?
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Who is the real asshole here?
[Read the article: How much will white racism hurt Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]dataguyx----you are the real asshole here. stop defecating around with your foul mouth! Everybody is entitled to his/her opinion but using such hateful language against someone with opposing views has no place anywhere. You are the only one who deserves to be titled "THE ASSHOLE OF THE WORST KIND"! Obama should be dreadfully ashamed of you. Salon.com should not have let rubbish like yourself to slip through. You are a shame to yourself, your family and your friends if you still have some left. By the way, I happen to agree with jebldmm entirely. So what! Remember, what goes around comes around. Try to be nice to your fellow Americans even if they do not agree with you. Try turn your bitterness into kindness.