Letters to the Editor
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Absurdity Reigns Supreme.
I was pleased to read that one respondent referred to an experiment that was conducted on black males, a memory track discarded in the way-back machine that many would choose to forget.
I don't know if I agree with Mr. Kamiya's analysis about American patriotism. I do heartily agree that a whole lot of Americans respond to situations with a knee-jerk reaction that somehow affords them a sense of security. I believe that many whites were offended by the Rewv. Wright's statement about black anger because many whites do fear black people as a consequence of media and how media prefers to portray blacks; pimps, drug addicts and/or pushers, uneducated, prison bound lay-abouts.
It's also amazing to me that no one wants to look at American foreign policies that might have led to 9/11 and no one ever mentions our own home-grown terrorist who successfully bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Why are all of these people so very angry and why isn't anyone looking for a way to disfuse this anger rather than trying to, once again, sweep the disturbing facts under the carpet once again?
The facts are all round us and yet we choose, actively choose to ignore the facts. If black people, meaning black Americans, feel angry and disenfranchised I can't even begin to grasp what Iraq citizens feel after having their country destroyed and occupied. A Nightline special shared a clip of GWB discusiing with Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell before our invasion that Iraq was like a fragile piece of crystal. He went on to elaborate that the crystal would be shattered and that it would take decades to piece it back together. To think that this statement was made prior to the invasion is more than sobering.
How can you be a flag waver, an unquestioning patriot if you don't understand that the rules were changed by the top guys without regard for human life or honor? We stand on the edge of an abyss for as long as we trust without question.