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Letters to editor: Racism, sarcasm

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Taking another view of the Confederate flag

I just learned something from reading the letters to the editor in the last issue of the Sentinel. It was about the Confederate flag and how it has nothing to do with hate.

The writer of that letter suggested people should open up a history book and not one written by liberals. I guess I would learn things if I would only read things written by people who lean right politically.

Every time I look at a photo of the KKK marching in a rally they all are carrying a Confederate flag. I need to start reading what the tea party is reading because I didn’t know the Klan has become the group of peace and love.

You know, now that I think about it, if I had only read things the tea party reads, I would know that Obama was actually born in Kenya, like many on the right still believe. I should never have read misleading things like there was a birth announcement in local Hawaiian newspapers in August of 1961 that there was a birth of a child named Barack Hussein Obama. I’ll bet that was another Barack Hussein Obama who just happens to share the same birth date.

I bet if I would read no liberal information I would know why we aren’t suppose to blame Bush for the damage that his administration did and why we should blame President Obama for attacking Iraq by mistake and getting thousands of American servicemen killed needlessly. Or how it’s President Obama’s fault that the economy took a major dump in the last few days of the Bush administration.

I think I could learn a lot by reading no liberal publications and watch only Fox News.

And that, my friends, is called sarcasm.

Stephen Strahan, Ramona

How is trying to alleviate fear racist?

Mr. Townsends’s July 23 attack of my July 9 letter caused such a shock as I have not felt in a long, long time. For a moment I wanted, even planned, to hurt him back. I know the stupidity of that.

He called my letter “poor.” I would suggest thoughtless. I should have explained more, but I didn’t understand that it was necessary. How is trying to alleviate fear “racist?”

The lady on TV told of her brief shock of fear when she crossed the bridge and saw the Confederate flag welcoming her to the next state. I assumed that if people knew about this they would want to put their flags away. Again, thoughtless.

As our animals and small children have taught us, fear is the foundation of hate. Hate leads to feuds, war and endless misery.

Shouldn’t fear be the place to take action?

Edalee Orcutt Harwell, Ramona

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