Friday, August 18, 2017

Chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia

The vast majority of writers, politicians and public are missing the most important point and that is the push to pretend that our history never happened. Taken to its ultimate conclusion then any statue, portrait or writing of those who lived on plantations should be deleted including Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Huston and other of our early leaders. Slavery was a fact 240 years ago and 2,000 years ago. It still exists. No decent human being living today accepts slavery. We recognize it is evil. I see a parallel between what is happening in America today and the vile antics of adherents to ISIS beliefs where they systematically destroy artifacts in the Middle East that have existed for thousands of years since they don’t conform to their belief system. Get past the universal hatred of our current President and think about the consequences as these events continue to escalate. Jack B. Walters August 17, 2017

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Mr. Tim Steller

I am writing this in response to your article today about the tragic happening in Charlottesville, Virginia. You and the vast majority of writers, politicians and public are missing the most important point and that is the push to pretend that our history never happened. Taken to its ultimate conclusion then any statue, portrait or writing of those who lived on plantations should be deleted. George Washington will no longer to be revered as the father of our country, Thomas Jefferson didn’t write the Declaration of independence, Andrew Jackson didn’t defeat the British in the battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, and Sam Huston didn’t avenge the slaughter of the brave men who died in defense of the Alamo and freed the territory of Texas from Santa Anna. Slavery was a fact 240 years ago and 2,000 years ago. It still exists. No decent human being living today accepts slavery. We recognize it is evil and always has been. Passages in the Bible state that “slaves should obey their masters”. Religious people today just ignore those edicts accepting that was the norm of those days and was wrong. Finally, I see a parallel between what is happening in America today and the vile antics of adherents to ISIS beliefs where they systematically destroy artifacts in the Middle East that have exited for thousands of years since they don’t conform to their belief system. Get past the universal hatred of our current President by those who were thwarted in their desire to have Hillary Clinton as their President and think about the consequences as these events continue to occur. Jack B. Walters August 16, 2017