Discrimination
If we are willing to write discrimination against any of God's children into our state constitution, then no one is safe. Do not stand with the crowd shouting "Crucify." Vote no on May 8.
JAMES YARBROUGH
Winston-Salem
Hate and anger
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. It was a noble and worthy dream. I find it very disturbing that men like the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson who honor King when it is politically expedient would work so hard to destroy his dream. If George Zimmerman were black, would Sharpton and Jackson be calling for an arrest?
I am also disturbed by the mainstream news organizations. They make their money by selling stories, and they have become experts at leaving out information that would lead to understanding while exaggerating information that would fan the flames of anger. Shame on them! They would rather pad their wallets than see peace and harmony in their communities.
Finally, I wish those who buy into the hate and anger speeches would figure out that when people can make us hate and be angry, they control us. Hate and anger blot out reason and love. I am grateful for the more mature voices coming from the good leaders at the NAACP who have chosen to honor King not only with their mouths but with their actions. Unlike Sharpton and Jackson, the leaders of the NAACP walk the talk.
King's message was one of love. If our opinion of what was wrong or right in a given situation would be different if the races of the actors were different, then we are racists. If we want to live in a better world, let us begin by being honest with ourselves.
CLIFF BLOOD
Winston-Salem
Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Do you think President Obama is radical?
If health care and credit-card and student-loan reform are radical then I guess he is. I just thought this was responsible government.
SUZANNE CARROLL
The Republicans have done such an effective snow job, convincing large segments of the American public that our middle-of-the-road, Republican-lite president is a radical foreign-born liberal Marxist Christian who is also somehow a Muslim. The real question should be about why people are so eager to believe the lies. Future generations will look back at this generation of conservatives in embarrassment.
MARK B. HOWARD
According to all the emails I receive, with claims that were debunked years ago, he is.
JANE FREEMONT GIBSON
No, but he must be pretty radical since Fox News, Andrew Breitbart, Rick Santorum and Mark Levin all say he is and you know how totally objective they all are.
KAM BENFIELD
No, not at all. Barack Obama is a very good president. The Religious Right are the radicals.
WILLIAM SAMS
Radicals make pre-emptive wars. Radicals devastate environments. Radicals exploit an anarchy of greed, leaving a forgotten human wreckage behind. Conservatives conserve. Apparently, Obama, though ever struggling against a radical tide, is inherently conservative.
JERE CUNNINGHAM
Is this a trick question?
HAROLD DYSON
The president is a moderate. His policies have produced sustained private-sector job growth, improved U.S. standing in the world and increased U.S. manufacturing and exports. In the past, there were moderate Republican leaders who joined with Democrats to work for the good of our country. Sadly, the GOP has purged its moderate wing.
CHARLES E. WILSON
I wish that President Obama were a liberal, never mind a radical, to confront more effectively his radical Republican opposition. The current Republican Party has no historical connection to the best that the party has offered the American people in the 20th century during the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover (yes, Hoover), Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon (yes, Nixon), Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. None of them would stand a chance in a 2012 Republican primary.
Can anyone imagine honestly a McCain-Palin administration in these troubled times, foreign and domestic, and sleep at night?
ERROL M. CLAUSS
Radical defined:
1. of or going to the root or origins of matter
A. Yes. I think he is a thorough thinker.
CATHERINE W. PITTS
I don't think President Obama has been radical enough. Obamacare is mostly a compilation of Republican ideas from past years and Romneycare. His lowering taxes to stimulate growth used to be touted by Republicans. He followed George W. Bush's lead for the stimulus.
PAUL S. KENNEDY
Election Deadline
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LTE #1 should get the juices flowing on the official site.
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Thanks for the link, Wordly.
DeleteI'll bet everyone has missed me. I use my passport for going more places than from Forsyth to Stokes County, FYI.
ReplyDeleteI see the knuckle-headed liberal Democrats are still making fools of themselves daily. No surprise there.
There's nothing like a little bit of 'Bucky' to get things back on track in the world, and in this forum. I'm sure all will agree.
Good afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: Another no on Amendment One. Placing constitutional limits based on age is a prudent use of discrimination since those under a certain age may not have the experience or maturity to make wise decisions. Placing constitutional limits against any other group for any other reason while allowing it for everyone else is just plain ol' discrimination against that group.
LTE 2: I do wish people would quit with the speculation regarding what if Zimmerman was this race or if Martin was that race. If people will get beyond the race bit, they will see the consequences of wannabe cops running around with concealed carry guns trying to play hero. This isn't John Wayne, cops-'n-robbers. A 17 y.o. is dead and Zimmerman is f'ed whether he's found guilty or not. Gun nuts who carry on and on about their right to defend themselves and everyone around them and how they wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger are a far greater threat to life than any potential robber.
Sum it up: The Journal usually has decent questions, but they must have been running out of questions when they came up with this. Very good responses all around that were quite accurate in their assessments of Obama's position. Obama has kept the course when it comes to Iraq, Afghanistan and the bailouts. The health care reform came from the Heritage Foundation and the Republican Party and was modeled after Romney's MA plan. If McCain had been elected, his presidency would have closely resembled Obama's except McCain probably would have left health care as it was.
Last night while speaking to students at the UNC School of Journalism, Mr. Fox News, Roger Ailes, referred to Soledad O'Brien as "that girl who's named for a prison".
ReplyDeleteIn doing so, Ailes revealed, just in case you didn't already know it, everything that you need to know about him and Fox News:
1. He is a bigoted, mean-spirited jackass.
2. He is an utterly ignorant jackass.
Soledad's full name is Maria de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien…that first part means "The blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude". How did she get that name? It's a great American story.
Both of her parents are immigrants, her father, of Irish extraction, from Australia, and her mother, of Afro-Cuban extraction, from Cuba. In the mid-1950s, they were both on the faculty of one of the six or seven greatest universities in the world, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her father taught mechanical engineering, her mother French and English.
They met while attending daily mass at a church near the campus. Each day, Soledad's father would offer her mother a ride home, but each day she refused. Finally, one day she accepted. They were married a year later.
Of course, they would like to have been married in the church where they met, but in 1958 that was impossible, because the great enlightened state of Maryland had a law against interracial marriage. Sound familiar? NC Amendment One?
So they had to "cross over" into DC to tie the knot. Soledad was the fifth of their six children. Her name was given in part in remembrance of how her parents met. All six of their children graduated from Harvard College. Talk about family values.
Liberals want 'other' people to get their heads pounded in by drug dealing adolescents without protecting themselves.
ReplyDeleteOver $10,000 dollars worth of 'gold' teeth tell me that Martin wasn't just some innocent 17 year old.
I'm waiting on the autopsy results. Any bets on if the 'innocent',young, 6'3", football playing, 'child' had drugs in his system?
Interesting how the results have not been released yet.
DeleteThey say that travel is broadening, and it is for educated, civilized people. I have learned a great deal about folks around the world from decades of foreign travel.
ReplyDeleteBut there are some who can travel to the ends of the earth and come home just as stupid as when they left.
The state attorney in Florida has had full access to all of the evidence in the George Zimmerman case, including the complete autopsy report.
If that report contained the kind of evidence that the racist dunces are "hoping" for, she would not have made the charge that she has made.
Hold your breath, bigots...maybe you will help improve the gene pool by leaving this mortal coil before your time.
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ReplyDeleteIgnorant liberals don't believe in self protection. They think white people should just take life threatening beatings from black males.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Hee Haw Show everyday with these ignorant, liberal people that don't know a hoot from a hollar
What you really have to love is that stupid people, not realizing that they are stupid, will, even after their stupidity has been publicly exposed, continue to exhibit their stupidity in that same public arena.
ReplyDeleteIn Florida, as in most states, it is illegal for the police, the state attorney's office or anyone else to make public information from an ongoing criminal investigation. That would include autopsy reports, police video, 911 calls, witness statements and opinions of the local police chief.
Angela Corey was appointed as special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case only after it became obvious that the Sanford Police Department and the State Attorney's office had totally bungled the case.
She was chosen because she has a statewide reputation for being honest and fair but also relentless and thorough. So she represents the state government's attempt (as in the governor's office and the state legislature, both involved in the "stand your ground" idiocy) to cover their own asses.
Corey has been blunt about her anger that the Sanford police and the State Attorney's office have already violated the law regarding disclosing information in a criminal case. Don't be surprised if once the case itself is resolved that more charges are filed against the fools who were babbling to the media.
Meanwhile, we have our own example on this forum of stupid is as stupid does.