This is not the worst

Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 2020 Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Editor,

I have been disturbed by recent claims that this is the worst we have seen. Oh really?

(1) comment

Ray Fowler Oct 13, 2020 6:30am

Hello, Clayton

There is wisdom in your words. Consider race relations in the 1960s... while we are still working toward true equity, are things worse now than they were then?

Look at 1968. In that year alone... North Korea seized a US Navy ship, the Tet offensive started, an incumbent president withdrew from the race seven months before the election, Martin Luther King assassinated, violent anti-war protests across the US, Robert Kennedy assassinated, police and protesters clashed at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and US athletes protested at the Olympics in Mexico City. Then, Apollo 8 orbited the moon on Christmas Eve. There is hope.

In 1969, there were still some horrible and sad events, e.g. Charlie Manson's rampage. But Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and we witnessed Woodstock later that same summer. And the Amazin' Mets won the World Series. There is always hope.

So, we have heard recent claims that things are the worst they've ever been... nope, only if we let them be the worst.

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