Editor,
Sue Lempert asked in her column on Aug. 31, “Which convention made you hopeful?” I can understand why Sue might feel there will be no hope if a Republican is elected two months from now. However, can she really explain why we should have hope if a Democrat wins in November given the tragic plight of American cities run by Democrats?
From Jan. 1 through Aug. 31 of this year, more than 2,200 African Americans have been shot in the city of Chicago ... at least 370 of them died. A city run by Democrats for decades. As bad as it is in Chicago, there are nine other Democrat run cities with a higher per capita murder rate. Where is the hope? African American children are largely the victims of Democrat run cities. They fall prey to drugs, gangs, off the chart teen pregnancy and too many young people dropping out of school. Yet, progressive Democrats want us to believe that police officers are gunning down African Americans with abandon. Well, how many persons have the police shot and killed in Chicago through Aug. 31 of this year? Three.
Where is the Democratic Party compassion Sue mentioned in her column? Economist Thomas Sowell said: “Although the big word on the left is compassion, the big agenda on the left is dependency.” We can see the result of Democrat run cities feeding that dependency. No hope.
Ray Fowler
Redwood City
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Race relations started to deteriorate in this country the day President Obama took office. The Great Divider.
And why? May I suggest that too many uncolored couldn’t stand seeing a colored man, so much better educated, far more intelligent and more accomplished than themselves, get not only so much attention that they were missing themselves, but voted in to the highest office in the world, with a very comfortable margin. Hard to take for the small minded, including Congress Republicans conspiring from day 1 to resist everything President Obama was trying to accomplish, even programs that they were previously for. Perhaps you can explain your claim about race relations deteriorating under President Obama, Chris? What did he do?
Chris: We are anxiously waiting for your usual insight and incredibly well balanced explanation re. what President Obama actually did to cause race relations to deteriorate after having been so wonderful under the former Republican administration. Are you still working on it, and can we expect your enlightenment soon? We can barely stand the anticipation much longer!
First of all, if you go back and look at polls about the subject during the time, you will find that that the relationship between Whites and Blacks deteriorated considerably during Obama's tenure as president. Also, race riots increased exponentially in this country under this president. Then you go to the Beergate scenario and you have seen this president take divisive sides on important issues that could have united us. Lastly, I have been in the country now 56 years. I know when race relations went south. It was the time that Barrack Hussein Obama, representative of the Chicago political system and disciple of Sal Alinsky, took the tactics of divide and conquer and split this country right in two. Step one in Rules for Radicals. Obama is why president Trump is in office today.
Chris: It doesn't look like you grasped my point of shallow white supremacy and envy of a colored person doing well. Instead, you respond with nonsense.
Once again your time line is wrong. Did you forget about the Civil War and President Lincoln freeing the slaves. The Republicans were in the north and the Democrats were in the south and made up the Confederacy. Things stayed that way for a century until President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in '64 and then the racist Democrats became the Republicans of today so they could continue to try and oppress blacks and minorities. The Republicans could see the unfairness and became todays Democrats.
Taffy - you love the flip flop here. If you had really studied the history of the Civil Rights Act, which was originally proposed by Kennedy, the Southern Democrats opposed it violently. It is a gross lie that they became Republicans, name one please! Subsequent Republican presidents such as Nixon and Reagan enacted more laws to bolster civil rights than any of the other smooth talking Democrat do-nothing bible-thumpers. Read up about it, you may change your tune.
The Civil Rights Act brought on the Dixiecrats, a breakoff from the Democrats' vaunted "Solid South." I think many people overlook the so-called "Reagan Democrats," ethnic voters who switched to the GOP over the abortion issue.
Well Dirk, I am glad you agree with me. I said the south was Democratic and racist, that is why they opposed it and have voted Republican ever since. After signing the bill LBJ said he just gave the south to the Republicans. As for Nixon and Reagan they were both racists. Nixon always believed that whites and Asians were superior to blacks and latinos. After a UN vote with the African nations opposing a position the US was for, both Nixon and Reagan commiserated on the phone and talked about the cannibals and monkeys not being comfortable wearing shoes. As for your bible thumpers, they are solidly right wing conservatives, not Democrats.
Sounds like Daffy Taffy David is at it again, trying to rewrite history to fit his narrative. Nice try, but everyone knows Democrats are the party of slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow laws. Read a history book, David.
I would donate to charity if Chris Conway and Ray Fowler debated any topic. The latter is thoughtful, provocative, insightful and a fact-finding guru.and the former can only put fragmented sentences together to deride someone/anybody who doesn't agree with his philosophy.
JustMikey, do you even read, or proofread, what you write? Sounds like you're the pot calling the kettle black. Should there be a period after guru and a space, or two, and a capitalized A in "and" or should the period be deleted and replaced with a space? I'd probably donate to charity if you stopped creeping on Mr. Conway like a puppy.
With respect to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I'm not so sure that checking a history book will settle the debate about which political party supported this landmark legislation. However, the actual vote tallies may help. The Senate passed the Act by a margin of 73-27, and the House approved the measure 290-130, but those totals do not shed light on how the different parties voted.
In the Senate, 82% of Senate Republicans voted for the Act, but only 69% of Senate Democrats favored the bill. 78% of the Senate's "no" votes were cast by Democrats.
In the House, 80% of House Republicans voted for the Act, but only 61% of House Democrats favored the bill. 74% of the House's "no" votes were cast by Democrats.
Now, maybe we can go back to he history books and thank Sen. Everett Dirkson (R-IL) for co-authoring the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and working to defeat the filibuster organized by Sen. Richard Russell (D-GA). Maybe.
Ray Fowler
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