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A Touch of Evil

8.28.08 @ 12:01AM

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There is one observation, however, that seems to be verboten in our society. There are at least a couple of ethnic groups in America that would seem to have a totally ingrained Socialist belief structure. I would particularly mention the black community and the Jewish community. I have thought for a long time that that is what keeps the black voters in the Democrat column by rates sometimes in excess of 90%. The Jewish community consistently votes Democrat in the 60+ to 70+ rate. Jewish folks, many of them, seem to relish being liberals. Black folks don't seem to identify themselves in those terms (liberal vs. conservative vs. moderate). The common thread, it seems to me, is that such a high percentage of the two groups virtually always opt for the Socialist solution to all of life's problems. They each, almost reflexively, chose the government as the solution for all the ills of society, and their position within it.

I do not mean to suggest that we do not have absolute national treasures within each of these groups in America. Within the black community I would suggest Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell just to start the list, with many more to follow. Within the Jewish community, my absolute hero was Milton Friedman, and again that is just the name at the head of my list, with more to follow. That said, one can not deny, or shrug off the percentages in election after election. Nor can one deny, or shrug off, the way that the black community votes in lock step with the very party that exerted every effort to keep them in bondage, in one form or another, even to the present day.

I truly wish that we were allowed to have this discussion in America without being called a bigot or racist.
-- Ken Shreve

KENT STATE ADULTS
Re: Charles Campbell's letter (under "Kent We Get Along?") in Reader Mail's Isn't She Lovely?:

Really, Mr. Campbell, in your letter of today you are only displaying that your education stopped at the university's front door. But I take no offence at your condescending tone; I have been condescended to by twenty-somethings for many years and I have confidence that one day you will grow out of it.

To go on to the substance of your letter, your attempt to equate the stone-throwing brats at Kent State with those Freedom Fighters in China who were standing up to actual tanks in which actual tyrants were actually going to kill them and imprison them for life in re-education camps if not in actual dungeons where they would be held until their organs were needed for harvesting, and to those who stood up to soldiers of an invading army such as happened vis-a-vis the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring is sophomoric. In fact, Kent State resonates more with the 12-year-old crying hysterically that she will commit suicide unless she can go to New York to get an autograph from the Jonas Brothers.

Incidentally, if your political science professors hadn't been so busy indoctrinating you on the sins of AmeriKKKa, you might learn a lot from the way the students and citizens of Czechoslovakia met that invading Russian army. Check it out some day when you can spare some time from YouTube.

And finally, referring to the stone-throwing toddlers at Kent State as "kids" instead of "children" makes no difference. They were neither. They were adults. Oh, except for that 14-year-old runaway who is the one in the iconic photo shrieking to high heaven as she discovered that there are indeed more serious things in life than Mommy refusing to let her wear hot pants to church.

In the immortal words spoken by James Earl Jones to Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams:" Back! Back! Go back to the sixties before it's too late! There's no place for you here in the future!
-- Kate Shaw

POINT BY POINT
Re: Edmund Dantes' letter (under "This Could Be the Last Time") in Reader Mail's Isn't She Lovely?:

1) There was still no timeframe; therefore you still got your own letter wrong. The 69th was not a part of the 42nd at the time.

2) May I suggest the History Channel or your local library?

3) Should my letter be published, it means others are not bored by the subject.

4) Could it be the reason you say it is your last letter is because you don't want to admit your error?

5) Comparing me to Jimmy Carter and a poodle? How desperate are you? I am along the lines of a Chihuahua. I never give up, know how to charge, and win the victory. I still say one of the great tragedies of American political history is that Governor George C. Wallace was not elected president in 1976 and we could have avoided the mess of 1977-1981. In closing I shall say to you as I have said to the hapless, bumbling backers of the owner of that era -- "You were wrong. Deal with it already!"
-- Michael Skaggs
Murray, Kentucky

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS
Re: Shawn Macomber's Dr. Seuss for President:

"Michael Valentine Smith in '08"
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

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