Columnist’s views reflect his racism
Published: April 16, 2009
This is an open letter to Nelson Graves. I have read many of your columns and the last one (“Here’s what change means,” April 9) really got me thinking. What I think is that you, Mr. Graves, are a true, dyed-in-the-wool racist. No question about it.
I have read many articles along the line of your column and you are a racist in the first degree. You, sir, are like a barbed-wire fence – whites on one side and blacks on the other, and you don’t want anyone crossing over to have any dialogue with the other group. I would put you in the same group as I put the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, plus David Duke.
If anyone disagrees with you about anything, they must be white or Republican or ... oh no, both. I’m white and proud of it. I’m not Republican, nor am I a Democrat. I have no ties to “party politics.” That is what is ruining this country. The party first, the people second.
I vote for the person who I think will do the best job.
Your party and your man won. That is what he keeps reminding us. He also keeps saying that all the trouble we are in is the fault of President Bush’s bunch. Not so. Bush’s term is over but the problems are three times worse than when he was in the White House. How is the change working for you now today?
Reader Reactions
I didn’t read the column but I want to say, in regards to one poster’s comment, that he is proud to be white. I’m not proud I am white. I’m not ashamed I’m white. I’m just white. My color is merely a physical aspect of my birth. What I am proud of are the things I do, the stances I take, to, hopefully, make the world a better place.
I agree with Mr. Aldhizer on his opinion of Nelson Graves. I do have to disagree with the part where we are in worse shape now that when Bush was in office. If Mr. Bush had kept his eyes on his “herd” instead of playing the Lone Ranger with to ill-conceived wars we would not be in the shape we are in now.
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