Tea Party and Byrd
Open letter to local radio station:
I’ve listen to your program this past weekend. You disappointed me once again on your rhetoric on several topics of discussion. First the Tea Party rally at Walnut Park. Your enthusiasm was breath taken. Every citizen has the right to participate in any political event of their choice no matter how wrong headed logic it may be. The guest speakers did sounded like a gathering of white supremacy which you name. What percentage of the crowd was minority if at all? This should tell you something. The main stream Republican Party doesn’t really want anything to do with the Tea Party movement but they are reluctant to in brace them. That leaves me to my other points about the late U.S. Senator Robert E. Byrd.
Senator Byrd affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan was well known. In his once only interview with was grist for discussion, whereas, he use the N-word, he was illustrating a point of how inherently the word is. Yet, you’ve taken it out of context to give rise to these fringe groups who use it as their talking point. Nevertheless, Senator Byrd had served his country with distinction, honorably, and earned his place in history. President Obama has follow protocol in flying the American flag at half-staff for this occasion. Byrd has recanted and repented his past sins more then what I can say for some others. I will say this for the skeptic that Senator Robert (Sheet) Byrd’s bronze stature, alien KKK, will be enshrine in statuette hall in the U.S. Capitol. I will be the last person on earth to defend the KKK but I will defend Byrd for his years of service. As an educator, have an open mind and listen to the eulogies this weekend to him and form your own opinion. Other people in history, Gov. George Wallace avow segregationist stood in a school house door and said: Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” even he denounced its evilness and repented and was well accepted by black Alabamians.
(Name deleted) was attempting to enlighten you and your listeners on the history of race relations in Omaha. In general, I am applying my comments to all the comments you and your callers made over the past weeks about the Fremont issue, Ernie Chamber, a hold gambit of things, etc.
Let me leave you with this thought. It’s irony I were watching Ken Burn‘s ‘The Civil War’ while composing this email. Was it about state rights or was it about slavery? I’ll let others be the judge. The Tea Party movement has use July 4, Independent Day, as an alleged plot or ploy to take back this country to days not so glorious. This affirms my belief that as a country we have a lot to repent for. In the world of black America, the past i.e. slavery, Jim Crow Laws, segregation, etc. will always be a part of their DNA history. Wounds can heal; however, memories will never fade.
I’ve listen to your program this past weekend. You disappointed me once again on your rhetoric on several topics of discussion. First the Tea Party rally at Walnut Park. Your enthusiasm was breath taken. Every citizen has the right to participate in any political event of their choice no matter how wrong headed logic it may be. The guest speakers did sounded like a gathering of white supremacy which you name. What percentage of the crowd was minority if at all? This should tell you something. The main stream Republican Party doesn’t really want anything to do with the Tea Party movement but they are reluctant to in brace them. That leaves me to my other points about the late U.S. Senator Robert E. Byrd.
Senator Byrd affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan was well known. In his once only interview with was grist for discussion, whereas, he use the N-word, he was illustrating a point of how inherently the word is. Yet, you’ve taken it out of context to give rise to these fringe groups who use it as their talking point. Nevertheless, Senator Byrd had served his country with distinction, honorably, and earned his place in history. President Obama has follow protocol in flying the American flag at half-staff for this occasion. Byrd has recanted and repented his past sins more then what I can say for some others. I will say this for the skeptic that Senator Robert (Sheet) Byrd’s bronze stature, alien KKK, will be enshrine in statuette hall in the U.S. Capitol. I will be the last person on earth to defend the KKK but I will defend Byrd for his years of service. As an educator, have an open mind and listen to the eulogies this weekend to him and form your own opinion. Other people in history, Gov. George Wallace avow segregationist stood in a school house door and said: Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” even he denounced its evilness and repented and was well accepted by black Alabamians.
(Name deleted) was attempting to enlighten you and your listeners on the history of race relations in Omaha. In general, I am applying my comments to all the comments you and your callers made over the past weeks about the Fremont issue, Ernie Chamber, a hold gambit of things, etc.
Let me leave you with this thought. It’s irony I were watching Ken Burn‘s ‘The Civil War’ while composing this email. Was it about state rights or was it about slavery? I’ll let others be the judge. The Tea Party movement has use July 4, Independent Day, as an alleged plot or ploy to take back this country to days not so glorious. This affirms my belief that as a country we have a lot to repent for. In the world of black America, the past i.e. slavery, Jim Crow Laws, segregation, etc. will always be a part of their DNA history. Wounds can heal; however, memories will never fade.
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