Lonzie Cox – 9/15/09

This page was last updated on September 15, 2009.

The way summers used to be; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; September 15, 2009. I am not related to Mr. Cox.

Most of Mr. Cox’s 35+ letters since 2004 are tinged with race.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“‘There Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Blues’ — 1960s hit.”

[RWC] Actually, “Summertime Blues” was a 1950s hit. It was released in 1958 and reached the top of the U.S. and UK charts that September. Perhaps Mr. Cox is thinking of a later release by a different artist/group.

“After Sept. 11, 2001, we heard a lot about Americans being one people united against terrorism. Now look at all the morons demonstrating against everything from the word ‘empathy’ to President Barack Obama encouraging kids to be good students.”

[RWC] The part about “Americans being one people united against terrorism” immediately after 9/11 is mostly a myth. Almost immediately there were demonstrations against retaliation, and within a few weeks Democrats in Congress went back to attacking then-President Bush.

“It’s all just an excuse to injure Obama’s administration for obvious reasons.”

[RWC] In case you’re not familiar with Mr. Cox’s body of work, “obvious reasons” means the color of Mr. Obama’s skin since Mr. Obama is a leftist.

“What a summer it was for news — Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite, Sonya Sotomayor and her Republican tormenters, birthers, deathers, crazy health care protesters, yellow dog Democrats, blue dog Democrats and then Ted Kennedy passed away.”

[RWC] Regarding “Sonya Sotomayor and her Republican tormenters,” this is a good point to be fair to Mr. Cox and note he holds political ideology above race. You may recall Mr. Cox referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an Uncle Tom.

I wonder why Mr. Cox didn’t mention Van Jones.

“It wasn’t a summer of ‘Hitler invades Poland’ or ‘Man on Moon,’ just aggravating crud to feed the maniac media machine.

“Heck, Cronkite could have handled all this calmly, simply because after ‘Sermonette’ the world used to say goodnight and go to sleep until morning. There were no openly racist 24/7 talk shows like Limbaugh, Beck, Savage and Doyle. Everybody shut up and went to bed at 2 a.m. It was nice. Tell your kids about it.”

[RWC] Again, Mr. Cox refers to everyone with whom he disagrees as racists, or “Uncle Toms” or something similar if they are black.