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Why all the gnashing of teeth?; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; June 28, 2012. I am not related to Mr. Cox.
Most of Mr. Cox’s at least 76 letters since 2004 are tinged with race, and all take leftist positions. The most recent previous Cox letter I critiqued was “Memorial cost should be limited.”
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Sometimes, watching Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, I actually feel sorry for them. Together they have spent two lifetimes trying to save America from itself. Not black America, all of America.”
“To my knowledge,these two men have never said a word about the United States that didn’t need to be said or that wasn’t constructive criticism. Neither of them has ever done anything that in the long run wouldn’t contribute to the nation being a better place for all if their enemies would stop whining and pay attention to what’s being said.
“Jackson and Sharpton may someday merit statues of their own since it’s said that Americans always do the right thing ... after trying everything else.”
[RWC] Does Mr. Cox have a shrine in his basement for Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson and Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton? These guys are heroes to Mr. Cox while he refers to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an “Uncle Tom.”
“Which brings me to Rev. Wright, whom the Republicans have dragged out for further embarrassment to a decent Christian man who just wanted to retire quietly.
“The Wright tape that I heard was no more than the retelling of stories that anyone who studied high school history would have learned. Wright mentioned the U.S. nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, the enslavement of Africans and the ghettoization of the Indians on desert reservations.”
[RWC] Perhaps Mr. Cox should read “Why Jeremiah Wright is so wrong” on Salon.com, self-described as “the leading progressive [leftist] news site.” Then again, I suspect Mr. Cox knows the truth and hopes we’re ignorant.
“These are unchangeable facts, not rumors, even if they are unpleasant to consider. Wright merely based a sermon on facts as all sermons should be. So why all the gnashing of teeth?”
[RWC] If the content of the Wright sermons is so vanilla, why did President Obama throw Mr. Wright “under the bus” after the comments in his sermons became common knowledge? Readers may recall Mr. Obama previously referred to Mr. Wright as a mentor and spiritual advisor and took the title for one of his books from one of Mr. Wright’s sermons. Mr. Obama even compared Mr. Wright to family: “I can no more disown him [Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother.”
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