Edward Hum – 3/16/15

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What have we done to solve racial issues?; Edward J. Hum; Beaver County Times; March 16, 2015. This letter appeared on the BCT website on 3/16/15 but did not appear in the print edition until 3/18/15.

An editor’s note for a previous letter asserted, “The writer is a 1948 graduate of Geneva College.”

Mr. Hum has written more than 69 letters since mid-2004, including a 10-month hiatus from September 2007 to July 2008 and another from November 2012 to July 2014. Long after George W. Bush left office, most of Mr. Hum’s letters still are no more than exercises in bashing President Bush and/or other Republicans. Mr. Hum’s letters are also flame-throwing exercises. I don’t know if Mr. Hum actually believes what he writes, or if he simply likes to stir things up to call attention to himself.

Mr. Hum frequently includes “fellow Republicans” or something similar in his letters and is one of a group of local Republican impersonators (The group also includes Messrs. William A. Alexander, Arthur Brown, George Reese, and Oren M. Spiegler) who write claiming to be disgruntled Republicans. You have to give Mr. Hum “credit,” however, for going the extra mile to further his impersonation. As of September 2006, Mr. Hum was actually registered as a Republican despite the fact he’s no more a Republican than is Dennis Kucinich.

Given his body of work, for a while I wondered what Mr. Hum would use for subject matter now that Barack Obama is President. Mr. Hum wrote three letters in support of a government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly (here, here, and here), then he reverted to his Bush-bashing habit, as in “Bush earns status as ‘most liberal.’” I guess some addictions are too tough to overcome. The last Hum letter I critiqued was entitled “Economy has improved by stopping Obama.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“On March 8, I was in the Selma Remembrance march from Townsend Park in New Brighton to the Beaver Falls Municipal Park.”

[RWC] Mr. Hum’s letter before last was “Time to improve racial brotherhood.”

“As we crossed the bridge and walked up Seventh Avenue, I thought about the 1960s. I was 40 years old in 1965. Questions came into my mind. Why, 50 years after Selma, do we still have problems like in Ferguson? What have white Christians and churches been doing about civil rights and racial brotherhood for the last 50 years?”

[RWC] You have to appreciate the chutzpah when lefties like Mr. Hum ask questions like these. Please read “Lefty Race Baiters” and “Ferguson, MO” to see what I mean.

Note Mr. Hum didn’t tell us what he’s “been doing about civil rights and racial brotherhood for the last 50 years,” unless he counts walking in a parade.

To see more of the lefty take on this topic, see the discussion Carl Davidson and I had in the comment section of the subject article on the BCT website. Mr. Davidson is a local/national lefty activist.