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Is the U.S. not the land of the free?; Jewel Robertson; Beaver County Times; August 18, 2010.
Until January 2007, Ms. Robertson’s letters (here, here, here, and here) focused on bashing President Bush. In her first letter, Ms. Robertson opined that President Bush could be listening to Satan. That tells us much of what we need to know about Ms. Robertson. Since January 2007, race has been a regular feature of her letters, though Ms. Robertson reverted to Bush bashing in “‘No one can be as bad as Bush was’.” As I wrote about another serial Bush basher, I guess some addictions are too tough to overcome.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Americans do have short memories as to their morbid actions.
“The fact is that whites went throughout the South and the West destroying entire towns where blacks lived and never allowed them to return. Until this day, these towns are pure white.”
[RWC] It’s a little hard to remember “morbid actions” you never committed. I’ll go out on a limb and guess anyone who committed the alleged acts died long, long ago. In any case, Ms. Robertson’s history is a tad selective. The primary reason for the Civil War was slavery, and over 350,000 Union soldiers died in that fight, the vast majority of whom were white. Even President Lincoln was murdered in the effort to end slavery.
“I sympathize with the victims of the bombing of the World Trade Center, but I also have to feel victimized by the actions of groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Building a mosque center in New York City cannot compare to the bombing of the church on the most sacred day of the week, which is Sunday, in Birmingham, Ala., destroying life.”
[RWC] Does this mean Ms. Robertson would support someone building a KKK memorial next to the 16th Street Baptist Church? While we’re talking about “short memories,” Ms. Robertson appears to forget the KKK was a predominantly Democrat organization.
“It seems there are certain people in America who want to have their way regardless of whom they may hurt. It is time for a president to stand up for all people. After all, is this not ‘the land of the free?’
“President Abraham Lincoln said, ‘This is the government of the people and by the people.’ President Barack Obama might as well go on and do what is right in his sight. He will never be able to please that racist group of men in Congress and America.”
[RWC] Surprise, Ms. Robertson got her Lincoln quote wrong. Here’s what Mr. Lincoln actually said in the last sentence of the Gettysburg Address: “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
Ms. Robertson, who is “that racist group of men in Congress and America?” Hint: “[T]hat racist group of men [What about women?] in Congress and America” is anyone who disagrees with policies and programs supported by Mr. Obama and Ms. Robertson.
“Never in life have I saw a president so disrespected.”
[RWC] Is Ms. Robertson making a joke? Perhaps Ms. Robertson needs to reread her own racist anti-Bush letters I noted above. When I referred to Ms. Robertson’s letters as racist I was simply using her definition of racism, which appears to be disagreeing with someone of a different skin color.
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