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America’s time has come to repent of its sins; Jewel Robertson; Beaver County Times; July 12, 2016.
Until January 2007, Ms. Robertson’s (JR) 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. More recent Robertson letters I critiqued were “Enough with disrespect,” “Reagan hurt veterans,” “Boils down to hate,” and “Attacks on president disrespectful.”
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“When will America comes to admit that too long African-Americans have turned the other cheek. The older generation did nothing, but this is a new day.”
[RWC] As you read JR’s letter you’ll find no mention of the five Dallas police officers murdered (plus nine injured) while trying to keep Black Lives Matter demonstrators safe. About one week after JR’s letter, another three police officers were murdered in Baton Rouge.
“There are some Klansmen who have traded their white sheets for blue uniforms. Those to blame are the heartless white men who control the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. They can not [sic] solve the problem until they admit there is one.”
[RWC] JR apparently forgot “the heartless [President Obama] who control[s] the halls of” the White House.
I could be wrong, but it appears JR thinks all police officers who shoot or otherwise harm blacks are white. This isn’t true, of course.
In the Baltimore case, three of the six cops charged in the Freddie Gray case were black. Three of the cops were acquitted and Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby subsequently dropped charges for the other three. The police commissioner at the time (Anthony Batts) was black.
One of the two supervisory cops in the Eric Garner case was a black, female sergeant.
In Milwaukee, the cop who shot and killed Sylville Smith was black. Mr. Smith – armed with a stolen handgun – was fleeing a traffic stop. Astonishingly, Mr. Smith’s father took some responsibility, saying, “I got out of jail two months ago, but I’ve been going back and forth in jail and they see those things so I’d like to apologize to my kids because this is the role model they look up to. When they see the wrong role model, this is what you get.”
“America, your time has come for you to repent of your sins. You are now calling your American children terrorist because they say ‘Black Lives Matter.’ America, you created this problem long before they were born.”
[RWC] “America, your time,” “your American children,” and “America, you created this problem.” Did you notice JR in this letter writes as if she’s not an American? If that’s true, someone should start a GoFundMe account so she can return to her home country.
“This Bible verse seems appropriate: 2 Chronicles 7:14, ‘If my people which are called by name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.’”
[RWC] Given her letter-writing body of work, I’m not sure JR should quote scripture.
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