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Questions their real motivation
August 18, 2014
To the Editor,

Ferguson, Missouri, another tragic arena playing out, whereby politically-motivated agitators use fear, anger, excitement, guilt, anxiety, and personal conflict to keep tempers on edge supporting chaos. Exactly the emotions the liberal media constantly attempts to portray and manipulate in a population regarding the racist "non-issue" in America.

Secular progressives and media-starved antagonists never tire of manipulating Americans prime time to spew their stupidity!  These misguided zealots want “We the People” to regurgitate continually the historical national guilt over slavery and segregation, by diligently striving to keep the fires of guilt and shame alive in present day USA. Why! for sins mostly committed generations ago by people long since dead.

Ironically, in the age of Obama; the demon-cratic party has mastered the art of playing the race card as a national sin, as though the USA is the most racist country on earth. In reality, with the vast majority of U.S. citizens, we long ago have wholeheartedly embraced Martin Luther King’s vision of a “color blind America."

This is even more true, with an elected black president and a black attorney general currently running this country. America is without a doubt the least racist nation on earth.

I read an article recounting author Dinesh D’Souza’s debate with Jesse Jackson at Stanford University. When asked to identify any actual racism in today’s America, Jackson couldn’t give any evidence that contemporary racism had kept children down. However, D'Souza mentions that Jackson countered his silence saying the “absence of evidence” is what worried Jackson the most.

I could not believe this! Jackson’s argument was that racism, once overt, had now become covert. In other words, racism hadn’t decreased in the slightest, but it now is working in ever more subtle ways to deny African Americans their share of the American dream. Pathetic!

Under Jackson's twisted logic, the less racism there is in America, the more racism there is. Of course, for people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, America must be racist or they are out of a lucrative job. That is the bottom line. If their base is not constantly riled up, resentful, kept full of perceived grievances, they have no job, no power, and no money.

Truth be told, people like Jackson and Sharpton are parasites who literally live on promoting the anger and resentment of others. Just watch the nightly Missouri news of rioting, and sure enough, it was only a matter of time before both bigots showed up to fan the flames of controversy.

Lee Haarstick
Porthill, Idaho
 
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