Letters to the Editor – September 2006
Dear Ms. Grant:
You and your colleagues are publishing a very important tabloid, each issue featuring thorough, thoughtful alternatives to sound-bite journalism.
My wife, Margaret, and I congratulate you for starting a print publication in these days of decreasing advertising dollars, shrinking subscriber numbers, and competition from the Internet.
We wish you well, and will patronize your advertisers, telling that we
are doing so because of their ads in The Urban News & Observer.
Margaret and Frank Adams – Asheville
RE: Where is Condi? An opinion piece by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, August 2006.
To the editor:
So you think Condi is a “soft target”? Is it because she’s a woman? A Republican? Someone that doesn’t agree with you? I’ll bet anyone in the latter category would merit that kind of so-called vulnerability with you.
Nonetheless, are you pulling my good leg? Do you contend your sense of history and knowledge of world dynamics is superior to a national-level diplomat? Please don’t tell me your ideal diplomat is not someone like Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton or John Kerry who are quick to harp on tense issues as if they’re a piece of cake. Spare me the rhetoric.
Do you fundamentally consider yourself to be first an American and then, maybe after a few more demographic criteria, a world citizen? Or do you reverse the order? Are you saying, “I’m the globalist here, and I know how the world thinks and what Americans should do in order to kowtow.”? Or appease? Or placate? Could you ever feel aligned with any nationalistic self-determination other than WWII? Let’s hope you approve of the war against Hitler and that you’re grateful you didn’t have to learn German.
And then you begin the attack on the messenger rather than the message. “Condi is a Bush totem.” That’s an odd comparison and seems to imply she should have an independent opinion apart from the current elected leaders such as yours rather than her employer’s. In any event, Iraq has not been bungled nor was the American experiment accomplished without years of self-governing assemblies prior to the revolution. Give them time.
Sincerely,
Esther Huff – Asheville, NC
