The letter to the editor of June 9 from Mary Martinez calls the Los Angeles Times editorial published May 20 great reporting. The editorial about White supremacy is more of a revisionist historical editorial. It says that what allegedly motivated an 18-year-old White man to gun down Black people was the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson. This statement is an opinion rather than a fact. It uses the word “allegedly” and it means to convey that something is claimed to be the case or have taken place although there is no proof. It’s a common word used by mainstream media journalists when condemning conservatives with no proof. For example, the alleged Russian collusion by President Trump has now been proven false and the alleged Border Patrol agents whipping illegal aliens has been called false. Yet, President Biden and Democrats want them disciplined.
The editorial states that conservative elected officials tolerate radical and racist theories within their ranks. Interesting, the author of the editorial provides no conservative names, it’s just allegedly.
It’s interesting the L.A. Times keeps using radicalized White supremacists, ignoring the fact of radicalized Democrats of the segregationist South before 1970. I spent the summer of 1961 in Biloxi, Mississippi, and saw the “colored” water fountains and the signs that said “No Colored People on the Beach.” Irony, it was on the 4th of July.
The editorial conveniently forgot to mention White supremacist Democrat Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who was a Ku Klux Klan member in the 1940s. If he had been in Biloxi during the summer of ’61, he could have enjoyed the beach.
The editorial also mentions George Floyd. Most Americans with common sense know that there are bad policeman, just like there are bad teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc., yet these radicalized Democrats, BLM and Antifa burned businesses and killed a few Americans.
I took one journalism class taught by a liberal professor. He was not radicalized or woke like most of today’s university professors.
We would be a better country if we got back to the basics of teaching reading, writing, math and the correct history rather than the revisionist history being taught to indoctrinate students.
Carlos Cantu
Brownsville
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When I was growing up our family watched a show on TV that offered one-tank trips to places nearby that only took one tank of gas. Maybe we should resurrect that practice! Here is my recommendation to get started.
Iwo JimaMonument and museum at 320 Iwo Jima Blvd., at the Harlingen airport. The monument is larger than the one in Washington, D.C. The volunteers in the museum are quite knowledgeable.
Inside the local MarineMilitaryAcademy’s museum, a 32-minute video is shown that is full of information you probably didn’t know. Our family absorbed it all in awe. Our elementary-school child we had with us wanted a medium-size American flag as his souvenir.
If you can’t find the place, look for a 78-foot-high steel flagpole and head for it! It’s near a shady area with walking paths. Think about it, especially around the Fourth of July.
And remember to fly your flag!
Marcia Raley
Brownsville
