Left-wing columnist fans flames of racism
In Leonard Pitts’ recent column, “Trump should leave Rosa Parks’ name out of his mouth,” Opinion, Dec. 10, he unbelievably attempts to equate Colin Kaepernick’s take-a-knee protest with the historic and heroic actions of Rosa Parks.
It is truly heartbreaking to watch the left exploit an ignorant, washed up ex-jock as a pawn in their political maneuvers. Kaepernick is a naive, historically untutored manchild who lives in a privileged bubble — uneducated and ill-informed. Any citizen so obtuse as to claim to be protesting police brutality while wearing an image of the bloody dictator Fidel Castro is to be pitied, not exploited.
Unless of course you are one of the vultures on the left whose lust for power justifies any action no matter how divisive or damaging to the culture. The left’s desire to regain power is so shameless they are actually willing to fan the dying embers of racism to achieve it.
JEFF BEAMER, ATLANTA
Let tax cuts depend on the trickle
Instead of rewarding big corporations with speculative tax cuts in the hope that they will trickle down in the form of increased pay for workers, how about making the cuts dependent on the trickle, repatriated overseas profits and any other presumed benefits to the downstream 99 percent. Any economist worth half their salt would be able to help structure such a plan. Reward these corporations for performance, not our own wishful thinking (or corporate political funders). All evidence suggests that such cuts never do trickle down, but rather go to reward stockholders and executives, and to finance stock buybacks. And it’s not just voluminous past evidence that shows this disturbing pattern. There are actually current surveys of corporate execs in which they freely announce exactly that intent.
STEVEN SALAMON, CUMMING
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