Letter-writer has obvious anti-Trump bias
The letter-writer of “Justice more important than Republican Party,” Readers Write, June 11, fails to know the meaning of the word “apolitical.” He characterizes himself as “an independent voter and apolitical writer,” and then proceeds to lambast CNN and Fox News for providing any airtime or credence to any view supporting President Trump or seeking to exonerate Trump in the unsubstantiated “Russian Triangle” (as the writer characterizes it). He finds any such GOP spokesperson “complicit” — though shows no proof or any evidence of what they are complicit in.
The writer audaciously claims he has no “witch in this Russian fairytale,” but that doesn’t prevent his burning at the stake anyone siding with Trump. Would that we all were so “apolitical.”
GREGORY MARSHALL, MARIETTA
Monument in Augusta should come down
I generally agree with the opinions of the Atlanta History Center, that the monuments should remain but with an explanatory plaque attached stating the fact that they often were erected as part of a political campaign to resurrect or regale the “Lost Cause.” However, some monuments are so abusive to racial sensitivity that they cannot stand. The Confederate monument in Augusta is an example. Erected in the early 1900s, it extolls the virtues of the “white and pure” confederate soldiers who fought for the freedom of whites to enslave blacks. Imagine you are a black citizen of Augusta walking down the street with your children and you pass this monument. You read the monument’s inscription and then the History Center Plaque, which says in effect that the monuments were erected by those who wanted to extol the virtues of the “Lost Cause.” You think to yourself “why then is this abomination allowed to stand in my hometown?” Take it down.
THOMAS M. WEST, BETHLEHEM
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