Robert E. Lee deserves street name here
In response to “’Confederate’ streets getting new names” (News, Oct. 4), if you go to Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania, there is equal respect for soldiers, North and South. During the 19th century, a citizen’s loyalty was first to his state, and then to the country. The soldiers did not declare war; the politicians did. The majority of Southern soldiers did not own slaves. Robert E. Lee was asked to lead Northern troops by President Abraham Lincoln. He declined out of loyalty to Virginia. In 1865, a few months after the Appomattox surrender, Lee was named president of Washington College in Lexington, Va. This struggling college had four professors and 40 students. Two years later, the student body was 400. Most students were from Northern states. This shows the respect their parents had for Lee. I think Lee deserves a street name in my hometown, Atlanta.
DOROTHY J. PARTRIDGE, ATLANTA
AJC should end right-wing extremist cartoon
Can someone please explain to me how this newspaper continues to publish the daily hatred spewed in the cartoons of Michael Ramirez? Every Ramirez cartoon gives the reader ultra-right-wing claptrap that portrays anything or anyone who does not kowtow to the extreme right position as being unpatriotic at best, and out to destroy the nation and our Constitution at worst. How long will the AJC put up with this extremist who so belittles liberals and even moderates and their opinions? Meanwhile, he offers only praise for right-wing goals revolving around love of guns, religion, white men and any Republican hack, no matter how extreme their views and, of course, Donald Trump! Does this remind any of you, in reverse, of some of the recent whiny complaints against the AJC’s Mike Luckovich? It is disturbing how the extremes of both left and right are so apparently unaware of the First Amendment.
BEN DOOLEY, ATLANTA
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