School is officially in session! So please be careful around the school zones. I have always appreciated what Chief Ricky Roberts says, “There is no excuse and zero tolerance for speeding through a school zone!” He is absolutely right!
As we get ready to go to this week’s mail bag, I shake my head in disbelief. I wonder where some people come from and how they garner the conclusions they do!
Sandy:
While you're attacking the character of someone else put yourself in their shoes? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. From the looks of this article it makes me wonder if you are a follower of Christ.
I know you're trying to make money for your newspaper but before you write or print your articles ask yourself: What would Jesus do? I guarantee that if you do the write thing He will take care of you. I am a living witness.
J Williams
Dear J:
I think it is oxymoronic to put myself in the shoes of someone whose character I am questioning or as you put it, “attacking”. You don’t get to the point of questioning them without having first thought if their actions are reasonable and sensible. Once you come to the conclusion someone is wrong, it is proof you have thought about it. As far as you wondering whether or not I am a follower of Christ, wonder no more! Yes, I am. Proudly!
By the way, the question “What Would Jesus Do?” is a copout for a lot of people. I am pretty sure it was Jesus who went into the temple and kicked over a few tables, threw some people out on their hind ends and looked the political and religious leaders in the eye and called them a brood of vipers and said they were full of dead men’s bones! So Jesus was not a “get along” kind of guy and I promise he never wondered if the money changers or Pharisees were hugged enough as children. (By the way, before you send an email next time, Hit F7 and spell check it…)
Sandy:
I am sick and tired of you putting down my president and calling him names. If you don’t like him, LEAVE. He was legally elected unlike that big eared buffoon who ruined this great country. Besides MY president proves that you can grow up dirt poor, on welfare and in the most racist, imperialistic, unfair land in the world and yet overcome all of that to become the leader of the free world. Your president, Curious George, proves that with every advantage given to him, wealth, privilege and being white and you can still be a nothing and a nobody. President Obama is trying to level the playing field but you wouldn’t know nothing about that you white slave owning bas***d. Unless someone gives you a chance like Barack is doing for his own people, you can't make it in America. Take your white a** out of America and give it back to the people it should belong to.
Con’tration
Dear Con’tration:
I almost dare not reply because (including your name) you are a constant contradiction… Which has me thinking this may be somewhat of a prank email.
However, let us assume you are serious. First it is amazing to me how many people want to compare this president to the previous one when they think GW Bush was such a miserable failure… If you honestly think President Bush was so bad, that is the equivalent of comparing your steak to a cracker full of cheese whiz.
You call this country great in one sentence and then in the very next you claim we live in the “most racist, imperialistic, unfair land in the world”… So which is it? Are we a great nation or not? I say we are a great nation with many flaws. In spite of those flaws we are the only place on the globe where the residents of the rest of the world yearn to call home.
You say GWB had every advantage which includes being white? What does that mean? So being white is equal to wealth and privilege in your eyes? Not that I care to hold a race debate with you, but in an effort to expose the truth: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2006 there were 36 Million Americans living below the poverty level. Of that 24 Million of them were white. The color of ones skin is not an advantage and I pray is never a disadvantage. I believe in Dr. King’s Dream… Where a person is judged on the content of his character not the color of his skin
By the way, I don’t think BHO grew up “dirt poor” and “on welfare”. As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure he came from a family with means and was never on public assistance. Amazingly enough, it was that family he called "typical white people" (whatever that means)
Your assumption I own slaves couldn't be further from the truth. I know for a fact I have never owned a slave! The most famous slavery case in Supreme Court history was against someone named Sanford (who actually didn’t own a slave but was named in the lawsuit because he was the executor of the estate). However, that is as close as my name has ever come to slavery.
I grew up on a red dirt road in East Texas… My first paying job was at 13 years old and I was picking watermelons for Royce Lynn Johnson. I was paid $3 an hour. When the watermelon season closed, I got a job picking purple hull peas for Austin Lucas. He paid me 8 cents a pound. On a good day, I could pick 200 pounds of purple hulls… Woo Hoo: $16 a day. I picked cantaloupes, pumpkins, hauled hay and pulpwood. One summer (when I was 15) I worked for a fencing company where I cleared brush and was paid 10 cents a foot for the fence which was built. We worked 6 days a week in 100+ degree Texas heat, I kept rashes from Poison Ivy, Poison Oak and burns from Creosote poles we had to carry to build the fence… By the end of that summer I had made almost $1000. At 16, I finally a “real job” with Coca-Cola and made $3.35 per hour. I’m not going to give you my entire resume but I want you to know, I got where I am because I WORKED HARD, BUSTED MY BUTT, DIDN’T COMPLAIN, DID THE JOBS NO ONE ELSE WOULD DO, and eventually I got my chances in each of those jobs to move up. That is what it takes to be successful in America!
As far as leaving America and “giving it to the people it should belong to,” I plan to stay in America for my entire life. The only chance of that changing would be if Texas were secede and then I would visit my family in the Republic of Texas on weekends. America belongs to NATIVE AMERICANS… I was born in America, which makes me a Native American… Guess it already belongs to the people it should belong to.
