‘Racist’ attitudes

Re: “America last”, (PostBag, Nov 18).

Kuldeep Nagi’s campaign, citing whites as the central problem and placing America right at the core of all the world’s problems is hardly a new illusion.

Go to any of those countries he says America has problems with or that have, as he says, started to ignore the USA, and you will, of course, encounter nirvana.

Whites were central to the settlement of the “New World”, although there were other races mixed in. When attitudes people have are based on race rather than merit, that is racist and ignorant.

The heartland of America, if anything, is surrounded by urban, wide-eyed liberal ignoramuses who desperately want to try some of the ideas they read about in books, but few of whomever actually read the entire book or go to the countries of concern to see how things are infested with local greed and corruption.

These days, when a non-white encounters a white, we are supposed to believe it is the white who is racist rather than the overlysensitive person of colour who has had it drilled into his or her head that they are part of a continually deprived minority that needs to rise up against white people.

Those illegal aliens coming from Ecuador seem not to be rising up against their own people who they claim are killing and stealing from them. They go to America for a better life, for free benefits, for freedom, period.

I think Mr Nagi wants to ignore America because that’s what he has been doing anyhow, so why change?

Sign me an American. White. Modest. Conscience at ease. Non-racist. With seven decades of education and experience. At home and abroad. With whites and nonwhites. And not always have I been treated fairly or knowledgeably by those who complain about “my kind”. BRIAN KNIGHT