Hoodwinked?

In response to Vincent White’s letter of 09.25, Jim Gardner wrote: “They [BLM] are not interested in equality, justice or fairness, they want preferential treatment.” There was nothing racial there.”

Firstly, White did not state nor suggest that Gardner’s letter was racist. But the tired trope “Black people seek preferential treatment” (is) racist.

It is racist because White People know that the only preferential treatment Black people receive is with respect to police brutality, poverty, inadequate healthcare, redlining, and other forms of housing discrimination, job discrimination, racial profiling, food deserts, and, of course, lower life expectancy. Therefore, this “preferential treatment” nonsense is one way in which to ignore the plea for (equal) treatment. Harold Holifield: “I challenge anyone to come forward with … exactly what the president should have done that would have saved 190,000 lives.”

Trump should have told people to practice physical distancing and urged all 50 states to implement mandatory mask-wearing laws. Had he done so, an estimated 121,000 lives would have been saved to date (10/03/20) and his supporters would now be demanding that the traditional American flag be supplanted by a maskshaped flag adorned with stars and stripes.

As it now stands, the likes of Holifield are giving cover to the sociopathic Donald Trump’s exceedingly high degree of ineptitude and indifference.

Finally, Holifield wrote, “How much longer are we going to pretend that we’re in a pandemic?

That ridiculous question implies that the COVID-19 pandemic is a “hoax” initiated by the Democratic Party.

What pandemic denies are suggesting, in effect, is that the Democratic Party has hoodwinked every government on Earth, virtually every healthcare professional in the world and nearly all journalistic outlets worldwide.

Wow, given its unparalleled power of persuasion, perhaps I should reconsider my dislike of the Democratic Party. Guy Marsh

Lancaster