Speak Out
Do professional sports teams, high
school and college athletes realize the coronavirus is deadly and can strike anybody, especially those in contact sports where you are sweating and open your body pores, subjecting your wife and family. The life you save might be your own.
Mr. G., Chicago I didn’t realize we had so many epidemiologists in public office and was surprised to learn that Orland Park’s mayor is one. Unfortunately, his view of COVID-19 is a minority one among such scientists. Somehow he thinks that because Orland Park itself has a low number of cases everything can open wide while forgetting that people from outside his town also shop and dine there. The latest findings on COVID-19 suggests it spreads more readily through the air than previously thought. This is one of those non-Orlanders who won’t be returning if your town fully opens before proven treatments or a vaccine against COVID-19 are available.
El, Hegewisch Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau continues to embarrass the village by wasting our money on frivolous lawsuits and endangers our citizens with his disregard
for our health. He states that he is making decisions based on expert guidance, but I fear that’s the same guidance that Florida, Texas and Arizona are following as they approach record numbers of coronavirus cases.
Tom, Orland Park Add Disney Corporation to the boycott list. Unbelievably Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, inked a deal with Mr. AntiAmerican ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick with ESPN and the entertainment network on ESPN. What’s next, Louis Farrakhan being hired by PBS to host “Sesame Street.” Really sad what’s going on this country, people bending to the mob. True Americans should be revolted.
Leo, Oak Lawn Disneyland in Anaheim and Walt
Disney World in Orlando used to be sources of family fun and escape from reality. Now not so much with this PC and cancel culture nonsense. I just canceled a trip there. Now they go and hire the militant anti-American Colin Kaepernick to a lucrative TV contract. This is the same ingrate who three days earlier stated that our Fourth of July Independence Day is a celebration of white supremacy. Really? When is this garbage going to be challenged? The late great Walt Disney must be crying in heaven even when we wish upon a star! Don, Orland Park We’re in a time when we’ve been hit by
two viruses, the COVID and Trump viruses. There has been some but not enough change since in March 1991, Rodney King wondered “can’t we just all get along.” My friend, a life-long police officer, says that the police aren’t bad people, just not given enough training on how to diffuse a situation. Ed, Richton Park Leo from Oak Lawn needs to go back
to school to learn what is really taught in public schools. Students are not taught to hate the United States and our Constitution nor favor socialism over capitalism, if they are even taught what those last two actually are would be surprising. And, of course, they are not taught, nor should they be, about the existence of a God, in a public school. Religious institutions are the place to preach (and learn) about a God. How would a public school know which God to choose to teach about? Red, Chicago
To Leo from Oak Lawn. I guess you don’t remember the ’60s as well as I do. During that time, Martin Luther King was also besmirched as a Marxist to the point where Hoover had him followed, his phone tapped and spied upon in general. Maybe you’ve also forgotten the riots of the 60s, the burning in Oakland, Chicago and elsewhere. It’s so easy to try to typecast a movement by saying they want to destroy the Constitution and the rule of law. The only person I see trying to do that right now lives in the White House. Janet, Tinley Park Responding to Jan from Oak Forest, who said every other American race counts to be capitalized except whites. This is discriminating. Mayor Lori Lightfoot is always using the line “people of color.” What are we, people of no color? I thought white was a color, when did this stop? Casey, Bridgeview As for Ted Slowik, please buy a dictionary. Abortion is a privilege, not a right. You have the right to speak freely, to assemble, to defend yourself. Abortion was wrongly written into law by the Supreme Court and, as such, with any law, can be rescinded. Privileges can be taken away but not rights. Tom, Homewood