A few more cringe-worthy thoughts

To the Times:

At the risk of piling on, after reading the subject letter, I thought how sanctimonious you were in putting down the president’s responses to the “Group, Cummings included.” You cringed when he told the people of color what most of us were thinking. Phil, get a spine and stop kneejerking, it had nothing to do with skin color, and I think deep down you know it but chose to go along to get along.

These individuals have systematically mocked this country and what it stands for, lying in the face of facts to the contrary with impunity. The president called them on it to their faces and true to form got the racist label with support from you and your associates. I am glad he said what he did and they earned those rebukes.

Having stated my position in these proceedings, and having labeled you sanctimonious, I want to pose you walking a mile in your own shoes. Let’s say a fictitious group of individuals, all of color, and with a sizable following in cyberspace, took to their airways mocking you, your newspaper, your belief system, pointed to you as a lying racist scoundrel and accused you of using your position to encourage and foment racial injustice throughout Delaware County. In the meantime they were in fact doing that very thing themselves in gatherings throughout the county, undercutting your efforts to find equitable solutions to such decisive dialogue.

Tell me again how Mr. Phil Heron, proud editor of his fair-minded, colorblind newspaper would respond? How would his board respond? How would his readership respond? Would anyone cringe if Phil told them what he and countless others thought of their out-of-bounds criticism.

I wouldn’t.

Marty McCormick, Glen Mills