Making progress

I am responding to the Saturday letter by Rick Reynolds, who insists that the United States is a racist land.

I know I am older than most citizens, and I totally agree that there have been many injustices toward racial and religious minorities in my lifetime alone.

But I would stress that great strides have taken place in the past 50 years toward the goal of “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

What isn’t helpful is the constant talk in the past decade about how bad things are when, in fact, great strides have taken place. When people make outlandish statements such as “First responders to the shooting of the Republican members playing baseball should have let them die because