Cartoons wrongly equate liberals, racist groups

In the last two weeks political cartoons were published that were disingenuous.

The first one equated Black Lives Matter with neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the KKK. This is hardly the truth. BLM has had thousands of non-blacks show up to demonstrations to support the idea that blacks should be treated the same as whites by policemen and our government.Whites are not excluded from membership or demonstrations. Did you see any non-whites showing up at the Charlottesville rally for the preservation of the statue of Robert E. Lee or the night before at the University of Virginia?

The cartoon on Sept. 1 equated liberals critical of the Taliban and ISIS destroying historical artifacts and Buddha statues. In the decades after the Civil War many Southern communities governed by white-controlled politicians, many or most members and supporters of the KKK, erected monuments to glorified their Confederate heroes. Some of their supporters today want to save these monuments but live nowhere near them. Because of white flight many of these cites, towns and counties are now dominated by black citizens who no longer want to have these statues and monuments around. How many places in America with large Jewish populations want memorials to Hitler and Nazis near their homes? So I suggest that these white citizens who want to preserve them move back to the places they left because of racism, then can democratically vote to preserve them. Or they can send them to Crenshaw County, Ala., one of the most racist states in America, where they can be erected there in that new Confederate memorial park and worshipped by neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the KKK. LEE LEWIS

Bella Vista