Pool funding veto was right
I read with interest the issue regarding the University of Memphis vs. the Shelby County mayor over a $1 million grant to fund swimming pool improvements for the University of Memphis.
For what it is worth, I don’t think the Shelby County mayor should be dictating to the University of Memphis about their pay system. Nor do I think the citizens, me, of Shelby County should be funding swimming pool improvements for the University of Memphis.
So I agree with the mayor and his veto, but not for the reason he states. If the Shelby County myor and commissioners want to provide a grant to a college, I recommend Lemoyne-owen College, which is trying very hard to help students with limited resources.
Gibson (Sunny) Morris, Collierville
Republicans must police Trump
The most telling and potentially dangerous aspect of the Trump presidency is the inability of the Republican Party to police itself. When a group loses the ability to self-correct it becomes more of an ideological cult than a political party.
The inexcusable action of a U.S. president suggesting other duly elected American citizens should return to their country is both nonsensical and an affront to the principles of our Constitution.
But Republicans are so busy covering for their “leader” that little problems like that are ignored. Until all elected officials accept the responsibility to act and think for themselves we are one bad leader away from truth being a function of ideology vs. fact, reason and compassion. Are we there?
Mike Russell, Collierville
We should not celebrate Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest was the founder of the KKK.
As a Civil War general, he ruined his own fame with the 1864 battle at Fort Pillow.
It was at that battle that many African American men had surrendered to Mr. Forrest and his Confederate army.
But what Bedford did in that attack was illegal and unnormal and unhuman.
He was an evil genius in his grand strategy of attack, and it was a terrible thing for him to do.
There should be no celebration of his life if Bill Lee has his own way because Nathan Bedford Forrest is not Tennessee nor it’s people.
John Huerta, Warren, Arkansas