A long history of hate, violence

There will always be discrimination because humans are flawed. Some Blacks hate whites and vice versa. Some white Europeans hate other white Europeans and some Blacks hate other Blacks. The protests and riots are about control; using young people who don’t know history, to protest, thinking this is all about Blacks needing more support. The race situation in this country was pretty good until these riots.

Slavery existed before America. Black Dr. Walter Williams reminded us that the word ‘slave’ comes from white Slavic people used as slaves.

Niger Innis, Dr. Carol Swain, Sheriff David Clarke, Candace Owens are a few Blacks who could enlighten you. There was slavery in America. It is horrible that any human would consider another human as a slave, but it does not exist now. Some of the statues being destroyed represent men who treated slaves kindly. They had slaves because it was what was done at that time. Destroying statues is destroying history which is a Communist tactic.

Columbus was a good Catholic man. Some in the group may not have been. Fr. Junipero Serra was an advocate for the rights of native people. Educators who refuse to let students honor Columbus are uneducated and should no longer teach.

A rioter said life is worth more than a destroyed business. True, but the evil destruction is only about ridding themselves of youthful frustrations and has harmed the very people you pretend to be supporting.

Strong-willed young protesters, whose rhetoric leads other uninformed youth to block highways and bridges, have no concern for those inconvenienced. Their lack of concern called out to violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter organizations — people who hate America and want to destroy it. Many people, mostly Black, were killed, including retired Black Police Captain Dorn and 700 cops injured all over the country.

Rioting has done nothing for the memory of George Floyd. Dr. Martin Luther King said, “violence is impractical and immoral.” Marie Marra

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