Quit deflecting

Before beginning, I would like to thank Mr. Skip Thacker for the compliment regarding my Father’s Day letter. Reading the letters about me, you would think that either I am racist (Gerardo Hernandez’s words: “Is he trying to convince himself or others that he’s not racist?”) or I am calling white people racist (Ms. Stephens’ words: “Being quick to call people “racist” will not make them want to speak out.”).

Deflection means, “a turning aside or off course.” Mr. Hernandez, Ms. Stephens, and Mr. Stilson’s letters are “off course”. Mr. Hernandez about Biden: “All I seen is a puppet walking and falling…

Mr. Stilson about Biden: (“… that fumbling misfit Biden). However, both Hernandez and Stilson fail to write about former President Trump’s several missteps over four years. If Biden is that bad, why did Hernandez and Stilson cash in the stimulus payment from Biden?

Ms. Stephens states that she speaks up for Native Americans, but I can’t remember any letter that she wrote about this. Only when I brought up her silence as a Christian when African Americans were being mistreated did she bring up Native Americans. Every time I bring up this failure, Ms. Stephens deflects to write that I call white people racists. I ask anybody that reads this newspaper that you find any letter in which I wrote this. If you examine my record over almost 30 years, I have continually written not only about the mistreatment of African-Americans, but other minorities as well.

Ms. Stephens writes that she has Black friends. Hate crime among African Americans was up 31% last year (more than any other race) and yet not one letter was written by Ms. Stephens about the mistreatment and death of African-Americans in four years. What discussion does she really have with her black friends?

Vincent White

Lancaster