Garrett v. Roe

Anyone been keeping up with this match in the local Gazette. Interesting stuff and a great exercise in freedom of expression. The first time I read Mr. Garrett's Letter To the Editor I was a bit confused. I felt like he wanted folks living today to take responsibility for the transgressions against folks he nor I even knew from the past. Accountability - you can't hold anyone alive today accountable for issues of the past. For someone to be accountable for their actions they have to have had an opportunity to participate in the particular activity. Living in the past is for folks who like failure, and is the losers way to think. Positive thinking prevails! Always has and always will. Living in the past blinds one trying to find his way in the future. Dr. Martin Luther King never lived in the past and he was a progressive forward thinking fellow (read his works and don't rely on folk tales).

Mr. Baker wrote a wonderful piece in response to Mr. Garrett. Mr. Baker held Mr. Garrett accountable! Dang, there is that word again. It appears that Mr. Garrett plagiarized someones work in order to make a point about Democrats and Republicans. Mr. Baker did not take kindly to such action and rightfully held Mr. Garrett accountable (that word again). If Mr. Garrett spent time studying past political history he would know that it was the Republican Party that made it possible for the African-American population to become part of the America today. Texas use to hold 'White Primary' elections and only whites were allowed to vote in these elections (young folks of today would not know this type of information). Blacks could vote in general elections, but they were not given an opportunity to have a say in which candidates would appear on the November general election ballots. 'White Primary' elections were a product created by the Texas Democratic Party. Parties (not the government) were and still are to some extent responsible for the primary elections in this state. It was the Republican Party that debated and pressed for an end to the issue of slavery at the national level. Historical research might do this young fellow some good.

Perhaps Mr. Garrett needs to look beyond the issue of the US being Democrat and Republican, and just be dog gone happy to be an American. Being an American affords Mr. Garrett the freedom to express his opinion and this must be a good thing. If Mr. Garrett does not like America the door to leave is open (as an American you have the freedom to choose). This loser mentality is not the attitude that needs to be conveyed to the young of any race in this country. There are a number from any race who will gladly open the door for your exit should you exercise your freedom as an American to do so.

One other note, Mr. Garrett probably needs to take a look at the census numbers of late and get the news flash that the black and white populations are shrinking in this country. One additional note for Mr. Garrett - OUR President under his Cap and Trade legislation may put a tax on all that methane gas you produce and spout into the air you and I breath. Is this not a great country!