OPINION:
As an independent voter, I believe that the Democrats have turned politics into raw sewage that stinks to high heaven. Watching President Biden’s continuous blunders and missteps should tell everyone to be very weary of our downfall as a society.
With his ludicrous presidential executive orders killing industry, to selling us out in his dealings with our enemies China, Russia and Iran, Biden is leaving us vulnerable to attack not only from outside but also from within.
His latest affront is the Juneteenth holiday, which is now on the books. Of course I understand why Black people were given their freedom; no one should be a slave to anyone else. However, no one now living was ever a slave. What galls me to no end is that we have anarchists such as Black Lives Matter and antifa, who burn down our cities, riot and kill people, and this holiday seems to have been created in deference to them.
No race should be ashamed of their history, nor should they feel guilty every time some idiot plays the race card to try to manipulate them into being ashamed. If you look at human history, every race has been a slave to some other race at one time or another.
A friend of mine who escaped from Cuba some 30 years ago asked me why the American Indians don’t have a holiday. Knowing that our government broke treaty after treaty and stole Indian lands and killed Indians, I was struck by the question. Indeed, why isn’t there a holiday for Indian-American tribes, considering that our government robbed them of their heritage and rights by making them learn English and act like Whites?
GREGORY J. TOPLIFF
Warrenville, S.C.
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