OpinionMarch 6, 2014

Who's the racist?

Marisa Rickman, you call northern Idaho the "most redneck state ever seen in the hate toward any dark race." Now, who is being racist?

Check your history. Columbus named you Indians in error. He was lost at the time. During the French/Indian war, they instigated scalping, paying bounties, telling the braves to "count coup," the more scalps the better.

Nez Perce is French, "nose pierce," perhaps given your people by Charbonneau, the French husband of Sacajawea. Lewis and Clark's journal gives your tribal name as "Chapunnish." Ignoring natives, you're now stuck with the French name.

People of "dark races" are not alone to be given inappropriate names. All races have suffered. I submit the following list, most spelled phonetically: chinks, slant-eyes, Chinaman, Japs, shysters, kikes, shylocks, Swedes, Ruskies, berserkers, hunyocks, pollocks, slave, gorkys, goyim, krauts, frogs, spaghets, spicks, beefeaters, redcoats, wetbacks, illegals, tea baggers, hillbillies, oakies, arkies, rednecks, crackers, KKK's, white eye, palefaces, black Irish, Irish drunks, no dogs or Irishmen allowed,. queers, queens, fairies, hoods, bitches, hoes, mother f*****s - the names go on and on.

There have always been people honoring braves, warriors and chiefs. Nations have had its savages. Note the Spanish Inquisition, the torture killings of Jews, the English drawing and quartering their enemies, the gassng of 6 million Jews by Hitler.

Marisa, isn't it time to stop allowing those in power to keep racism a thing of controversy to cover Obama's numerous scandals?

Let's all stand together against it.

Flora Teachman

Kamiah

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Hands off Social Security

... I am sick and tired of the United States government acting as Hitler in destroying senior citizens. Congress has been stealing the Social Security trust fund and destining thousands of senior citizens to soon be living on the streets and dying there for want of food and shelter. ...

The president has been stealing millions of dollars from Medicare so that we cannot get medical care. He took senior citizens' medical program to fund Obamacare. Obamacare needs to be defunded and Medicare refunded. Or else our monthly payment into Medicare must stop.

It is bad enough that we senior citizens are looking at being living on the streets, but our children will never get their Social Security. Neither will our grandchildren.

Get honest and restore the benefit that we paid into for many years. I am 79 and I paid into it until I was 70.

President Harry S. Truman said, "Social Security must consist of rights which are earned rights, guaranteed by the law of the land."

President Gerald Ford said, " We must begin by inuring that the Social Security system is beyond challenge. It is a vital obligation each generation has to those who have worked hard and contributed to it all their lives."

Your must understand that the law requires that every employer must withhold Social Security from his or her paycheck every payday. This was not to provide you thieves with a private fund for you to spend as your private fund. ...

Jack A. Stratton

Orofino

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