DEAR EDITOR:
Wouldn’t it be nice if Cynthia Walker’s opinions were right
regarding the variety of issues that she writes about. She likes to
give us history lessons and tries to teach us how to solve national
and international problems. Most of the time the language that she
uses makes her seem arrogant (as in superior).
DEAR EDITOR:
Wouldn’t it be nice if Cynthia Walker’s opinions were right regarding the variety of issues that she writes about. She likes to give us history lessons and tries to teach us how to solve national and international problems. Most of the time the language that she uses makes her seem arrogant (as in superior).
There is no question that her column is her opinion and that she has a right to express her thoughts which are always so black and white. There is also no question that if we don’t like it, we don’t have to read her column, and most of the time I don’t but occasionally a catchy title like “Independence Day and the leadership vacuum” causes me to read it.
She starts out by quoting one of my favorite United States of Americans, John Adams, but the date of his letter to his wife Abigail is July 3, 1776. The world was a lot different 228 years ago.
Even then, although there is no question that our founding fathers did a marvelous job of putting together our Declaration of Independence and then our Constitution, it soon became clear to me that they were both flawed and outdated.
Also, in 1776 the United States was located on the east coast of North America. These documents did not provide equality for women or the Negro, or the Native American. Consequently, four score and five years later there was a civil war which was one of the bloodiest, most cruel and most unnecessary in the history of mankind.
At Andersonville and the march through Georgia in the 1860’s the United States of Americans proved to ourselves, if not to the world, just how barbaric we could be.
Ms. Walker also fairly nostalgically but fervently hopes the Iraqis might, 228 years from now, be parading and celebrating their independence while ignoring the fact that Iraq became independent from the British more than 65 years ago.
Frank Valenzuela, Gilroy (former mayor of Hollister)
Submitted Monday, July 12 .
