Sound Off for Oct. 13, 2021

Pay attention

Cruisin’ The Coast used to be a good safe event for young and old alike. Now it has become politicized with vulgar language political flags and signs and a possible COVID super-spreader event. We did not feel it was a safe or appropriate place to take children. The promoters need to pay attention.

AP bias

Sun Herald published another biased AP article, about the tragic drowning deaths of nine service members. It cited, “former President Trump’s militarization of the southern border,” while the actual report cited, “augmenting the Customs and Border Patrol activities on the southwest U.S. border...”

Mandated needed

I’m a Mississippian who 100% supports vaccination mandates. The unvaccinated put my grandchildren who are too young to get vaccinated and others at risk. I’ve done everything I can do to avoid getting this virus and spreading it. What have you done? Nothing.

Protected?

Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use protection that didn’t protect the protected in the first place?

Unequal

The Carswell essay published in the Sun Herald seeking to deny that federal and state laws have maintained the unequal treatment of people based on race and that the economic success of the USA is based on theft of land and labor, does not appeal to me or to the facts.

Omitting facts

The rationale of critics of critical race theory is that teaching facts about American history is un-American if it shows that the all-white founding fathers were concerned only with economics and non-whites were discriminated against. You can not only re-write history, you can omit facts too.

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