To the Editor:
Re: “End the Nonsense” (8/4). I’ve been around 71 years, too, long enough to have learned the fraught history of this young nation and to appreciate the fact that the Bill of Rights protects my right to to peacefully assemble and petition the government for grievances just as Article I protects my right to express myself. Are we a racist nation? I don’t think so, but there are plenty of racists in our midst.
The removal of statues and busts of Confederate generals and founders of the KKK from places of honor is not an assault…
August 11, 2021
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