Some people just want to be ‘victims’
“Microagression - the indignities of daily life,” News, May 30, is a pathetic attempt to make individuals “victims.” Everyone will go through life suffering some indignity because they wear glasses (“Four-eyes”); or are tall (“how’s the weather up there?”) or short (“hey shrimp”), or skinny (“beanpole”), fat (“pudge”); not to mention all of the other issues (where you went to school), (good grades or bad grades); (good athlete or poor athlete); etc. People are not the same and the differences make us better or worse depending on how we face the challenges of life. If you perceive that you are a “victim,” you will blame others all of your life. Instead, the only thing that matters is how you persist and overcome obstacles.
BRANDT ROSS, ATLANTA
Let’s leave flag where it belongs — in past
Many articles have cropped up recently about display of the Confederate flag, both pro and con. As a lifelong Southerner raised in western Kentucky in the shadow of the Jefferson Davis monument, I believe that we are at, or past, the time to let it go. Few people born in the 21st century will ever encounter someone who knew someone who was alive during the Civil War. The participants in that awful conflict are long since dead. The apartheid society that its aftermath created has been stricken from our law books. The rebellion and treason that defense of slavery spawned have been purged from our land. Many of the battlefields have been made national parks, as they should be. Many museums house the artifacts of that terrible time, as they should. Civil War gravesites dot the south. But there is no good reason to display the banner of treason in public places ever again. To do so brings official imprimatur to a failed effort to destroy our nation and offends African Americans whose freedom derives from the suppression of that banner.
LLOYD E. FLEMING, DULUTH
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