Word choices are loaded with racial undertones Re: “Let’s kill racism forever, put NAACP out of business,” Aug. 29
Gregory Kane asks, “Will the real racists please stand up?” and opines that Obama voters were racist in 2008. What sparks this less-than-unique thought is Jennifer Delany’s rant to Carl Lewis about his dark skin and lack of political experience.
If Mr. Kane’s supposition is correct that Delany was thinking of President Obama when she spewed forth, then that pretty much proves she is a racist. Why compare Mr. Lewis to Obama and not to Christine O’Donnell or some other recent political newbie? Such a comparison would have made Delany’s point more effectively. Two wrongs don’t make a right, Mr. Kane. How can you ever call her outburst “perfectly understandable”?
Mr. Kane also finds it necessary to mention “white guy” presidential candidates twice, leading me to think that he is sexist in his view of who can be president. “White candidate” would have worked just as well. Three wrongs don’t make a right, either.
Storm Freeman
Falls Church
Maybe Obama is trying to wreck the economy
Re: “Obama’s regulatory flood is drowning economic growth,” Aug. 28
This Sunday Examiner editorial failed to suggest that drowning economic growth with regulations is perhaps precisely the plan.
As explained by American Thinker, the Cloward/Piven Strategy is a method employed by the radical Left to create and manage crisis. It is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, whose goal in 1966 was to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.
Though the strategy at the time was directed at welfare, it is not too much of a stretch to see that the intent is being carried over to tying up the American economy with regulatory bloat — akin to nuisance lawsuits. Making an already weak economy even worse is the intent of the Cloward/Piven Strategy.
Serious people should really start asking hard politically incorrect questions. Has this administration simply failed the economy through liberal bumbling and naivete, or is the president ready to declare “Mission accomplished”?
David Swink
Vienna
Abortions may play a major role in infant deaths
Re: “Infant mortality rates drop 7 percent in Maryland,” Aug. 25
The infant mortality rate for black babies ranges from 2.1 to 5.5 times higher than for white babies. Maryland health officials offered no reason for this huge disparity, which has existed for years. They dismissed socioeconomic status and education level as reasons.
Abortion increases the risk of preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies, and successive abortions increase the risk even more. Preterm births are a cause of infant mortality and morbidity. Unfortunately, due to Planned Parenthood’s century-long campaign to reduce the number of blacks, black women have much higher rates of abortion than white women, which may be why the mortality rate for black infants is so high.
Maryland should begin to collect statistics on abortions as most other states do to determine if abortion is a major reason for the disparity in infant mortality between blacks and whites.
Diane Hess
Damascus, Md.
