Lies that profit and purloin

THE EDITOR, Madam:

Anyone who reads the Letter of the Day of Tuesday July 25, ‘‘Fire bun’ the idea that we benefited from slavery’ will think that the Republicans are out to sell the notion that the Florida public-school curriculum contains language in its African studies curricula that should be considered offensive to today’s African Americans.

No doubt, the writer got the idea from the Democrat- corrupted news press, but I couldn’t read it without wondering why what was absent (but was noted in the ‘other than the Democrat’ news media) was that it was in fact a well-respected African American scholar who headed the study and certainly edited the curriculum under review in this matter.

Beyond that, recently the US vice-president, took the time to criticise something she obviously knew little about.

I wonder if the notion that both this writer’s conclusions and the vice-president’s comments continue to spread unnecessary and divisive relationships among races have been considered. A division for which they have both failed to show any relevant evidence, and, at the same time, one that if proliferated will simply be using another lie to promote the left’s corrupt, political agenda.

At least the slave, we suspect, knew instinctively when he was being lied to.

You would think that in the face of the horror that was slavery, that proclaiming the enduring strengths of the African individual would be at least as important as re-emphasising the cruelty of their masters. Instead, it would seem that selling papers to, and gaining votes from, the less well-educated among us was more important than truth.

ED MCCOY

Former Middle-School Teacher

Bokeelia, FL