Will Trump face consequences for racist post about the Obamas?
Re: “Racist post on Obamas deleted after backlash,” Feb. 7 news story
In 2016 Delta County Republican Party chairperson Linda Sorenson shared a racist post referring to former President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee. It did not happen as quickly as it should have, but Sorenson eventually was forced to resign because of the incident.
Ten years later racism is still alive and prevalent in the Republican Party with President Donald Trump depicting the Obamas as apes.
Trump should be forced to resign because of this and countless other awful things he has done. I must once again question how anyone can continue to condone the behaviors of this evil man and belong to a political party that supports him.
David Ryan, Salida
Is there a day when Trump doesn’t lie? An alleged staffer posted on his private Truth Social account at around 1 a.m. — when the president usually posts bizarre things — a video clip that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as primates. Reporters interviewed Trump and he claimed he did not do it. His claim was a staff member did the posting. Yeah, right. This is off his own private Truth Social account. But then again, he continues to do whatever he wants because no one does anything about it.
Leroy M. Martinez, Denver
Bad Bunny celebrated the cultures that make up the U.S.
Thank you, Bad Bunny, for reminding the world that the true America is a multilingual amalgam of cultures that should be nurtured, valued, and respected and that millions of people who have chosen to make the United States their home have enriched it with their traditions.
The United States should not be the divided, diseased country it has become, crippled by the autocratic, delusional, and toxic leadership of the current administration. The haters will come out in force after your Super Bowl performance — misrepresenting your intentions, twisting your words and actions to suit their agenda. But you performed proudly and with purpose.
There are still many in this country who value truth, who believe that history should be preserved and not erased, who understand that constitutional rights should not be swept away to suit the whims of a megalomaniac, and who refuse to wallow in ignorance and hate. We applaud your music. We applaud your courage. We applaud your humanity.
Norma Brenes, Longmont
Slowed population growth should be a good news story
Re: “State’s growth slowest since ’90,” Jan. 28 news story
From the headline, I thought it was going to be treated as good news, but old beliefs die hard, and even after 45 years of growth trickling up, not trickling down, it is still commonly believed to be beneficial. It is beneficial to the already rich since growth is the method of transferring wealth from the many to the few. However, growth means more congestion, more dirty air, more restrictions on water, more housing costs, more crime, more homelessness, and the list goes on.
The good news is that when women are treated as equals and educated, they have fewer children on average, or no children, and in a number of societies, the population is going down; that is good because Mother Nature is telling us via the climate crisis that she is unable to handle the pollution from 8 billion people.
So while only slowly, some people are learning that growth is not the solution; it is really the problem.
Don Thompson, Alamosa
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