[Note: Ten years ago this month Mr. Ewing began favoring us with his thoughts. Why he continues to bother, considering our treatment of them, we cannot say.
Only recently—far too recently—due to his habit of quoting from questionable sources, we instituted a policy of prefacing his letters with a warning to readers against putting any faith in statistics proferred by him. Statistics are not a problem in this letter, but it’s clearly time to expand that disclaimer.
The last few years have demonstrated all too well the remarkable efficacy of a technique called the “Firehose of Falsehood,” also known as “Flooding the Zone with [digestive byproduct].” In order to counteract Mr. Ewing’s chronic use of this annoying ploy, we have chosen to publish only selected bits of his—there is no other term for it—Hate Mail. — The Ed.]
To the Editor:
It’s not slavery that hurts Americans today; slavery was outlawed 155 years ago. Americans should feel proud that our founders stated in our country’s first official document the (Judeo-Christian) principle that “all men are created equal.” We fulfilled that principle and ended slavery at the cost of about 400,000, mostly white, lives.
Slavery was a normal, legal, worldwide practice for many millennia. People of every race enslaved people of every race. Blacks in Africa first enslaved the people who were eventually sold in America to both white and Black slave owners.
[Here we delete 313 more words, since this pig is wearing enough lipstick already. We’ll sum them up: The founders’ slave ownership should be forgiven as easily as speeding in an automobile; Joe Biden is a hypocrite because he’s sold a lot of books and been paid for that, yet thinks taxes should be higher; Black people oppressed by bad schools and bad cops only have Democrats to blame. — The Ed.]
If you want to help poor Black Americans and give them hope, then vote for school choice, a growing economy, and law and order; to help poor Black Americans, you must vote for Republicans.
Don Ewing
Meredith, N.H.
Don:
It’s been 66 million years since the asteroid hit. By your logic, the dinosaurs ought to be over it by now. If someone were to steal your Buick—somehow we just know it’s a Buick—would it be OK if we bought it?
Allow us to whup on you something Thomas Paine wrote, in African Slavery in America (March 1775): “The Managers of that Trade themselves, and others, testify, that many of these African nations inhabit fertile countries, are industrious farmers, enjoy plenty, and lived quietly, averse to war, before the Europeans debauched them with liquors, and bribing them against one another; and that these inoffensive people are brought into slavery, by stealing them, tempting Kings to sell subjects, which they can have no right to do, and hiring one tribe to war against another, in order to catch prisoners. By such wicked and inhuman ways the English are said to enslave towards one hundred thousand yearly; of which thirty thousand are supposed to die by barbarous treatment in the first year; besides all that are slain in the unnatural wars excited to take them. So much innocent blood have the Managers and Supporters of this inhuman Trade to answer for to the common Lord of all!”
The Editor