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Letters to the editor passing in the night

State rep. Russell Pearce wants to put a flag in every classroom to remedy what he sees as a decline in patriotism. Rep. Ted Downing counters that perhaps better teaching of U.S. history would be a more sound strategy.

Today in the letters to the editor of the campus newspaper, we get a couple of letters arguing against the empty symbolism of a flag in every room, and we also get this:

It doesn’t surprise me that someone who represents affirmative action wants to twist and distort the Constitution to suit the needs of poor, always-the-victim minorities. The Constitution was written so that all men would be treated equally. Whites, blacks and anyone else in this country … even the ones who don’t belong here.

I’d suggest Amendments 13, 17, 19, and 24 as starting points for Ted Downing’s civics curriculum.

I also quite like the non sequiter at the end of the letter: “That vision did not include hiring underqualified people to meet quotas, or seeing two guys holding hands walking down the street.” ‘Cause why stop when you’re on a roll?

  1. i stopped reading our campus newspaper. taunting the bush authoritarian cultists and victimized white men of privilege via the online comments just wasn’t a productive use of time.
    i’m two and a half months clean.
    — james    Feb 17, 08:58 PM    #
  2. I see the good points of the 13th, 19th, and 24th, i did think that the 17th was an odd one to throw in there, kind of like that game they used to play on sesame street. You know three of these things are the same, one of these things are not, now its time to play a game. Haha anyways just curious
    — John Gibo    Mar 8, 12:16 PM    #
  3. John: The 17th Amendment is the least obvious of the four I suggested, but I think it fits. Prior to its passage, election of senators was a process that seems to have been haphazard at best, and an open door to all sorts of corruption or electoral gaming, at worst. It does support, in my opinion, the idea that what we think of as a representative government in which (as the letter argues) “all men would be treated equally” wasn’t something that we came up with on the first day.
    — Alan    Mar 13, 05:57 PM    #
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