Mailbag: Anti-Richmond’s anti-Trump rhetoric
Re: “An open letter to Trump voters,” Ray Richmond, Nov. 18. As a public temper tantrum, Ray Richmond’s column was an embarrassment to your paper and your readers.
It consisted of nothing more than four columns of sarcasm, insults and lies. This is the journalism that the Glendale News-Press aspires to?
Richmond repeats all of the lies about Trump hating gays or women or blacks. Why lie so openly when responsible men can easily discover the truth for themselves?
Richmond’s hatred for those with opinions different from his swamps his every word. So to justify to himself his venom and his distortions, he lies.
It isn’t worth my time to try to refute Richmond’s deceitful statement, but it is worth looking at a single example of Richmond’s. One thing in particular unnerves Richmond about Trump — Trump earned his wealth, kept his taxes as low as legally possible and his tax returns private.
Why does this enrage Richmond? Because he hates private property, the rule of law, civilization and capitalism. Well, Mr. Richmond, America has finally awoken from its long nightmare of the identity politics, the cultural Marxism, and the anti-Americanism that the Left has imposed upon us for the last 50 years.
America can breathe again.
Ray Shelton
Glendale
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An enthusiastic vote for Richmond
Re: “An open letter to Trump voters,” Ray Richmond, Nov. 19. Just wanted to say — bravo!!!
Katy Wolfe
Glendale
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No sympathy for Trump supporters
I want to endorse all of Ray Richmond’s observations and emotions in his Nov. 19 column, “An open letter to Trump voters.”
You all baked this foul dish. I for one am not eating any of it. And don’t cry to me when Trump delivers on zero of his campaign promises. He is not going to indict Clinton, for example. And he is not going to cut middle-class taxes either.
No, you broke this egg, let me see you put it back together. Good luck with that.
Kevin Harrop
Burbank
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Precedent and the president-elect
Re: “An open letter to Trump voters,” Ray Richmond. Although both of the leading presidential candidates were untruthful hypocrites, only one of them brought the specter of racial hatred and religious intolerance to the table. That candidate did not win the popular vote, but he won the electoral vote and will be our next president. Millions of Americans now fear what will happen to them after Jan. 20 instead of looking forward to a bright future for our country.
Seventy-four years ago, my parents were incarcerated by our government and relocated to concentration camps. They were born in California and had never committed any type of criminal act. Their “crime” was that their parents came from Japan and that they looked like the enemy. They were perceived as potential traitors and Executive Order 9066 justified their imprisonment. Their families lost everything and the experience affected all profoundly, including me. Both of them had to endure racial prejudice and discrimination for more than half of their lives.
No Americans, native born or immigrant, should be forced to dread the possibility of incarceration or being placed on a registry because of their appearance, the color of their skin, or the god they believe in. What happened to the American ideals of equality and freedom of religion? Those ideals should not be interfered with by some hateful politicians or a fearful public. The new president has the opportunity to show that our fears are unfounded. Let us hope that he does that and makes a sincere effort to stem the divisions in our country. Otherwise, he will face a unified opposition of millions of Americans who will not accept an agenda of hate and intolerance.
Thomas Saito
Burbank