Every time I start to think that the future of the city is bright and we're moving to a time when we'll all be able to work together to solve the major problems that confront all of us, all I have to do is peruse the letters to the editor in The Northeast Times. Scroll down to the seventh headline. There's no way I'm going to reprint any of it here. I'll just give you a warning that what you're about to read is some of the most racist, ignorant, hateful words ever sent to (and printed by) a newspaper. It's instructive only in that I can't imagine that the letter writer is the only one out there with those feelings and when I think about that, a little part of me dies. It also makes me sad when I think about how DUMB someone must be not to see their own vitriol for what it is AND set those thoughts on paper AND send it to a newspaper.
Free speech and the marketplace of ideas being what they are, today's crop of letters in the Northeast Times has plent of rebuttals (and one agreement, sigh again.) Scroll to the bottom.