My Mother used to say, “If you can’t say something nice about someone, you shouldn’t say anything at all.” That’s pretty good advice but I’ve never known anyone to actually abide by it.
I’ve always felt that if you didn’t have anything to say, you probably shouldn’t say it. Of course, I’ve never let that stop me.
The Sacramento Bee is and has always been, a partisan newspaper. The Sacramento Union (the demise of which, I still mourn) was also a partisan newspaper. Nothing wrong with that.
Some of my best friends are Democrats. Heck! Some members of my family are Democrats. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
But when the Sacramento Bee prints an op-ed piece in support of racist bigots like Jeremiah Wright (Wright wasn’t wrong....Bob Schmidt, May 10) they have left the realm of partisan politics and followed the rabbit into Wonderland.
Bigotry and racism is no more palatable from black Americans than from white. Sowers of discord like the Rev.’s (?) Wright and Phelps, Farrakhan and Dukes, should be denounced by the Bee, not given a bully pulpit to spread their evil.
Shame on the Bee. And shame on the McClatchy family.
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