Editor,

I believe the purpose of the letters to the editor section of the newspaper is to give a point or a counter-point, and hopefully the author’s opinions are supported by facts.

Unless the editor wants to give me my own column to do Facebook “back-and-forth” history lessons, this should be my last letter.

Though JFK’s FBI may have wiretapped MLK and smeared him as a communist, I have never been in the business of smearing anyone on any platform.

It may be an inconvenient truth for Critical Race Theory supporters, but everyone knows what Martin Luther King Jr. meant when he talked about a colorblind society.

Another famous line is that we judge people by the content of their character, and not by the color of their skin.

Cherry-picking other quotes from MLK for the purpose of portraying him as a closet Marxist is dishonest.

Pushing ideas such as white guilt, white privilege, white fragility; all of these things are racist. The litmus test on whether or not something one says is racist is to simply flip the races for any given statement.

If either version sounds racist, it is.

Readers, feel free to use your imagination to put this to the test. One could even start with the teachings of CRT.

Michael labeled me a conservative. Therefore, I would like to point out that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

During that period of time, almost all Black Americans were.

The Republican Party, founded in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, championed freedom and civil rights and still do to this very day. Republicans are, and have always been, against the four S’s: segregation, slavery, secession and socialism. Democrats were responsible for all of these things.

The statement “conservatives murdered MLK” is factually wrong. James Earl Ray, a segregationist who assassinated MLK, was in and out of prison and not even allowed to vote. Nobody knows his political party, but it is quite a stretch to label him a conservative.

Remember, it was the Democrats who supported segregation.

Erick Wilcox

Clinton