Drop your skin color superiority
Has anyone noticed?
American was never "white." Native Americans were all over this land when European Caucasians came ashore.
And African-Americans came soon thereafter, not by choice.
Nothing good can be said of slavery of any kind. And yet, for those Americans whose ancestors came to America in chains, please salute your ancestors because they survived. Their survival made your life in the here and now possible, and they deserve great gratitude.
America has become great because of the contributions of all its people, brown, black and white, native and immigrant.
If you think you are better than someone else because your skin color is lighter than theirs, get over it. Skin color is a gift of birth.
Joy Jones
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Not all opinions worthy of print
It is shameful and irresponsible for the Times Free Press to print letters like the one on Saturday demeaning Muslims.
Why would you give someone a platform to spew such reckless, inaccurate and wildly intolerant nonsense? When you print this garbage, you are just giving credence to hate speech.
Not all letters are worthy of being printed. The editor has a responsibility to the community to throw some of them in the trash where they belong.
Sheila St. Aubin
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Cook column based on flawed thinking
TFP columnist David Cook missed it with his Sunday column.
In his support for globalization and his criticism of the UK for voting to leave the European Union, he used Fukuyama's 1992 book, "The End of History and the Last Man," to support his argument. This book was based largely on Hegel's philosophy of history and the failed economic philosophy of Marx.
However, in numerous later essays and books, Fukuyama rejected most of his argument. In his "Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy," he used Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" stating that the political order of liberal democracy involves a balance of political accountability, a strong nation-state and the rule of law.
In his 2012 essay, "The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive the Decline of the Middle Class," Fukuyama declared that " serious intellectual debate is urgently needed, since the current form of globalized capitalism is eroding the middle-class social base on which liberal democracy rests."
The European Union is an integral part of globalized capitalism. Only time, and history, will reveal whether Brexit was right for the UK and if the EU is the right path for the future of Europe.
Glenn L. Swygart, Sewanee, Tenn.