No good way to grieve for USA
Last week after working 14 hours as an election worker, I returned home to learn that a long-time friend had died suddenly and unexpectedly. While experiencing grief for my friend, I also learned that the United States had voted unwisely to bring about an end to integrity, decency and morality in the White House.
I found myself in the position of grieving both a close friend of 40-plus years and my country’s long-term position of embracing integrity, moral decency and class. These qualities will soon leach out of the presidency as the Trump machine slides into the Oval Office and begins to pull the country down a slippery slope into lies, cheap bravado and racism.
I was able to pay my respects to my friend at a committal service in a cemetery with other friends and family. Unfortunately, there will be no committal service for the values that formerly characterized the United States at which to bid them farewell.
There will be only an insidious and tragic slow decline into greed, racism, fraud and the low-class mentality of the Trump machine.
May God forgive the American people for their voting decisions.
Tim McDonald
Summit to explore education challenges
If you are passionate about improving the state of education in Chattanooga and would like to learn more about the Chattanooga 2.0 initiative and the Chattanooga Interfaith Council, please join us at a free education summit tonight.
Our event will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Oak Street Center at 433 Oak St. We will talk about new ways that our faith-based community can support local families and schools.
This event will give us an opportunity to identify the challenges in providing quality education access to all children. The summit includes two expert panel discussions and a keynote speaker who will discuss the impact faith-based leaders and organizations can have on education.
Register online at chatt2.eventbrite.com.
With your help, we can make a difference in the education for the future leaders of our community.
Jared Bigham
Chattanooga 2.0
Warren Logan
Urban League of Greater Chattanooga
Trump supporters have last laugh
As a Trump supporter, I was called every insulting name imaginable by Hillary. She said that I was an angry white man, which is actually true.
I am a white man who is angry at the way Obama’s extreme liberal policies have created great division in this country.
Next she put me in a basket of deplorables, as she thought I was against everyone who wasn’t like me. But guess what? I’m sitting here in the basket with my friends, drinking a beer and laughing at how things turned out.
Charles Megahee
Lookout Mountain, Tenn.