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One possible answer to Sen. Cotton query

In response to Peter Elzer's question of why Sen. Tommy Cottontail repeats everything President Trump says?

It's simple. All little boys imitate their Daddy.

Danny Howard

Bella Vista

No supremacy involved in following Golden Rule

The day is coming when those white men with assault rifles and racist flags will be met by an equally large and well-armed group of black men. And all hell will break loose. Racists and gun nuts have been around forever, but Trump's blanket racism started a wildfire.

The Boogaloo Boys, the alphabet men, the Proud Boys: They want the doors open for civil war, more than just being racist. These trends date back to the Oklahoma bombing, Waco and Ruby Ridge. All the way back to before the Civil War, this violence has been brewing until it erupts into death and destruction.

None of this will end until white people stop seeing black people as inferior. And it's not just racism; it's all areas permeated in our society where one group of people sets itself up as superior to another. There is only one area of superiority, or trait, that makes one person better than another, and that's how we treat one another.

The Golden Rule is the one and only valid yardstick of measurement. The rest of these criteria like color, money, skills, good looks, educational level, social position, all of that is quite superficial when you ask the question, "Yeah, but how do you treat your neighbor?"

Do you love your neighbor as you love yourself? If not then you are falling short of the glory of god.

Marianne Beasley

Fayetteville

Maybe Class of 2020 will find end to racism

It is with a heavy heart that I apologize to the Class of 2020 for not addressing the problems of our society.

For my entire life, we have seen demonstrations against social and economic racism throughout our nation turn violent, with looting, burnings, divisiveness and even deaths. The vast majority of people do not view this as a positive way to express the feelings of communities that are suffering, and I agree that peaceful demonstration, though frustrating and time-consuming, are the way to proceed and exert change.

We as the wealthiest country in the history of the world, with the greatest minds and intellectual institutions in the world, and the country that has given its people the greatest opportunity for success, how is it that we cannot seem to find a remedy for this disease called racism.

I am hopeful that the members of the Class of 2020 will be able to succeed where we have failed.

Ed Viera

Bentonville

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