Expelled legislators part of our bizarre political reality

To the editor: Don’t you want you have been naive once more?

Earlier than you knew county truthful officers would slaughter a 9-year-old’s pet goat to show her a lesson?

Earlier than you knew {that a} man who brazenly boasted about grabbing ladies’s genitals could be elected president and declare after his time period in workplace that top-secret authorities paperwork belonged to him?

If you believed that solely physicians apply medication, solely to seek out out that legislators, governors and judges made legal guidelines permitting themselves to apply?

And earlier than Tennessee legislators, in a state the place I lived years in the past and liked, confirmed bigotry and condescension towards two Black colleagues?

Don’t you want we didn’t must know this stuff?

Melanie Hinson, San Pedro

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To the editor: For individuals who wrestle for a definition of essential race principle, the Tennessee Home simply gave a graduate seminar in utilized essential race principle.

The positive factors to the nation from being launched to expelled Tennessee state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, nevertheless, are momentous. These wonderful orators, sharing a righteous ethical compass, are our coming philosophers and academics in proper considering, rational criticism and the justice that our founders initially sought, however couldn’t obtain.

I’m an 82-year-old, nonreligious white man. However I have to admit that we now have been “blessed” with the presence of those two folks in public life.

Eldon Milnes, Lengthy Seaside

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To the editor: Your level is effectively taken {that a} “authorities during which the bulk can silence these with competing views is in deep trouble.”

Let’s apply that sentiment to the disruption of scholars who silence visitor audio system on faculty campuses or to highschool boards that want to silence mother and father at their conferences.

Esther Thacker, Laguna Hills

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To the editor: Tennessee Republicans and all their like-minded counterparts elsewhere should be residing a disoriented life.

They confuse the medical, spiritual and really personal points involving abortion with the real-life weapons that killed three beautiful, wholesome kids and three workers members at a Nashville college.

These Republicans will cease at nothing to save lots of a viable embryo, which could turn into a full individual, however they won’t do the identical to take motion that will positively save lives by eliminating these assault weapons.

I can’t sleep at evening questioning how that is attainable.

Harry Shragg, Reseda