Your inflammatory editorial of Dec. 29 against South Carolina and the Confederate flag that flies over the state Capitol is revealing of your lust to play on the side of what you perceive to be politically correct. The ignorance and prejudice displayed by this editorial makes a mockery of the principles of valor and courage taught by the church that owns the Deseret News.
It is sad, indeed, that the Deseret News has fallen to the control of men who not only dare not oppose the racist NAACP but actively join it in its anti-white campaign against the Southern symbol of individual freedom, states' rights and the preservation of written constitutional law.The Confederate flag, contrary to what the NAACP would have us believe, is not a symbol of racism or of slavery. It flies over the Capitol in remembrance of the 260,000 Confederate soldiers who died in what they believed, rightly or wrongly, to be a just cause. Praise the Lord we still have one state with the courage of its convictions that has not backed down under intense political pressure.
The NAACP does not represent the average black. It certainly does not represent the views of three of my black heroes: Walter Williams, the syndicated columnist; Clarence Thomas, who sits on the Supreme Court; and Thomas Sowell, the Stanford University professor and conservative writer.
I encourage the Deseret News editors to begin, occasionally, to stand up for right and truth and liberty, regardless of the consequences from radical leftist groups. I belong to the church that owns the Deseret News. I encourage you, ladies and gentlemen, to write more often in tune with the freedom philosophy loudly proclaimed by the founder and early leaders of the Mormon Church. You are currently so out of sync with their views.
Joseph Stumph
Taylorsville