August 31, 2014
Letter to the Editor
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street
Washington, D.C.20071

Sirs or Madame,

As President of the Broward County North of the Airport/South of Las Olas POO [Perpetually Outraged and Offended] I compliment you on your jihad against the damned 1%ers – doubtless all of whom are in some sort of thralldom to the notorious Koch Brothers – who benefit from the continued use of the name “Redskins” as in Washington Redskins.

You are a beacon to the Wretched of the Earth, to those who are perpetually Under the Lion’s Paw, to those who were/are/will be “unlucky in life’s lottery”, to those who clean the bed pans, who tend to the elderly and the infirm, to those who wipe the noses and the bums of the neglected children of the layabout rich.

Keep fighting the good fight.

May I suggest some new targets now that the rice is cooked in the brouhaha over the “Redskins”?

It’s time for retroactive outrage to rule the day. Vengeance and retribution are mine, say modern American Liberals, our coal mine canaries when it comes to really important things.

Fix your beam of righteous indignation on these 3 names.

Senator Richard Russell
Senator John Stennis
Congressman Carl Vinson

They are remembered and celebrated today by the Richard Russell Senate Office Building, by the USS John Stennis, and by the USS Carl Vinson.

Everyone has good traits.

Hitler was the 20th century’s first public vegan. He banned smoking in his presence. Plus, his love for animals and his kindness towards non-Semitic children was legendary. A good start by today’s standards, no?

Hindsight is always 20/20. We know now that he had some blind spots.

Thus the careers of Senator Russell, Senator Stennis, and Congressman Vinson should be viewed in their entirety.

That they were polite, even courtly, well-educated Southern gentlemen was a given. That they served their country according to a Code of Honor that is now forgotten is also stipulated to. That they were paragons of probity and propriety still redounds to their credit.

That they were stone cold racists who spent their entire public lives trying to stop little Black boys from going to school with little White girls by trying to repeal the 13th, the 14th, and the 15th Amendments to the Constitution must never be forgotten.

It is an inconvenient fact that requires constant sunshine to be thrust on it but they were not alone. Add Senators Ervin, Gore, and Fulbright to that Honor Roll also. They got there the old fashioned way: they earned it.

Start by denaming those ships.

Shirley Chisholm, Saul Alinsky – and I am still trying to get a copy of Mrs. Clinton’s senior thesis on him – Bella Abzug, Alger Hiss, Walter Jenkins, Henry Wallace, Walter Duranty, and Mary Jo Kopechne are some names that leap to mind for possible replacement names for them.

Get Russell’s name of that building. Maybe Senator Harrison Williams should get a good look. Skip Senators Eastland, Long, Bilbo, and Sparkman. Can it be just a coincidence that all the elected officials I named were Democrats. Nah.

Nat Turner, Mr. Bojangles, Trayvon Martin, and now Michael Brown cry out for justice.

There is no time to waste.

Meanwhile, how about the Washington Woblies?





Kevin Smith