October 20, 2019 Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor The Miami Herald RE: Thank god modern American Liberals never let you down! A brief reprise of my temporary return to the Sunday Herald.

October 20, 2019

Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor

The Miami Herald

RE: Thank god modern American Liberals never let you down!  A brief reprise of my temporary return to the Sunday Herald.

Ms. Ancrum, 

Your editorial today, the one that asks but doesn’t follow up with another question the poser “Politicians Lie, But Facebook Just Shrugs”, doesn’t dig a bit deeper.

Where was Zuckerberg in 1916, in 1940, and in 1964 when in the short span of 48 years, 2 years less than Sirhan Sirhan has been locked up in California and isn’t time to pardon him and send him back to the West Bank as a good will gesture and to show that we are fair and balanced in the hell hole briar patch of the Middle East, 3 American Presidents, coincidentally all of whom were Democrats [Is that a coincidence or a conspiratorial collusion?]]  said that they would not send American boys to fight in foreign wars.

Where in the name of Izzy Stone, a champion whistle blower who, like Walter Duranty, believed deeply in Russian interference in our elections, were the “whistleblowers” then? Where were your forebears?

Or is OK for Democrats to lie?

At least Leonard Pitts was up to par in completing his appointed task, his only task.

It’s been a while but I guess his surgery went well and that his rehab has been successfully completed. Thanks to ObamaCare, he had his non-writing hand removed and replaced with a 9-pound hammer, [I used to work with 9-pound hammers. The only good thing you can say about them is that that they are not 20-pound hammers. Trust me on that one.] the better to pound the nail into the eye of racism and White insensitivity the combination of which, as he tells us over and over and over and again and again is the only problem this country has.

I wonder what he would do for material if this White country elected a Black President? Wait a minute. It did. He promised the “fundamentally transform the nation” and, in 8 years, he couldn’t even shut down Guantanamo prison.

A this point I like to point out that if I am guilty of collective racism for being White shouldn’t that be some of the glory of having 2 uncles who came from Ballyglass, Galway, Ireland to free the slaves just like their ancestors did in the 7^th century? On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, as up close and personal members of the Irish Brigade, the 69^th New York Infantry Regiment, that’s one with the big dog and the skirling pipes playing “Garryowen”, they stepped in to the Wheat Field. One of them is still there, “wrapped in his faded coat of Blue”. Won’t that get me some fungible tax credits should we ever go to slave reparations?

Kevin Smith

PS – I am glad to see that you are doing your part to mitigate the refugee problem. Your headline “Peacekeeping Mission is Finished in Haiti, But UN Commitment to the Country Remains Strong.” Obviously, some imprisoned headline writers from The Onion were able to escape. I am glad to see that you hired them. I smell Pulitzer. Maybe Nobel.