Oh, well, you know, I think you really blew it on that rather sophomoric oped piece of yours that
was printed in last week’s edition of Daily 49er. Reading it, what I got from all your tonguein-
cheek irony was that no damage to our prestige over the past eight years has occurred, that our
national security is not compromised by a porous border, that neither China nor terrorism are
posing any sort of problems or dangers to the U.S., and that if you think otherwise, then you
must not be real withit. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that was the gist that I got from reading
your piece, which, if my interpretation is valid, you really just used an ad hominem argument.
And if I am way offbase with my interpretation, then maybe I missed something in the cutesy
style you wrote it in.
And then your statement “He will make America white…err, great, again.” All this is a blatant
swipe against white people; and if you try to say it isn’t, I don’t think any selfrespecting person
who was born white should believe your denial. But, don’t get me wrong, please. I’m glad you
said this. Thank you. People like you who make such irresponsible statements just validate the
suspicion of nobody knows how many millions of white people (reading newspapers, listening to
the radio, perusing the internet, etc.), in a country of 300+ millions of people, that that there is
an agenda afoot against whites. I’ve seen Daily 49er staff members fired for littler sh*t than that,
when the slight was directed at some nonwhite group.
Have you considered the possibility of a strong undercurrent of discontent with the status quo
on the part of the Europeandescended population of this country that may one day bite it right
in the ass? When all Trump seems to need to do is make statements in favor of closing the
border to keep out hordes of people who present more of a burden than an asset to society, and
for vetting entrants into the U.S. whose religious ideology has shown them to be bent on killing
and hurting a whole bunch of people, and then watch his popularity ratings soar through the
roof, then maybe he and those who support him need to be viewed with other than cynicism.
John P. Reidy; CSULB alumnus, December 1985.
