How can our town be so patriot, celebrate our country’s birthday with a wonder Fourth of July celebration, sit side-by-side with thousands of citizens, then turn around on July 5th and tolerate the divisions and destruction our elected politicians have created?

How are people able to close their eyes to the burning of cities, riots that killed innocent people, massive influx of drugs into our country, politicians that enforce a mask mandate for citizens not themselves, massive wealth of the political oligarchs and labeling of anyone who does not support these destructive behaviors as “White Supremacy” believers?

How are citizens able to ignore that three million human beings are dead because of a virus proving to have been developed in Wuhan China and negligently, at the least, spread to countries throughout the world? No apologies have been made, no efforts to assure it never happens again and no compassion for human life has been displayed from the CCP.

American Citizens have the Constitutional rights to freedom of religion, speech and assembly. No political party has the right to deny citizens their rights for the purpose of inflating their agenda. It is disturbing to see politicians use the term “White Supremacy” to isolate citizens who do not agree with them. The technique of alienating and dividing citizens has been repeated throughout history: Nazi Germany (German citizens were turned against the Jewish population) and again during the Cultural Revolution in China (class against class). The results were death of millions of innocent people and the creation of a Marxist or Communist rule of government. It is hard to comprehend the cruelties could happen again if people allow themselves to be divided and fail to stand up for freedom and unity.

In a free society, elected officials or appointed education boards do not have the right to manipulate the minds of young children. Parents recognize today’s practice of labeling, degrading or corrupting the educational curriculum is contradictory to the goal of “equity.” The education system is to teach children tools to become a productive part of society, not to indoctrinate children to a political point of view or turn children against each other.

The Critical Race Theory is controversial and should only be accepted when all teachers and parents agree with a united message. If a unified message cannot be reached, it should be redirected to a more positive and less offensive program.

Hopefully, Americans will unite and stop the political behaviors that divide our country. Citizens will lose when freedom to live one’s life and freedom to speak, without retaliation, disappear.

America is a continuous effort to create unity as a nation, with all ideas and people working together. There are many socialistic, dictatorial, communistic, totalitarian regimes in the world, where a few control the masses. Do Americans really want this type of government?

If the citizens fail to unite for the good of the people and the Constitution, our Democracy will no longer exist.

Rhonda Byrd
Bristol