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As the debate over Professor Henry Gates Arrest percolates up, it is clear that there are some surface issues and then there are some deeper issues as illustrated in the excerpts from these two letters to the editor submitted through Publishaletter.

No racial profiling; …… I am not black but I know from personal experience on more than one occasion that if you get in the cop’s face (as Gates obviously did) you can expect negative results whether your skin is white, black, or green.  Super intelligent distinguished Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates doesn’t have the street smarts of a South Central crack dealer.…..

Symbolic of deep rooted racial divide:……..Look at this man…not being able to get in his apartment…What happened next is totally predictable given the history of that area.
Realizing all of this from a black perspective and whites looking to right wrongs of the past and present, whites are still reluctant to validate black issues. So we are talking past each other, clinging desperately to our half-truths. We are all morally exhausted, while white America can’t face the fact that racism is alive and well and Black America in many cases in leader-ship roles are the gatekeepers of racism.

Health care is, as expected, top of the mind for many letter writers. And their viewpoints could not be more divergent. They range from liberal media giving a “free ride” to Obama to the Congress not having the “guts” to stand up to the special interest groups.

Here are excerpts from two letters:

The first one: Obama is getting a boost from the mainstream media in order to fool the American public about his health care plan……… Why can’t the liberal media be truthful?  Could it be that the truth does not coincide with their agenda?

The second one: So while Congress, with its obligations to the industry which insures its members with luxury policies and keeps them in office with corporate contributions and campaign support, betrays the American people with distractions like threats of rationing, business continues as usual here in the hinterland.
Are there no courageous Congresspeople who are willing to take the risk of representing the will of the American people for a change?

You can read these letters and more on health care reform  at Publishaletter.com

In the age of Blogging, one may ask, who writes Letters to the Editors anymore? Based on many letters that are submitted to the newspapers across the world through Publishaletter, we can answer that question. They are people of all ages, from all over the world, with all different viewpoints, coming from all walks in life.

First, there are people that want to discuss politics. Second, there are people, that want to discuss more politics. Then, there are people that are passionate about discussing even more politics. Yes, people realize that there is more to life than just politics. So they write about environment, business and economy, arts, science, war and terrorism and host of other  global and local issues.

Can’t they blog? Perhaps. But many probably don’t want to make the time commitment or have the technical savvy to start or maintain a blog. More importantly, a letter to the editor, gives them a chance to react directly to an editorial or commentary that they have just read in the paper. A Blog may  allow them to react to a news or an event in general, but it does not give them the opportunity to address the original writer directly. No wonder, we find in our site, Bloggers that write letters to the editor.

Apparently, even those who can Blog, Write letters to the editors.