Letter to the editor: Winning friends?

To the editor:

What’s the best way to get to know and influence people? Why, that’s easy. Just get right up in their face, yell at the top of your lungs, use as much profanity as you can and do not allow anyone else to speak. Then, go to all the businesses/organizations in town and tell them they have to write a letter supporting your agenda. If they don’t do it to your liking or refuse, organize a boycott of their business or organization. Next, hit them up for a financial donation. If they don’t comply, label them racist or another “phobia” and add them to the boycott.

While Black Lives Matter-LFK says its for promoting equality and safety for all, its public tactics belie those statements and paint itself and its supporters as just as racist, bigoted and discriminatory as those they vilify. The use of threats, verbal and physical intimidation, mob-mentality coercion and harassment only further divide the community. So far it seems that the only dialogue is that everything they say is the only “right” and the rest of the community should fall in line or be demonized.