Letter to the editor: Important voice

To the editor:

Mr. Stussie, your recent letter to the editor requesting that Leonard Pitts’ columns be dropped is beyond absurd.

We have free speech in this country, whether you like it or not, and that includes the media. We can pick and choose what we read and listen to. Pitts is a great Pulitzer Prize writer, and the majority of his columns don’t talk about race. They involve common sense, if you read them in the spirit in which they were written. “Letter to our so-called president” is not about race, but an unqualified, bombastic and narcissistic president whose daily blunders and bumbling administration that support his childish behavior are undermining this country. Pitts’ message is that Trump is the president for everyone, not just his chosen few naïve followers who seem to thrive in the same “fact-free bubble” he created during his campaign.

There are columnists whose writing appears in the Journal-World whom I do not agree with; I do not read them, but I would never ask for censorship. If you do not like Pitts and can see nothing other than the fact that he is black and, therefore, everything he writes about has to do with race, you’ve got it wrong. Don’t read him! It’s a free country, but, mark my words, President Trump is working on that “problem.”