Prior to adjourning for the summer, the Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions that I agree with 100%. For that I am sure that I will be considered a racist and a bigot even though I have always supported racial equality and the rights of the LGBTQ community.
I was a Junior in High School in Ft. Smith, Arkansas when the Little Rock Six had to have National Guard protection to attend Central High School and I couldn’t understand why, but I learned.
From then to now, I have watched and seen how far this country has come in all fields of endeavor offering opportunity if you were willing to work for it. I would encourage everyone to review for themselves before making a judgement.
Are we perfect, no, but the time has come that preferential treatment should be given to no one. There are plenty of ways to assure diversity without giving racial quotas to attend college as Chief Justice Roberts noted in his opinion.
In the second decision, I agree that no one should be forced to do business with someone they don’t agree with on any grounds. There are plenty of other businesses waiting to take your money. As they say, “Money Talks!”
Also, the decision can work both ways as has been stated. Discrimination has been with us since the dawn of time and the law cannot prevent it no matter how many are passed. It will only end when we actually live by the biblical admonition to “Love thy neighbor as you love yourself.” The third ruling of not forgiving student loans is personal to me.
I will admit I got help in the form of the GI Bill, but I went to Vietnam to earn it. I also worked a 40-hour week while taking 19 hours so don’t tell me it can’t be done.
They talk about the 43 million this ruling will affect. How about the untold millions who paid their loans back or the millions who didn’t go because they couldn’t get a loan or those that went but also couldn’t get a loan because their family made too much money but would be considered middle class like mine?
How about the millions to come, are they going to get their loans forgiven? When is this government going to bring the country together by actually governing in a common sense way as they promised and we don’t have to force the Supreme Court to make these kinds of decisions for us?
Charles Cotten
Odessa
