LETTERS: On Horne, mayor’s race

Hurrah for Jenny Horne

To the editor:

Interestingly, I had always heard the upstate of S.C. was considered the “Bible Belt.”  The representatives from that area obviously don’t believe in “love your fellow man as yourself” as they don’t seem to be able to see what the African Americans have had endure under the Confederate flag.

Hurrah for [state Rep.] Jenny Horne!  She expressed the frustration what many of us white South Carolinians descended from slave owners felt about the flag flying on the Statehouse grounds.  We are able, unlike those representatives who voted to keep the flag flying, to feel the pain our African American sisters and brothers have felt living under what has become a symbol of hate.

I am afraid if the murder of nine people didn’t change them, nothing will and more time will be wasted in the Statehouse arguing about this issue instead of moving South Carolina forward.  They continue to deny their motives are racial but as the old saying goes, “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”

– Katharine D. Beard, Camden, S.C.

Were pots of money really “good news?”

To the editor I was astonished to read under a headline of “Good News” in the July 13th edition of Charleston Currents a listing of the amount of funds already raised by candidates for Charleston mayor. And I wonder why the publisher chose to consider that bit of information as good news?   I think it is a sad commentary on our current circumstances when money has become so important in determining the election of a city mayor. It is already a national disgrace that the presidential election has become a “pay to win” process. Is this just more of the same on the local level?

— Freida F. McDuffie, Charleston, S.C. 

Dear Freida: Thanks for your letter. We see it as good news that thousands of people are involved in the political process by giving money. Yes, it’s surprising that so much money is being raised, but it would be sadder if nobody was involved. — Andy Brack, publisher

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