To the editor:
Sometimes we underestimate the role we can play as a citizen. History focuses on the dramatic. For instance, the World War II generation will always be admired for its defense of Democracy.
Later, in less dramatic form, we held firm against totalitarianism facing down the Soviet Empire until it finally evaporated. We did this not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans. It was the unified front of free nations, led by America, which led to success.
Today, the biggest challenge facing humanity is our rapidly warming climate and intensifying destructive weather. It can be difficult to remain optimistic in these threatening times, but we must.
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Letters to the Editor for Thursday, March 24
Hendersonville Times-News
Stolen labor from millions
To the Editor: In a column (March 6,) the writer suggests that the labor of enslaved Africans was not valuable enough to be worthy of reparations. That is wrong.
From the beginning of English colonization, the labor of enslaved Africans was so valuable that every loophole that might have gained anyone freedom was examined and closed.
In 1662, the Virginia House of Burgesses made enslavement hereditary with a law that a child of an enslaved woman became a slave even if the father was an Englishman. In 1667, Virginia lawmakers closed the Christian baptism loophole by passing a law that being a baptized Christian could not free a black person from bondage. Fugitive slave laws closed off every avenue of escape.
Foothills Group of the NC Sierra Club Program Meeting: Introducing the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act
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