Column hit too close to home for Cal

Column

hit too close to home for Cal

My mother was a wise

woman and she often would tell me that the truth can

hurt. From your editorial on Sallie Satterthwaite's

article, "Please, not in Peachtree City," it

was obvious that the truth pained you to the point that

you felt justified in trashing one of your employees

opinion. Isn't journalism suppose to present all sides or

have my notion of the press been misconstrued.

Yes, you could say that

what she wrote was one-sided, but so is Dave Hamrick's

opinions, and not once have I seen you disagree so

strongly with him. Could it be that you felt a need to

attack her because she described you when she suggested

that Peachtree City is becoming a not so friendly town?

Did you see [publisher and editor] Cal [Beverly] as a

part of this "elitism, racism and

anti-Semitism" trend that she sees her town going

through?

I understood what she meant

and I don't live in Peachtree City. She meant that this

city was a friendly, accepting town. Now she sees it

becoming sectionalized. Let's be honest here. America is

only as great as its people and the thing that is

thwarting our growth as a great nation is our tendency to

be a little snobbish in our feeling that we are superior

to others. What is the greatest sins of America? Ask any

of the people who are not included in the "one of

their own" group. It's the combination of

"superiority and silence."

You seek the answer to your

question among your liberal friend of "Is it bigoted

to hate the bigot?" Well, let a conservative friend

answer, Yes! However, it is also wrong not to expose the

bigot and his buzz words (whether they are Christian or

not) when we are confronted with him.

Standing your ground and

telling an individual that their words are like a

two-edge sword slicing and cutting is the mark of a

Christian. If the individual which Sally did not name,

but you chose to do so, is really a Christian, he would

not have made this statement. If you are Christ-like, you

do not exclude, you include. Do you still remember the

greatest sins of this country?

Mr. Beverly, Sallie's

article hit too close to home for you. Examine yourself.

It was obvious that you could not see the forest from the

trees in this case.

I enjoy reading a paper

with differing opinion because I am an individual with

differing opinions. If everyone agreed with me and I

publicly chastised them as you did your employee then no

one would want to be around me. What is a newspaper if it

does not present all points of views. Would I want to

read it? Would I want to advertise in it? Maybe, but

probably not.

Barnetta Sanford

Fayetteville

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