Ivy League schools reputations are tarnished

Americans of all walks need to applaud Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) for exposing the deep racism and hate embedded in the so-called “elite” schools in the Ivy League. They openly are antisemitic and proudly supported genocide and Hamas while they murdered, tortured and raped women hostages and babies — all documented facts.

Adding to the Ivy cesspool, former Harvard president, Claudine Gay, was further exposed as a pathological plagiarist. Former president Barack Obama is on record lobbying Harvard to keep her on as president. The school was sued for discrimination, and lost, after years of hiding behind Affirmative Action, which was in itself legal discrimination until recent court rulings. Harvard students are disciplined and/or expelled for the same reasons she was given her job; they called for her dismissal.

Gay was obviously chosen in the first place due to gender and race. She wasted no time claiming racism for her resignation. Rich! 

Businesses should continue to stop recruiting and hiring on Ivy League campuses. Diplomas from those schools aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

— Floyd Prophet
Kannapolis

Slavery was the cause of the Civil War

In Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861, barely three months after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the newly appointed vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, delivered what became known as the “Cornerstone Speech.” The purpose of his address was to clearly state the principles on which the Confederacy had been founded.  

Stephens declared that the authors of what he referred to as the “old” U.S. Constitution believed “that the enslavement of the African was a violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically.” He further stated, “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery and subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical and moral truth.” 

This year will mark the 158th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Surely, at last, it is time for all Americans, especially white Southerners such as myself, to acknowledge the primary reason for which this war was fought, slavery. Also, we should recognize the terrible consequences of slavery that have followed us throughout our history. I can assure you that our African-American neighbors know the truth. They have had to experience the burden of racism born of ignorance every day of their lives.

— Keith Townsend
Mt. Ulla