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Pitts Jr. scraping scabs

Thu., June 1, 2017

Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is always scraping the scab off to cause bleeding. He can get away with it because he’s black. If a white journalist wrote about blacks in reverse, they would be called racist. Pitts tip-toes carefully and isn’t called on it; you have to be politically correct. Bigots come in all colors and promote their own existence at the price of stirring the pot over and over. Obama is not president, Hillary did not win.

Quote from Pitts, “It’s obvious what this is. The only question is what some of us will choose to call it instead.”

So who calls what, what?

Gran S. Tyler

Spokane

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