This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Confusing

In response to the article (The true meaning of the 'Black Lives Matters" movement) by Faye Banks-Anderson, March 4. The confusing part was how upset she sounded when she had to explain to her teenage son that there were certain things he couldn't do. That if he was stopped by the police he has to remain calm and cooperative.

I was taught at a very young age to be respectable to people in authority, police, parents, teachers, neighbors and people in business. Yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir and no sir. But she was upset she had to tell her son this when he was a teenager.

The state curfew should not bother anyone because parents should enforce their own curfew that doesn't run pass midnight. She also wrote our country has become divisive. Too often it's about black and white. We (blacks) against them (whites) she writes. However, she turned that around. She has it as whites against blacks, confusing.

— Carl Lewis

Fort Valley

Wrong information

Dana Bash, moderator in a recent presidential debate on CNN, said the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget affirmed that "Social Security is projected to run out of money within 20 years." This Wall Street-funded think tank is just wrong, and Dana should make an on-air correction and apology. Surely she could investigate and find out that Social Security has a $2.8 trillion dollar surplus. It can pay out 100 percent of benefits owed to every eligible recipient for the next 19 years and approximately 80 percent of benefits owed after that. The life span of the Social Security Trust Fund can be extended if the wealthiest Americans pay into Social Security at the same rate as everyone else.

— John Ricks

Cochran

Elitist nomination

This opinion is in to response to Erick Erickson's column dated March 18. He is an imbecile. And I'm insulting imbeciles. Erickson and others of his ilk, (aka) Republican establishment, shall never have dominion or cast your perverse and sick rhetoric upon me and tell me who should be anointed to the Republican nomination. Erickson is a sad and pathetic Republican. I have been a registered Republican since I returned to my home state and I shall never hold my nose and vote for the elitist nomination. Please forward this condemnation to Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and any other person who you deem necessary.

— Michael Snipes

Kathleen

This story was originally published March 28, 2016 at 9:16 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, March 29, 2016 ."