Politics

Representative Keith Sommer 216 – N Stratton Office Building Springfield, IL 62706 Dear Representative Sommer: I am sending this letter to both your Morton and Springfield offices in the hopes that one of them will reach you (and that you actually read it) before you have the opportunity to vote on a historic constitutional amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which will affect not only citizens in your district, but all of Illinois, and the nation. As you are aware, the national spotlight is once again on Illinois for at least two reasons. First, the Illinois General Assembly will vote on ratifying the ERA in the near future to amend the U. S. Constitution to assure that women in America are treated under the law equally to that of men. This vote, granting equal...

I am writing this letter in my personal opinion, as a 30-something year old white South African man. I am proudly Afrikaans, or in the (derogatory?) plain sense, I see myself as a Boer. INSTANTLY, I am marked as a racist, for associating myself with my history. Yes, my forefathers made mistakes, and yes, me and my generation of Afrikaans and English white people in South Africa, are paying for those mistakes. We are living the life sentence of our racist forefathers, by being marked as racist (though majority of white people accept our fellow black South Africans as brothers and sisters) or being unable to apply for scholarships, tenders, employment or many of the things which we have already accepted as the norm in the “New” South Africa. We look at our farms and land being stripped and...

An Open Letter To All, Racial and social inequality is a dire topic and one that needs to be addressed in this country. In the land of the free and the home of the brave we are seeing too much oppression and fear. The United States is not united, and the divisions are becoming more pronounced. The feeling of “us” versus “them” is infecting more than our national policy, it has its hands in every crevice of our society. How can we, as Americans, get over the tensions and tribalism and become the nation that lives up to our ideologies? The only answer I can dream up is to bring people together, those of all types, and form the bonds that cross the lines of our limited experiences, to open the door to positive interaction between the many walks of life that exist in this great country. I...

let me say this you're are ignorant uncaring individual that ever represent the office of the U.S .The total dead in Puerto Rico is forty -eight if I'M right that's on your watch. if your administration would reacted on the hurricane of maria earlier this wouldn't have happen! You don't respect the military like john McCain who have the guts to serve the us unlike you chicken out of serving the military like a quote I HEARD JUST last night you're just a cafeteria patriot that never serve your country.