From: Janet L. Meadows
Edinburgh
The recent news of a student at our local high school, one which my own children attended, adding a KKK figure to a picture made me ill.
Does this child have any idea of the feelings that picture would engender? It brought back the awful memories of watching the news in the 50s and 60s, and seeing people who thought they could get by with murder. Their smug and screaming faces on the news filled me with rage and hatred of them and what they represented. Seeing them with sheets over their heads and calling themselves the Ku Klux Klan made me want to fight back with everything in me.
As I matured, I realized that hatred is a bitter and burning thing that kills the soul and destroys all things good. I don’t want to ever experience that extreme desire for revenge again. I don’t ever again want evil people like that make me feel helpless and ashamed that I’m a white woman. I want to stand up and be counted, but not as one who hates. I want to be like Jesus who hates the sin and loves the sinner. God, help me to be loving and forgiving.
I know Columbus is proud of being tolerant. Please tell me tolerance does not include the KKK and all they represent. I love Columbus. I pray the KKK and its ideology never has any place here.
