Letter: Racism has been an issue for years

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From: Dexter Fravel

Columbus

Racialism: racial prejudice; race hatred (strong aversion or detestation coupled with ill will); defined in Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Second Edition), 1937.

If you think you have race problems here, people of Columbus, you should have lived in the Midwest in the 1980s.

A man by the name of Robert Matthews, and his aid David Lane, this was their plan:

They founded the “Order of the Silent Brotherhood.” This came about in 1983. They had a plan to recruit and build a “war chest” by robbing banks, which they did. They then planned to assassinate prominent Jews, which they did.

This is all true (see the book “The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the U.S.” at the library).

The 1988 movie “Betrayed,” starring Tom Berenger and Debra Winger, is based on this true story. The movie can easily be found on TV.