Can we please pick on someone new?
Dear Editor,
I would like to write in response to the letter by a Mr. Ryan Mahan in the Nov. 19, 2004’s Statesman. At the beginning of his letter I thought that I might be able to at least understand what he was talking about. I thought that it would just be another tirade of a white guy who can’t get a scholarship. I was however surprised at the nature of his letter. It seemed that he was less concerned with the racial issues and much more concerned with the injustice being done to the handicapped community in that they (shockingly) are being denied the right to fight for their parking spot like the rest of the human population. I know that if I was unable to walk like anyone else I would be outraged at people trying help compensate the sick trick of fate that helped to define my life.When I was younger I may have thought similarly to Mr. Mahan. However this has changed since I have seen many times in which non-handicapped people have nearly trampled each other to death in the name of a sale. It sickens me to think of someone who is limited to the capabilities of a simple machine being stuck in that situation. I don’t think that Mr. Mahan has seen the level of cruelty that the average human is capable of. The “liberal chains” that are “making them lazy” were created to help deaden the pain of the cruel treatment that is much more common than it should be.As for the many who will assume I’m just some crazy liberal. I would like to say that I hate both liberal and conservative. These words are used by the ignorant and frightened as an excuse to not think openly about the world. I am who and what I am, and if anyone has a problem with that please come and talk to me about. I know that I’m listed.-John R. Belliston (435)-232-1600