To The Editor:
My mother and father were a WW2 marriage. My mother was from Monroe, Louisiana. In 1959 there, I saw what we would describe as unvarnished racism today. The “N-word,” the hate and domination of a person because they were different from them.
Fast forward to today and the 60 years since and I have to say, honestly, since that day I have not experienced racism in the classic form, but something much more pervasive, much more subtle and everywhere. I am guilty of it myself and that is classism and elitism. We can see if we are guilty in this little town by how we treat those of a lessor class, the day laborer, the maid, the annoying clerk not letting you have your way. Have you been guilty of this as well?
Check how many elitists scold and lecture us like children about what they view as doing wrong in their utopia. Just read Front Porch Forum and the public scolding that is common. How many of us have done this very thing thinking we are fighting for the better good?
All just plain “ism" in my book.
Mary L. Laulis
Warren
