In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville last month, Jonna Ramey, a 67-year-old white woman from Salt Lake City, penned an open letter to white nationalists called “What Is Wrong With You?”
It was published on August 20, a Sunday, in the The Salt Lake Tribune. It has since gone viral and speaks for itself.
So here it is, presented without further comment…
By Jonna Ramey
I am a 67-year-old American white woman. My parents enlisted in World War II to fight fascism. They both served; my mother was a nurse, my father navigated bombers. They lost friends in that bloody war so that all the world could be free of fascism. They did not fight so that some white people could claim supremacy or that Nazis could openly walk the streets of America.
White person to white supremacist person: What is wrong with you?
People of European heritage are doing just fine in the world. They run most of the world’s institutions, hold much of the world’s wealth, replicate as frequently as other humans. You’re not in any danger here. The world is changing, that’s true. Others want a piece of the pie. They work for it, strive for it and earn it. Technology (robotics) is having a greater effect on your job prospects than immigrants. Going forward, tackling corporate control and climate change will need all of our attention, ideas and energy. Put down your Tiki torches and trite flags and get involved in some real work.
By the way, the world won the war against Nazi fascism in the 1940s, just as America won the war against the Confederacy in the 1860s. Aligning with two lost causes just labels you as profound losers.
And finally, white person to white person: Like my parents before me, I will not stand idly by nor give up my rights or the rights of other Americans because you think you are better than some of us. It doesn’t work that way. All Americans stand shoulder to shoulder against your hatred and bigotry.
well said
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Shame that we don’t have a real President. We have a paranoid, bigot, racist, white supremacist nazi supporter/enabler (all of which flies in the face of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights – if not the law) and one that’s capable of that kind of perspective. Instead – he has chosen the path to follow along with those “profound losers.”
An evil heart Trumps the fortuity of one’s place of birth.
There’s a myriad of reasons why humans end up fitting the profile Jonna Ramey writes about.
For now, let others analyze and figure out why they turn out that way.
As far as we should be concerned they are enemies of America, no different than the American Nazis who belonged to the German American Bund* in the 1930’s. No different than the White Supremacists who blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, on April 19, 1995 and killed 168 defenseless people, 19 of whom were children under the age of six. They are, by any definition, terrorists and none among them are “fine,” people. They are one and the same as the terrorists who flew four planes, one into the south tower and one into the north tower of the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and one was caused to crash land, all on September 11, 2001.
And rather than treating them as if they were marching and singing to Peter, Paul and Mary and Kumbaya lyrics, they should be treated as a gang of terrorists conspiring to deny and violate the constitutional rights of millions of Americans, to commit murder, assault, terroristic threatening, and hate crimes.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
um, the birth rate statistics is clearly false.