Letter: 'Old men' in Columbia are not representing views of most in S.C.
Our state legislators are actively against our population. According to some polls, at least two-thirds of our population opposes abortion restrictions and believes that a woman's (or indeed anyone's) health care should be between that woman and her medical providers, not between that woman and a bunch of old men with no medical background.Some of our citizens are transgender. I do not understand that concept, but it is not mine to act upon; this is about the people involved. Yet a bunch of old men are deciding that these are second (or third-)class citizens.There is history, and there is fiction. In the Statehouse, a bunch of old men are trying to require that our children (in my case grandchildren and great-grandchildren) only be taught a limited amount of truth.
Is South Carolina going the way of Florida and banning such works as "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn"? How about biographies of Jackie Robinson or Tim Scott and Jim Clyburn?
Are (S.C. students) going to learn that MLK Jr. was some sort of radical revolutionary? What about our own Rev. Jesse Jackson? That the Native Americans must have been made to conform to European invaders? That Asians should have been sent home after the railroads were built?
Will any out-of-state colleges accept students from South Carolina who have been taught that incomplete history? Will employers hire poorly educated S.C. students?At what point are the people of South Carolina going to wake up to the evil that is being done by these old men? At some point, the people of South Carolina must decide to elect “representatives” who actually represent us.
Harry Stone
Taylors
This article originally appeared on Greenville News: Letter: Most of S.C. doesn't agree with 'old men' in legislature
