Letters: A nice moment — and then reality reared its ugly head

Letters to the Editor
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It was nice to read "Freeman values mixed-race heritage" as the banner headline on Page 1 of the South Bend Tribune (April 29).

I’m sure for many readers it was a nice moment. But, then, I suspect the moment was gone.

A turn of the page to Page 5A, the Voices page, we get a splash of cold water across the face. The headline “Keeping our children ignorant from the truth” ran across all three columns.

“We must understand that limiting our own children’s understanding of the world does not actually rewrite the reality of the world,” wrote Sarah Kubinski in her letter about the concept of critical race theory being tossed out of school (CRT was never in any school curriculum). Alas, reality had reared its ugly head.

For years I’ve tried to convince people that the concept of race was debunked 100 years ago. The Human Genome Project confirmed that there is not a whiff of difference in the DNA of all humans, with a few minor exceptions like hair color, eye color and such. Oh — skin color, too.

All to no avail to those who need to understand this the most. This simple concept.

Isn’t life strange?

Wayne Falda

Edwardsburg

Nowhere to hide

The job of the U.S. Supreme Court is to uphold the laws of the land. Our legal system functions on the premise that courts rule based on precedent unless that precedent can be deemed unconstitutional. Roe v. Wade has been a precedent for nearly 50 years, and there is nothing unconstitutional about it: It is a human rights law. The drive to overturn Roe v. Wade is not about constitutionality; it is about religious beliefs and motives and ideology.

We’ve learned through a leaked document that the U.S. Supreme Court likely plans to overturn Roe v. Wade. While this may be the first instance of a leaked opinion document coming out of the U.S. Supreme Court chambers, leaks are not uncommon to other branches of the U.S. government or to the Pentagon. So, what’s the big deal? The big deal is that the U.S. Supreme Court acts as though it is above reproach: Its members operate in relative secrecy and their decisions are final. This time, however, due to the leak, members of the U.S. Supreme Court won’t be able to make a ruling and hide behind their black robes.

Michael Snyder

Bremen

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: The concept of race was debunked 100 years ago.