COLOR: Not a B/W issue

Bob McAdams makes some great points about character and bad behavior (My Turn March 25).

But I also like Morgan Freeman’s idea that if we talk about issues in black or white, we will never find solutions.

But Morgan Freeman moved back to Mississippi, the blackest state in the union. McAdams moved to Idaho — maybe the whitest state in the union. And therein lies part of the problem.

I was on staff at a southern Baptist church in SoCal that allowed a black mission church congregation to meet separately in their youth building. Why couldn’t we have worship together? Unthinkable.

If we can assume Sharpton or Jackson speak for blacks then don’t cry when blacks assume Donald Trump or Rush Limbaugh speak for whites.

How about neither really has a clue and all four are about enrichment for themselves?

But while the same Republican-loved offshoring of American jobs has impacted blacks maybe worse than whites, it has devastated white men just the same.

But did you know that the red neck grassroots support behind Donald Trump is just a white version of what has happened to non-college educated blacks? Evidently Bernie, Hillary and Donald agree on one point: lost jobs. Both blacks and whites now know how true “No money No honey” has become. Even lifespans of non-college educated and single white men has dropped!

This is not a black or white issue. It’s about the establishment out for themselves.

MIKE RENO

Post Falls