I just read something that made me think. People and groups are multi-faceted. For example, if one person in a group makes one statement (and it can be misconstrued and there may be more to the story) that is no reason to assume everyone in that group feels and thinks the same. We are guilty of stereotyping when there is that kind of thinking. I often look at the whole picture but many people just can't, they take one thing at face value. If one person in your political party is arrested for something and is "bad" does that make all in the party equally guilty? We have to stop this thinking. It's the same if you have a family. One kid in the family goes wrong, is that meaning the entire family are horrible people? Remember to look at the entire picture before jumping to conclusions. All Christians or Muslims, or whites or blacks, or any other group you can think of don't all fit in the square peg definition, some are round pegs. Let us all think hard before we make assumptions. One person wrote to a local newspaper and made a few remarks. I did not see what that person said. But, I saw an onslaught of hateful letters written by people after the fact saying this person was a white supremacist, a bigot and all sorts of things. I kind of wish I had seen the original letter that was written, but perhaps I should be glad I did not. One, or more, letters told the newspaper that they should not have published the original letter. The person who wrote the original "thing" had free speech, as do they. I don't know what was said but the temper tantrums and requests for censure bothered me. We have constitutional rights to say what we want to say. I could be here saying I'm better than everyone else, but I know that is not so. I have a right to free speech and when a newspaper starts "editing" letters someone feels are "bad" we begin a march down the wrong path. You can disagree and hate whoever wrote whatever it was you thought was "bad" and you can write a letter to the newspaper too, as some have done. But, someone wrote and said what they are thinking, no matter how provocative it may have been they exercised their right. Be at peace and perhaps rather than ripping a person to shreds, one might take an opportunity to respond and attempt to educate that person and realize that responses could be an educational opportunity. I had a grandmother I loved dearly. She was a good woman and she loved her family, she would have died for us. Yet, as I reflect back, she was a bigoted person and rather superstitious in nature. She'd freak out if you broke a mirror and step on a crack in the sidewalk. I chalk it up to the fact that she grew up in different times. I loved her and wish she was here, today, to hug. Would I berate her publicly for her beliefs, or might I say a few gentle things here or there to help her understand times are changing? I'd like to think I would love her and be kind and maybe, just maybe, I could help her change her views. We accomplish nothing with hate and mean spirited words. We also, in my humble opinion cannot erase history. We can turn around something that happened with educational and thoughtful words to explain to a new generation what the thinking was, and now is. You are not "wrong", I am not "wrong" if we think differently, we just need to understand each other better. Thank you for reading this.