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We Don't Want Your Teens
To The Editors:
Thank you for the excellent article by Elizabeth Chapel on the underground world of Kink, Domination, Submission and Power Exchange. Very well written, and something that we "underground" people most certainly need. . .good press.
We are not out to convert your teens. As a matter of fact, the credo we live by is "Safe, Sane, and Consensual" in all aspects of our lives. We help one another within our growing community, plan family events as well as BDSM events. We don't drink or drug as we play, nor do anything else risky. Don't you wish everyone's neighbors were as kinky as we are?
Tiffany Connor
Charlotte
Analyze Your Beliefs
To The Editors:
Why doesn't everybody analyze their belief system like Amy Keith? ("A Clean Break," May 1) Decide for yourself when it comes to religion and not buy into it because somebody said you should. From what I've seen and read, the Catholic Church has more than its share of depraved leadership. Religions preach love and salvation, but it becomes a cover for greed and power. No more, no less.
The thrust of most religions is the power to control the people. Most of the time the subjects are willing. They have little independent thought. They often believe what they are told from childhood and don't want to question the authority of the church because they always assumed it was right.
When leaders use religion as a tool of their motives, people tend to fear and fall in line because everyone else does. They don't have the strength of education to challenge the priests or the likes of David Koresh or Jim Jones or the Baghwan. Who is challenging Benny Hinn? Do you really believe he's healing those people? He's a showman using religion. And so is Cardinal (Out) Law and many of his Catholic brethren.
Why didn't somebody say, "Jim Bakker, you're a fraud"? I watched it for 15 years and the people just kept lining up for more. The powerful churches, large or small, are usually led by charismatic leaders. I wonder how people feel who made donations to Bakker, the Baghwan, and the pedophile priests in the Catholic Church?
I'm not part of any organized religion. Hallelujah!
H.A. Thompson
Charlotte
Comfortable And Safe In An SUV
To The Editors:
As a 45-year-old self-professed "soccer mom," I have to reply to Lucy Perkins' rantings about SUVs ("Highway to Hell," April 24). Sorry Lucy, but with two leggy and still-growing teens with weighty backpacks and bulging soccer bags, I do need my Jeep Grand Cherokee for trips to school and the soccer fields. I also need its V-8 engine to safely merge onto Charlotte's crazy highways.
I know what you go through, however, in a compact car because I used to drive a Jeep Wrangler Sahara, which, true to its name, had the pickup of a camel. I admit that I drove this small off-road vehicle so as not to feel like an old fogey and, except on the highway, I miss it terribly.
So there, I don't feel young and cool in a big SUV, just comfortable and safe. Lighten up, Lucy, and be a little more charitable toward us old fogeys; you'll be one of us soon.
Alexa MacPherson
Charlotte
It Ain't Me, Babe
To The Editors:
Regarding the letter from Tressie McMillan ("Slavery Through The Ages," May 8): I merely asked in my previous letter, "Where would reparations begin?," since many descendents of slaves are not descendents of African slaves. The subject was reparations, not the accepted horror of slavery.
Nowhere in anything I have ever said or written in over 50 years has suggested that I did not think slavery -- all slavery -- is horrendous. I cannot believe that Ms. McMillan is so blinded by bitterness that she doesn't know that I and all intelligent people agree that ". . .transgressions occurred."
She agreed with me that Africans sold Africans, but her "yadda yadda" usage lost me.
She proved my point about her not wanting to acknowledge white help in the struggle and I did not use the terms "well-meaning" whites, she did. When I marched and protested for human rights in the 60s, and then later was a charter member of the Libertarian Party and the first SC Chairman, it wasn't that I was well-meaning, I did it because I loathed the oppression and exploitation of anyone, no matter their ethnicity.
Hate and bitterness are branches of ignorance and will never solve our racial problems. I still think forgiveness would help, but that's a choice others must make. I am certainly not the enemy of racial accord. I am not part of the problem.
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