I am deeply saddened to see Windows Central dipping into the nasty realm of politics that we have today. I am even more deeply saddened to see how biased its twist on current events is.



As a white male, I do not align myself with neo-nazis, KKK, or whatever other white supremacy group is out there blowing their own horns. I want to distance myself from them as much as possible. Likewise, I distance myself from other hate groups that the author was too biased to name: Antifa (which, ironically is about as fascist as they can get), Black Lives Matter, and more.



You see, hate is not a one-sided coin. It comes from both sides, and the extremists on both sides try to paint the other as the evil ones. Fact is that they both are.



While I do wish that the racists on both sides would just go away, I also have to admit to myself that I put on a uniform to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic. With that comes the admission that as much as I disagree with the haters on both sides of the fence, they do have a right to free speech - a freedom that I defended in the United States Navy, and a right that I defend today. You see, the Constitution doesn't protect only the speech of the people I agree with. It is there to protect the speech of all. It wouldn't be a right if it only protected what I agree with. If you'd just let them do their little free speech rally without giving them all the attention of the media (which is what they WANT, by the way), they'd do their little chanting, go home, and we could all move on with our lives, unaffected by their particular brand of hate. But no, we have to pay other hate groups to show up, knowing that something WILL happen. Are we surprised someone died? No. If KKK and neo-nazis are a hate group, Antifa and BLM are just as much so. They get away with it, though, because it is politically expedient to not slander the group that "claims" to be for equal rights, even when it is a bald-faced lie.



I'll tell you this - if I have to drive through a hate-driven crowd, and someone attacks my car (did you see the video showing him driving slowly until someone hit his car with something?) I'm going to step on the gas regardless of who's in front of me. Why? Reginald Denny. All I need is that vision of an innocent trucker lying on the ground bleeding - and why? Because he stopped his truck for a mob. I saw it live on TV 25 years ago, and it's still fresh in my mind. I knew then that I'd never stop for a mob. That has nothing to do with skin color - it has everything to do with survival. And when my black grandchildren are ready to drive, they'll see that video of Reginald Denny, and be told to survive at all costs.



Sad to say, our great nation was nowhere near as divided nine years ago, as it is today. We have been driven by our government to hate each other, and it worked.