Editor, Commonwealth:
Congratulations, Leflore County.
The officials whom we elected just dictated to us that we will accept their decision to remove the state flag from all county properties. Should we thank them for robbing us of our right to vote on this issue?
What exactly is their job description? I thought for some reason that they were the people who are supposed to know that the established weight limits for the roads, streets and bridges have to be considered when purchasing millions of dollars of equipment with our tax money; the ones whose responsibility it is to figure out a route system for the many 30-ton school buses so as to minimize the damage to our aged but functional infrastructure.
Is it printed in that job description that these people should use their public office to secure the wedge that for generations has been used to maintain the black-and-white line that prevents unity of all races here in this county? Does the job description state that hate should be used to get rid of hate and that somehow that makes it all right to hate?
My maternal great-grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. No other people in the history of this country have suffered as much brutality or degradation of elected officials in the name of progress. That Confederate battle flag was the only safe haven for many American Indians east of the Mississippi River during the Indian Removal Act. I am offended that this board of elected officials either failed to or did not bother to familiarize itself with the federal laws that are meant to protect all objects that are placed on sacred grounds and burial sites of the American Indian. It is a fact that the Leflore County Courthouse was built on the sacred ground of the Choctaw Indian tribe.
Where in the job description for these elected officials does it state that they are to change or erase history?
It seems to me that we, as the taxpayers of Leflore County, should vote these people who are determined to keep us in a black-and-white past out of the seats that they hold and elect ones who want our future to be in brilliant technicolor.
Mary Fountain
Greenwood
