Open-carry law
Regarding the article “Open-carry law draws fire at forum” (July 24):
How is it that the black community has lost so many of our youth to gun violence (dead or locked up) and drugs eating up the rest on a regular basis, and now Willie Perkins (my bad, the local NAACP), a black sheriff’s deputy and Assistant District Attorney Takiyah Perkins and the others have so much concern for legal gun owners that they need to meet and talk? Where are they when our black children are destroying themselves? Why haven’t y’all met before now?
Something doesn’t smell right!
Thelma Collins
Regarding the comment in “My Two Cents” about Itta Bena Mayor Thelma Collins (July 23), I believe the so-called Truth58 has matters mistaken.
The article I read in June in the Commonwealth was not a bashing of former Mayor Walter Parker. It only informed us what was really going on in the city of Itta Bena. If the town we call “Home in the Woods” has a half-million-dollar debt, one would have to be an oxymoron not to want to know what’s going on around them. If your lights are one month from being disconnected, wouldn’t you like to know? If your retirement will not be honored, wouldn’t you like to know? If your town is operating out of compliance, wouldn’t you like to know?
I want to know.
Thanks, Mayor Collins, for taking off our rose-colored glasses, because now we know.
P.S. Mayors don’t manage grocery chains.
John Smith
New assistant supe
Regarding the article “New assistant supe has badges, baggage” (July 17):
We just keep selecting winners at the expense of improvement. With results like this, no wonder so many meetings by the Greenwood School Board are conducted in “special closed-door sessions” away from key stakeholders (parents) in the district. Just horrible.
Third Citizen
