Republicans surely can do better | Letters to the editor
Kudos to letter writer Mike McKenney of Cooper City (“Insane madness,” May 23), who voiced the concerns we have regarding Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
Trump has been impeached twice, indicted for fraudulent business practices, lies continuously, was investigated for the Jan. 6 insurrection etc., while DeSantis is trying to turn Florida into a white Christian state with banned books, continuously uses “Woke” as a fighting word, tells teachers what they should teach and fires people who don’t go along with his policies — an authoritarian leader.
As a permanent resident of Florida since 2004, I find this very scary when Republicans are considering these two men as their top choices to be the next president of the United States.
Don’t Republicans have anyone other than these two Floridians to put up as their candidates? There must be some Republicans out there who believe in democracy and the United States of America.
Susan Feig, Boca Raton
It’s all ‘biased prosecutions’
At the Sun Sentinel, you’re afflicted with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) and DDS (DeSantis Derangement Syndrome).
Your editorials have become filled with nothing but vile hatred. You forgot that DeSantis won re-election in an absolute landslide and Trump carried Florida in 2016 and 2020.
Everyone with an IQ above room temperature knows all of Trump’s legal problems are the result of biased prosecutions by politically motivated Democrats. You are completely out of touch with Florida voters. Your editorials are predictable and childish. Seek medical attention.
Burt Long, Sunrise
Praise for Dave Hyde
Sun Sentinel sports columnist Dave Hyde, thanks for bringing your A-game in reporting on the Florida Panthers this season.
Having grown up in Detroit reading columnists Joe Falls (in the Detroit News) and Mitch Albom (a Sun Sentinel alumnus, in the Free Press), it has been 30 years since I have been anxious to read a sportswriter’s take on a South Florida team.
Your reporting on the Panthers has been world class — not always kind, but always fair.
You made their historic run even more exciting. Well done.
Gary Garavaglia, Weston
A question of Black and white
What’s wrong with this sentence? “The white Ocala woman, accused of killing a Black mother … ” That was in the Sun Sentinel on June 10.
In referring to race, why is white always lower case and Black always upper case? Almost every day, this is in the Sun Sentinel and other publications. It has gone on for a long time. White and Black should be the same.
Regardless of what the article is about, this is an insult to the White race and is racist — period.
Cookie Freid, Boynton Beach
(Editor’s Note: The Sun Sentinel follows the Associated Press guide on this and other style questions. The decision to capitalize the word Black was made in 2020. There has been less support for capitalizing the word white. White people generally do not share the same history and culture or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color).