I writing this letter in response to the Catt controversy.

Are we then going to debate whether we should change the name of the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial because they owned slaves?

I do not think we can hold people who made our history to today’s standard since they are not alive to support themselves.

I think it shameful that people would think of deriding someone who is dead and can not defend themselves.

The people who are interested in being politically correct have gone overboard by applying today’s standard to everyone who is in our history.

We must also remember that major league baseball was not integrated until 1947; that was one team.

Since the military was segregated during World War II does that mean the white men who fought in the war were racist?

I was traveling in Alabama for a few weeks and stopped to get gas and as I was walking into pay I held the door for an African-American man, who was stunned by me doing that.

I would think that we need to look at the racism here and now and be less concerned with history.

I was taught that history was something we learned from.

When will this community (learn) that (a) minority should not dictate to the majority of people?

The last I looked we live in a society where majority opinion rules.

We need to have minority views aired, but people should not demand things as if they were the majority.

Doug Tschopp

Class of 1982

Programmer/Analyst

ISU Stat Lab