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Reading the local and national columnists is always amusing and disturbing as I peruse the local paper each day. Amazing that grown, should know better adults, can hold that the world is black and white, right or wrong, liberal or conservative. Of course of the last, since when did the L and C words become a slur against one's character. It would seem as we become educated, meet other people, strive to understand other cultures and ideas that we would realize the world is a marvelous set of grays, beiges and pinks. Is the pendulum swinging too far left towards depravity or to the right illustrated by religious intolerance? Isn't it more realistic to accept that the sins have always existed or at least another's view of what is sin; it is just the publicity that forces us to react? What we do in secret is now revealed. Nothing is private, but that doesn't make it new. That explains the defeat of affirmative action-secret ballot. Are we as tolerant as we express or does Richards very public tirade of racial stereotyping say what we really believe? But again should we condemn the whole human race for a vocal minority? Most of us get along, treat our neighbors, strangers with respect. But that is not newsworthy. If it bleeds it leads. But we should not fall into the trap of believing it speaks for us all.